fundRazor - The scoop behind Scoopler's fundraising

Co-founder AJ Asver shares fundraising tips and why Y Combinator is a good home for startupsScoopler is a graduate of the Y Combinator program in Silicon Valley. The real-time search engine, which came together in 2008, is currently in the process of closing its seed round. In this segment, John Bautista talks to Scoopler co-founder AJ Asver about how he and his co-founder Dilan Jayawardane raised their initial round of funding, and why they chose to do a debt round rather than an equity round. He also talks about why being backed by Y Combinator is like "being put into a bazooka and shot out." Y Combinator is a high-profile and respected venture capital company focused on investing no more than $20,000 at the earliest stages of a company's life cycle.  

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