💡The Post-Coding Founder Playbook
🚀 $10M for Pre-Idea Founders
In This Edition:
- 💡 From Pre-Seed to Scale: Founder Toolkit
- 💰 $10M Afore x Gamma Fund Is Live
- ⚡ Pre-Seed in 10 Days. Money Wired.
- 📘 The Post-Coding Founder Playbook
🏆 The VC & Angel Investor Master List
💡 From Pre-Seed to Scale: Founder Toolkit
Execution beats ideas.
Capital follows clarity.
Preparation wins rounds.
Inside this resource stack:
• Investor-ready pitch deck templates
• 530+ angel networks & 500+ active angels
• 101 fintech VCs + top deep tech investors
• 49 AI startups that raised $100M+
• 300+ real investor questions
• Pre-seed, seed & fundraising playbooks
• B2B metrics that actually move valuation
No theory.
Only proven frameworks, funding databases, and battle-tested strategies.
Perfect for founders navigating pre-seed chaos, AI positioning, enterprise sales, and investor scrutiny.
The gap between “almost funded” and “funded” is preparation.
The founders who move first secure the best capital.
👉 Unlock the full startup resource vault before competitors do.
🚀 $10M for Pre-Idea Founders
💰 $10M Afore x Gamma Fund Is Live
Early-stage capital just got faster.
The team that backed Gamma at Day 0 is opening the door again — this time for founders at the idea stage.
💰 $10M Afore x Gamma Fund Is Live
• $10M fund. 10 teams. Up to $1M each.
• Pre-idea to pre-product. No traction required.
• No warm intros. Clear pitch wins.
• Fast decisions. No dragged-out process.
• Three tracks: Overall, Student, Gamma API.
• Applications close March 24, 2026.
Execution beats polish.
Clarity beats connections.
Speed beats hesitation.
The best founders apply early.
👉 Submit the pitch now before the round fills up.
💰 Massive Fundings Reshaping the Market
Capital is clustering around AI infrastructure, agents, and scale platforms.
• Anthropic planning $5B–$6B secondary at ~$350B valuation. Liquidity at hyperscale.
• Axelera AI raised $250M led by Innovation Industries. Backed by BlackRock, Samsung Catalyst Fund, EIC Fund, Invest-NL and more.
• Basis hit $1.15B post-money. Led by Accel and Google Ventures. AI agents for accounting.
• MatX secured $500M co-led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness. Spark Capital and Stripe founders joined.
• Profound raised $96M at $1B valuation. Led by Lightspeed. Backed by Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins.
• SambaNova Systems added $350M. Led by Vista Equity Partners and Cambium. Intel Capital participated.
• Slate Medicines raised $130M Series A. Led by RA Capital, Forbion, Foresite.
• Stripe secondary at $159B. Thrive, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz in.
AI infra. AI agents. Fintech scale.
Smart founders follow capital patterns.
Decode where top VCs are doubling down next.
👉 Curious who’s leading the biggest bets right now? Click below to explore deeper investor signals, valuation moves, and funding context. 👇
🔥 ICYMI: Founder Resources You Probably Missed
These high-impact reads have been powering sharper pitches, smarter fundraising, and faster investor yeses. If you missed them, now’s the time to catch up before everyone else does.
🚀 100+ VCs & Accelerators You Should Know
A curated map of investors actively backing early teams.
📘 Ben Horowitz’s High-Stakes Leadership Playbook
How great founders act when everything breaks at once.
🤖 29 Angels & VCs Funding AI Startups Right Now
Verified, active investors, hunting for their next AI bet.
💼 50 Recently Funded B2B Startups
What’s getting funded right now — and why.
🧠 What Sam Altman Wants Every Founder to Know
The blunt guidance founders rarely hear early enough.
📊 Venture Math Demystified
Why VCs say no — even when your pitch feels strong.
🚀 Harvard’s Startup Guide: Turning Ideas Into Impact
The hidden frameworks elite founders quietly rely on.
📚 The Ultimate Fundraising Resource Stack
A vault of tools most founders don’t know exists.
🔑 The Most Overlooked Key to Fundraising Success
YC founders swear by this — yet most ignore it.
🔥 Paul Graham’s ‘Small, Intense Fire’
The mindset shift that separates funded from forgotten.
💡 200+ Easy Ways to Make Money Using AI
Surprising, practical income ideas you can start today.
⚡ Pre-Seed in 10 Days. Money Wired.
Raising pre-seed is dragging. This changes that.
2048 Ventures Pre-Seed Fast Track:
• $250K–$750K lead check
• Funded within 10 business days of first meeting
• Focus: Vertical AI, Deep Tech, Health, Bio
• NYC and Boston ecosystems
• SAFE preferred for speed
• Clear yes or no. No ghosting.
• Wires immediately. No waiting for full round
Process is simple:
Intro → Deep dive → References → Term sheet → Wire.
High-conviction capital.
Transparent process.
Co-investor network to close the rest fast.
Pre-seed rounds are taking longer. Strong founders move faster.
👉 Submit the pitch before the next 10-day window closes.
💡 The Post-Coding Founder Playbook
“Learning to program was so obviously the right thing in the recent past. Now it is not.” — Sam Altman
Code is leverage.
But leverage is shifting.
In the AI era, advantage comes from:
• High agency. No waiting for permission.
• Sharp idea generation. Speed > perfection.
• Taste. Judgment. Clear thinking.
• Strong communication. Sell the vision.
• Adaptability in chaotic markets.
• Rapid decision-making under uncertainty.
AI writes code.
Founders define direction.
The bottleneck is no longer execution.
It’s insight, positioning, and speed.
Teams that master agency and judgment will outpace pure technical talent.
The skill stack has changed. Quietly. Permanently.
👉 Build the skills AI cannot automate — before competitors do.
🔥WEB PICKS
🧠 Uber Engineers Build “AI Boss” to Prep Pitches
Uber’s engineers have gone beyond productivity tools — some teams built an AI chatbot mimicking CEO Dara Khosrowshahi that employees use to rehearse presentations before facing leadership. This quirky internal use case signals deep, grounded AI adoption within day-to-day workflows and showcases how teams are creating bespoke tools to solve real operational challenges.
💳 Stripe Eyes Strategic Move on PayPal
Reports suggest Stripe is exploring a deal to acquire some or all of PayPal, a move that could reshape the digital payments landscape, consolidate network effects, and accelerate Stripe’s push into broader financial rails.
🤖 MatX Raises $500M to Take On Nvidia
AI chip startup MatX secured a $500 M Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness to build next-gen AI processors aiming for 10× performance over current incumbents, highlighting investor appetite for alternatives to Nvidia in AI infrastructure.
📱 Apple Rolls Out Global Age-Verification Tools
Apple launched worldwide age-verification APIs to help developers comply with expanding child safety laws across multiple regions. This puts nuance around compliance, UX design, and legal readiness for platforms targeting global markets.
🔒 Discord Delays Age Verification After Backlash
Following user privacy concerns, Discord postponed its global age-verification rollout to late 2026, signaling that regulatory compliance efforts require thoughtful user communication and trust-preserving design.
📺 Instagram’s TV App Arrives on Google TV
Instagram expands its long-form video footprint, launching its TV app on Google TV devices — a strategic push for broader user engagement beyond phones and tablets.
📡 Anthropic Stands Firm in Pentagon AI Dispute
Anthropic refuses to soften its AI guardrails amid Pentagon pressure, underlining ongoing tensions between safety-first AI policies and government demand for adaptable AI systems.
