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Podcast: The SaaS Podcast - AI, Growth & Product-Market Fit for SaaS Founders
Episode: SaaS Fundraising: Cold Email to $10M ARR and $21M Raised
Description: Vishal Sunak spent nine months cold-emailing nearly 100 general counsels before writing a single line of real code. His SaaS fundraising journey took LinkSquares from a fake Rails prototype to $10M ARR and $21M raised across three rounds.
LinkSquares validated demand through 100 cold email interviews, built a Rails prototype with no backend in 100 days, and used that traction to power SaaS fundraising from pre-seed to Series A. Vishal ran raising capital like a sales pipeline using HubSpot CRM, absorbing 100+ rejections before growing from $1M to $4M ARR in one year.
In this episode, Vishal reveals why...