William Rosellini

Free Guides for Deep Tech Founders

I get many emails that asking for advice on a wide range of topics – here are some guides that cover what I’ve learned over time.

Shifts in Biotech Series A and B Funding Based on COVID-19

Changes in Biotech Series A and B Venture Capital In the last ten years, there have been significant changes in Life science funding trends including a sudden surge in the number of biotech start-ups...

Government Funding Outside of SBA/PPP and Free SBIR training

I think everyone should be considering submitting SBIR grants right now.  If successful, you can receive up to $2M in non-dilutive funding.  I put together a complementary training for anyone who...

Advantages of Venture Capital

What is Venture Capital?...

Becoming a Wartime CEO

For the foreseeable future the  capital markets are almost entirely closed while investors triage their existing investments and wait to see what happens with the proposed fiscal policy.    You will...

Thoughts on raising capital now

After ten years of rising US equities prices, many investors are selling (albeit off the highs) but with large capital gains. This sell-off gives investors a chance to rethink their allocation and...

What Tech Entrepreneurs Should Know about the Venture Capital Process

In a downtown Austin incubator, on a warm Texas summer morning, five tech entrepreneurs swapped horror stories about venture capital firms. One of them proclaimed, ‘even the coffeeshop we’re meeting...

How to Pitch to a VC right now

When it comes to pitching investors, it’s vitally important to know how, what, and when, to pitch. Venture Capitalists, or VC’s, are some of the most savvy investors on the planet. This group of...

How to Raise Venture Capital for a Tech Startup

Starting in the 1990’s raising capital for tech startups became ubiquitous in the venture capital community. The early Internet ventures, some of which led to the Dot Com Bubble, raised money at a...

Protecting Intellectual Property

Intellectual property (IP) is the primary asset that investors will be agreeing to invest and should be managed as such. An IP capital strategy is simply a plan—consistent with the company’s capital...