Last year in Unicorns Journal we published an interview with Sergey Bakaev, where we unpacked first-time fundraising strategy expectations vs reality, common mistakes, and what founders often underestimate when raising capital for the first time.

It turned into a very honest conversation.

The old sequence looks like this:

Profile Paywall Lost in a Catalog Investor List Cold Outreach

It s a storefront, not a strategy.

Platforms like Fundable has no personalized matching,

Hello Unicorns Club team and fellow members!

I've been [using the platform / following the club] for a little while now and I'm really impressed with [mention something specific you like, e.g., the quality of the community, the insights shared, the project focus]. It's clear a lot of thought has gone into it.

As I've been exploring, a few questions and ideas came to mind that I thought might be valuable for both the team and other users:

For the Team (Regarding Vision & Growth):

This week, xMotion has been selected as Unicorns Choice standing out among 896 startups for their vision and innovation in AI and HealthTech.

Congrats to founders Rob Tondreault, Bryan Patmon, and Srini Naidu your work inspires the entire Unicorns Club community.

We ve gamified how startups grow, pitch, and raise

Each startup on Unicorns Club now gets a live Unicorn Index a score based on:

Growth

Team strength

We ve published 16 incredible founder stories in Unicorns Journal over the last few months and the next one could be yours. While Forbes and TechCrunch may not have noticed you yet, we re here to give you the spotlight you deserve.

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Every founder has a story worth sharing.