[tstegart]

How did you get in contact with investors? I went to the accel website but I can't tell what role they play.

[pm90]

They were incubated by YC, presumably that's how the connections were made.

[jeanlaf]

There are 3 ways we got connections:

1) We did have some intros thanks to being a YC company. That definitely helped.

2) For some funds for which we really wanted intros, we asked our investors.

3) We timed these 2 weeks of fundraising to happen 2 weeks after some important product release for us (0.2.0). And we did get some inbound from investors (them reaching out to us).

Also being at the crossroads of data infrastructure and open-source helped a lot, as both are important topics for investors right now.

We tried to keep the meetings with the funds that we liked most at the end. For instance, Accel was the 42nd investor we met with.

[tstegart]

Thanks!