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He took a chance on four young college students with a poor idea and a lot of passion. Sometimes what people need the most is reinforcement that they can do something great and a kick in the right direction. With Iterative, we hope to be able to accomplish something similar with our batches.

Thomas Jeng is the General Manager of Aspire, a leading fintech startup based in Singapore. He was previously the Head of Sales there, leading the firm's expansion across Singapore and Southeast Asia.

Jessica Chao is a Visiting Partner at Iterative, where she leads healthcare investments. She's also a Venture Partner at SVLC, a Latin America focused venture fund, as well as a Biotech Advisor to Berkeley SkyDeck, UC Berkeley’s official startup accelerator.

Exploring the unspoken emotional journey that comes with fundraising: rejections, and what founders' fundraising processes were like and how they handled rejections.

In this episode, we invited Yolanda Lee back to the Iterative Podcast to discuss exactly this: how to find confidence as a female leader.

We asked our founders from the Summer 2022 batch: "What's the most surprising thing about being a founder?" Here's what they had to say.

Eric Dadoun is the co-founder of DeZy, a crypto-enabled high yield savings platform that simplifies decentralised finance.

David Marquez is the CTO of Shipmates, a courier platform that connects online stores to different couriers.

Adrien Jorge is the Founder and CEO of Propseller, a tech-powered real estate agency offering the most reliable way to successfully and efficiently sell, buy or rent a property.

We're excited to announce the very first Iterative Founders Retreat. It’s open to all Iterative Founders from any batch. If you’re from one of the first 6 batches who didn’t get an in-person orientation, this is your chance.

Upcoming 2-week cohort-based program: Should You Start a Startup? Everything you need to know about starting a startup to make an informed decision. Sign up by 25 August 2024.

Introducing the Iterative Scout Program, a new initiative designed to streamline the process of discovering the next Iterative Founders by enabling existing Iterative Founders.

Apply to Iterative by Friday, 3 May to be eligible for Pre-Batch Office Hours with Hsu Ken. In that office hour, you'll work on what the 3 to 5 metrics to optimize for should be, set weekly targets for those metrics and prioritize a list of 2 to 3 things they should work on for the next few weeks.

For this batch, we received 1,000+ applications and had 500+ calls interviewing companies. From there, we selected these 24 companies. Read the article to read more about them and why we invested.

Explore job opportunities from our portfolio of 100+ companies with Iterative's Startup Job Board.

We’d like to do a little bit more before the end of the year, and hopefully meet you in the process!

Join one (or all!) of our events and initiatives this month, exclusively for women founders.

For a startup to be successful, it needs to be solving an important problem.

What do we look for when deciding to invest in startups?

The most important thing for a startup, and by extension the engineers at the startup, is iteration speed.

Here are the 3 questions I ask myself when trying to answer this question and what to do about it.

Fundraising is slow right now. My hunch is fundraising both will pick up in the second half of this year. Here's why.

Interestingly enough, 'product market fit' is a term often used by founders starting out but almost never by more experienced founders. Why?

A year ago, I wrote our first Request for Startups - and I'm revisiting the themes again to see what I got right or wrong.

A common question we get is: “Which is more important in fundraising: a strong story or strong traction?” But what is a strong story and strong traction — and why are they important?