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We're excited for you to meet our Summer 2024 batch, comprised of 15 amazing companies! This batch, we’ve raised the bar even higher, with the acceptance rate dropping to 1.8% from 2.7% in Winter 2024.
Our first AMA, where Hsu Ken answered the questions founders had on how to grow your startup.
Exploring the unspoken emotional journey that comes with fundraising: rejections, and what founders' fundraising processes were like and how they handled rejections.
I'm Matt Chng, Iterative's Venture Associate - here's my article on the startup ideas I'm excited about, and the problems the team and I wish were solved.
Singapore-based Iterative, an early-stage VC firm that also runs a YC-style accelerator, has raised $55M from notable LPs including Cendana, K5 Global and Village Global.
With the launch of Fund II, we have plans to back 100+ more companies in Southeast Asia, across various stages.
If I could only teach one thing to future and current founders, it would be how to validate startup ideas. Sign up for the validation program.
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.
In this episode, we invited Yolanda Lee back to the Iterative Podcast to discuss exactly this: how to find confidence as a female leader.
In the world of startup fundraising, mistakes are costly. While a mistake can look different for different investors, there are common threads in the VC industry.
We break down the top mistakes founders often make during fundraising - and how to fix them.
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.
Jeff Liu and Justin Louie are the co-founders of Jenfi (YC W20). Jenfi lends to small businesses in Southeast Asia based on revenue. Jenfi has raised US$2.1M in funding.
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 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?