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Raising capital sucks.

Fundraising is an inevitable task that plagues most startup founders, especially those in Canada who are once, twice removed from the silly money that resides in and around Silicon Valley.

As water cooler conversations in the tech community often center around the progress of your current “raise," the topic regularly turns to stories of how investors south of the border move quickly, with the notion that startups boasting a solid business idea, a prototype and a semblance of being able to execute should get a shot at finding product market fit or die quickly.