Let's understand Bridge round today 👇
- Bridge rounds are funding rounds that can help startups “bridge” the gap between two major funding rounds.
- Startups seek different types of funding from investors. For some entrepreneurs, the initial seed
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Anonymous 5
Hey I am on Medial • 1y
More often than not, I’ve seen founders becoming laalchi af and just jumping into a worthless bridge round, just for dopamine hit sake, smh.
A 30M USD+ funded startup just announced salary deferment for everyone above 6LPA for the next 6 months. Bridge round has collapsed.
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Rahul verma
Founder at LittleMov... • 6m
12:57 am thoughts: mind's racing, feeling a bit lonely and restless. Played a round of Uno, kept jumping between Instagram, LinkedIn, and emails – but it's not helping. Just wish I had someone to talk to right now.
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Sourav Mishra
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Codestam Technologies • 1m
Let’s be honest — being “busy” is your favorite addiction.
And the worst part?
It makes you feel productive while quietly wrecking your business.
I get it.
I’ve been there.
That dopamine hit from ticking off 20 small, meaningless tasks.
Jumping on
"The process of raising dopamine in the brain by telling people your goals, plans, and how you want to change but never actually doing anything about it."
Explanation:
Mental stimulation without action: It refers to getting pleasure or satisfacti
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Comet
#freelancer • 8m
Have you ever set multiple alarms, only to hit the snooze button again and again?
You know the feeling — the alarm rings, but instead of jumping out of bed, you find yourself in a battle with your own willpower, convincing yourself that
"just fiv
So, everybody is talking about AI. But AI is not everything. It's just a part of technology. Tech companies are jumping on the AI trend because it's popular in the tech world. Many of them are offering AI just for the sake of it — not because it's tr
My sister told me she was the only one in her entire class to score a perfect 100/100. Everyone was praising her—teachers, parents, classmates. She was happy. And I just sat there thinking, WTF? Damn, where are we heading with this?
It feels like ki
The Trap of Supernormal Stimuli
Aarav sat in front of his screen, endlessly scrolling through reels. Five minutes turned into fifty, and he barely noticed. His brain was hooked, craving just one more hit of dopamine.
One day, he read about supernor
"10-minute delivery isn’t dead. It just got a $665M adrenaline shot."
Zepto, the 10-minute grocery delivery startup, just raised a whopping $665 million in its Series E round at a $3.6 billion valuation — making it one of India’s fastest-growing uni
Every funding round tells a story.
Not just of product-market fit, but of founder-market fit.
Not just of capital raised, but conviction earned.
Look closer and you’ll see the patterns:
1) AI startups aren’t raising because they’re AI. They’re ra
