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Aastha

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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 raising because they solve something real - logistics, approvals, defense, medicine. 2) $2M Pre-Seed isn’t “small” - it’s often the boldest bet a VC can make. 3) Defense and autonomy are hot - because the world isn’t as stable as we pretend it is. 4) VCs are chasing scarcity. Scarce teams. Scarce tech. Scarce insight. You don’t raise just by building.
You raise by becoming inevitable. To every founder grinding it out with no PR, no warm intros, and just a pitch deck and a problem - keep going. 
The right investor is looking for clarity not hype.

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