Together with YC, Sequoia, HubSpot Ventures, and numerous other investors, we Artisan recently closed a $11.5 million seed round on an uncapped basis with a 20% discount.
To give you an idea, we’re creating AI employees beginning with an AI BDR.
Since the round was raised on an uncapped 20% discount note, the valuation will be 20% less than the amount at which we raise our A.
We’ve onboarded hundreds of clients and reached $1 million ARR since launching Ava a few months ago.
Ask me anything on AMA concerning managing a hyper-growing startup or raising a seed round!
Of those hundreds of customers, how many are actively using the product?
How did you become noticed over the cacophony of competing AI BDR firms in the market? competent, aisdr,
You should consider how to quickly cash out when an India saas clone arrives for $10 per month after all, you’re essentially just a fancy chatgpt wrapper.
You genuinely have no edge over the current wave of brilliant but unintelligent venture capitalists. They really made an investment in a YC copy of another AI SDR business 
Or when Ava’s foolish remarks about a model degrade someone’s brand.
Ava Prospects leads with more than 300 million contacts, it states.
How and from whence did you obtain those 300 million contacts?
edit: I’ve learned that site scraping is used. thus the solution to the above query. Would you mind doing the following?
How can one be certain that these contacts have consented to receive communications of this kind? How can the legalities be ensured and overcome? The law had regarded robocalls differently than cold calls. Would communication based on AI cause similar problems? if yes, how do you plan to handle that ?
excellent query I have no doubt that people are thrilled with their recent experiences on LinkedIn.
What was your prior experience, and how long did it take to secure funding when an idea was produced?
What was your marketing plan and how did you get traction? How did you outperform the competition and attract investors?
Angle Investor is mentioned. How did you obtain the first money? A bootstrap? How did you find the angel and what needs did it have?