Let's face it; fundraising sucks when it's your first time (and pretty much every time). Picking an investor is like signing a lease with a significant other.

We’re stoked for another fantastic nomination by the DC tech community!

If you are heading to Baltimore Innovation Week next week, come check out Gira Desai Wieczorek on the Start. Fund. Grow Panel alongside: Moss Amer (Maryland Venture Fund), Julia Spicer (Mid-Atlantic Venture Association), & David Wise (University System of Maryland)!

Thanks to Black Swan Printing for doing such a kickass job with our designs (cool video of our designs placed onto shirts below)!

So stoked to announce that we are officially winners of DC Inno’s 50 on Fire award in the DESIGN category! Looking at this dope list, it’s an honor to be named with amazing companies like Revolution Ventures, Cava, humble ventures, The Washington Post, and SO MANY OTHERS!

We’ve been working with one of our favorite causes, Rescued Pets Movement, to do everything we can as they help the city’s animals.

Aleberry was nominated for DC Inno’s 2017 50 on Fire!

Gira Desai Wieczorek will be speaking at DC Startup Week on creating pitch decks & other fundraising considerations. We’ll be covering top-level content, fundraising strategy, and general design considerations.

Aleberry just finished the design & development of The Nature Conservancy: Migratory Blueways project (a grant-based project aimed to identify migratory “blueways” in the Gulf of Mexico & beyond to preserve marine species & improve the health of large marine ecosystems).

We just want to know what is nearby (since we’re on foot), and if they are legit dog friendly (or is it just a single picnic table “patio” on a sidewalk)? District of Dog aims to provide folks in The District a way to help each other out with this info.

This weekend, Women Who Code​ DC is hosting a hackathon for women, by women! Gira Desai Wieczorek will be speaking Saturday on pitching & fundraising considerations. Sign up & get your company the started!

This month, our favorite non-profit organization is celebrating the fact that they have saved 20,000 dogs (and cats) from euthanasia and delivered them to their own forever homes!

On March 1st, we officially open our second office in Washington, D.C. We’re excited to be closer to our NYC / DC / Boston clients and make a positive impact in their tech communities.

This 53-minute video, uploaded by Stanford Graduate School of Business, highlights the key points of an example negotiation between a VC and an entrepreneur.

If you’re looking for an internship in the startup/ VC fundraising industry, we’ve got some great experience to pour on you. (3-6 months, unpaid, credit for school, opportunity to apply at end of term)

We’ve been squatting on this URL for over a year. Finally turned it into our first Aleberry Side-Op. More ops coming soon.

Good advice in bullet-form for our clients from Andrew Romans of Rubicon Venture Capital.

Aleberry’s recent talk on the concept of Perceived Legitimacy during the fundraising process. The deck focuses on the importance of design to look the part & deck variations. This presentation accompanied other talks on specific pitch deck content.​​

Khosla’s presentation integrates “bad examples” - most of which resemble the decks initially sent to us by clients - with basic rules VCs want to see. His advice includes many of Aleberry’s Startup Pitch Deck Rules that we reiterate to our clients:

Every time we work on a deck, consult on pitch strategy, and help a client get funding, our eyes light up like a proud parent. It’s 2016, and we found ourselves.