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How I Raised It with Sachin Dev Duggal of Engineer.ai

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital.

This episode is with Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO of Engineer.ai a Santa Monica based startup that provides a human-assisted AI platform to build custom software products.

Engineer.ai raised a $29.5 million Series A venture rounds in a deal led by Lakestar Advisors (Germany) Jungle Ventures (Singapore) and Deepcore (Japan).

In this episode, Sachin Dev Duggal talks about raising capital for a startup whose "front end is SaaS and back end is a marketplace," some of the fundraising false starts, why he believes the funding success formula is made up of "purpose + persistence" and more.

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