Fundraising Benchmarks

Every Round Numbers episode captures a founder's raise as a standardized stat line. These are the medians across all recorded raises — real numbers from real rounds, not survey estimates.

MetricMedian across recorded raises
Amount raised
Investors pitched
Meetings taken
Rejections
Term sheets
Weeks to close

Compiled from 0 recorded raises on the Round Numbers podcast. As of 2026-07-21.

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