17-Year-Old Founder Raised $1.4M by Cold Emailing Investors in Australia, Here’s How He Did It
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At just 17, Irish founder Liam Fuller cold emailed his way to a $1.4M pre-seed round for Source, an AI procurement startup. In this conversation with Patrick Walsh (CEO of Dogpatch Labs), Liam shares: - How he built his first startup while on the Patch Youth Accelerator, and the viral LinkedIn post about taking customer calls from a school bathroom. - How he reached out to investors from a family holiday in Australia, and kept going after dozens of rejections. - Why procurement in retail is broken, and how Source is fixing it. Backers include Square Peg (early in Canva & Airwallex), Stripe’s former CTO David Singleton, and a syndicate of Stripe alumni. 🔗 Subscribe for more #StartupJourney #YouthEntrepreneur #IrishStartups #AIStartup #SeedFunding #PatchAccelerator #DogpatchLabs #SourceProcurement #StripeAlumni #SquarePegCapital #DavidSingleton #GenZFounders #Entrepreneurship #VentureCapital #StartupStories