Jeffrey Fidelman, CEO of Fidelman & Co., breaks down Fundraise-as-a-Service, the AI homogenization trap destroying investor outreach, and why the phone call is still the most powerful sales tool nobody is using. A candid conversation on structure, human judgment, and what founders consistently get wrong when raising capital.
Jeffrey Fidelman went from Morgan Stanley and HSBC to building a 40-person investment bank with an 80%+ capitalization success rate. In this episode he shares why AI is killing investor outreach, how his own firm scaled AI contacts from 100 to 400 per week, watched effectiveness collapse, and ripped it all out to go back to manual research.
Fundraise-as-a-Service. Human judgment. Structure over hustle.
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