The Peel(@ThePeelPod):.@alfromnexhealth on surviving off a $391k Seed round: "We didn’t have any connections to Silicon Valley. Or any VC's at all really. My co-founder and I grew up with immigrant parents. So honestly, we didn't really have any connections to money to begin with. So the way we raised that initial capital was two sources. One was actually a couple of our professors at school. And then a couple of our customers on top. And that’s how we scraped together $390,000. We still have two of those customers on our cap table. Still using us, love us. So honestly it was our customers, and then people we knew, professors, a couple of friends. But then one year later, we almost ran out of cash."

2026.08.06 19:53

.@alfromnexhealth on surviving off a $391k Seed round: "We didn’t have any connections to Silicon Valley. Or any VC's at all really. My co-founder and I grew up with immigrant parents. So honestly, we didn't really have any connections to money to begin with. So the way we raised that initial capital was two sources. One was actually a couple of our professors at school. And then a couple of our customers on top. And that’s how we scraped together $390,000. We still have two of those customers on our cap table. Still using us, love us. So honestly it was our customers, and then people we knew, professors, a couple of friends. But then one year later, we almost ran out of cash."