B
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70%
70% -- deal close speed improvement for Waveup (2026)
Waveup clients achieve 70% faster deal close compared to founders running raises solo.
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70%
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Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
50
Citation Chain
90
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
86
Source
Waveup
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Tier A
https://waveup.com/fundraising/ ↗
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Startup Fundraising Consultant | $3B+ Raised | Waveup
Startup fundraising consultant · Seed to Series D
Startup Fundraising Consultant. $3B+ Raised. 884 Rounds Run.
Most founders lose 6 months talking to the wrong investors. We built Waveup to fix that. Our clients have raised from Antler, Bessemer, Creandum, Cherry, and a16z — from $400K pre-seeds to …
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Waveup
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Median across our 2024–2025 cohort of 170 active mandates.
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Waveup: 70% deal close speed improvement. Source: Waveup (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/startup-fundraising-consultant-70-faster-deal-close
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/startup-fundraising-consultant-70-faster-deal-close" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>70%</strong> -- deal close speed improvement for Waveup<br><small>Source: Waveup (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/startup-fundraising-consultant-70-faster-deal-close" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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