Finding the Right Investors with Laurel Hess

Matt Preuss
Marketing Manager
About Laurel What You Can Expect to Learn from Laurel
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On the first episode of the Thrive Through Connection Podcast, we welcome Laurel Hess, the CEO and Founder of hampr. Hampr is an on-demand laundry service that will pick up your laundry and return it fresh and folded, right to your front door, within 24 hours. Laurel has raised over $10M for hampr across multiple rounds. She joins us to share her journey and the importance of building genuine relationships with investors.

About Laurel

Before founding hampr, Laurel built a career in marketing, where she launched and ran a profitable marketing agency. Since starting hampr in 2019, she has experienced the ebbs and flows of venture capital, from COVID-19 to low interest rates to the SVB crash. Laurel has had a front-row seat to how the market evolves and why building strong relationships is key to weathering turbulent times.

Mike, the CEO and Founder of Visible, had an opportunity to sit down and chat with Laurel. You can give the full episode a listen below:

  • Spotify Link
  • Apple Link
  • Google Link

What You Can Expect to Learn from Laurel

  • Why having the right people on your cap table matters
  • Tactics for backchanneling and finding warm investor intros
  • The key questions she asks during investor conversations
  • How she nurtures investors who initially say “no”
  • Her approach to managing and interpreting investor feedback

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