Fundraising whiz raising funds for AI-enabled startup that helps startup founders raise funds

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Fundraising expert Usman Gul has successfully raised funds for Metal, a fundraising startup that will help raise funds for startup founders.

Backed by Y-Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, Metal seeks to make the fundraising process more efficient and fruitful than it currently is.

“It’s an interesting case,” said tech business analyst Sidra Hakeem, of Slice Research. “On the one hand, the founder has under his belt a couple of tanked startups, but on the other hand, has had experience raising funds.”

“If he has shown he cannot run a transportation, and then a grocery delivery business, he has also shown he can raise funds,” she said. “His core competency being…raising funds.”

Hakeem was referring to Gul’s successful fundraising for Airflit, a mass-transit, ride-hailing service. He then pivoted that company to grocery delivery, and raised money for that as well.

“This is analogous to the expression of interest by many telecom industry observers that U-Fone should focus only on making commercials, and not operating a cellular service, as it was very good at one, and not so good at another,” she added.

Industry insiders, however, are cautioning that Gul might pivot to a till-yet unexplored sector of providing fundraising support to startups that seek to provide fundraising support to startups.