How I Raised My Seed is a webinar series centered around open discussion regarding best practices for raising a Seed round. Every other month, we invite two or three founders who have successfully raised a round in the past few months and foster an open dialogue around what worked and what didn't.
Panelists:
NEIL STAUNTON – CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Neil Staunton is CEO and co-founder of Superset, the Unified Liquidity Execution layer for the stablecoin economy. He is driven by the belief that onchain finance can only scale when its liquidity architecture is as robust and reliable as the markets it aims to support.
Neil has spent his career working across crypto infrastructure and institutional finance, focused on scaling liquidity in multichain environments. Through this work, he saw how fragmented liquidity, inefficient capital deployment, and dependence on centralized market makers were holding back onchain finance. Now at Superset, he is building institution-grade infrastructure designed to unlock deep, efficient liquidity without duplicating capital or introducing opaque risk.
VITA MALLELA - CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Manvitha (Vita) Mellela is the CEO and co-founder of Flock AI. She has a strong foundation in strategy, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to drive organizational outcomes.
Her professional journey spans years of experience in operations, supply chain management, and marketing, with a focus on omni-channel strategy and business development. During his time at Walmart, he contributed to P&L management, improved operational efficiency, and led sustainability initiatives, demonstrating expertise in negotiation, pricing strategy, and supplier engagement.
YUVRAJ SINGH SHERGILL - CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Yuvraj Singh Shergill is building Arusto, a platform that helps institutions create high-quality learning content 30x faster and 60% more cost-effectively. The company works with higher education institutions, corporate L&D teams, and publishers to automate the heavy lifting of structuring, formatting, and producing multi-modal training materials. It’s not just an authoring tool — Arusto aims to rethink how adult learning content is created at scale.
Prior to founding Arusto, he spent years working across governments, international organizations, and consulting, including roles at McKinsey, EY, the World Food Programme, and in advisory positions focused on education and workforce transformation. Over time, he became deeply interested in the infrastructure behind learning — particularly how slow, expensive, and fragmented content creation can be, especially within the institutions that need it most.
Sponsors:
Qapita is a global equity management platform that helps startups and scaleups manage cap tables, employee equity, and investor reporting with clarity and confidence. Trusted by companies from early stage through IPO, Qapita simplifies equity administration across jurisdictions while giving founders, finance teams, and investors a real-time view of ownership.
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