Teaching tech founders how to build, scale, and fundraise.
Successfully build your startup through interactive courses, proven tools, and personalized feedback from world-class mentors.
Astra and a16z's Talent x Opportunity Fund have collaborated to bring you the best mentors and courses on fundraising. Helping you get one step closer to closing your round!
Meet Some of Our Mentors
Learn and receive feedback from successful founders and mentors that have coached founders around the world for accelerators like 500 Global, Techstars, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Tash Jefferies
Juan Felipe Campos
Elena Nikonova
Simon Grigenas
Janko Milunovic
Tash is here to help founders find the right ICP and create a repeatable sales process. Tash’s experience includes leading over 600+ companies internationally to grow and scale their sales and has generated incremental revenues of over $100M for the companies she has mentored and coached.
- Close your round faster
- Fundraising 101
- Sales Experiments
- Managing your team
- Scalable marketing
- AI Strategies and Tools
- Building models and forecasting
- Create a growth mindset
Finally a place to find the tough answers on how to be, and grow as a founder.
Courses and Challenges
Get the tools, frameworks, and understanding you need to successfully build and scale your startup.
1:1 Mentorship
You’ll always have confidence in your growth strategies with one-on-one feedback right in your founder inbox alongside weekly office hours with mentors.
AI Mentor
From building you a unique curriculum to getting you to pitch mastery as fast as possible, the AI Mentor is at your disposal 24/7.
Global Leaderboard
Meet investors and other founders by topping regional rankings. Compete against founders around the world in challenge submissions and interactive courses.
Trusted by startups around the globe
As a solo-founder, Tarek came in clutch as a second set of eyes in vetting through the data room I had prepared for my pre-seed round. It was only with his help that I was able to be diligence ready!
My co-founders and I weren’t 100% sure how to best do customer interviews being first time founders. I worked with Tash during our weekly mentor office hours to not only define our ICP, but also on how to run better interviews.
The a16z TxO fundraising courses on Astra Academy refined our pitch and helped us to actually understand the investor mindset. This ended up playing a crucial role in us closing our latest funding round.
I absolutely love Astra Academy. Getting access to the course content and challenges alongside feedback from world class mentors has been a game changer for me and Goodlawyer.