Startup Science is raising $8 million to reach break-even, then staying profitable without more funding rounds. The approach: work your way to success, not pay your way there. AI and internal infrastructure let them do it lean.
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So if you think about our endgame, sort of like where we're headed and with this round of funding, the round of funding is primarily to get us to break even. We feel like we can do that with that amount of money pretty effectively and then stop diluting people so that if you're a shareholder, you're not getting diluted by just trying to pay your way to success. We work our way to success. We don't pay our way to success. So there's a fundamental difference between us and others, and that's why we don't need to raise as much money. If you think about other systems of record raising $100 million, $50 million, and, you know, we're looking at maybe all in, we would've raised $8 million at the end of the day, something like that. And we get to profitability. If the business can get to profitability, it can stay in profitability. Some of the things that we're doing with AI and infrastructure with our internal teams ensure that we can get to profitability and stay profitable.