Originally published in Entrepreneur Magazine

By Tammi Jantzen

In my former life as a venture capitalist, I made my living awarding money to deserving entrepreneurs.

Now, sitting on the other side of the table as a co-founder of a health information technology startup, I’m experiencing firsthand what every entrepreneur knows: Raising money is hard. Dealing with potential investors is hard.

And it should be. As a venture capitalist, I was successful because I did my homework. My job may have been to take financial risks, but I took those risks very carefully.

Now, as an entrepreneur, I’m asking investors to share my vision for revolutionizing nutrition care for pre-term infants. I’m asking them to put their money behind something utterly groundbreaking, to not only see value in what I’m doing but to help create value. That should be hard.

However, it should not be hard because I’m a woman. But, as we’ve seen from a summer full of revelations of VCs behaving badly, it often is.

Read the full article at https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/300133

Tammi Jantzen is COO and CFO of Astarte Medical Partners.