Co-founder AJ Asver shares fundraising tips and why Y Combinator is a good home for startups

Scoopler is a graduate of the Y Combinator program in Silicon Valley. The real-time search engine, which came together in 2008, has just closed its seed round of funding. In this segment, John Bautista talks to Scoopler co-founder AJ Asver about how he and his co-founder Dilan Jayawardane raised their initial round of funding, and why they chose to do a debt round rather than an equity round. He also talks about why being backed by Y Combinator is like "being put into a bazooka and shot out." Y Combinator is a high-profile and respected venture capital company focused on investing no more than $20,000 at the earliest stages of a company’s life cycle.