Hacker News with Generative AI: Fundraising

Ask HN: Have you gotten anywhere cold messaging investors? (ycombinator.com)
As an unknown/nobody with a startup and a pitch, have you personally gotten anywhere cold messaging investors? Emailing them, messaging on LinkedIn, filling out website applications, etc.
Help fight the proprietary software monsters (pointieststick.com)
KDE’s yearly fundraiser is now live, with the theme of spooooky proprietary software. Go check it out — no, really! It’s great!
Elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns (cnn.com)
A CNN investigation reveals how deceptive political fundraising has misled elderly Americans into giving away millions of dollars
VoidZero: Building a Unified Toolchain for JavaScript (voidzero.dev)
TL;DR: I have founded VoidZero Inc., a company dedicated to building an open-source, high-performance, and unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem. We have raised $4.6 million in seed funding, led by Accel.
X suspends 'White Dudes for Harris' account after fundraiser (washingtonpost.com)
Some fundraisers pay >90% of the funds to themselves (propublica.org)