India, Feb. 22 -- Securing funding for a startup is no easy task, and Bengaluru-based entrepreneur captured this reality in a viral post on X (formerly Twitter).

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The co-founder and CEO of Presentations.ai Sumanth Raghavendra compared the funding journey to dating, highlighting how startups struggle for attention when they need capital the most, only to be flooded with interest once they start thriving.

He wrote:

"Startup funding is just like dating. When you're desperate, no one's interested. When you're thriving, suddenly everyone's in love. VCs ignored us for ages - now they're practically proposing even before the...