WEBINAR | Own Your Raise: Creating a Fundraising Strategy for Female Founders
May 19 @ 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Free
We’re running this workshop as an ONLINE event via Zoom. We’ll email the Zoom link and the workshop materials to all the registrants shortly before the event starts.
Any questions, please email [email protected]
The pressures of running a business while looking for funding causes many founders to underestimate the importance of creating a clear fundraising strategy. You don’t want to waste your time seeking capital without a clear timeline and plan. In this workshop, the experienced investors and entrepreneurs will guide you on how to best prepare, plan and execute a strategy that’s best suited to your business.
This workshop will also address the specifics of what it means to raise capital as a female founder and provide practical tips, checklists, templates and interactive exercises so you can start applying these to your company and Own Your Raise.
Key topics addressed include:
- What does raising capital mean for me and for my business?
- Is my company ready?
- How do I figure out and understand who the right investors are for my company?
- How can I best prepare to raise my first outside capital?
- How can I best align running my company and running a fundraising round?
- What’s the process and timeline of raising from angels/VCs?
- What should I, as a female founder, know about raising capital?
By attending this workshop, you will:
- Understand what raising outside capital means for you and your business
- Have a clear understanding of how to create a fundraising strategy that makes sense for you and for your company
- Learn about resources to help you fundraise
- Get checklists and templates for planning and executing your raise
- Get access to the slides & recording
- Meet fellow female founders raising capital
Please note that this is a woman-only event. Use of “women” & “female” is inclusive of and welcomes trans women, nonbinary folks, and anyone who identifies with womxnhood in any way that is significant to them.
Speakers:
Lisa Frusztajer
Investor in Residence of The Capital Network, Investment Committee at Portfolia, Angel Investor at Pipeline Angels and Next Wave Ventures
Terence Craig
Chief Investment Officer at The Impact Seat
Kate Westervelt
Founder and CEO of MOMBOX
Marie Meslin
Executive Director at The Capital Network & Creator of the Fellowship For Female Founders
Useful Resources to Check Out Before the Workshop
What Past Attendees Have to Say About This Workshop
The resources and content provided were extremely useful and I’m excited to put them to use ASAP! I feel like I walked away with a really solid understanding of how to begin my fundraising strategy.
The information and framing were presented in a way that was very easy to assimilate and use to orient myself more confidently in this process. Highly contextual teachings are where the real information is shared. Thank you all for your intelligence and generosity.
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