Community VC

Join Shoaib Iqbal to discuss his approach with business development/sales and how it can be used to complement fundraising efforts.

"Would love to chat about BD, B2B sales, etc in prep for fundraising. We've made some significant headways on that front as a forcing function of having strong commercials before we went raising so some value I could add there."

The Esper team have closed $1 million in funding from investors including Stellar Ventures, Day One Ventures and Dolby Family Ventures, as well as secured grants from Alexis Ohanian’s 776 Foundation and the Australian Federal Government.


BD/Sales to drive Fundraising 

Join Gavin and listen in to what makes a winning Pitch Deck. Gavin has helped a number of Startups perfect their pitch decks in doing so secure large amounts of capital.


Perfecting your Pitch Deck

Join Tim Noakesmith to discuss his journey in building businesses and communicating a vision through storytelling.


Developing a Compelling Vision through Story

In this session, we'll dive into how you can build rapport and convert investors and advisors via setting milestones that build confidence.


Setting Milestones to Build Investor Confidence

Most founders understandably spend a lot of time building their products - which is a critical part of the business - but they often forget about the product positioning process. Listen in to how Tania has seen and contributed to shaping successful product positioning at high-growth companies.


Positioning & Early GTM strategy for startups

Thanks for your interest in supporting the next wave of companies seeking support via the Community VC platform.

**What to expect?**

*   30-60 minutes. 10-20 minutes of pitches. 20-40 minutes of discussion.
*   Hosted the first Tuesday of each month at 11:30 AM AEST
*   Hear founder pitches from the latest companies
*   Hear feedback and discussion from our community of experts and investors


Pitch Event

Join Kayla Medica, an experienced product marketer, who's been busy building her personal brand on LinkedIn and finding great success. Kayla will share how to define your approach and lessons learned when posting and engaging on LinkedIn. All very handy knowledge for founders looking to increase their reach and connection with potential investors and advisors on LinkedIn.


Building your Personal Brand on LinkedIn

Join Roseanne Healy to discuss whether Crowdfunding is a good fit for your business. Understand the high level in's and out's of raising capital from the crowd. Beyond that, how does it complement other fundraising activities. This will be an excellent intro for any founders considering or curious about Crowdfunding.


Crowdfunding. Is it right for my startup?

Join Pippa Smith, Founder of Social Startup Labs. Pippa has supported a number of startup founders both here in AU and the UK on how to use digital media to successfully raise investment through pragmatic awareness building strategies and tactics. In this session, hear how Pippa's team approaches various awareness raising activities in the lead up to opening a raise. The case study numbers are staggering, we've seen them, huge amounts of interest generated through very considered audience building tactics. For any founders working hard towards a capital raise –this is a must along to hear how you could be better allocating your time and money to generate genuine interest.


Building Awareness Before Opening a Raise