Community VC

Join Molly Hamilton, Commercial Lawyer from Lawpath to learn how to develop your initial term sheet to lead investment negotiations. This session will equip you with the knowledge to understand key terminology, negotiate terms in your favour, and employ strategies to finalise your investment quickly.


How to Approach Term Sheets as a Founder

Join Ashby Field to hear how founders can develop a financial model that enables validation of key assumptions, guides decision making and empowers communications with prospective investors.


Financial Models that Drive Growth

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

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 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

About

Speaker

Shoaib Iqbal

CEO at Esper Satellites

Replays

How to Approach Term Sheets as a Founder

Financial Models that Drive Growth

Building Awareness Before Opening a Raise