Fundraising Workshop for MDW Summit
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workshop provided for the Million Dollar Women Summit , that took place in NYC on April 5-6 2018. #WomenWhoDare
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Fundraising Workshop for MDW Summit
- 1. Fundraising Workshop Shai Goldman @shaig Jeremy Shure @jeremyshure April 6, 2018
- 2. Round Sizes • Pre-Seed – $250K to $750K – Pre-Product to Product • Seed – $2M to $3M – Product live to traction • Series A – $5M to $10M – traction
- 4. Sales Process • Qualifying – Location – Stage – Sector – Fund Size – Fund Vintage / Capacity – Investment Pace – Partner – Competitive Investments
- 5. Networks • Bank • Lawyer • Accountant • Temp CFO • Advisors / Mentors • Co-Working • Accelerator • Other Founders
- 6. Staging • Qualify all of your prospects – Identify the 30 investors that are the BEST fit – Get 5 meetings and see how it goes – Going well, add another 10 meetings immediately • Decide a specific 3 month timeframe to raise – Avoid July/Aug and Dec – Sept to Nov – Jan to March – March to June • Get comfortable with a “NO”
- 7. Knowing When to Shift Gears • Too early • Market is too small • Questions about the team • Raising too much • Raising too little • Valuation is too high • 5 to 10 firms that are fit, pass
- 8. Use These Tools • Funds below $200M in size https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ebGZ6- ivf_3woBGC4Kz_3217DhjGsefoRu_5iP3nuFQ/edit#gid=0 • VC database - https://signal.nfx.com/login • VC finder - http://beta.spreadshare.co/table/122 • Crunchbase • AngelList • Pipedrive / Asana / Trello / Airtable
- 11. Find A Lead!!! Firms who lead (price) $2M+ seed rounds with a $750K+ check • Accel • Bloomberg Beta • Boldstart Ventures • Bowery Capital • Brand Foundry • Canaan Partners • Collaborative Fund • Corigin Ventures • Eniac Ventures • ff Venture Capital • First Round Capital • Flybridge • Genecast Ventures • Greycroft • Homebrew • IA Ventures • KEC Ventures • Lerer Hippeau Ventures • Compound Ventures • Primary Ventures • Resolute Ventures • Scout Ventures • True Ventures • Two Sigma Ventures • Union Square Ventures
- 12. Pre-Seed Investors Those that actively participate in pre-launch startups based in NYC, where round sizes are typically $250K to $750K Accelaprise Afore BoldStart Bowery Box Group Brainchild Brooklyn Bridge Bullish Corigin Ventures Coventure Eniac ffvc First Round Capital Flybridge Great Oaks Homebrew Hustle Fund IA Ventures Lakehouse Lattice LDV Capital Lerer Hippeau Max Ventures MetaProp NextGen Venture NextView Nomo Ventures Notation Precursor Red & Blue VC Rough Draft Scout Ventures Social Starts SoGal Ventures SOSV Story Ventures TechNexus TechStars Terrapin Bale VC Third Kind TJNS X Factor
- 13. Seed / A in NY, < $1M, ‘17/’18 all investor types
- 14. Seed / A in NY , < $5M, ‘17/’18 VCs only
- 15. Most Active Accelerators ‘16/’17
- 16. Thank you.