
WORKSHOPS
Two Day Investment Workshop - Accelerating Your Funding Success
Central London & Ibiza
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Are you looking for funding to grow or accelerate your business?
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Would you like to gain an unfair advantage over your competition?
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Would you like to learn the inside track from a VC on how to successfully raise money?
10,016 software development and programming businesses were incorporated in the UK for the first time during 2017. Sadly only around 1% will obtain funding. With 9 out of 10 start-ups failing in the first three years a successful funding strategy will be critical to long-term future.
Why attend?
This interactive workshop is for companies keen to understand direct from a VC how to secure funding in today’s highly competitive market.
Who should attend?
• Companies looking to raise up to £5m in the next six to twelve months
• C-Suite, Founders and Co-Founders who wish to take the initiative and learn the “art of the fund raise”
What do we cover?
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Gain a clear understanding of the funding landscape
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Develop your overall compelling funding strategy
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Build a winning pitch deck
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Learn the inside track about how VC’s make decisions
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Achieve a successful raise with the right tools and templates
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Join the Fund-raising Mentoring Programme
This is a unique immersive two-day workshop offering the opportunity to network with a cohort of business owners and founders all looking to raise funding.
The workshop is aimed at building and testing your value proposition, pitch deck and covering the questions you will be asked by investors.
There will be plenty of opportunity to network among peers in a relaxed and informal environment.
Key take-aways:
• A clear funding strategy to accelerate your success
• Where to find investors
• Ability to articulate your business and why you should invest in 60 seconds
• Understand why companies fail to secure funding and the most common mistakes
• How to build a winning pitch deck
• Knowledge of the investment process from initial pitch through to signing the deal
Who are we?
Venezia Capital is a dynamic, technology-focussed, mid-market Venture Capital and M&A specialist. We understand how difficult it is for early stage companies to secure funding.
If you search Google, you will find plenty of information on how to raise money, but we couldn’t find anything that we could confidently direct early stage companies too for great advice. To solve this challenge, we decided to launch and develop our own workshop series.
Facilitator and Mentor
Alex Blakeway
Possessing over twenty years of experience in the technology market growing global business units for Siemens, Cisco, Verizon and Oracle. Alex is the Managing Partner of Venezia Capital a dynamic, technology-focused, mid-market Venture Capital and M&A specialist. Alex has over ten years’ experience in the investment industry working with start-ups.
In January 2019 Alex takes up a position with the European Commission as a VC advisor and assessor for the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument and sits as a Non-Executive Director on several boards.
With regular attendance as an international speaker on how to fund and scale technology start-ups, Alex is also a mentor at Migrant Leaders an independent UK registered charity that inspires and develops disadvantaged young migrants across the UK to broaden their horizons and capture business opportunities.
Alex launched this workshop series to provide founders with practical inside advice after becoming frustrated with start-ups repeatedly making the same mistakes.
Agenda Overview
Day 1.
8.30am Registration
9.00am Introductions, vision and objectives of the workshop
9.30am Funding - What is out there & options open to entrepreneurs?
10.00am Why is it so hard and where does it all go wrong?
10.30am Break and networking
11.00am How to get investor ready
11.30am Exercise 1 Elevator pitch and the Value Proposition
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Exercise 1 Presentation and peer review
2.30pm Key sections of the pitch deck
3.00pm Exercise 2 Problem/Opportunity
3.30pm Break and networking
4.00pm Exercise 2 Problem/Opportunity
4.30pm Exercise 2 Presentation and peer review
5.00pm Articulating the business model
5.30pm Review today Q&A
6.00pm Drinks receptions and evening entertainment
Day 2.
9.00am Financial Model and key things you should know
9.30am How do VC’s make decisions and how to stand out?
10.00am Exercise 3 How well do you know your numbers?
10.30am Break and networking
11.00am Exercise 4 USP and product/solution development
12.00pm The deal process – what happens after the offer?
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Cracking the - Team/Current Traction/TAM/Go to Market/Sales sections
2.30pm Fund raising plan – how to find investors
3.00pm Break and networking
3.300pm Exercise 5 develop your fund-raising plan
5.00pm Wrap up and the Fund-raising Mentor Programme
What’s included?
All refreshments/lunch/drinks and evening drinks reception on the Thursday night and full workshop documentation.
What you need to bring?
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Energy and the willingness to contribute and share ideas
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Any current investment documentation you may have
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Idea of what your perfect investor would look like
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Understanding that everything discussed within the cohort is confidential
Booking details
Date: March 2019
Please email events@veneziacapital.com to register