Founder x Angel: How to close your first investors
🚀 Are you a founder raising capital?
If you're a founder raising capital right now or preparing to hit the fundraising trail, this is the unfiltered, essential event you cannot afford to miss.
We’re cutting through the noise to bring you a real conversation with our two brilliant founders, Rita Kastrati and Sammy Verghese, Grishin Robotics accelerator alumni joined by Jeffrey Green an angel investor for a deep dive into what it takes to close your first round from both sides - founder and an investor!
Agenda:
9:00am - Registration & Breakfast
9:30am - 10.30am - Panel & Q&A
10:30am - 11.30am - Networking - your chance to connect with our panel and other ambitious founders.
What You Will Learn:
The angel investor's black box: Hear exactly how angel investors decide when to invest, the non-negotiables they look for, and the instant red flags to avoid.
The founder's closing secrets: Get the inside track from two successful founders on how to craft a fundraising process that converts.
Both sides of the story: An unprecedented, uncensored chat where founders and investors reveal the true, often messy, reality of raising an early-stage round.
Meet the panel:
Jeffrey Green: a 50+ time angel investor, multiple exits and one of the most prolific investors in female and diverse start-up founders in UK. Jeff is a podcaster and long-time technology data platform influencer. Currently with the SimCorp organisation formerly IBM and eFront part of BlackRock.
Sammy Verghese: Founder of Mucka AI, the most powerful AI voice assistant in the world, initially targeted at tradespeople. Repeat founder (exited/failed) who built companies to £30M+ revenue & raised £105M+ in venture/debt.
Rita Kastrati: Founder of Pioneering People, a platform on a mission to make flexible work work for everyone. Rita scaled hospitality ventures, grew a leading fintech, and won London Tech Week's People's Choice award.
Space is strictly limited. This is your chance to stop sending generic decks and start crafting pitches that close.
About Grishin Robotics Accelerator
The Grishin Robotics Accelerator is London's highly selective, one-month intensive program dedicated to pre-seed and seed tech startups.
We're now accepting applications for GRx Accelerator 2nd Cohort, start date January, 23rd. Apply now 👉https://www.grishinrobotics.com/accelerator
Grishin Robotics is an early-stage Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We back founders of consumer and consumerized enterprise startups that disrupt large and growing markets.
The fund has backed category-defining companies such as Ring (acquired by Amazon for $1B), Spin (acquired by Ford), Zipline (autonomous drone delivery), Starship (last-mile delivery robots), Sphero (robotic toys), and Eero (acquired by Amazon). We invest in Seed and Series A startups targeting large consumer markets such as online entertainment, gaming, food, education, team productivity and collaboration