Close your round faster: Founder & Investor Lessons Learned
🚀 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 for a deep dive into what it takes to close your first round from both sides - founder and an investor!
Agenda:
6.30pm - Arrival & Registration
6.50pm - Panel & Q&A
7.50pm - 8.30pm - Pizza & drinks
What You Will Learn:
The investor's black box: Hear exactly how 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.
The Panel:
Eric Queathem - Founder of Velocity. Just closed a $10M pre-seed. From McKinsey to Worldpay to Founder—he knows exactly how the "Golden Era" of payments works and how to capitalize on it.
Sammy Verghese - Co-founder of Mucka AI. A repeat founder who has built companies to £30M+ revenue and raised £105M+ in venture and debt. He’s seen the exits and the failures.
Pierce Polak - Investor at Fuel Ventures. One of the UK’s most active early-stage investors with 210+ deals under their belt. He’ll tell you exactly what makes a pitch stand out in a crowded inbox.
Space is strictly limited. This is your chance to stop sending generic decks and start crafting pitches that close.
We're excited to partner with Huckletree for this event.
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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 Grishin Robotics Accelerator Cohort 3, starting in April. 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 consumerised 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