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Runway Is A Strategy

Name: Runway Is A Strategy
Start: 2026-02-27T18:00:00.000+05:30
End: 2026-02-27T21:00:00.000+05:30
Location: Barefoot Garden Cafe

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Barefoot Garden Cafe

Colombo, Western Province

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About Event

Runway is a strategy.. not a badge.

Most fundraising advice assumes Silicon Valley. Sri Lankan founders operate in a different reality: different check sizes, different risk appetite, and different paths to growth.

This session is a founder led panel on how startups here actually fund progress through grants, partnerships, bootstrapping, and strategic investors.

What we’ll cover:

How to extend runway without defaulting to VC
When grants make sense (and how they really work)
Partnerships as a cashflow lever (and when they’re a trap)
Finding strategic investors vs “just capital”
What to do if you only have 6 months runway

Nevindaree (Nevi) Premarathne is the Founder and CEO of The Makers Global and would focus on how teams find support early, especially through grants and partnerships.

Sachin Wickramasinghe is the Co‑Founder and CEO of Thyaga, will discuss on how to keep growing without losing control of the business.

If funding is your #1 bottleneck right now, this will give you practical routes and the tradeoffs behind each.

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