The Ultimate 2026 Founders Fundraising Playbook
A working session with Lisa Calhoun, Founding GP at Valor Ventures, on the metrics, process, and playbook Southern founders are using to outperform at pre-seed, seed and Series A this year.
**EACH REGISTRANT RECEIVES FREE 12 PAGE FOUNDER FUNDRAISING GUIDE**
The bar moved big time in 2026.
Seed now looks like the Series A of 2022, AI companies are pricing on a different planet, and investors are grading capital efficiency like never before.
If you're a Southern founder planning a raise in the next 6–12 months, spend an hour with Lisa Calhoun getting the benchmarks, the scorecard, and the playbook Valor uses with its portfolio.
What we'll cover
The 2026 readiness scorecards for Seed, Series A, and Series B. You can use these to pre-flight your raise and the metrics you want your narrative to focus on.
Using SAFEs wisely
How investors are calculating ARR right now in the AI era
Metrics that inform your pre-money valuation and/or cap, and how to work within the frameworks wisely to improve your valuation.
Valor's 8-step Victory Round playbook: from financial prep to picking the right term sheet
Who should come
This is exclusively for founders of B2B AI, SaaS, vertical AI, and enterprise AI companies based in the South with early or pilot revenue today, who are raising — or plan to raise — a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A in 2026.
About your host
Lisa Calhoun is Founder and Managing Partner of Valor Ventures, Atlanta's leading seed-stage B2B venture firm. She has 10+ years in venture and 30+ years as an operator, and has led Valor's investments across the Southern enterprise software and AI landscape. Her first AI investment? 2017.
Free to attend. Seats are limited to preserve the coaching/workshopping element of this fundraising webinar — register to save yours.
Read this far, but don't want to wait? — get the free VALOR FOUNDER FUNDRAISING guide now--https://valor.vc/reports/founder-fundraising-q2-2026