From Garage to Gong - An Inside View of Full Stack Tech Investing
A company may start with a few founders and a prototype. Years later, it may ring the opening bell.
Between those two moments, it raises capital again and again: venture equity, late-stage secondaries, growth debt, and public-market financing.
From Garage to Gong! An Inside View of Full-Stack Tech Investing brings together investors from across that journey to explain what each layer is, what trends they are seeing in tech and AI, and how individual investors can think about access at each stage. The discussion is educational, practical, and built for Tech Week.
Investors from Alumni Ventures, Pre-Public Equity Partners, Runway Growth Capital and William Blair will discuss the following.
A tech company does not raise money once; it moves through a sequence of capital needs from formation to liquidity.
Each layer has a different instrument: venture equity, secondary shares, growth debt, public equity, or advisory/wealth-planning considerations around an exit.
Access is not the same as suitability. Eligibility, liquidity, risk, time horizon, fees, and offering documents matter.
AI is not just a sector theme; it changes company formation, diligence, infrastructure spend, financing strategy, and exit timing.
The right next step is educational: identify the layer, ask how access works, and understand the risk before acting.
Light bites and networking to follow the panel.