Raise ready — the AI-powered fundraising masterclass for female founders
6 sessions. Real tools. Real investors.
You're brilliant in your field. You're building something that matters. But when you walk into a room with investors, something gets lost in translation.
This masterclass is designed for exactly that gap.
Over 6 weekly sessions, you'll learn how investors actually think, build your pitch from scratch, and develop a personal AI toolkit that works for your fundraise — not a generic one copied from someone else's playbook.
Recommended reading: Anthropic's The Founders Playbook: Building an AI-Native Startup. At Epic Angels, we consider this baseline. With agentic AI, we expect every founder we back to be fully on top of these developments — no matter what industry you're in.
The playbook gives you the technical foundation. But what makes your AI build yours — rather than generic output that looks like every other founder running the same tools — is knowing your own thinking well enough to teach it to a system. Your priorities. How you make decisions under pressure. What you won't compromise on. AI amplifies what's already there. This program is where you get clear on both.
What you leave with:
A complete pitch deck, built and workshopped in the room
A working financial model
An investor research agent you built yourself
A personal AI fundraising toolkit — outreach, follow-up, data room prep
Live feedback on your pitch from Epic Angels investors
The sessions
All sessions are 1.5 hours, every Monday, 9am New York / 2pm London 9pm Singapore. Delivered via Zoom.
June 23 — The CEO shift: from scientist to founder
June 30 — The investor lens: how they make money and what that means for you
July 7 — Your numbers: financial fundamentals without the finance degree
July 14 — Your pitch: storytelling that converts
July 21 — Your AI fundraising stack: build your tools live
July 28 — Pitch day: live feedback from Epic Angels investors
Who this is for
Female founders at pre-seed or seed stage — especially those with a science, engineering, or deep tech background who feel more at home in the lab than in front of investors. APAC and LATAM founders especially welcome.
What this is not
A lecture series. Every session is hands-on. You build things in the room.
About your facilitator
Maaike Doyer is a seasoned finance executive turned venture investor with a global perspective. She has lived and worked in Europe, Silicon Valley, Singapore, and now New York. As a Venture Partner for family offices and Managing Partner of Epic Angels, the world's largest female-only investor network backing APAC & LATAM startups, she focuses on empowering changemakers through angel investing.
Maaike has trained investors in over 35 countries on how to get started with angel investing. She coaches startups on raising funds and helps investor networks build and manage their communities. In addition, she works as a fractional CFO, supporting companies with financial strategy and growth.
Previously, she had a career in M&A at PwC, and she served as the global CFO at Business Models Inc., a strategy and innovation firm behind the bestselling book Business Model Generation. In 2015, she moved from the Netherlands to the U.S. to establish the firm's presence in Silicon Valley and New York.
Maaike is a regular speaker at conferences, teaches at universities and MBA programs, and mentors founders through startup accelerators. Known for her hands-on approach and no-nonsense attitude, she believes in turning ideas into real businesses with measurable impact.
About Epic Angels
Epic Angels is the world's largest female-only investor network — 800+ senior executive women across 48 countries, focused on APAC and LATAM startups. We back founders. We also know exactly what it takes to get funded — because we're the ones writing the cheques.