Founders & Funders Work Session
An interactive, high-energy working session designed to bring founders and funders together around the whiteboard to collaboratively explore opportunities, challenges, and potential pathways for growth.
Purpose
Create a shared space for founders to openly present their vision, traction, and key obstacles.
Enable funders to actively engage in problem-solving, offering strategic insight, industry perspective, and pattern recognition.
Align both sides on the biggest opportunities and the most pressing risks—beyond just the pitch deck.
Which Founders?
Venture-scale startup founders solving large, urgent problems with the potential for outsized returns.
Typically building in fast-moving markets with technology-driven solutions.
Early traction, clear hypotheses, and openness to pressure-test assumptions in front of funders.
Founders who want to co-create with investors, not just pitch to them.
Which Funders?
Angels and early-stage VCs who are actively making investments.
Investors who bring pattern recognition, domain expertise, and networks, and who enjoy rolling up their sleeves in collaborative sessions.
Funders curious to see how founders think, problem-solve, and adapt in real time—beyond the deck.
Those motivated by the chance to build early conviction and relationships through dialogue, not just due diligence.
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