Investor-ready? How simple mistakes can lose investors
This webinar is the first of a 3-part series from Focused For Business & SeedLegals: 'Price it, Pitch it, Close it: A funding bootcamp for pre-seed & seed founders'.
Raising your first (or next) round? This practical, no-BS series will help you:
Set a realistic valuation that investors respect
Get your investor documents and numbers in order
Find, secure and work with a lead investor so you can actually close the round
Across three live, interactive sessions, you’ll learn how investors really think, what they expect to see from you, and how to move from “we should raise” to “we’ve closed the round” – with the right documents, terms and SEIS/EIS in place.
A great pitch deck opens doors. Being truly investor-ready is what gets deals done.
This session shows you what to have in place before you start serious investor conversations - and how to avoid some common mistakes to avoid that can undo all the hard work you have done to get investors “on the hook”.
You’ll learn how to:
Build the “Big 5” investor-ready assets every founder needs: deck, one-pager, financial forecast, cap table/round structure and simple data room
Create a simple but credible financial forecast – and avoid common investor red flags
Get clear on what to prepare before you speak to investors, so you’re not scrambling during due diligence
Use a term sheet to structure and negotiate a deal, not just as a legal formality
Leverage practical templates and checklists to get investor-ready faster
Hear how founders like you prepared properly and used it to speed up their raise
Our hosts🎤
Hatty Fawcett of Focused For Business makes it faster and fairer for start-up founders to raise equity investment.
Hatty has worked in three startups, raised investment for her startup and also managed Kelly Hoppen’s investments when she was on the TV show “Dragons Den”.
Focused For Business run the Funding Accelerator programme which has raised over £38 million for its graduates, over £10 million of which was raised in the last 12 months.
Hatty’s was a finalist in the Great British Entrepreneur Awards, and has been recognised as Adviser of the Year twice by Enterprise Nation.
Adam Phillips
Funding Associate, SeedLegals
Adam is a fundraising associate who has spent the last 2.5 years at SeedLegals helping founders secure capital and scale. Specialising in S/EIS Tax Relief, Advance Subscription Agreements, and traditional Funding Rounds.
He helped close nearly 200 investment rounds, often involving investment amounts up to £3 million, from a wide network including Angels, VCs, Family Offices, and CVCs. Adam is focused on providing the practical guidance startups need to successfully go from pitch to close.
Stay tuned for the last webinar in this series: