Funding Growth with Less Dilution
Debt venture strategies from a Silicon Valley insider.
Join RBCx for a conversation on venture debt from investors and bankers who have seen it all.
Marshall Hawks spent 20+years in venture banking and lending, working with Airbnb, Twitch, Fitbit, Planet Labs, and more. You can expect a conversation about:
Capital stacks: balancing equity, debt, and alternative funding sources.
Venture debt realities: warrants, covenants, dilution traps and how debt strategies shift when equity dries up.
What VCs don’t tell you about venture debt: aligning incentives with your investors.
Attendees will get a copy of Marshall's new book, Venture Debt Deals.
ABOUT OUR PANELISTS:
Matt leads the national practices for fund banking of venture-funds and early stage banking of technology companies across Canada. At RBCx, he works at the intersection of finance, innovation, and scale — bringing deep venture capital expertise to help founders and fund managers navigate capital markets and growth strategy.
Before coming an author, Marshall spent more than twenty years in venture banking and lending, working with hundreds of startups-including Airbnb, Twitch, Fitbit, Planet Labs, and Egnyte.
Rebecca co-leads the lending practice at RBCx, working with Canada’s fastest growing innovative companies with a special focus on the life sciences sector.
PROGRAMMING:
9:00 - 10:00 AM | Breakfast & Networking
10:00 AM | Opening Comments
10:05 - 11:00 AM | Main Panel Event
11:00 AM | Closing Comments
We look forward to seeing you!
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