AM I INVESTABLE?
How To Determine If your Startup is Investable!
Vivek Boray
Startup Lawyer
Job David
Tumrukihub Multiverse
Eran Yoran
Business Innovator
Olayide Olumeko
The Girls Code Initiative
“Am I Investable?” is a full hour meetup on how to make your African startup an investment-ready. Together with the senior startup lawyer, advisor, and mentor Mr Vivek Boray, we will focus on what venture capitalists and angel investors are looking for in a new African Startup? We will share step by step, best practice, and right moves that will make your Startup “Investment ready” and transform your crazy idea into a success story.
About the Event:
If you are looking to raise funding, the first question you need to ask yourself before devoting months of time on the fundraising trail is simple: are you truly ready? Furthermore, what makes a startup ‘investable’ in the eyes of venture capitalists and angel investors? On this webinar, we will be joined by Vivek Boray a startup Lawyer with a fast-growing organization devoted to evaluating a startup’s investability. Join us to learn about the key indicators for investors, the changes to the investment environment due to COVID, how you can position your startup for fundraising success, and more.
About the Speaker:
Mr Vivek Boray has over 15 years of experience as a startup lawyer, advisor, and mentor to early-stage startup founders in Silicon Valley, New York, and across the world. Vivek works with teams ranging from “2 people in a garage” to global multinational corporations. He has been a mentor with leading accelerators and incubator programs such as Techstars, 500 Startups, Founders Institute, Startup Chile, and many others. He has a passion for advising companies that are looking to “go global” and he has worked with teams from around the world.
About WeWork Labs:
WeWork Labs (https://www.wework.com) is The We Company’s global platform for early-stage startups and forward-thinking enterprise companies. We empower inventive humans and organizations to impact the present and influence the future.
Who Should Attend?
- Anyone who is thinking about raising money for their startup
- Anyone that wants an understanding of fundraising for early stage businesses and products
What Are Some of The Topics To Cover?
The key metrics and pre-requisites for raising funding, and the anatomy of a “fundable” company:
- How to make yourself more attractive to investors
- How to utilize online fundraising networks and platforms, like AngelList, Gust, Kickstarter, and Indiegogo.
- How to meet and work with different sources of capital, such as friends and family, range investors, venture capitalists, government grants and loans, and more.
- and more…
06
September
15:00 Nigeria Time (GMT+1)
Zoom Event
AM I INVESTABLE? How To Determine If your Startup is Investable!
Event Recording
Free
NGN 2,000
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Learn about the Team
The Girls Code Initiative is a Non-governmental organization that is passionate about the education of the Girl child. The Girls Code enriches the underserved girls with strong IT skills and improves their resourcefulness.
We aim to increase the number of girls in tech in the world as a whole. Our programs educate, equip, and inspire girls with the computing skills they will need to pursue 21st-century opportunities.
We give girls the skills and resources they need for careers beyond the classroom. We help girls build the confidence they need to succeed in a traditionally male-dominated industry.
Tomruk-iHub is Africa’s biggest social innovation hub running 2 main projects: StartupSchool and SMSGAfrica.
StartupSchool strengthens the national SMEs community by connecting entrepreneurs who are creating innovative and scalable businesses with the skills, network and funding they require to succeed.
SMSGAfrica is a platform that teaches individuals and organizations how to effectively use digital tools for social and economic benefits through digital skills workshops and trainings.
Tags: Digital Marketing, Leadership Development Programs, Mentorship, and Co-working space
Eran Yoran is a respected marketing leader and a business innovator who assists startups and growth companies in excelling and fulfilling their potential. Eran’s unique and diverse career carve him as a key player and decision-maker of multi-discipline companies, from Early-stage startups to B2B and B2G global corporations. From traditional marketing and advertising to the most advanced data-driven, growth and performance B2C and B2B2C digital companies.
Key roles in Eran’s career include Marketing Leader & Head of Business Innovation for Elementor. Co-founder at Colibri-Sense. Founder at BuzzCode. VP Marketing & Business Development for Gilat Satcom. Head copywriter for the Israeli Prime Minister, VP Creative, Strategy & Planning at the Israeli branches of the world-leading advertising agencies. Eran is a multiple awards winner of Israeli and European creative & advertising contests. And a graduate of the Facebook Startup Growth Program.
Digital technologies can offer widespread disruption and will, with it, unlock new opportunities for rapid economic growth, innovation, job creation and access to services. The goal of the organisation is to stimulate growth in the digital sector by sharing knowledge on this subject with policy makers, operators and influencers.
The Digital Council mission is to support public and private sector to work together to deliver on the expectations of a gigabit society. Through developing the digital transformation stack – we hope to educate and guide all involved in the framework and infrastructure for the next generation of Internet applications and platforms and ultimately to remove the boundaries of technological inclusion.
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