GVI Only - Investor Matching Program: Meet Investors Interested In You

Elena Gusakovais the Founder ofAstra Global, a global business development company. She has close to ten years of business development experience, helping leading consulting companies and UBS, Zurich to find new clients among investors, business owners and high net worth individuals. Throughout her career, she conducted over 100 top tier client events, focused on increasing business revenues. She initiated a project at UBS aimed at converting events into revenue generating activities, which was approved and implemented by the bank. She regularly advises other companies and her recent consulting client grew their revenues 3x in 4 years.  At Astra Global, Elena focuses on facilitating collaboration between startups, investors, and corporations. Elena also advises startups on how to approach investors and make the first contact.Prior to career in business development, Elena spent eight years working as a M&A lawyer at private equity funds, leading cross border deals with the total deal amount exceeding $600M. She has a deep understanding on investment processes, investors main concerns, and is an experienced negotiator. Elena has graduated from Academy of Labour and Social Relations, Law faculty, Moscow, with highest honours, and holds EMBA from Columbia and London Business Schools.Victoria Yampolsky, CFAis the Founder and President ofThe Startup Station, an educational and consulting company committed to help startups be successful and get funded faster. She focuses on creating detailed strategic roadmaps and converting them into credible financials and valuations. Specifically, she helps entrepreneurs correctly translate their business plan into a financial plan, evaluate the financial feasibility of different initiatives, credibly present their company to investors, and use their financial model to drive the business forward.To-date, she has worked with more than 100 startups one-on-one and more than 1,000 founders have taken The Startup Station's  finance courses and learned the basics of accounting, valuation, financial modeling, and startup financing.Previously, Victoria worked for Deutsche Bank and was a technology consultant with CapGemini's Financial Services Division.  Victoria holds a Bachelor's Degree, Cum Laude, in Computer Science, with a minor in Mathematics, from Cornell University and an MBA, with honors, from Columbia Business School. Victoria is also on the Advisory Board of the Computing and Information Science (CIS) Department of Cornell University.

Astra Global/The Startup Station

Our Investor Matching Program is uniquely designed to  prepare you and give you access to investors already interested in your startup.

<a href="https://www.goldventuresinvestment.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gold Ventures Investment</a> and <a href="https://astraglobal.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Astra Global</a>, a global business development company specializing in startup funding connecting high potential startups of different stages with global leading VCs, in collaboration with <a href="https://thestartupstation.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Startup Station</a>, an education and consulting company specializing in modeling and valuing early-stage ventures, are conducting the <a href="https://astraglobal.org/investor_matching_gvi" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Investor Matching Program</a>. This version of the program is designed only for Gold Ventures Investment.To date, our startups have raised in excess of $50M in capital. We have access to 5000+ investors (20% angels/ HNW and 80% VCs, including early-stage). Check out our <a href="https://astraglobal.org/events" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">past events</a> and i<a href="https://astraglobal.org/investors" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">nvestors who participated!</a>Not ready to join yet? <a href="https://thestartupstation.com/p/sign-up-investor-matching-with-astra-global" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sign up to our mailing list </a>and we will inform you about our future events.Typical investor networking events and pitch competitions are similar to blind dates - you never know what you are going to get. Investors don&#x27;t know enough about the startup founders and startup founders don&#x27;t know if investors they are meeting are the right fit for their business. You also rarely get the necessary support to be able to present your company in the best light, especially from the financial point of view, and have the maximum chances of success. As a result, most events and competitions are used to practice pitches rather than to make valuable connections and close financing.<a href="https://astraglobal.org/investor_matching_gvi" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Investor Matching Program</a> is uniquely designed to only give you access to the investors already interested in your startup. Further, to be in the best position to present and close the deal, you will also go through a preparatory program before the investor meetings to address any weaknesses in your pitch and financials.BENEFITS FOR YOU1. Assess if your startup is marketable by having your pitch sent out to 200 investors specializing in your sector and stage. 2. Get warm intros to any investor who expressed interest in your startup.3. Get investor-ready through four individual one-hour reviews focused on your business case, financials, and delivery.4. If you receive sufficient investor interest, meet with investors during our Investor Matching Event, and continue the relationship afterwards.HOW IT WORKSEligibility for this round: any tech startup raising Seed, Series A, or Series B round.Phase I &quot;Pre-assessment&quot;: $30. The selection process ends on November 1st, 11:59 pm EST. Results announced on November 6th. Step 1: You submit a 2-min video pitch. Once you register, we will send more details on what should be included.Step 2: We send your pitch to 200+ investors investing in your industry + stage. and they will vote whether or not they are interested.Step 3: If you get at least five votes, you advance to the next stage. If you get less than five votes, you can get intros to the investors who expressed interest and be eligible to participate in Phase II to refine your pitch and financials.Anyone can apply for Pre-Assessment once per cycle for as many cycles as they want. We will run these programs every month or bi-monthly.To advance to Phases II and III, you must make the second payment of $620 by November 12th.Phase II &quot;Preparation&quot;: November 13th - December 2ndFour one-on-one one-hour sessions with The Startup Station to refine your pitch and strengthen your financials:Session 1: Pitch deck review - Slide by slide comments identifying any information or logical gaps. The focus will be on creating a cohesive story backed by a robust business model.Session 2: Financial model review A - Financial model completeness, growth assumptions by revenue stream and go to market strategy.Session 3: Financial model review B - Costs, including working capital and fixed assets; financial summary, valuation, as well as your venture&#x27;s overall financial feasibility - are your numbers credible, complete, and attractive for investors?Session 4: Final review and delivery - Reviewing revised materials and pitch delivery.Phase III &quot;Investor Meetings&quot;: December 3rd, 10 am EST.Each session is structured as a thirty-min investors panel followed by targeted investor meetings where each startup team gets its own breakout room and pitches to at least five investors who already expressed interest in their startup.We recommend each pitch to be no longer than 7 minutes long. The rest is Q&amp;A.All teams can stay in their breakout rooms up to one hour and will get warm intros to all investors who attended the session afterwards.Read <a href="https://astraglobal.org/investor_matching_gvi" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">more </a>here!

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