Funding Your Early Stage Tech Company

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Talk I: Funding Your Tech Startup

• Preparation for funding
• Funding sources
• Types of value value propositions
• Stages of company maturity
• Funding presentations and business plans
• Funding deal terms
• Stock options
• Boards of directors and advisors

> Presenter: Ashwin Gulati, Entrepreneur in Residence at Tech Futures Group

Ashwin has served as the founder/CEO and as a Senior Executive of both Corporate Strategy and Business Development for several technology companies. He is experienced in leading businesses from inception to exit. His 20-year industry experience spans software, Internet, green/clean tech, finance, life sciences and eCommerce.

As President of Match Point Ventures, Ashwin works closely with leadership teams of technology companies in executing mission critical initiatives including business planning, market entry/traction, strategic alliances, private equity, restructuring and exit strategies.

Ashwin received a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College with a dual degree in Economics and Mathematics. He also attended The London School of Economics and King’s College, England.

Talk II: Demystifying Crowdfunding

> Presenter: David Abramovich, Campaign Specialist at Indiegogo

Panel: Get Funded

> Panelist: Rebekah Wu, Venture Capital Advisor at Tech Futures Group

Rebekah runs her own venture capital relations company, Right Hand Partners (RHP). She has relationships with over 150 venture capital firms primarily located in the Silicon Valley. Since 2001, she has helped 38 companies raise over $167 million in VC funding. 8 of those companies have since been acquired.

Rebekah founded Right-Hand Partners (RHP) in 2001 to capitalize on her network of VCs that she acquired while fundraising in 1999-2001 for her own startup. RHP is a VC Relations company – a trusted conduit to reach the VC community.

Rebekah has also been extending her vast network of serial entrepreneurs and high quality startup engineers to CXOs to her clients; this has evolved into a formal recruiting service at RHP. RHP’s clients are both domestically and internationally based.

Rebekah was a Founder/CEO of a contracts negotiation software startup from 1999-2001. She was previously the E-Commerce Strategy Manager at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company and a Regional Manager of Internet Solutions at AT&T. Rebekah earned her BA in Business Administration at Pacific Lutheran University and her post baccalaureate designation with self-proclaimed honors from the School of Hard Knocks.

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