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.
> Panelist: 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.
Organizer Tech Futures Group
Organizer of Funding Your Early Stage Tech Company
TFG provides strategic advisory services to qualified technologists and technology companies to help them get to the next level. TFG’s focus is on assisting with the commercialization of technology products or services and with the preparation of raising funds. TFG charges no fees for its services and takes no ownership interest in client companies. TFG’s charter is to help technology companies start, grow, and thrive.
TFG is committed to helping develop qualified technology-based companies. Advising services are offered at no cost to clients, which is made possible through funding provided by the SBA and other private entities. TFG is able to work with a set number of clients at any one time, and therefore requires an application to be accepted. Clients are accepted on a three-month basis initially with the possibility of renewal based on client’s commitment to the strategic direction as outlined by TFG Advisors.
