Startup Investing 101 LUNCHEON with Christopher Day

VIRTUAL Startup Investing 101

Startup Investing 101 is an educational program for individuals who have the financial capacity to invest $5,000+ in a startup at the pre-seed or seed stage.

Each month, attendees learn something new about startup investing, meet fellow funders and founders, listen to pitches, and have the opportunity to invest directly into a startup.

The Startup Ladies is a leader in helping founders secure PRE-SEED funding. Pre-seed money is the first “round” of funding typically sourced from friends, family, accelerators and some angel investors. Pre-seed money allows the founder and her team to achieve defined benchmarks. Examples of key milestones and expenses include hiring key staff, developing and testing a product or service, gaining traction by accruing emails and followers and/or acquiring customers. Reaching the milestones helps the founder secure additional funding in later rounds so the company can continue to scale.

Unless a founder is independently wealthy, she can operate for only a limited time with her own savings. Securing pre-seed capital is extremely difficult for founders without access to networks of affluent people conditioned to write checks for risky ventures. This problem is even greater for entrepreneurs who are women.

In 2019, women received less than 3% of the $136.5 billion invested into U.S. startups, despite the fact that their companies yielded higher ROIs than their male counterparts.

To read more about how PRE-SEED funding helps women succeed click here.

AGENDA

​12:00 pm - Welcome

12:05 pm - Presentation

12:45 pm - Pitches from Startup Ladies members and Q&A

1:30 pm - Wrap up

BIO OF CHRISTOPHER DAY

Christopher Day serves as Chief Executive Officer of Elevate Ventures. Christopher has been a community builder, job maker and wealth creator throughout his entrepreneurial endeavors over the last 25 years having co-founded eight businesses in seven different sectors. He has been a part of $600M in transactions and has delivered nearly a 4x cash on cash return when exiting for investors. These experiences and interactions across many industries with strategic, venture capital and private equity investors give Christopher a truly unique perspective when evaluating people and opportunities.

Christopher is the proud father of a 14-year-old son and resides in Zionsville, IN. He has been the proud papa coaching many of his son’s soccer and basketball teams. Born and raised on a small farm in the Lafayette area, Christopher is a 1992 graduate of Purdue. After graduation, he spent five years in Georgia and Texas but returned home to Indiana, drawn by family, professional relationships, and the business environment.

CONNECT WITH CHRISTOPHER DAY

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherday2/

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/tophday

TICKETS

*Please Note: this event is open to Members and special guests only. Members and special guests will receive a calendar invitation. A Zoom link will be provided to any members who cannot attend in person, however wish to be part of the conversation.

Not an Investor Member yet but interested in attending? We would love to meet you! Please send us an email introducing yourself so that we can give you more information about getting involved: Info@TheStartupLadies.org.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSIVITY

We believe that diversity and inclusivity make our startup culture more fun, experienced, and intellectually stimulating.  Anyone (including men) are invited to participate in ALL Startup Ladies educational programming, events, and membership.

The Startup Ladies strive to uphold the highest ethical standards of inclusiveness and respect. In the event of a violation of these standards, we reserve the right to ask you to leave an event or to terminate your membership.