Tin Men Founders School x AppWorks: Pitch Deck by HighSpark
Event Overview
Tin Men Founders School is a school for startup founders on going from 0 to 1, and beyond. It is a series of workshops launched to support B2B tech founders learning in critical areas of startup operations.
Fundraising is 5x harder if your pitch is unclear and weak.
The upcoming masterclass will be a treat to fundraising founders that are looking to improve their story and raise more money.
Our sought-after pitch expert, Eugene Cheng will be conducting a focused masterclass on: “Building Million-Dollar Pitches”
Sharing the best practices from helping startup clients raise more than $300M and mentoring some of the household names you might know of.
- The fatal mistake most early-stage founders make in pitching (and how to avoid it)
- The ‘golden’ formula to increase your win-rate
- How to build urgency and confidence in your business so investors pull out their chequebooks
- How to turn key flaws in the business story into strengths
- Techniques to produce winning pitches in half the time
For early sign-ups, Eugene’s also conducting live-pitch critiques, so sign up early and send in those pitches to get high-value feedback in class.
Highly recommended for founders who:
- Have highly technical businesses
- Had their pitch rejected but unsure why
- Are looking for a second opinion
- Are actively fundraising
About Eugene Cheng
Eugene Cheng is Partner and Creative Lead at HighSpark, a B2B GTM agency that offers corporate training, strategic storytelling and creative services to Fortune 500 companies and fundraising startups like Growthwell, Glints, Cosmos Innovation. To date, their clients have raised more than $300M collectively. Eugene is also a Linkedin Top Voice and Forbes 30Under30 honouree. His work and story has been featured on platforms like Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo, TechInAsia, Straits Times, E27 and more.
About the organisers
HighSpark is an award-winning strategy consultancy and training agency. They help some of the world's most admired and complex B2B brands gather customer insights to speak the right language that sells, devise communication plans that accelerate go-to-market for revenue teams, optimise their positioning & messaging to become the obvious choice to customers, and more. They do this by providing strategic narrative services and executive training on strategic corporate communications aligning to our Narrative-led Growth (NLG) approach.
Their clients include Fortune 500 organisations like: Google, Huawei, Medtronic, BD and notable venture-backed startups like Tookitaki, Arcus Lending, Glints, Eezee, Growthwell and more.
Based in Taiwan, founded in 2009, AppWorks is a leading startup community and VC firm built by founders, for founders. AppWorks Accelerator, the renowned 3-month free accelerator program, admits 30 - 40 AI, Blockchain, and South East Asia startups per batch from across the region and boasts 532 active startups and 1,662 founders in its alumni network. Collectively, all companies in the ecosystem generate annual revenue totaling US$16.2 billion, and have created 23,490 jobs. Altogether, the ecosystem raised a total of US$5.8 billion, with an aggregate valuation reaching US$32.4 billion.
Tin Men Capital is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that's exclusively focused on B2B tech startups operating from South East Asia. It is led by Murli Ravi and Jeremy Tan.
Tin Men Capital has backed companies such as SixSense, Hubble, Globaltix, Zipline, Glife, Manuva and Overdrive.
Having launched fund II, Tin Men Capital are actively investing 2-4 mil USD checks in B2B tech startups in Southeast Asia at the Series A stage.
Venue Sponsor
Aspire
Aspire is the all-in-one finance platform for modern businesses, helping over 15,000 companies across Asia save time and money with international payments, expense management, payable management, and receivable management solutions - accessible via a single, user-friendly account
Headquartered in Singapore, Aspire has over 450+ employees across five countries and is backed by global top tier VCs, including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Y-Combinator, Tencent and Paypal. In 2023, Aspire closed an oversubscribed US$100M Series C round and announced that it has achieved profitability.