#6 Founder Meetup - How to raise your first funding round?
Our goal with Founder Meetups is to educate and connect active and aspiring startups on their journey to securing investments, elevating business and leadership strategies.
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At our 6th Founder Meetup, we’ll cover the strategies of raising your first startup round with Pratima Aiyagari, Partner at Nauta Capital, a VC fund based out of London where she focuses on enterprise software and deep tech domains and Vedran Cindric, CEO & Founder of Treblle.
You will learn the ins and outs of raising a VC-funded round like:
✅ preparing and structuring a Data Room
✅ preparing your Pitch Deck and presentation
✅ a detailed guide on how the process works and looks like
✅ recognizing some of the common mistakes that founders do
✅ understanding what a good and a bad deal is
✅ closing your first round
Pratima has 18+ years of professional experience. She is a software developer by background and spent several years in Silicon Valley working on developing intelligent network services in the network management domain. Pratima joins Nauta from US-based cybersecurity-focused investment firm Paladin Capital. Previously, Pratima led investments and acquisitions at Cisco Corporate Development in Europe with a specific focus on ML/AI, Enterprise Collaboration and Silicon. During her investment career, Pratima led an investment or held board seats in Aimotive, Adbrain, Evrythng, Secure Code Warrior, decentriq, Dashbird and several fund investments. She also managed investments in several companies including Behaviosec, Italtel, ip.access and Corvil.
Pratima received her MBA from INSEAD in France and an MS in computer science from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the US. Pratima is a co-author of a US patent in the area of network device clusters and high availability.
On our new segment, Startup Spotlight, CEO & Co-Founder Matija Nakić will introduce us to her No-code platform for financial planning and analysis Farseer.
What can you expect?
🌐 Networking with Founders, VCs and Decision makers
🍺 Drinks & Food
🚘 Free 3 Hour Parking in Point Shopping Center Garage
📋 Agenda:
18:00 ~ 18:15 - Guests Gathering
18:15 ~ 18:20 - Event Intro
18:20 ~ 18:25 - Startup Spotlight - Farseer
18:25 ~ 19:05 - Speaking Session
19:05 ~ 19:20 - Q&A
19:20 ~ 22:00 - Food, Drinks & Networking
🎟️ Seats are limited please make sure you secure your spot on time.
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