(S4) Startup Funding: When to Fundraise, How, and If You’re Ready
Startup Mastery Series by GOAB Beach Club
Session 4
8/11/2025 - Now FREE! Thanks to our GOAB sponsors, this session and all other August and September 2025 online sessions are now open to the public at no cost.
Become a member of the GOAB Beach Club, a year-round community for startup builders, dreamers, and doers. If the GOAB conference left you inspired, this is where you pick up right where the beach left off.
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🔹 Title: Startup Funding: When to Fundraise, How, and If You’re Ready
🔹 Speaker: Erika Aquino, Entrepreneur and Investor
🔹 When: Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 9:00 am to 10:00 am Philippine time. Optional networking till 10:15am
🔹 Agenda:
9:00 to 9:05 - Introduction
9:05 to 9:25 - PART 1
"Startup Funding: When to Fundraise, How, and If You’re Ready" by Erika Aquino
Discover if your startup is ready for funding, which funding options fit best, and how to prepare.
9:25 to 9:30 - Q & A
9:30 to 9:50 - PART 2
Practice Pitching
Get feedback on your startup pitch from our speaker. Before applying to pitch, review Erika Aquino's work at https://www.linkedin.com/in/erika-aquino/. Selected startups will be notified via email before the event. Each startup will have 5 minutes to pitch.
10:00 to 10:15 - Optional Networking
🟢 Apply to pitch
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About the Speaker
Erika Aquino is an entrepreneur and angel investor with a diverse background in public relations, business development, and marketing across the fintech, hospitality, and food and beverage industries. She co-owns an award-winning craft beer company and co-creates travel, internship, and cultural experiences for first-generation college students. Passionate about making an impact, Erika invests in companies focused on wellness, sustainability, education, agriculture, and the future of work.
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🔹 Organized by: GOAB Beach Club
This is the fourth event in Startup Mastery Series —an online series of learning sessions running from July to September 2025. Refresh your understanding of tech, startup, and design topics, and connect with like-minded individuals in preparation for the GeeksOnABeach.com conference on October 1-3, 2025, in Cebu, Philippines.
Startup Mastery Sessions in July 2025 were free and open to the public. Sessions starting August 2025 will require membership in the GOAB Beach Club, or payment of 800 pesos per event.
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