The Energetics of Fundraising @ The Commons #SFTechWeek
The Energetics of Fundraising
Human beings are animals, and we've evolved over thousands of years to communicate non-verbally through the subtle energetics exchanged between our bodies - "the conversation under the conversation." This workshop will bring this unconscious communication into your conscious awareness, and you’ll learn how to tune into an embodied awareness of your own physiological state and that of others to successfully fundraise.
Learn how to:
Manage your anxiety
Communicate from a place of strength
Close investors faster
This is a workshop for founders who want to become excellent at fundraising. Luna blends her experience as a successful YCombinator-backed founder serving edge-of-culture communities with the lessons she learned from those communities along the way, including the BDSM sub-culture, meditation and somatic wisdom, and traditional Amazonian spiritual practices. You won't just learn and practice YC's perspective on how to lead a successful fundraise; you'll learn the nuance of how your own energetics communicate and create the eventual outcome of your raise. Your physiological state lies beneath your words and actions; when your core beliefs and energetics align with your words, success becomes inevitable.
About Luna Ray
Luna Ray is the founder and Chair of YCombinator-backed Plura, the social app for edge-of-culture communities, where she raised multiple rounds of venture funding and built Plura into a profitable business
Luna now serves as a coach to series A to C founders
Luna led User Acquisition for Instagram when it was the fastest growing app in the world
She led the marketplace org at Faire and is a former consultant at Bain & Company
She has two MIT degrees in business and engineering
Luna has trained in internationally renowned coaching modalities rooted in embodied awareness, including Hakomi Somatics, IFS (Internal Family Systems), and Somatic Experiencing
Read Luna’s perspective on fundraising
Content warning: Kink (BDSM), power dynamics, sexuality, gender bias
This event is a part of #TechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.