How to Raise Venture Capital Funding: Live Discussion with Context Ventures
Fundraising for the pre-seed round can be incredibly confusing and chaotic. Founders have so many questions in this initial fundraise. Here are some of them:
Should you even raise capital?
How much capital to raise?
What milestones should one achieve with the capital?
What is the difference between pre-seed, seed, and Series A?
Do you raise from friends and family?
Are there venture capitalists who invest at the pre-seed stage and who are they?
What are terms one can expect from venture capitalists at the pre-seed stage?
We’ll tackle all of these questions and more as we dive deep into “How to Raise Venture Capital Funding” with Context Ventures. Context Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests at the pre-seed stage.
Tim Hsia, a Partner at Context Ventures, will interview founders who have raised a pre-seed round to talk about what it takes to raise this round.
Join us for this lively discussion where you’ll hear perspectives from both the investor point of view and the founder point of view. You’ll also learn about what these startup founders are building. This will be a fun, information packed, and high energy session that is perfect for those who are raising a pre-seed round, about to raise a pre-seed round, future founders, or those who might want to join an early stage startup.This event is hosted by Qlay, Context Ventures and Open Network Lab.
Agenda:
5:30 - 6:00 pm: Registration and Networking
6:00 - 6:10 pm: Partner Introductions
6:10 - 6:30 pm: Panel discussion with Tim Hsia of Context Ventures and several early stage founders:
Tom Nakata (Co-founder & CEO of Qlay)
Jocelyn Kang (Co-founder & CTO of Knowtex)
Philip Chow (Co-founder & CEO of Humanitas)
6:30 - 7:30 pm: Networking w/ Food and Drinks!
Hosts:
Qlay (Berkeley SkyDeck Batch 17 IPP) is a Global Engineer Hiring Platform. We help startups source, screen and hire top-tier engineers around the world. Book a quick intro call to learn how you can scale your development without ruining your cash flow!
Context Ventures is an SF-based venture capital firm that invests in military veteran founders and consumer startups at the pre-seed stage.
Open Network Lab (OnLab) is a seed accelerator program run by the Digital Garage Group. 2 batches a year with an investment of $100K.