Workshop: How startups should work with corporates and strategic investors
Every founder needs to build strategic relationships with larger organisations especially in the early growth (late seed-series C stages). In some cases, founders pursue commercial agreements with corporates, and in many cases they seek for a strategic investment as growth partners.
During this "introduction to working with corporates and strategic investors" session we will go over the fundamentals of working with strategics for early growth and growth startup founders.
Working with strategics requires knowledge of how corporations operate, make decisions and even their internal politics.
We will have hands on work to explore three questions of working with strategics that will help you navigate your next steps:
Why do you want to partner with strategic investors/partners for your company?
When is the right time to start engaging with strategics for your business?
Who should you build relationships in the strategic organisations you target.
The session includes an introduction presentation, hands on work on your own venture (along with a template that will be shared with your) and open Q&A.
About Illai Gescheit:
Illai Gescheit is an entrepreneur, board advisor and investor. Illai is a Founding Partner of Gescheit & Partners, a multi-stage venture advisory firm. He is a Venture Partner at Systemiq Capital and a CEO Coach. Previously, He was a Venture Partner at Siemens Energy Ventures and served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at BP. Illai comes with experience building venturing units and CVCs for corporations, and advising growth startups on building strategy to work with strategics. Illai is an inventor of over 20 patents and his early entrepreneurial story was featured in the Harvard-MIT book publication Entrepreneurial Negotiation. He is a Top Voice on Linkedin, a member of the Ashoka Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur Network and a member of the Expert Network for the World Economic Forum. Illai is an Affiliate Lecturer of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School and an Executive Affiliate, at the Institute of Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University.
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