Funding Sources for Startups

Hosted by Wendy Maldonado D'Amico

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About Event

Join 1863 with our guests from Mentors + Angels as they walk us through the various sources of funding for startups and small businesses. They will review the typical types of funding by business stage and the benefits and tradeoffs of each. This session will include live Q&A, so please bring your questions.

The event will be recorded and the replay will be shared with registrants.

About our speakers:

Michael Costa is a senior-level finance professional with a proven track record as a Strategic Advisor, Board Member and Start-Up Investor/Mentor. Over the last three years he has sourced, cultivated and mentored over 50 startups in the digital media, SaaS, gaming and entertainment sectors resulting in several investments with an average capital raise of $1.5mm and a pre-money valuation of $8mm. He is active in the NYC Metro area ecosystem for entrepreneurs as a member with New York Angels, a lecturer in SUNY Purchase's Entrepreneurship in the Arts MA program, an Innovation Fellow at The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School and an aiLeadership Council Member with r4 Technologies.

Simon Hopkins is a serial entrepreneur within the enterprise software sector with a track record of founding and growing businesses. Since starting his career with Accenture, he has worked for high-growth organizations in Europe, SE Asia as well as the US, including CEO of ROC Americas Inc., and COO of Axon Solutions. Simon is a hands-on manager with experience of technology, operations and business development, together with two buy-outs, four acquisitions and an IPO. As a member of the New York Angels, he is closely involved with a number of local start-ups, as investor, advisor and software developer.

Mentors+Angels is a group of individuals who are dedicated to helping under-represented founders fully capture the future of their start-ups. The team has deep business experience as senior corporate leaders, entrepreneurs and investment professionals. We work collectively as a team to identify opportunities and help coach founders to success. We make individual investments in early stage companies and also bring opportunities to our investor communities.