Raising Capital from the Investor Perspective w/Airtree VC
Event description
AirTree VC meets with 1,000+ companies a year who are looking to raise capital. Come along to this session to get to know Elicia and Emily from the investment team, learn more about how the team at AirTree VC works, and hear their insights about what to consider when capital raising, how best to prepare for a successful process and what that might mean for your future funding plans!
Key Takeaways
- How a typical VC investment process works
- Best practice fundraising processes
- Key fundraising tips
- What product-market-fit means in practice
About the Speakers
Elicia McDonald is a Principal on the investment team at AirTree. Prior to AirTree, Elicia worked in Enterprise Sales at LinkedIn and a B2B SaaS start-up in Sydney. She also worked in Investment Banking as part of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications M&A team at Credit Suisse.
Emily Close is an Investment Manager on the investment team at AirTree. Prior to AirTree, Emily worked as an investor at Albion, a London-based VC firm, and in the TMT investment banking team at Rothschild & Co, helping technology companies raise capital in the UK and NZ.
About Fishburners
Fishburners is much more than a coworking space. We are a not for profit, passionate community of 300+ scalable tech startups that only exists thanks to our amazing sponsors - Google for Startups, UTS, Chartered Accountants, and Jobs for NSW. We are dedicated to inspiring and helping startups get started, grow and succeed. Our goal is to make the hardest thing you’ve ever done easier!
We do this through our different memberships which provide the facilities, resources, learning and development, mentoring, and connections that you need for your idea to come to life and flourish. We also open our doors and host some of the largest, regular events in the Australian startup ecosystem, including our weekly lunchtime learning workshops, and Shark Tank-style, Friday night pitches. Member or not, you're welcome to attend and/or get involved! Any questions about memberships or events, please feel free to email events@fishburners.org.
Details
Please head up to L3 of the Sydney Startup Hub, and walk down the yellow corridor to the Ideas Space. BYO lunch!