Do you work with founders and want to help them to access early-stage investment?
Sign up for the 'How Early-Stage Investment Works' online course to learn everything you need to know about the investment ecosystem.
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Support your founders
You will complete the course with a full understanding of how the early-stage investment ecosystem works and be able to guide founders on their funding needs.
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Live and fully interactive
Led and delivered live by an industry expert from the trade body for early-stage investing with all your questions answered.
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Explore the sources of investment
From Angel to VC and Grants, the course looks at all the major funding sources available to founders, how they work and how they co-exist.
What will you get from this course?
This 5-hour course is designed for anyone who supports a community of entrepreneurs and wants to help them with raising investment. The course will guide you through the basics of early-stage investing and how it works.
From this course, you will have a better understanding of:
- The broader investment ecosystem and how it fits in with the growth journey of a startup.
- The different sources of investment and how they work, including Angel and VC.
- What a startup should look like in order to attract funding.
- The key practical steps a founder should take to attract investment.
- Some practical signposts you can give founders to go and find the investors they need.
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Who is this course for?
Anyone that looks after a community of founders, or engages with founders on a regular basis, including:
- Accelerator programme managers.
- Councils or LEPs that operate founder-facing programmes.
- Corporates that have a service offering for early stage founders.
- Public-sector organisations that want a clearer understanding of early-stage equity.
Upcoming course dates
7th October 2024
£595 plus VAT
(member discount available)
The course runs from 10 am to 4 pm, online via Zoom.
What the course covers
How the investment ecosystem works
- What are the current market challenges and how they impact investment
- How Angels differ from VCs and how they operate
- The right funding sources to target based on a founder's stage
What investors look for in a founder
- How to tell if a founder is right for equity investment
- What makes an investment opportunity attractive
- How valuations work for an early-stage investment round
How to secure investment
- The key documents needed to approach investors
- Top tips for operating a funding campaign
- Easy places for founders to go to find new investors
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Meet your tutor Roderick Beer
Roderick’s career spans over 19 years of managing, founding and growing angel groups and investment platforms that have collectively deployed over £100m of equity investment in more than 500 startup and scaleup businesses.
He started his career at Beer & Partners, one of the first and largest angel groups in the UK, and later helped form and grow a corporate finance firm as their COO.
He is now the Managing Director of the UK Business Angels Association, the trade body for angel and early-stage investing, representing over 200 organisations that collectively deploy over £2bn p.a. in early-stage, UK businesses.
Course alumni
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