Online Event
How to Raise Your First VC Round
OpenVC Reveals the VC Fundraising Playbook for Startup Founders
Date
Oct 29, 2026
Time
06:00 am - 07:00 am
Address
Online Event
Raising venture capital is one of the biggest challenges for early-stage founders. How do you find the right investors, get their attention, and convince them to back your startup?
Join Founder Institute Nordics for an exclusive fireside chat with Stéphane Nasser, Co-founder of OpenVC, a platform helping founders discover and connect with investors worldwide.
In this practical session, we'll go beyond generic fundraising advice to explore how venture capital actually works, what investors look for, and how founders can build a smarter fundraising strategy.
Whether you're preparing your first round, exploring funding opportunities across the Nordics, or looking to connect with international
Register now!
What You'll Learn:
- Find the Right Investors: Discover how to identify VCs that match your startup's stage, sector, geography, and funding needs.
- Understand What VCs Really Want: Learn how investors evaluate startups and what makes founders stand out in a competitive funding market.
- Build a Winning Fundraising Strategy: Understand when to raise, how much to target, and how to create a focused investor outreach plan.
- Get Investor Meetings and Pitch Effectively: Explore practical approaches to reaching VCs, crafting compelling messages, and turning conversations into opportunities.
- Avoid Common Fundraising Mistakes: Discover why many founders struggle to raise capital and how to improve your chances of securing investment.
Featured Speaker:
- Stéphane Nasser - Co-founder, OpenVC
Stéphane Nasser is the co-founder of OpenVC, a platform designed to make venture capital fundraising more accessible, transparent, and efficient for startup founders. Through OpenVC, he helps entrepreneurs discover relevant investors, understand the fundraising landscape, and build more effective investor outreach strategies.
Who Should Attend:
- Early-stage startup founders preparing to raise their first pre-seed or seed round.
- Nordic entrepreneurs looking to discover relevant local, regional, and international venture capital investors.
- Founders actively fundraising who want to improve investor targeting, outreach, and conversion into meetings.
- Ambitious founders building globally scalable startups who want to understand when to raise locally and when to approach international VCs.
- Aspiring entrepreneurs and startup teams who want to understand the VC landscape and become investor-ready before launching a fundraising round.
Additional Resources: Find more Startup Events, read How to Raise the First Round of Funding, or check Funding Benchmarks and Milestones to see what local investors screen for.
About Founder Institute: The Founder Institute is the World's Largest AI-Native Company Builder, giving idea-stage, first-time founders, and employees making the leap to entrepreneurship the tools, global network, and proven methodology to build an AI-powered startup from zero to funding. Since 2009, our structured programs have helped over 9,000 founders across 100 countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 6 continents, our mission is to empower talented and motivated people everywhere to build impactful, AI-powered companies.
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