What You'll Learn:
- Key metrics and pre-requisites for raising funding
- How to make yourself more attractive to investors
- The best ways to source different funding resources such as Angel investors, Venture Capitalists, grants and loans
About Angel Gambino
Angel Gambino is one of the leading female startup founders and investors in the world. Named one of WIRED's Top 100 founders, Angel was the CEO and operator of five content-driven tech startups across four continents who personally raised over $30 million leading to exits over $2 billion and a public listing.
Angel is currently helping startups with fundraising and M&A at Nfluence Partners as a Senior Advisor & Executive in Residence.
As an investor: Angel invests as an angel investor and serves as a Partner in two venture studios that have spawned unicorns and over 97 other early-stage ventures valued at over $8bn.
As an innovator: Angel has led multi-billion dollar P&Ls at public media, entertainment, sports, and music companies. She has been a mobile and streaming pioneer having launched some of the first consumer and enterprise products and services in the world.
About Mike Sherbakov
Mike Sherbakov serves as General Partner at The Veteran Fund, a pre-seed venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, and Managing Director of San Diego’s Founder Institute, the world's largest early-stage startup accelerator.
As the CEO of Greatness Ventures, he led the organization to thousands of investor members and hundreds of companies in their portfolio. Their venture philanthropy arm has built homes in underdeveloped communities since 2014 and continues to lead impact trips open for the community to join.
Mike previously founded three startups, helped grow two companies from 0 to $20M+, and consulted with leading brands including Fitbit, lululemon athletica, Equinox, and Qualcomm. He served on active duty as a United States Marine, has traveled to 59 countries and counting, and believes that our greatness is not what we have but what we give.
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About Founder Institute:The
Founder Institute is the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. Since 2009, our structured accelerator programs have helped over 7,000 entrepreneurs raise over $1.75BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 100 countries, our mission is to empower communities of talented and motivated people to build impactful technology companies worldwide.