AngelCentral Startup Series: Fundraising Your First Million Dollars
AngelCentral is running our sixth annual Fundraising Your First Million Dollars workshop! Join us for an enriching experience filled with valuable insights by successful-founders-turned-angel-investors that have left previous years' participants raving.
Hear from Past Attendees
"Great sharing. I learnt a lot about how an investor judge a startup and what challenges that a startup faces at the early stage. These mindset helps early stage founder to review our company from time to time and make a right decision."
"Trainers were very knowledgeable in the space and provided insights to the current landscape of fundraising."
"Hearing personal stories from Der Shing and Shao Ning (real perspectives we cannot Google)!"
About the Workshop
Discover all you need to know about fundraising from angels and VCs as an early-stage founder.
One of the biggest challenges that many founders face is fundraising. Most founders are excellent at growing their business and getting customers, but are less proficient at the fundraising game. That makes sense since you fund raise much less often than you build and sell your product.
As such, many founders mismanage the process and end up not doing justice to your business. You may end up raising insufficient funds, accepting unfair and/or unfavourable terms, or diluting too much. Needless to say, making fundraising mistakes has drastic implications on the health of your business and also affects the final reward that awaits you.
The good news is that many of these issues can be overcome through proper education, planning, and execution.
By attending this workshop, you will be able to get into the minds of both VCs and angel investors. You will understand their portfolio thinking, financial mathematics, evaluation criteria, and mindset. This helps you position yourself best for a successful fundraising round. On top of this, we will also cover the actual fundraising process, due diligence, and managing your investors' post-investment. Get lots of tips on what is the norm and what is unusual.
(Note: This workshop does not cover the legal document aspect of fundraising.)
Topics covered:
- Quick overview of Seed investing climate
- Financing for startups - Why raise?
- Difference & the Math for Angels and VCs
- How investors Evaluate - Amended Harvard Methodology
- Fund Raising Process & due diligence
- Post Investment roles and expectations
About the Trainer:
Ms. Huang Shao-Ning, Chief Angel & Partner, AngelCentral
Shao-Ning started her first business JobsCentral as a fresh graduate back in 2000. She grew and exited the business in 2011 to CareerBuilder. She cares about processes and about doing things for the right reasons. Since her exit, her life focus has been to be relevant and pay it forward. Shao-Ning has been actively advising deep tech startups and also some social entrepreneurs. She is a peer-mentor to many women but most importantly she is a wife and mom to four boys. In the family angel/PE portfolio, she (and Der Shing ) has investments in over 40 startups (of which, 6 are led by women CEOs!) and 8 VC investments.
Mr. Lim Der Shing, Partner, AngelCentral
Der Shing is an experienced Angel Investor and has invested (with Shao Ning) over USD$5m into 40 startups and 8 VC funds. He also serves on multiple startup boards and volunteers with the Singapore government on the topic of education and startups in various capacities. As the Former CEO and cofounder of JobsCentral Group, Der Shing led the company’s growth without any external funding, from a 2-man startup into a highly profitable regional job portal with over 150 staff in 3 countries. In 2011, the business was sold to CareerBuilder. He shares his investment thoughts and reflections on his personal blog http://limdershing.com.
About AngelCentral
AngelCentral is the most active community of angel investors in Southeast Asia. We organize regular curated pitch sessions, angel education workshops, and provide syndication services.
The idea for AngelCentral started in late 2016 as a community initiative by the Partners to share their personal experiences and lessons learned on angel investing. With the initial success and validation of their efforts in 2017, AngelCentral incorporated officially in February 2018 with the mission to build a community of effective angel investors in Southeast Asia. Since Inception, AngelCentral has trained >1000 angels and our members have invested >S$35M into the startups.