Prepare Your Startup For Early-Stage Funding

This talk will focus on teaching founders and startups to nail the preparation for attracting the first investments. Experienced and skilled forces in the ecosystem share what they’ve learned with new talents and future entrepreneurs.

In a mix of a lecture, Q&A and inspirational talk the three speakers Nicolaj Højer, Jon Lieberkind and Alexander Viterbo-Horten will help startups with:

Slicing the pie: making sure to have a healthy cap-table that are also adjusted to fit the future journey
Understanding the absolute paramount basics for securing early stage funding
Knowing the funding journey
Different strategies and tactics for raising the first investments and choosing wisely
Advice on how to create a match between the startup you’re building and the type of funding you should look for
Splitting equity between the founders
Human capital: Making sure you have the founders, team, talent, knowledge, experience and culture to convince investors and execute.

The segment will consist of: an introduction of the essentials by Nicolaj Højer Nielsen, followed by short lectures that will also act as inspirational inputs from both the entrepreneur and investor point of view. This will be given by experienced and successful entrepreneur Jon Lieberkind, the CEO at Grandhood and by professional investor Alexander Viterbo-Horten, investment Manager at PreSeed Ventures. Nicolaj Højer will wrap up the talks segment with an outro presenting the audience with key takeaways and hands-on advice.

Panelists:
Nicolaj Højer Nielsen (Investor and Serial Entrepreneur)
Jon Lieberkind (CEO & Co-founder, Grandhood)
Alexander Viterbo-Horten (Investment Manager, Preseed Ventures)