2 March, 2017, Bengaluru: NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), the incubation and entrepreneurship hub at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) will host a seminar on ‘Growth Funding for Startups: Going Beyond Series A’ on March 4 (Saturday) 2017, at the institute auditorium, from 09:30 am to 12:45 pm.
The event will include a presentation by the research team of the results of an analysis of the VC and PE industry in India, a panel discussion and a Q&A session with the audience. The panellists are Parag Dhol, Managing Director, Inventus Advisors India, Baskar Subramanian, Co-founder, Amagi Media Labs, Atul Gupta, Principal, Premji Invest, and Aneesh Reddy, Co-founder & CEO, Capillary Technologies. The panel will be moderated by Prof. G. Sabarinathan, faculty from the Finance and Accounting area at IIM Bangalore.
Although the seminar is free, registration is a must. Please click here to register. (http://mar17.doattend.com/).
About the seminar: The road to a venture’s financial success is a long and winding one. Capital infusions are important pit stops along this journey to help a venture accelerate on its chosen path.
Most of the discussion in the ecosystem is on raising Series A or pre-series funding for a start-up. At the same time, every start-up is founded with the hope that it will grow rapidly into a large and valuable business. Such growth will need substantial follow-on infusion of funds. In the past decade follow-on funding has been growing.
How does an entrepreneur go beyond Series A? What does it take? What needs to change and what stays the same? How long does it take and what can help?
The panel discussion will focus on key questions about such follow-on financing: When does a company start planning for Series B and beyond? How does it prepare an investment thesis that will attract investors into Series B and beyond? How do they raise this follow-on funding? What aspects of their business do they focus on to elicit follow-on investors? What role does the Series A investor play in this part? What expectations do the Series B and later stage investors have from the investment? What are some of the challenges in raising follow-on funding? How do the Series A investor and the subsequent stages manage the negotiation?
Answers to such questions and more will be discussed by investors who have considerable experience in early stage venture investing and by entrepreneurs who have successfully raised rounds beyond Series A.
Theme: Growth Funding for Startups: Going Beyond Series A
Date: March 4 (Saturday) 2017
Time: 09:30 am to 12:45 pm
Venue: IIMB Auditorium
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