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Angels & Dragons: The essentials of raising equity
18/10/2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Angels & Dragons: The essentials of raising equity
Monday 18 October 2021 | 4pm – 5.30pm
Raising equity is very different from raising other types of finance, but it can really accelerate the growth of your business.
If an external investor is getting an attractive deal, and you get to scale your business and benefit from their expertise, it’s a win-win scenario.
Preparing for investment can be an intimidating challenge, particularly when you’re faced with highly experienced, high net worth (rich) professional investors who have seen it all before.
As a result, they’ll have developed a highly tuned ability to spot any inconsistencies, the tricksters, the over-inflated prospects for returns, and the generally unprepared of pitchers.
This workshop – led by a successful serial angel investor, Bev Hurley OBE – will focus on getting you feeling ready for your equity pitch.
On this workshop, you will:
- Identify types of investors you need to avoid
- Understand critical information angels need to see in your business plan and financials
- Explore effective ways to present your business
- Learn common pitfalls to avoid when pitching
Led by experts, this programme is highly interactive, with plenty of opportunities for discussion and to practise your skills in a supportive and friendly environment.
Who is this course for?
This course is for business leaders or strategic managers of established businesses with 3 – 249 employees. It is for growing businesses with demonstrable potential for scale, or for high growth businesses looking to speed up their growth.
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Our Expert
Bev Hurley, CBE, CEO of YTKO Group
Bev has a wealth of first-hand experience of growing several successful businesses and overcoming the challenges of the key tipping points of the scale-up journey. Her expertise as a successful angel investor in technology, and prolific innovator, and working with firms through YTKO’s ERDF programmes, has given her the knowledge and experience to support over 22,000 businesses to sustain and grow, helped raise £70m in growth finance, and create over 10,000 new jobs for the UK economy.
Bev has launched six ground-breaking and multi award-winning services to address market gaps and unmet business growth needs, all of which have been replicated and scaled across the UK. She also created a highly successful P2P mentoring community in Norfolk, raising a commitment of over 10,000 mentoring hours in less than three weeks from launch. Since then, Bev has created or delivered many mentoring programmes, including from the British Business Bank and J.P. Morgan, and was consulted by BEIS to improve the Mentorsme portal.
This course is part of our Growth Works programme, designed to support growing businesses to accelerate their growth potential. To book onto this course, please complete the registration below.
This will help assess your eligibility and ensure you get all the support you need to fulfil your growth goals.