Program Details

Divided into 3 sections of focus to help cover everything you need.

Strategy (4weeks)

Week 1:
Tuesday:
How To Fund Your startup and achieve Product Market Fit before Taking VC (2hrs, Daniel Theobald)

Wednesday:
Finding your mastermind team

Thursday:
Breen Sullivan will give you access to learning about advisory boards from The Fourth Effect, so you can secure fundraising going forward

Week 2:
Tuesday:
How to Talk, How to Find, How to Forget Angels (Shawn Flynn)

Battlefield Pitch Ready (Darrell Etherington)

Wednesday:
Group Pitching & Feedback

Thursday:
Still have questions after this week's workshop? Get your pitching questions answered with Darrell Etherington

Mentor Introductions

Week 3:
Tuesday:
Raising Your Seed Round: How to Achieve Success (Niamh O'Donnell)

Getting a Business Loan (Alexa Baranov)

Wednesday:
Group Pitching & Feedback

Thursday:
Start to perfect your storytelling with Renee Lynn Frojo

Week 4:
Tuesday:
Preparing Your Exit Strategy: Top Down Funding Strategies (Rayna Sparkes & Marc Ernaga)

SPVs, Crowdfunding and P2P (Charletta Jean-Louis)

Wednesday:
Pitch Competition

Thursday:
Still have questions after this week's workshop? Get your legal questions answered with Rayna Sparkes.

Term Sheets & Data Rooms (4weeks)

Investor Relations (4weeks)

Week 5:
Tuesday:
Corporate Structures and Tax Considerations (45min, Crysta Tyus)

R&D & Startup Tax Credits and Savings (45min, Anh Quynh Nguyen & Paige Burbank)

Wednesday:
Group Pitching & Feedback

Thursday:
Group Mentoring with 2x founder Neelam Chakrabarty

Week 6:
Tuesday:
Deciphering Term Sheets (Carol Nguyen)
Panel: Term Sheets, Valuations and Cap Tables (Tyler Crown Karl Eshwer)

Wednesday:
Group Pitching & Feedback

Thursday:
Group Mentoring with Boon Chew

Week 7:
Tuesday:
Market Research Mastery: Tools and Techniques (Nuné Zadoyan)

Wednesday:
Group Pitching & Feedback

Thursday:
Still have questions after this week's workshop? Get your market research question answered with Nuné Zadoyan

Week 8:
Tuesday:
The Legal Side of Branding: Protecting Your Creative Assets (Whitney Miner)

Wednesday:
Pitch Competition

Thursday:
Group Mentoring with Sajjad Musad, Co-Founder & Co-President of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Global

Week 9:
Tuesday:
How to Talk To Investors at Different Funding Stages (Annija Eizenarma)

Wednesday:
Group Pitching & Feedback

Thursday:
Still have questions after this week's workshop? Get your questioned answered by Annija Eizenarma

Week 10:
Tuesday:
Investor Hunt: How to Find the Right One (Kate Bunina)

Deal Flow Dashboard:Tracking Your VCs (Vera Maslova)

Wednesday:
Group Pitching & Feedback

Thursday:
Still have questions after this week's workshop? Get your VC spreadsheet question answered with super connector Vera Maslova

Week 11:
Tuesday:
Deal Champion 101: Speaking Their Language (Sarah Romanko)

Wednesday:
Group Pitching & Feedback

Thursday:
Group Mentoring with Keith Lam

Week 12:
Tuesday:
13 Ways to Scam Founders Raising Funds (Stephane Nasser)
Panel: Closing the Deal & Getting Your Money

Wednesday:
Demo Day Pitch Competition

Thursday:
Final goodbyes, winners and program feedback

Who Should Join?

• ​​​If you’re a B2B AI based startup consider joining Cohort Alpha. Our VC speakers & judges will be actively investing in that vertical

• You’re ideating, bootstrapping, or a pre-seed, seed based startup and you want to understand the funding landscape

• You've been mulling on an idea and want to understand what it takes to raise funds

• You want to grow your network, our experts have worked for TechCrunch, Berkeley SkyDeck, Stanford, MassRobotics & Harvard

• ​You’re considering to fundraise in the next 6 months

• You want polish your pitch & get lots of practice

THIS FUNDRAISING PRE-ACCELERATOR IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE.

IT'S ABOUT THE STORIES AND THE NETWORK.

A 3-month program designed for early-stage founders to master fundraising. Learn from diverse industry experts, receive group mentoring, and join a mastermind group.

You won't find another program that connects you the stories and experiences of this many Silicon Valley experts while teaching you about fundraising. We also take no equity.

Take Aways

• Practical actionable advice from speakers who have real world experience (VCs, founders, lawyers, tax strategist, business bankers)

• Live Q&As to help answer questions specific to your startup

• Mentors with various expertise to guide you in shaping your product and pitch

• Group accountability to push you further

• Weekly pitching feedback to help you refine and perfect

• Understand sources of funding so you can optimize your strategy

• Gain access to a network

• Understand the in's and our of early stage fundraising

• We take no-equity
  

FEEL CONFIDENT WHILE RAISING STARTUP FUNDS

FUNDRAISING DOESN'T HAVE TO BE OVERWHELMING

You develop new skills by learning through experience, exposure and education. Designed to help you practice, build your network, and conceptualize key concepts. Learning to fundraise has been made dynamic, interactive and fun.

When you join our cohort, you will save time. Instead of piecing information to learn about fundraising, find it all in one place. Learn live each week from industry experts. Ask questions and get insider insights. Rewatch the recording to catch anything you missed.

Join a community, be part of a mastermind, and practice your pitch weekly for feedback.

Speakers

Bringing you the top Advisors, Founders, Investors, VCs, Lawyers, Tax Strategists & CPAs

Mentors

Bringing you people who love to support founders

Panelists

Hear from experience. Their stories help you understand the reality of the concepts.

Judges

Monthly Pitch Competitions to perfect your story!

Join Our Community

Get the latest on our program and learn about mindfulness

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COHORT ALPHA

February 18th to May 16th
Tues, Wed and Thurs from 3PM - 5PM PST
ONLINE (Zoom)

Be Informed Of Our Next Cohort

Summer 2025
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