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Early-stage Investing: A November 2021 workshop series!

Sale price Price $249.00 Regular price Unit price per

Join us to learn more about what's needed to enter the investment arena and build on your skills to learn what makes an early-stage company well-positioned and de-risked.

Looking to negotiate your equity package as an employee or board member? We'll cover that too.

Logistics:

Listen in to our panel discussion for the basics on getting into growth-tech investing and/or join our live course for deeper guidance and interactive conversation spanning the basics, deal diligence, cap tables and equity compensation, and more.

This course will be held biweekly over a series of 3 hour-long sessions kicking off in mid-November 2021. It will take place Thursdays from 12-1pm MDT unless communicated otherwise. Recordings will be accessible for those unable to attend live.

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Natalie Levy, this course creator, is an active angel and has been a contributing member to various angel groups for over a decade. Her tech investments prior to 2018 have all returned between 5-33X (some liquidity, some on paper) and she remains passionate about sharing learnings in this asset class with other women and diverse audiences.

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Panel discussion participants:

Amy Brandenberg

Amy is a connector and community leader with a passion for economic growth in Denver. Amy's been running Angel groups for 10+ years, starting in college as an associate for Baylor Angels. Her experience includes investor relations at a hedge fund with a focus on small to mid-cap companies, global technology alliances at technology unicorn company, and building out the entrepreneurial hub the Commons on Champa here in Denver.

Throughout her career, Amy has analyzed numerous investment deals, managed strategic partnerships, and helped build startups in the non-profit, travel, and technology industries. She has served on a variety of advisory committees and currently serves as a Director at Denver Angels, a private investment group that invests in Colorado startup companies.

Carie Lemack

An experienced innovator skilled in conceiving and building ideas and products into globally-recognized entities, Carie Lemack has more than two decades of experience in entrepreneurial endeavors, organizational management, product development, advocacy and security policy. She mentors, advises and invests in aerospace startups, is a co-founder of the Zed Factor Fellowship and serves as an All-Star mentor for three Techstars accelerator programs.

Brian Parks

Brian's background is a hybrid of financial services and SaaS in which he founded and served as the CEO of 2 companies (Brandfolder (acquired) and Bigfoot Capital.)

He has experience leading operations, finance, data and analytics, sales & marketing, capital formation, and team building.

His background led him to his current role at Bigfoot Capital with the purpose of supporting growing SaaS companies across the US and helping Founders generate and hold onto value in their businesses.

Emily Klein

Emily works with the Rockies Venture Club to connect angel investors and entrepreneurs in Colorado and beyond. She is also the Director of the Women’s Investor Network (WIN) and Managing Partner of the Rockies Vintage Fund 2021, L.P.. In her current role, Emily is most passionate about providing financial and educational resources to helping startups scale their impact, and sees early-stage investment as the most important catalyst for promoting more sustainable, diverse, and creative companies.

Emily is a graduate of Brown University and UVM Grossman School of Business. Outside of work, you can find her mentoring young entrepreneurs, designing jewelry, and playing in the Colorado mountains.

Paige Goss

Paige is a fixer of fixers, orchestrating a collection of highly adept tech and engineering all-stars. She founded Point Solutions Group to address the dire need for diversity in information technology, engineering, and professional services in government and commercial organizations. And the looks she gets when she walks into some meetings exemplifies that. She not only talks the talk, but her extensive background in the information security, healthcare IT, and Department of Defense industries gives her the cred to strut the strut. She is also recently a co-founder of start up SAAS company, Precursa. Her extensive personal experience in technology and growing businesses position all her companies for rocket growth!