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10AM – Welcome & intro
10:15 – Knowledge session: fundraising in the new VC landscape
11:15 – Coffee break
11:30 – Open Q&A
12:00 – Pitch workshop (with 1:1 feedback for founders ready for it)
2PM – Wrap-up
Francois is a seasoned tech entrepreneur, investor and a former investment banker.
After building 7 companies, joining the startup-to-NASDAQ IPO ride, experiencing one bankruptcy and everything in-between, he has a thing or ten to share.
Francois has raised over $200m for his startups, and has been mentoring startups for years, with an ability to be both very founder friendly and very direct, being known for his no-BS and practical approach.
His experience includes RealNetworks, Polycom, Symantec, The Cloud Wifi, and co-founding Speed Ventures, Europe’s first accelerator ($70m, 28 companies, 4 IPOs).
He's now the co-founder, CEO and programme lead at the Fundraising Bootcamp.
know our full programme
The Fundraising Bootcamp is for founders who know there is a better way.
We run the programme in small cohorts of 8-12 companies, all over Europe. It's an intensive (and intense!) investment preparation programme - you'll leave with a playbook that helps you prepare and execute each step of your fundraising process.
Get confidence to play all the investor dynamics, driving the process on your own terms and pace.
Learn the 11 term sheet clauses that can hurt your business and how to negotiate them out.
Seriously, the inside knowledge and experience we got here can't be emulated or gained on some get-rich-quick type of online 'courses' - it takes people with deep insight and rich experience (also experience in failing and making mistakes) to understand this world, and that's who Marcela and Francois are.
HIpEfy
Ljubljana cohort - May 2022
You are often told as a founder to beware of paid for services promising funding help. Fundraising Bootcamp is not that. It's THE coaching service you need to reach funding goals. To be honest it's priceless. Fundraising is no longer alien. I now know exactly what to do and have my messaging 100% right.
HUSMUS
Online Cohort - June 2022
This was the single most valuable fundraising training I’ve ever had. Despite having raised before, there was so much I learned here that has completely change the way I fundraise. I have the tools, templates and processes to now run the most effective fundraise possible for Vistalworks. I urge all founders to invest time in this programme before they start seriously fundraising.
VISTALWORKS
Tech Nation Cohort - Mar 2021