AngelCentral Startup Series: Fundraising Your First Million Dollars

AngelCentral is running our fifth annual Fundraising Your First Million Dollars workshop! Join us for an enriching experience filled with valuable insights by successful-founders-turned-angel-investors that have left previous years' participants raving. 

Hear from Past Attendees

"Great sharing. I learnt a lot about how an investor judge a startup and what challenges that a startup faces at the early stage. These mindset helps early stage founder to review our company from time to time and make a right decision." 

"Workshop for entrepreneurs with very frank perspective from investors."

"People with experience are teaching/sharing. Very good overview about the fundraising process."

About the Workshop

Discover all you need to know about fundraising from angels and VCs as an early-stage founder.

One of the biggest challenges that many founders face is fundraising. Most founders are excellent at growing their business and getting customers, but are less proficient at the fundraising game. That makes sense since you fund raise much less often than you build and sell your product.

As such, many founders mismanage the process and end up not doing justice to your business. You may end up raising insufficient funds, accepting unfair and/or unfavorable terms, or diluting too much. Needless to say, making fundraising mistakes has drastic implications on the health of your business and also affects the final reward that awaits you.

The good news is that many of these issues can be overcome through proper education, planning, and execution.

By attending this workshop, you will be able to get into the minds of both VCs and angel investors. You will understand their portfolio thinking, financial mathematics, evaluation criteria, and mindset. This helps you position yourself best for a successful fundraising round. On top of this, we will also cover the actual fundraising process, due diligence, and managing your investors' post-investment. Get lots of tips on what is the norm and what is unusual.

(Note: This workshop does not cover the legal document aspect of fundraising.)

Topics covered:

1. Quick overview of Seed investing climate
2. Financing for startups - Why raise?
3. Difference & the Math for Angels and VCs
4. How investors Evaluate - Amended Harvard Methodology
5. Fund Raising Process & due diligence
6. Post Investment roles and expectations

About the Trainer:

Mr. Lim Der Shing, Partner, AngelCentral

Der Shing is an experienced Angel Investor and has invested (with Shao Ning) over USD$5m into 40 startups and 8 VC funds. He also serves on multiple startup boards and volunteers with the Singapore government on the topic of education and startups in various capacities. As the Former CEO and cofounder of JobsCentral Group, Der Shing led the company’s growth without any external funding, from a 2-man startup into a highly profitable regional job portal with over 150 staff in 3 countries. In 2011, the business was sold to CareerBuilder. He shares his investment thoughts and reflections on his personal blog http://limdershing.com.

About AngelCentral

AngelCentral is the most active community of angel investors in Southeast Asia. We organize regular curated pitch sessions, angel education workshops, and provide syndication services.

The idea for AngelCentral started in late 2016 as a community initiative by the Partners to share their personal experiences and lessons learned on angel investing. With the initial success and validation of their efforts in 2017, AngelCentral incorporated officially in February 2018 with the mission to build a community of effective angel investors in Southeast Asia. Since Inception, AngelCentral has trained >500 angels and our members have invested >S$32m into the startups.