This digestible week-long session will ground you in the role of an investor. Five short daily sessions will show you how to evaluate investment opportunities and combine your existing skill set with your capital to step into venture funding.
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We offer years of experience bringing new ideas to market and designing + delivering world-class learning experiences. Real-world case studies and examples are part of each live session. You’ll interact directly with startup founders seeking venture funding in our Live Pitch Sessions, giving you hands-on experience assessing an investment opportunity. Here’s how it breaks down:
You’ll also participate in a live investment lab to synthesize your learnings and test your readiness for investment and receive 90 days access to our online investor studio.
Women founders are systemically underfunded – we’re here to change that with you. This free, week-long course will empower you to learn the foundations of investing and how you can support women founders in overcoming gender-related obstacles to funding.
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The course empowered me to believe that I can become an angel investor and that this can be an impactful way to align my dollars and investments with my values.
Taheera Fidaali
Owner – Tula CPA
– Marlon Thompson, CXO of Spring & Your Instructor“Venture capital is a historically difficult industry to break into. The lack of diversity that exists within the ecosystem creates an even higher barrier for minorities and individuals with non-traditional backgrounds. The most important thing we can do for our network is create the conditions for them to gain meaningful experiences, drive relevant opportunities and develop their own strategy for startup investing.”
– Ashima Chopra (she/her), Program Manager, Spring“When I first left the practice of law and decided to jump into venture, I felt like a total outsider. All the terms and jargon made me question whether I even belonged in angel investing. Championing women to get to the place of saying, “Yes, I belong here”, is my why. That’s what I want for each participant as they grow through Foundations, and beyond in their impact investing journey.”
– Davina MacPhail (she/her), Director of Partnerships, Spring“Having raised funds as part of a startup and then part of an early-stage VC firm, I have a deep understanding of what it means to invest at an early stage. I am looking forward to sharing some of this experience with a team of women. We need more women investors at the table so that more capital flows into women founders, but also because investment is an opportunity to build wealth and to be influential on the topics that matter to us. I look forward to demystifying some concepts and sharing what an investment process typically looks like.”
– Mari Mathews (she/her), Director of Business Development, Spring“I’m excited to share my personal experience raising capital as a woman founder, but also as an angel investor. In the 10 years since I made my first angel investment, capital going to women-led founders has only grown from about 1% to just over 2%. We need equal representation on the investor side to ensure women-led companies are funded, often providing innovations that solve real issues for women globally. Women hold increasingly more purchasing power, so let’s use that to make a difference.”
