We no longer run our Funding Roundtables Program, but encourage you to explore our Impact Investor Challenge or inquire about investment readiness training that we run with regional partners.
Menu
We are not currently running this program, but encourage you to explore our Impact Investor Challenge.
Funding Roundtables were 4-month support programs for entrepreneurs ready and/or actively raising capital for their businesses. Participants received active support, advice, wisdom, and mentoring from their first investor meetings all the way to receiving a cheque.
The program combined the leadership of an experienced fundraising facilitator with the collective knowledge of founders at similar business stages. Our Funding Roundtables helped purpose-driven companies raise more than $24M, with approximately 40% raised by female-led businesses.
Let’s be real. Raising capital from investors can often feel like a mysterious and unknown process. That’s because every day in raising a round can be extremely different from the other—your business keeps evolving, each investor has a unique agenda, and every conversation has its own nuances.
The best way to succeed in this type of landscape is to openly share insights and knowledge with others who are going through a similar journey. But those people are not always easy to find or open to sharing what they’ve learned. That’s where our investment readiness training comes in (now run in collaboration with regional partners).
In each Funding Roundtable, we curated a group of 10 founders who were at similar stages in the fundraising journey and teamed them up with an experienced fundraising facilitator. Together, they spent 12 weeks collaboratively addressing common fundraising challenges and questions like:
"This program provided the opportunity to be collaborative in investment strategies with other founders who are at the same stage of business development."
It makes you focus on the areas of raising capital that typically get overlooked when trying to navigate the investment maze
Bryan Statham – CEO, LifeBooster
Each cohort ran virtually for 4 months. During that time, participants met every two weeks for 90 minutes with up to 10 companies and their experienced fundraising facilitator via teleconference on Zoom. Each group collaborated to discuss common fundraising hurdles and learn more about topics like:
Your company is purpose-driven, for-profit, and focused on having a positive impact on people and/or the planet
You want to maximize your market opportunity and impact as a for-profit entity
You’ve launched and have a team supporting you
You can demonstrate traction in the form of paying customers, letters of intent, pre-sales, etc.
You’re seeking equity financing between $150,000 and $1.5M
You have a reliable Internet connection and can meet during weekday business hours in the Pacific time zone (but you can be anywhere around the world)
"Being part of the funding roundtable with other female founders and impact leaders, was amazing."
I was not only able to learn the skills I needed to raise capital, but also had the support of facilitators who knew exactly what I would be faced with. The support, friendship and straight talk was invaluable as we raised. And we did, successfully!
Margery Moore – CEO, ehsAI
We no longer run our Funding Roundtables Program, but encourage you to explore our Impact Investor Challenge or inquire about investment readiness training that we run with regional partners.
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, and as a global team we’d like to extend this acknowledgement to all those who have historically stewarded and nurtured the lands we live, work, and play on today.