Get the support you need to raise your next round with values-aligned seed capital through a new approach centred around community learning.
Upcoming intakes are SPRING/SUMMER 2021 and FALL 2021.
Funding Roundtables are 4-month support programs for entrepreneurs who are ready and/or actively raising capital for their businesses. You’ll receive active support, advice, wisdom, and mentoring from your first investor meetings all the way to receiving the cheque.
The program combines the leadership of an experienced fundraising facilitator with the collective knowledge of founders at similar business stages. To date, our Funding Roundtables have 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 we come in.
In each Funding Roundtable, we curate a group of 10 founders who are at similar stages in the fundraising journey and team them up with an experienced fundraising facilitator. Together, they spend 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 runs virtually for 4 months. During that time, you’ll meet every two weeks for 90 minutes with up to 10 companies and your experienced fundraising facilitator via teleconference on Zoom. Your group will collaborate 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
Our next intake is for SPRING/SUMMER 2021 (May–August).
The following 2021 intake is for FALL (September–December).
We accept applications on a rolling basis. You will be able to indicate your cohort preference in the application form.
One intake is limited to 10 companies. Your investment into the program is $350/month. The program will run virtually for 4 months with 90-minute sessions every other week.
We acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.