How Early-Stage Investment Works

This 5-hour course is designed for anyone who supports a community of entrepreneurs and wants to help them with raising investment. The course will guide you through the basics of early-stage investing and how it works.

From this course, you will have a better understanding of:

• The broader investment ecosystem and how it fits in with the growth journey of a startup.
• The different sources of investment and how they work, including Angel and VC.
• What a startup should look like in order to attract funding.
• The key practical steps a founder should take to attract investment.
• Some practical signposts you can give founders to go and find the investors they need.

Who is this course for?

Anyone that looks after a community of founders, or engages with founders on a regular basis, including:

• Accelerator programme managers.
• Councils or LEPs that operate founder-facing programmes.
• Corporates that have a service offering for early stage founders.
• Public-sector organisations that want a clearer understanding of early-stage equity.

The course costs £595 (+VAT) per ticket but UKBAA members get a discount of £200 per ticket.  To access the discount code, UKBAA members should login.