Welcome to "Ask a Pro" webinar series #2:
A VC's perspective: How to get funded
One challenge almost all entrepreneurs face is how to get funding to bridge the gap, whether that gap is
- from promising prototype to actual product,
- from interesting molecule to licensable drug candidate,
- from beta test to exponential growth or some other expensive transition.
In this webinar, Graham Brooks, Partner at .406 Ventures, will take you through the essentials of the fundraising process. Here's what you will learn:
- The trade-offs you need to make.
- 5 steps in raising venture capital.
- How to identify the right VC for your company.
- Do's and don'ts for the fundraising process.
About your Pro
Graham Brooks joined .406 Ventures in 2007, after nine years of technology-oriented operating, investing and start-up experience.
At .406 he focuses on early-stage investments in #BigData, #Healthcare, #DigitalVideo and #AdTech. Graham also runs the firm’s university outreach initiatives including the .406 #StudentFellows program.
Graham has been an intrapreneur and Business Development Manager at Bose. Earlier, he co-founded Accentus, a spin-out of Dartmouth College, where he led product management and sales, developing significant scar tissue from fundraising in 2002.
Graham is a Kauffman Fellow (Class of 2010). He received his MBA from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business in 2002, where he was a Tuck Scholar; and an engineering degree in Computer Science from Princeton University.
