Grub in The Hub: Seed Round Tactics in the City and in the Valley

Seed Round Tactics: In the City and In the Valley

Join two fundraising veterans, Matt Smith from Vancouver’s Latergramme and Leif Baradoy from Victoria’s Giftbit, in their discussion of the “financing sales cycle”, and getting a seed financing round done: getting started early, developing that crisp momentum plan, navigating social relationships, structuring a round to optimize success, and giving investors the post-round love necessary to maintain engagement.

About our Guest Speakers:

Matt Smith – Founder, Latergramme

After starting two profitable, self-funded startups, Matt went on to co-found Latergramme, a visual content marketing platform that makes users great at visual marketing. Latergramme lets users aggregate, curate, schedule and optimize visual marketing campaigns across all visual social media networks and it's used by over 400,000 people and some of the world's most well-known brands including Redbull, Forbes, MTV, WSJ and Armani.

Leif Baradoy – Co-founder and CEO of Giftbit

A former professional triathlete, Leif is today the cofounder and CEO of Victoria-based Giftbit. Before starting this company, Leif worked as Marketing Director for MetaLab and Manager of Operations for UEnd.org.

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Light Catering provided by:

Agenda:

11:45am - Light catering is served
12:00pm - Presentations begin
1:00pm - Networking

About Grub in The Hub:

Designed for busy tech entrepreneurs, Grub in The Hub offers bite-sized (pun intended!) information on useful day-to-day topics ranging from sales and marketing to 'selecting the right benefits program for your growing team' and delivers it for free during the lunch hour. Pizza is provided at Grub in The Hub and attendees are encouraged to eat while they learn.

If you have topics that you would like to see featured at future Grub in The Hub events, please email Ana at afong-marquez@bctia.org or phone 604.691.2395.

FAQs:

What is the cancellation policy?
All ticket sales are final. No refunds.

What are my transport/parking options getting to the Hub?
The Hub is conveniently located 7 minutes by foot from VCC-Clark Skytrain station. Hourly parking is available on both sides of the building which are metered by Impark. Alternatively, street parking is available on Great Northern Way, free of charge. There is also a $2 daily parking lot available at the end of the block where you will see a fleet of white trucks.