Ready to Pitch Your Startup? You’ve perfected your pitch and feel set to approach investors - but is your startup really ready?

Before any investment comes through, you’ll need to tick off every box in Investor Due Diligence (DD):

Founders & Team: Showcasing your strengths and readiness
Solid Business Plan: A roadmap investors can believe in
MVP & Validation: Proven market need for your product
Legal Foundations: IP, founder shares, contracts, and more
Financial Projections: 3-year OPEX and revenue forecasts

…and many other critical checks!

Join us for this FREE, essential 1-hour webinar with Peter Ramsey from Mainland Angels and Wayne Hudson from whIPit Limited. Learn what investors look for and how to ensure your startup’s DD is airtight.

PRESENTERS

Peter Ramsay

Peter Ramsay - Network Manager, Mainland Angel Investors

Peter’s interests lie within startups, having studied the Masters of Entrepreneurship at the University of Otago.

For the past 3 years, Peter has embarked on his own venture, creating a reusable dispensing unit, tailed to the personal drink bottle and beverage industry. After experiencing the difficulties first hand of trying to raise capital in the lower South Island, Peter was drawn to MAI, in an effort to help pave a better path to investment.

Peter is experienced in project management, account management and sales. He is passionate about innovation and excels in the ideation and validation phases of product development.

Wayne Hudson

Wayne Hudson Director, whIPit Limited

Wayne is technology lawyer with 35+ years experience as a commercial and corporate lawyer, having been a partner in Bell Gully and Hudson Gavin Martin.

In the last 30 years Wayne has focused on the technology business sector, advising on the commercialisation of technology and intellectual property, the sale and purchase of technology businesses, capital raising, structuring start-up companies and dealing with shareholder issues.

This event is proudly hosted by Startup Queenstown Lakes, in collaboration with our friends at Startup Dunedin and COIN South – connecting and supporting founders across the South Island region.

Please note: These sessions will not be recorded.