Office Hours: Early stage fundraising with Liza Sutherland

Our Office Hours are a series of one-to-one sessions with various experts from to support tech startup founders on their journey. In this one, participants will be able to engage directly with and receive personalised advice from Liza Sutherland.

Liza is an entrepreneur, start-up advisor and investor with 20 years’ experience in early-stage fundraising from both sides of the table. She’s advised over 200 tech start-ups and helped raise more than £50m in early stage investments. Liza’s current focus is on helping companies raise their Series A.

Liza was most recently Head of Ecosystem at Techstart Ventures, a seed stage venture capital investor. She previously founded a £1M-invested venture focused on revolutionizing audience engagement at live events, was EIR at Wayra’s AI & Blockchain Accelerator, and spent over 10 years advising high growth tech start-ups focused on software, AI/ML, synth bio, and regenerative medicine while personally investing in a few.

Originally from NYC, Liza has an MBA and BA in Psychology. Her entrepreneurial journey began immediately after university, where she spent her formative years co-founding and leading a music company while simultaneously DJing internationally

You will receive personalised advice from Liza Sutherland during an in-person 15 minute slot.

This event will take place at CodeBase Edinburgh, 37a Castle Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2EL

This is a private meeting between yourself/your team and Liza Sutherland.

Once you have registered to attend you will receive confirmation of your ticket. Please note the timing of your slot, and arrive at CodeBase Edinburgh 5 minutes prior to your timeslot.

As places are extremely limited for these office hours, please only register once.

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