Raising Seed Investment

The is delivering a business support programme as part of its strategy to support leaders of digital tech companies. Join this free, online workshop that will share how to raise early-stage equity finance from angels, funds and crowd-funding platforms.

The online workshop is aimed at digital tech startups, topics will include:

• The investment landscape
• The effect of investment on your company
• Who the investors are and what motivates them
• What the legals look like
• Valuations
• How to engage the right investor

, Digital Tech Cluster Manager, will share his experience of investing in tech startups, working with investors and helping companies raise seed investment. There will be a Q+A where James will be happy to answer your questions.

What is seed investment for tech startups? Seed funding is finance available for companies in exchange for a share of the business (equity), it is usually for companies in their first few years of existence. Seed investors recognise that the company is still developing its product, testing out routes to market and product-market-fit.

The finance is used to move from a testing stage to a position where the company has a market-ready product and knows how it will sell, perhaps even having made sales already. It is not an exact science and there are different perspectives. How much it costs to get to that next stage will affect the amount raised, for some, it’ll be £100k, for others it’ll be £3m.

Please sign up for tickets and make a note in your calendar. An invitation with joining instructions will be sent before the event.

We look forward to welcoming you to this event.

The Events Team

Host or Publisher Science and Technology Facilities Council