TETRA Webinar: Equity financing for your venture

When: 31 March 2021 | 10:00 AM
Where: Online

Are you planning the growth of your company and you need external financing? Be prepared in advance for what the entry of an investor into your company brings. In this webinar session, we will deep dive into different types of funding sources for your project with a more detailed overview about equity financing. How to prepare for fundraising, how to choose the best financing structure and what is its impact to your business model. We will also focus on the shareholder agreement (SHA) or investment agreement and their essential clauses and parts, such as valuation, special rights, founders vesting or liquidation preference.

Registration

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Agenda

Welcome and introduction to TETRA project: NGI Business Accelerator (5 min)
Ivan FILUS, BIC Bratislava

• TETRA services for NGI participants

Introductionto financing sources and its structures (15 min)
Andrej PETRUS, ZAKA Venture Capital

• Differences
  between equity, debt and grant sources of financing. Choosing the best
  structure according to your needs, stage and business model.

Preparing for fundraising and cap table sustainability (10 min)
Andrej PETRUS, ZAKA Venture Capital

• Important preparation for fundraising
  process and how to structure a long-term sustainable cap table

Shareholder agreement and investment negotiations – what to expect from your equity partner (15 min)
Andrej PETRUS, ZAKA Venture Capital

• Introduction and most important parts
  of SHA as liquidation preference, valuation, investment tranches, drag rights,
  other special rights, founder’s vesting. What are the best practices for SHA on
  the market?

Questions & Answers (15 min)

Speakers

Andrej PETRUS is investment Manager @ ZAKA - venture capital family office investing primarily in the pre-seed and seed stage (50-500k EUR) in CEE region. Agile generalist with experiences in venture building for CEAi and M&A and Strategy consultancy for PwC in Prague. Assisting the Board of Directors of SLOVCA (Slovak Venture Capital and Private Equity Association) as Project Manager. Lived in Berlin, Bratislava and Rome, currently based in Prague.

Ivan FILUS is senior consultant in BIC Bratislava, EU project manager, innovation advisor, financial and administrative coordinator of Enterprise Europe Network in Slovakia, Horizon Europe National Contact Point for the European Innovation Council and the key account manager for all successful EIC Accelerator beneficiaries in Slovakia. He is active in the EU RTD Framework Programmes for research and innovation, project management, financial management, technology transfer, research and innovation policies and strategies, innovation management, SMEs development, business modelling, business planning, financing, regional development, pre-commercial procurement.

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