Join LSE Generate and Ollie Spalding in New York for a 101 on fundraising for your startup in the city.

Raising capital is stressful and often an opaque process. The Start-up Fundraising Playbook explores the VC fundraising process and provide an actionable playbook for raising capital for your start-up.

We’ll be talking about:

1. Recent fundraising trends

2. Identifying investors

3. Preparing for due diligence

4. The steps required to raise capital with VCs

This talk is for LSE alumna and student innovators and those involved in start-ups, venture capital, and entrepreneurship broadly.

Introducing Oliver Spalding:

Oliver Spalding is an early-stage investor and Instructor at The Wharton School of Business teaching entrepreneurship.

Oliver has spent over 5 years as a venture capital investor, including time at Optum Ventures, a $1B+ venture capital firm focused on health tech investments and Brook Venture Partners, a growth equity firm focused on later-stage software and healthcare IT investments. He has also held operational roles at high growth start-ups including Groups Recover Together ($115M raised), a healthcare start-up backed by Bessemer, OV, and Oak HC/FT as well as at Atomic, a leading venture studio (founder of hims and hers (NYSE:HIMS), Openstore, Homebound).

Oliver is an advisor for a number of start-up accelerators and has provided guest lectures at leading academic institutions beyond Wharton including Harvard Business School and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business. He specializes in helping start-up founders and executives raise capital, execute M&A, and tell the financial story of their business to investors. Oliver has his B.A. in Economics with Honors from Wake Forest University and his MBA from The Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania.

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LSE Generate: The VC Fundraising Playbook, New York