ScaleUp Speaker Series Austin Fall 2024 - Raising Venture Capital Investment

You’re incorporated, now what? Morrison Foerster, in partnership with Bridge Bank and Escalon, is offering its ScaleUp Speaker Series in Austin, a complimentary ten-part series that provides a legal roadmap for entrepreneurs aiming to scale up their companies. This weekly seminar will arm you with the knowledge needed to manage the legal aspects of launching, funding, and growing a startup, as well as insights to help you avoid common mistakes. Lunch and parking are complimentary.

Register or contact Alyson Wagner at AustinEvents@mofo.com to learn more.

Note: This fall, weekly sessions will run on Tuesdays.

Raising Venture Capital Investment (Deal Terms and Structures)

You won’t want to miss this session with special guest speaker Matthew Saitta, Principal at Silverton Partners, who will share a VC investor’s perspective on important objectives for entrepreneurs to consider when seeking venture capital investment for their companies. Learn the basic concepts, structures, and math behind venture capital investments, including capital structures, term sheets, and capitalization and liquidation models.

Topics covered in this one-hour session include:

• Typical capital structure of a venture-backed startup

• Rights, preferences, and privileges of preferred stock (including waterfall distribution of acquisition proceeds)

• Capitalization tables and liquidation models

• Venture capital term sheets

• Due diligence process and issues