ScaleUp Winter/Spring 2026 - Week 11: Raising Capital from Foreign Investors: CFIUS Basics

You’re invited to Morrison Foerster’s ScaleUp Speaker Series—a complimentary series that will provide insights into the legal side of founding a startup. This weekly seminar will arm you with the knowledge needed to manage the legal aspects of launching, funding, and growing a startup, and ways to avoid common mistakes that can have serious consequences down the road.

We are hosting this cycle of the ScaleUp Speaker Series on Fridays as virtual-only events, including several bonus sessions on Thursdays.*

This session will cover the underlying regulatory framework of foreign investment in U.S. startups, how founders should think about approaching foreign investors for investment, and how U.S. investors will likely view startups with foreign investment. This session will cover the types of technologies, infrastructure, and sensitive personal data that regulators view as critical to U.S. national security, the voluntary and mandatory filings that startups must make while raising capital from foreign investors, and the risks to both startups and investors of raising capital from foreign investment.

To attend the last session of the series, please register by clicking the session title (in orange text) below.

Week 12: Open Forum Recap – March 27, 2026

Join our interactive, open forum where you can ask our experienced startup attorneys questions on topics raised during earlier sessions or startup legal questions generally.

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For more information on our ScaleUp programming offered in Austin, Boston, New York, and Palo Alto, please visit us at MoFo ScaleUp.