After the Pitch: Entrepreneurial Financing Insights

The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business will host this event at their City campus. The interactive session with investors and a local entrepreneur will go beyond the BBC’s Dragons’ Den format. The investor panel will include leading investors from the U.K. and the U.S. including Index Ventures and Intel capital. During this session you will obtain an understanding of the investor evaluation and deal structuring process that is ‘after the pitch’.

Format: The four segments of the event will include:

1. a presentation by the entrepreneur, Make Your Mark ambassador Riaz Agha, regarding his business opportunity;
2. a Q&A discussion between the investors and the entrepreneur to initiate due diligence ;
3. a meeting of the investors without the entrepreneur to discuss the deal and possible structuring; and
4. a wrap-up discussion by a University of Chicago professor to solidify the key learning points for the audience and to highlight possible differences in deal structuring between the US and the UK.

Investor Panel:

• Keith Breslauer (MBA ’88), Managing Director, Patron Capital
• Ashish Patel, EMEA Managing Director, Intel Capital
• Giuseppe Zocco, Partner and Co-founder, Index Ventures
• Waverly Deutsch, Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
• Other investors TBA

Why should you attend?

For entrepreneurs: For those looking for the next stage of financing you will get the opportunity to see a structured pitch and ask questions to experienced investors .Experience first hand “closed door” investor discussions

For investors:

• See the due diligence process from a variety of investors.

• Gain a better understanding of U.S. vs. U.K. perspectives For everyone: From the final wrap-up discussion you will get key points and understand similarities and differences between UK and US deal structuring.

  For more information: europe.inquiries@chicagogsb.edu