NEXT’s March Entrepreneur Exchange- Lessons Learned: Raising Capital and Positioning for Scale in Greenville

This meeting is for entrepreneurs, startups, small business owners, investors, etc. If you’d like to learn more about becoming part of NEXT, email info@nextsc.org to get involved.

Our March meeting will feature GVL’s own Ryan Heafy, CoFounder and COO of 6 AM City, as he shares his stories from the trenches of building, raising, and scaling in our region.

6 AM City, recently closed a Series Seed funding round, positioning the company to double in size in 2021. Like the GVLtoday newsletter, he will take us on a conversational journey, exploring the many levers used to raise $4M in capital over the past 3 years.

– Promissory Notes – Preventing dilution and creating a hurdle for future funding
– SAFEs – Acquiring competitors without cash, and what you need to know about SAFE’s in our region.
– Convertible Notes – Investors locally understand these, but not all Convertible Notes are created equal.
– Equity Round – Pulling funding round during COVID.
– Angel Investor Tax Credits – A key to our fundraising success.
– Navigating Capital – The options for startup capital in our region. Can you effectively raise locally?
– Cap Table – How to make a mess of it, and how to clean it up.
– Pitch Deck – The importance of your story, our evolution, and an awesome graphic designer.
– Investor Feedback – How to be sure you’re getting it, and the power of asking for advice