Your Fundraising Legals: Get Investor Ready (with Anthony Rose, SeedLegals)

Описание: Few founders have properly considered what happens once they've created their fundraising assets. Once they decide they’re raising equity investment they plough full steam ahead into creating their pitch without even considering what comes next.

With the excitement of having nailed your pitch, it’s easy to jump straight into seeking investors and signing up to pitch events. However, in order to complete an investment round, you’re going to need to have a range of legal documents in place.

In this event, Anthony Rose, Founder of SeedLegals, covered everything founders need to know about the legal side of their funding campaign, from creating a founder agreement to securing their first investor.

• Getting your cap table right
• Allocating shares to team members
• What size option pool to create
• Deciding valuation and how much to raise
• Getting SEIS/EIS Advance Assurance
• Raising ahead of a round, and rolling close rounds
• The right options scheme for your team

ABOUT ANTHONY ROSE
Anthony is a technical and product visionary whose career has included 3D graphics, P2P music, internet video, social TV and online communities.
In 2016 Anthony co-founded SeedLegals, a revolutionary new LegalTech platform that lets startups and investors complete the legals needed to build, grow and fund their business, at a fraction of the cost of using a law firm. In 2015 Anthony founded 6Tribes, a world of communities based on shared interests. 6Tribes was acquired less than a year later.

Previously, Anthony co-founded Beamly, a social and content network for television, which was acquired by Coty in 2015. Known as “The man behind BBC iPlayer”, Anthony ran the iPlayer and other BBC services from 2007 to 2010, taking the iPlayer from pre-launch to major success story.

Anthony’s patent portfolio includes patents for distributed online rewards, content discovery and interactive television.

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: ROBOT MASCOT
Robot Mascot is the UK's leading pitch agency. They create investment materials that convince investors including business plans, financial forecasts and pitch decks. Their clients are 30x more likely to raise investment, which is why they are the trusted pitch partner to Crowdcube, Seedrs, SeedLegals and Swoop Funding.