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Workshops on topics of interest to entrepreneurs and angel investors in the Pacific Northwest.
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AI-Powered Customer Discovery
·OnlineOnline4 attendees from 11 groupsAI-Powered Customer Discovery
Traditional customer discovery is time-intensive and inconsistent—founders spend hours manually researching prospects from scattered sources. AI and automation transforms this process for early-stage founders running multiple customer discovery experiments. Modern AI tools automate the research, scheduling, and preparation work, allowing founders to focus on what matters most: conducting meaningful customer discovery interviews. What once took weeks of manual effort now happens in real-time, scaling effortlessly across hundreds of prospects simultaneously.
About Thorsten
Thorsten is Co-Founder and CEO of InnovareAI, creator of SAM (Sales AI Manager)—an agentic AI platform that handles complete customer discovery and sales workflows from prospecting to relationship management. A TechStars Berlin, Google Startups mentor and former Singularity University Global Ambassador, Thorsten also co-founded 3cubed.ai, developing AI solutions for life sciences and healthcare. - Network event
Series SAFE Preferred Stock: Keep SAFE Economics—Add QSBS Clarity
·OnlineOnline40 attendees from 11 groupsSeries SAFE Preferred Stock: Keep SAFE Economics—Add QSBS Clarity
Angels like SAFEs because they’re fast, founder-friendly, and economically straightforward—typically driven by a valuation cap and/or discount. The downside is that SAFEs are contractual rights rather than issued stock, which can create uncertainty around when QSBS starts and whether a particular SAFE structure qualifies as “stock” for QSBS purposes.
This webinar introduces Series SAFE Preferred (see https://www.seriessafe.com/), a structure designed to preserve the core economics and simplicity of a SAFE while providing a cleaner QSBS posture by issuing preferred stock up front. We’ll walk through how the instrument works, what makes it “SAFE-like,” and how it can help angels maximize after-tax outcomes when a company becomes a breakout success.
We’ll cover:- The SAFE-equivalent economic model (cap/discount style outcomes without a full priced-round process)
- How the documentation stays lightweight and founder-friendly
- Why “stock issued now” matters for QSBS start date clarity
Amit Singh is a corporate and venture capital/M&A partner in Mintz Levin’s San Diego office. He has advised on over 600 venture capital transactions and more than 200 M&A deals, primarily focused on technology and life sciences. Amit created Series SAFE Preferred (https://www.seriessafe.com/) to preserve the speed, simplicity, and economic outcomes angels value in SAFEs, while providing a cleaner structural path to QSBS eligibility and start-date clarity through issuance of preferred stock at the seed stage. He regularly counsels founders and investors on efficient financing structures designed to optimize alignment, execution certainty, and long-term after-tax outcomes.
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