Funding Your Startup: What Are Your Options and How to Choose?

🚀Are you ready to raise money for your startup but not sure where to start?

Whether you're bootstrapping, pitching to angels or eyeing a Series A, this webinar will walk you through the essential legal, strategic and practical steps to fund your startup the right way. Led by Michael Buckworth, founder of Buckworths, the only law firm in the UK working exclusively with startups and high-growth businesses.

🔎What’s in Store for You?

• Funding Demystified: Get a clear breakdown of how startup funding works from your first pound to multi-million-pound rounds.
• Know Your Options: Explore key funding types: equity, debt, convertible loans, crowdfunding, grants and when to use each.

📕Funding Rounds Explained
Understand every stage:

• Pre-seed
• Seed
• Series A and beyond
• How to Prepare for Investment

Get investor-ready with:

• Cap tables
• Data rooms
• Valuation tips
• Legal documents (SAFE, term sheets, subscription & shareholder agreements)
• Equity vs. Debt

💸Who’s Writing the Cheques?
Navigate the investor ecosystem:

• Angel investors
• VC firms
• Accelerators
• Family offices
• Avoid the Legal Traps

Get Inside the Deal. Understand how investment deals are structured:

• Warranties & due diligence
• Investor rights
• Board structure
• Drag-along and tag-along clauses
• Bonus: Grants & Crowdfunding

☝️Q&A with Michael Buckworth
Bring your questions! This is your chance to ask the UK’s top startup solicitor anything about fundraising, documents and investors.

🙋‍♂️Meet the Speaker: Michael Buckworth, the founder of Buckworths and author of Built on Rock, the entrepreneur's legal guide to start-up success. Michael makes complex startup law simple and provides actionable advice you can implement immediately.

📘Download Chapter One of Built on Rock for free and start building your business on solid legal foundations: click here