Advancer Chanukah Meetup: Raising Capital For Your Startup

Join us for a festive evening that will include a lighting of candles, and a fascinating lecture on the world of raising capital for startups!

Agenda:

18:30 - Lighting of the Chanukah Candles (with doughnuts!)
19:00 - Lecture
19:45 - Q&A
20:00 - Networking

Topics that will be discussed in the lecture:

• Where and from whom to raise capital.
• Do you even need to raise capital, and how much?
• How to contact and who to contact?
• Is it the right time to raise funds?
• What to watch out for…
• Intellectual property and regulation in the context of raising capital.
• The dream and its ruin

The lecture will present data on the venture capital industry in Israel and projections for the future.

Speaker: Yariv Lipshitz

MBA (Vanderbilt University, USA), a veteran high-tech entrepreneur with a rich history in the life sciences. Yariv is familiar with venture capital funds, both from raising capital and as a former investor in such a fund. In addition, Yariv has previously managed one of the largest entrepreneurial communities in Israel, has many connections in the industry and assists entrepreneurs in the proper business planning of their ventures.