Pitch Practice w/ fnInvestor Scott Shane (May 24, 2023)
Virtual · ZoomWatch, Pitch, Learn: Join fnInvestor Scott Shane, Managing Director at Comeback Capital, for a virtual pitch practice.
Participants will pitch for 3 minutes and receive 2 minutes of feedback from our guest investor. You also have the option to simply listen in and learn from other founder's pitches.
NOTE: RSVPing does not guarantee a spot to pitch. Five founders will be selected to pitch based on the investor's criteria a week before the Pitch Practice.
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Pitchers consent to their pitch being recorded and shared internally within FN.
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Investment Criteria
- Invests in: Pre-seed and seed stage capital efficient companies
- Sectors: Not capital intensive or biomedical startups, bias towards software and B2B businesses
- Investment Location: Not founding teams exclusively in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York City or Boston
- Investment Size: $250K (but with heavy sidecarring by LPs bringing our efforts to $500K+)
Scott Shane is Managing Director of Comeback Capital, a pre-seed stage venture capital fund that invests across the Midwest , now on its second and third funds. He is also a Deal Flow Partner for Right Side Capital Management, a San Francisco-based pre-seed stage micro VC fund, and an advisor to Ivy Cap Ventures, a $150M Indian venture capital fund. He is an active angel and limited partner and mentor at the Iconyc, Acceleprise and gener8tor accelerator funds, and an LP in Refinery Ventures and Illuminate Ventures.
He is the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University from 2006-20021. The author of 92 scholarly articles and 12 books, Dr. Shane was the 2009 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the most prestigious award in this academic field. According to a study by John Ioannidis at Stanford University, published in PLoS Biology , Dr. Shane the 1,137 th most impactful scientist out of 7 million living scientists.
Dr. Shane has also written extensively for popular audiences, penning regular columns for Bloomberg Businessweek, Inc., Entrepreneur and the New York Times. Dr. Shane has served on the faculty at the University of Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Georgia Institute of Technology, and as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He serves currently as an advisor to the Youngstown Business Incubator, the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship, and several startup companies. Dr. Shane received his PhD in Applied Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
About Comeback Capital:
Finding capital can be a challenge for America's Heartland companies. We are here to help you raise the investment you need: a small round, quickly. And then get back to showing everyone that you can execute. You don't need to leave your region to build your company. You can do it right here in the Heartland.
Comeback Capital has assembled an all-star group of coastal and local LP's who share our passion and belief that great companies have been and will continue to be built in the Heartland. In addition to capital, Comeback Capital portfolio companies benefit from connections to advisors from more established startup markets.
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