Startup Funding 101: Fireside Chat with Gadiel Morantes (April 8, 2021)

Need to fundraise and don't know where to start? Or do you just want a refresher on the basics of fundraising?

Come chat with the CRO of Early Growth / Escalon Services, Gadiel Morantes, covering topics ranging from setting up your finance and accounting functions to fundraising for your startup! Gadiel has worked closely mentoring and advising companies through the fundraising process as well as helping them think through scaling their businesses sharing his sales thoughts and advice.

In this hour-long firechat, Gadiel will be joined by Mark Dabu, Business Development Manager at Early Growth, to talk about:

• The best ways to approach investors
• Creation of a potential investor list
• Leveraging your network for warm introductions

Presenters:

Gadiel Morantes

Gadiel Morantes is president at Early Growth. He works closely with early stage entrepreneurs and founders providing them with mentorship, guidance and outsourced accounting, finance, tax, controller & CFO level solutions for their organizations.

He works with many of these organizations at different stages of their lifecycle from inception through exit. He is an accomplished executive with 20+ years of sales, marketing and operations experience. He has an ability to strategically build and maintain profitable business relationships with key corporate decision-makers establishing large-volume, high-profit accounts with excellent levels of retention and loyalty.

Mark Dabu

Mark is a Business Development Manager at Early Growth servicing the Bay Area. He provides early stage founders with an interim CFO, accounting and tax services for early-stage technology companies.

As a Silicon Valley super connector and Business Development professional with a technical, IT and customer services background, Mark is looking to connect with potential partners and startup founders.

Guests Are Welcome!

Please bring a guest! Every member can bring one (1) guest to each event. Each guest must be a full-time tech startup founder so they can bring new perspectives, skillsets, and experience to your chapter.

All guests must be full-time tech startup founders and you can register them directly on this function page. See How to Register a Guest here.

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