Investment Readiness Program


October 21, 2024

About This Program

Welcome to Spark’s Investment Readiness Program (IRP) for high-potential clients. The IRP series is designed to help founders understand how angel & VC investors think and decide to invest in a company.

It is a no-theory, no-fluff, no-BS learning and execution series with practical step-by-step actionable modules (group & 1:1 sessions) and an outcome-based progress tracker that will help you understand how to become investment-ready, target investors, negotiate deal terms, and get the best shot at closing your fundraising round.

You will learn from Gaurav Bansal, an expert who has been an angel investor, a Tech Venture Capitalist, an Investment Banker, and an Engineer.

Program Format

  • 6 group sessions of 2-hr each including 30-min AMA (Ask Me Anything)
  • Each session includes practical concepts, actionable work items, progress tracker
  • Parallel to the group sessions, each company gets to work 1:1 with the Expert to get feedback and support as per their respective business sector, stage, and current status/progress on fundraising

After all the sessions you will have:

  • Clarity whether you are VC/angel fundable or not
  • Investment Readiness - Are you ready to raise capital and have the preparation required?
  • Investor Kit - Everything that you need to raise capital

Email Teaser

Pitch Deck

Pitch script for Demo Days

Financial Model

Valuation

Term-sheet Negotiation

Dataroom

Investor Q&A / Investor Memo

Investor CRM, Ambassador Army, target list

Investor introductions

  • Customized fundraising roadmap as per your requirements
  • Tools, templates, resources, etc.

Event Schedule

  • Date: October 21st - November 14th
  • Time: 9am to 11am EST
  • Location: Virtual-Link to join via Microsoft Teams will be available on the Event Page after registering & sent to you via email.

About Gaurav Bansal

Gaurav is a Tech Investor & Advisor (100+ startup investments globally), with experience in venture capital & global growth accelerator program (35+ investments in 10 countries), investment banking (IPO/Private Equity deals worth ~US$2Bn) and technology consulting (business intelligence).

Highlights:

  • Founder & CEO at AMG Venture Partners Inc.
  • Ex-Venture Capitalist, Ex-Investment Banker, Ex-Technology Consultant
  • Closed IPO & PE deals worth US$ 2Bn+
  • Managed 35+ VC tech portfolio companies for Family Offices / VC funds
  • Member of 550+ angel syndicates and an investor in 100+ tech investments across Healthtech/Medtech, Supply Chain, Fintech, Productivity Tools/Future of Work, Cloud Infrastructure, etc.
  • BTech. in Electronics & Communication; MBA in Finance; Certificate in Artificial Intelligence (Kellogg, US)
  • Prior experience at global firms such as IBM, Holt Xchange (Global Family Office VC Fund), Pentathlon Ventures (B2B SaaS AI/ML VC fund), IIFL Wealth (Global wealth management firm), Nomura (Japanese Rank 1 financial group) & Axis Capital (Rank 1 investment bank in India)

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