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“As we host 100+ events a year at Work-Bench, I know how much goes on behind such a well-produced event, end to end—organized comms, beautiful venue, and most important of all—high-quality founders, companies, really thoughtful content and speakers who spoke openly and honestly about what it means to start and scale a company. I even met one of our Work-Bench founders sitting next to her at this event. Cannot recommend this Summit enough!”
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SPEAKER
Brad Hargreaves
Brad is the founder and editor of Thesis Driven, a publication covering innovation in the built world. Over the past decade he has co-founded General Assembly, a pioneer in education and career transformation specializing in today's most on-demand skills, as well as Common, a multifamily operating company focused on innovative housing typologies like co-living.
“I learned a ton about the VC fundraising process, and met incredibly talented founders and investors. ”
“One of the best formats I’ve been to!”
Schedule of Events
8:30-9:00 Breakfast and Check-In
9:00-9:10 Introduction
9:10-9:50 Panel 1:What's an A today?
9:50-10:30 Small Groups: Open Questions on Fundraising Strategy
10:30-10:40 Sponsor Segment (Foley Hoag)
10:40-10:45 Break
10:45-10:50 Sponsor Segment (Propeller)
10:50-11:30 Panel 2: Projections and Hockey Sticks
11:30-12:10 Small Groups: Role Reversal Exercise
12:10-12:50 Lunch
12:50-1:00 Sponsor Segment (Fonzi AI)
1:00-1:40 Panel 3: Setting Pre-A Goals & Priorities
1:40-2:10 Small Groups: Environment and Cycle Discussion
2:10-2:20 Break
2:20-3:00 Founder Interview: Brad Hargreaves
3:00-3:40 Panel: Filling Your Funnel and Pre-Raise Prep
3:40 Event Close
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Propeller Industries is an enterprise-grade financial partner that empowers the most ambitious companies to reach their full potential. No one has better experience in the categories we serve. Our team has partnered with some of the highest-performing companies, backed by the world’s best investors, to help build over $50B in enterprise value since 2008.
Foley Hoag partners with high-growth technology companies and the investors powering their innovation, from idea to exit. Their lawyers are deeply passionate about the emerging company and venture capital industry, which is part of the firm’s DNA. Since the beginning, they have acted as true collaborators to their clients, bringing a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities entrepreneurs face. They provide practical and creative advice on company formation, fund formation, organizational structure, inter-founder matters, private financings, and general corporate governance.
Fonzi is a talent marketplace that matches elite engineers with AI startups and high-growth tech companies through a high-signal, structured hiring process we call Match Day.
Some stats from their last Match Day:
$32.3 million in salary backed interview requests
77 candidates participated including: Google, NVIDIA, Apple, Meta, Amazon, Uber, and Shopify to name a few
23 companies participated, including:
Reflection AI (Lightspeed, Sequoia, NVIDIA)
Graphite (Anthropic, Menlo, Accel)
Tennr (a16z, GV, Lightspeed, YC)
Companies ranged in funding stage from Seed to Public Companies
Quality Candidates: 70-80% of Match Day candidates receive interview requests
Quality Companies: Match Day candidates accept 70-80% of company interview requests