Financing for Growth in Start Up and Early Stage Companies

Moderator Beth Felder, Foley Partner and member of the firm’s Private Equity & Venture Capital Practice and Emerging Technologies Industry Team, and distinguished panelists Liam Donohue of .406 Ventures, Roger Krakoff of Sigma Partners, Chris Sheehan of Common Angels, and Steve (Zam) Zamierowski of Deloitte’s Tech-Venture Center, discussed various means of financing growth for start-up and emerging technology companies. Topics included sources of equity financing, both venture capital and angel investment, venture debt financing and other alternative financing sources as well as effective strategies for obtaining financing at the early stage and state-of-the-art transaction structures.