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Boston Start Up Week: Annual Female Founder and Funder Breakfast

September 11, 2024

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Join us on Wednesday, September 11, 2024 for the Annual Female Founder and Funder Breakfast during Boston Startup Week 2024! This exclusive event, hosted at Foley and Lardner, will bring together the brightest new female founders and investors for a morning of networking and knowledge sharing.

Foley’s Alicia Dorner alongside other industry experts will offer invaluable insights into navigating today’s fundraising challenges with key topics including:

Understanding dilution
Decoding term sheets
Strategic approaches to side letters
Essential fundraising tips and tools

Don’t miss this chance to connect and gather tips to optimize your fundraise in a constrained market.

Authors

Alicia C. Dorner

Practice Areas

Corporate
Transactions
Venture & Growth Capital

Location

Foley & Lardner LLP
111 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02199

Agenda

9:00 a.m.

People

Alicia C. Dorner

[email protected]

Boston 617.502.3213

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