Would you want to know how to easily and efficiently invest in start up’s?

Would you like to have a steady flow of start up deals being presented to you?

Would you like to manage start-up’s like the way you manage your own funds?

Would you want to know more about investor ecosystems?

Would you want to become an angel investor?

Venture capitalist /Angel Investors/ UNICORNS – These are some of the commonly discussed topics almost everywhere in India and the world. We hear of companies raising unheard amount in record periods and providing best services to their clientele. We also hear of investors making millions in these deals.

We all would like to be part of a successful startup and/or be part of credible investments. But do we understand how to evaluate--

• A startup
• Founding Team
• Product and Market
• Valuation
• Due Diligence
• Deal Terms
• Legal concerns

In this regard, Sea and Beyond along with Sparklehood brings to you the 1st ever master class focused on investment. Following is the agenda for the master class:

1. What types of investors are there?

2. What is angel investing?

3. Evaluation of a company at a very high level

4. How do I value a company?

5. What do founders look for in their investors?

End deliverables from the master class:

a) High level understanding of investment ecosystem

b) Advantages and dis-advantages of angel investment

c) Skills required to invest

d) Evaluation of a startup for investing (Interactive exercise)

e) Evaluation of you as an investor (Interactive exercise)

f) Involvement of investor after investment

Who should not attend the Master class:

a) You want someone to just tell you to invest in a particular company

b) You are looking for a fixed return over the years

c) You are averse to risk

Sparklehood, startup school for working professionals, does active venture building with founders from an idea stage. They help founders who have domain expertise in the problem they are trying to solve through a structured 9 months program. Mentoring, brainstorming, warm introductions, networking and fundraising help is provided by experienced entrepreneurs who have gotten exits or valuations on avg. of around USD 150 Mn. They have a cohort of 25 startups and around 10 startups have raised funds through their help in the last 4.5 months.

About Speakers:

1. Saurabh Kumar: is a serial entrepreneur and a DMET & IIT Kanpur alumnus. He is a partner at Sparkle hood. His previous startup “Ziff Homes”, a co-living platform valued at USD 25 million in Jan 2020. Ziff Homes was a part Y-Combinator, which has invested in companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Razor pay and many more. He has approximately 14 years of industry experience in leadership roles ranging from Investment Banking, Real Estate, Social sector, Manufacturing and merchant navy.

2. Anchal Taatya: is a serial entrepreneur, endurance athlete and an IIM Ahmedabad alumnus. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Sparkle hood, a startup school for working professionals

He got a 4X exit in his startup called Goldenberry. He has approximately 9 years of industry experience in leadership roles ranging from Ed-tech, Fintech, FMCG, Social sector, Manufacturing to Teaching.

He was awarded GC Mital Entrepreneurship Award at IIM Ahmedabad given to one graduating student in the batch and Y Combinator SUS 2019 Award given to 41 startups globally amongst 25000 startups. IIM Ahmedabad is writing an academic case study for his startup called Circles.

3. Shilpika Ganeriwala: She has 3 years of global investing experience across private equity teams at DE Shaw and Kingfish Group. She graduated with a gold medal from IIM Indore in 2018, and is also a CFA level 3 candidate.

The webinar would consist of the following:

• A 30–35 minutes presentation by Sparklehood
• 10 minutes presentation from an angel investor from marine fraternity
• 10 - 15 minutes of interactive exercise
• 20-25 minutes of Q&A wherein the presenters would take questions
• A quick feedback survey about the webinar
• While we will have Q&A session, we encourage you to provide your questions before the webinar.

Warm Regards

Sea & Beyond Team