Fundraising Advisory
for Female Founders

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Fundraising Academy 
for Female Founders

Raise investment with step-by-step guidance and comprehensive support

Everything you need to professionally manage your fundraise:
  • Comprehensive fundraising training at your own pace, taking you step-by-step through the process as you prepare for, run and close your investment campaign
  • On tap online Q&A support, helping you navigate through any challenges you face quickly and painlessly
  • Weekly accountability check-ins and goal setting to keep you on track and motivated, with a bullet proof mindset
  • Regular coaching sessions with Julia, for in-depth personal support to accelerate your progress and development
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Develop your
CONFIDENCE

Discover how to keep your mindset strong, stay focused, build resilience, and remain authentic through the fundraising process.

Strengthen your
COMPANY

Articulate your business plan, discover how investors will assess the opportunity and learn how to strengthen your proposal.

Build your fundraising
COMMERCIALS

Build your financial forecasts, work out how much investment to raise, determine your company valuation,  and structure your investment deal.

Hone your
COMMUNICATION

Learn to speak the language of investors, build your narrative, develop your pitch deck, and communicate your true value.

Make investor
CONNECTIONS

Determine which investors are right for you, how to find and reach out to them, and how to run your investment campaign effectively.

Get investor
COMMITMENT

Know how to have productive investor conversations, close their commitment and negotiate your deal to build long-term value.

This programme is for you if you're...

  • Running a high-growth potential business
  • Looking to raise investment in the next 12 months
  • Raising more than £150k
  • Undertaking a professional investment round at pre-seed or seed stage
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How we'll work together

Check-ins and milestones

 Comprehensive self-paced learning, with regular check-in points and milestones to achieve to keep you on track. Weekly accountability and goal setting to celebrate success and keep your mindset strong.

Tools and templates

Invaluable tools and templates at every step as you work through the fundraising process, with checklists and downloadable resources, including our investor database.

Personal support

Exclusive membership to our private community of ambitious female founders for peer support, on-tap Q&A support on line, plus regular one-to-one sessions with Julia.

What some of our alumni have to say...

"Without the structure and rigour of the programme I would have found fundraising so much harder (and longer!). The step by step approach meant that I thought methodically through the opportunity in my business both for myself and for investors. By the time I came to communicate this opportunity to investors, I had a clear plan and the mindset training meant that I had the confidence to execute it. The mindset training has been invaluable and is now something I have integrated into my daily life. This is a game changer.”

Sophie Salisbury

Co-Founder and CEO, Reia


72%

Fundraising client success rate

96%

Recommendation rate

>£20m

Raised by clients

Your questions answered

  • How long is the programme?

    • You'll have access to all the Academy support and resources for as long as you need it, paying on a monthly basis.  

    • It takes most founders around 3 months to complete the comprehensive online training, working through as you prepare for and run your fundraising campaign. 

    • The content is self-paced, so if you want to go faster, you can, and we'll support you with that ambition.

    • In our experience, around 60% of Fundraising Academy Alumni close their investment round with the money in the bank within 6 months. 

  • What kind of training resources can I expect?

    • The Fundraising Academy is a blended multi-media programme, including video, audio and written modules.

    • You'll be provided with tools,  templates and checklists to support you.

    • You'll join our online female founder community where you can get further support.


    • You can optionally  join a monthly group coaching session led by your course leader Julia, for live interactive support online.

    • You can also access 1-2-1 coaching sessions with Julia

  • How much time commitment is involved?

    • The Fundraising Academy programme is around an hour of training and guidance each week, assuming you complete the programme within 12 weeks - although it's self paced, so if you want to go faster, you can. 

    • We recommend you set aside an hour or two aside each day to work on preparing for and running your fundraising campaign, based on your learnings from the programme. It's going to take work, but we'll do our best to make it as painless as possible, and hey it might even be fun!

    • If you opt to  join our monthly group coaching session, which is 90m, this is usually held on the last Friday lunchtime of each month.

    • It usually takes 4-6 months to complete a professional fundraise, although it can sometimes take longer, which is why we continue to support you for a full 12 months.

  • Can my co-founder join the programme with me?

    • Absolutely. If you'd like your co-founder to participate in the programme, and have access to all the fundraising resources we provide, then we welcome them at no extra charge. Please drop us an email, and we can arrange access for them.

    • And it's also fine if your co-founder's a guy - we have nothing against men! But our primary interest is giving you, the female founder, the very best chance of success.

  • Will you connect me to investors?

    • We'll show you exactly how to build out your network of investors, whether that's capitalising on your existing contacts and their network, connecting with new potential angel investors, investment platforms and syndicates, and even institutional investors. 

    • You'll get access to our investor database, which includes institutaional investors, angel syndicates and platforms.

  • Can you connect me to other experts I'll need?

    • Absolutely. At the most basic level, you'll need good legal and finance experts to help with your fundraising. If you don't have these in place already, we'll connect you to the right people.

    • We work with an extensive rota of expert partners who can help with other elements of your fundraising and growth plans, for example, videography, design or copywriting, should you need them. You name it, we probably know someone who can help, and we'll be happy to introduce you. 

  • Can I get extra one-on-one help if I need it?

    • Yes, if you'd like extra one-to-one coaching sessions with Julia whilst you're on the Fundraising Academy programme, then she'll be happy to help you.  Just select the Gold support package option when you enrol

Bronze

£79/mo

+VAT

  • Comprehensive fundraising training at your own pace


  • Tools & templates plus checklists and downloadable resources


  • Weekly check-ins for goal setting and accountability


  • On tap Q&A on any challenges you face


  • Peer support from our female founder community


  • Access to our exclusive investor database

Silver

£249/mo

+VAT

  • Everything in Bronze


  • Group mastermind coaching session with Julia every month


  • Promotion to investor network  via social media & email










Gold

£499/mo

+VAT

  • Everything in Silver


  • One-to-one coaching session with Julia every month














“The credit belongs to the (wo)man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...” 

- Theodore Roosevelt (& Julia Elliott Brown!)