Join us during Boston FinTech Week to learn more about equity crowdfunding from Chris Lustrino, the Founder & CEO of KingsCrowd. Hear from various equity crowdfunding platforms like Republic, Netcapital and Wunderfund as well as entrepreneurs who have raised capital on them. When does raising equity capital from the crowd make sense? How hard is it to list my company? Can you raise crowdfunding and VC dollars? Secure your slot to find out!
With a background in strategy consulting, Fintech blogging, and Finance Ops, Chris is the Founder & CEO of KingsCrowd, the "Morningstar" solution for the equity crowdfunding market. He and his team are working to make the new world of startup investing accessible to all through education, research, analytics and ratings.
Vasilios is the Managing Director of the DCU FinTech Innovation Center, a non-profit program that supports the growth of pre-revenue FinTech startups. Vasilios has a background in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and product management with an MBA from Cornell University and BA from Brandeis University.
Partner, Republic
Chuck is a Partner at Republic, a leading equity crowdfunding portal part of the AngelList, Product Hunt and CoinList family. He is also GP of micro VC fund RainmakeMe and sits on the board of Panty Prop and RidersShare. Chuck has an MBA from the Fordham Gabelli School of Business and a BS from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Principal, RedCrow
Ann Taylor is a Principal at RedCrowTM Inc. She has been integral to developing the strategic vision and execution of the platform. In her role she also coordinates with external advisors to support strategic partnerships and site compliance and manages the RedCrow due diligence process. She also oversees all facets of customer experience on the platform.
Director of Business Development, NetCapital
CEO, Wunderfund
Marvin is the CEO of Wunderfund, an equity crowdfunding portal in the midwest's Silicon Prairie. He's also the founder of Thrivera, a brand agency creating brand stories. Previously, Marvin spent 18 years with Procter & Gamble in Brand Management, Sourcing, and HR.
Marvin is also a two-time TEDx speaker, who gives talks for Fortune 500 companies, conferences, accelerators & universities sharing his secrets on brand building and consumer engagement. He is a regular mentor for top accelerators including 500 Startups, the Brandery, and Uptech.
Anne Chambers is the co-founder of Certifiably, now raising on Wunderfund.
She has been preaching the gospel of business as a force for good for most of her career.
She believes that business holds the key to solving most social problems, and she created Certifiably as a tool for businesses to do just that.
Anne has been the CEO of ad agency Red212 for the last 17 years, and prior to that was at Procter and Gamble. But she has always been an entrepreneur at heart.
Founder & CEO, GeoOrbital Inc
Mike has been the founder and CEO of 4 companies (2 failed, 2 thrived) and has over 15 years' experience in starting-up and seeing companies through their lifecycle. For his companies he has raised millions in startup funding in almost every possible way including angel investors, angel groups, incubators/accelerators, VC, customers/strategic investors, crowdfunding (leading the first company to have raised $1M+ with product crowdfunding AND $1.07M [the legal maximum] with RegCF equity crowdfunding), and even appeared on ABC's SHARK TANK to pitch to celebrity investors. He is also a lecturer at the MIT Enterprise Forum on crowd and traditional startup funding.
Founder & CEO, Zelgor Inc
John Fanning Jr graduated from the University of Miami in 2014 with a degree in Entrepreneurship. He founded Zelgor Inc. in 2012 after graduating from Draper University, where he led his team to first place in the month-long business development competition. At Draper U, he finished top 10 in the VC pitch competition with his idea for a GPS-based mobile game that let users take over the real world. Previously, he worked as a web manager for Netgames, where he worked with Assist Software to develop a web-based chess application for their most successful game website, Chess.net.
Founder & CEO of Nemucore Medical Innovations, Inc
Hear from the leaders themselves at the portals as they discuss how equity crowdfunding works, demystify what it means to raise capital from the crowd, and provide insights into their various approaches to working with startups. By the end it will be clear to you why this is the next wave for raising startup capital.
Want to know how to raise from the crowd? Hear from entrepreneurs who have been there and done that to learn what tactics and strategies work for raising capital from the crowd. Get your fears alleviated that VC dollars won't be accessible after a crowdfunding raise and learn how your capital network can be vastly expanded by these portals.
Join us during Boston FinTech Week to learn more about equity crowdfunding from Chris Lustrino, the Founder & CEO of KingsCrowd. Hear from various equity crowdfunding platforms like Republic and Netcapital as well as entrepreneurs who have raised capital on them. When does raising equity capital from the crowd make sense? How hard is it to list my company? Can you raise crowdfunding and VC dollars? Secure your slot to find out!