Entrepreneurs have more avenues to access capital and resources to help them grow their business than they've had before.  Investors have greater access to invest in private market than they've had before including offerings which allow both non-accredited and accredited investors to participate.

National Entrepreneur Week is Feb 17th -21st.  To honor it TiE Carolinas & CrowdfundNC are co-hosting an interactive panel to share how both accredited and non-accredited individuals can invest in local startups.  Whether your favorite coffee shop or the next potential high growth company, everyone has access to invest and entrepreneurs have more options than ever to raise investment capital from both experienced and new investors.  

Goal: Educate the audience on the funding aspects of entrepreneurship from different perspectives.

Venue: Archie K Davis Center. 12 Davis Drive, RTP 27709
Date: Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
Time :6-8pm.
Cost to Enter: $20 for members and $30 for non-members

Agenda:
6 to 7 pm: Networking and Dinner
7 to 8 pm: Panel Discussion

Attendees: Established Entrepreneurs, Budding Entrepreneurs, Investors, Charter Members of TiE.

David Jones - Panelist

David is the co-founder of BCVP and a partner with Southern Capitol Ventures. He is also the co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of the medical device portal, Orthocopia.com. David sits on the board of numerous companies. More information can be found here.

Cliff Minsley - Panelist

Cliff is responsible for the development side of 10 Federal including development, general contracting, site work, and finance. More information about 10 Federal can be found here.

Rebecca Corbin - Panelist

Rebecca Corbin is President & CEO of the Entrepreneurship (NACCE), a leading non-profit membership organization dedicated to increasing entrepreneurship offerings and thinking at over 300 community colleges across the country. She has forged several new partnerships with national Foundations to advance STEM education, ecosystem mapping, and intellectual property curriculum knowledge in community colleges across the United States. More information about Rebecca and NACCE can be found here.

Brinda Ramaiya - Panelist

Brinda is the Launch Director of CrowdfundNC. She manages the Launch Readiness Program which supports founder preparation to raise investment capital,  CrowdfundNC’s partnership network and product market strategy. She is passionate about creating community and accessibility to investing. Brinda is a systems integrator with over fifteen years of experience in a variety of industries including high tech, financial services and nonprofit/benefit corporations with a focus of bringing new products and services to the marketplace. Her leadership roles include developing new products as a product manager, managing cross functional global teams as a program manager, creating engaging customer experiences is a marketing manager and developing strategic partnerships and growing the sales pipeline as a sales relationship manager.  As someone who loves to learn, Brinda holds a Master's in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business here.

Addy Kapur - Moderator

Addy calls himself a whiskey Connoisseur. I don't think you can call yourself a connoisseur while drinking out of a bottle. Addy is also our Apple fanboy - Macbook, iPad, iPhone - print anything with an Apple logo and Addy will buy it. When he is not working, he helps his son beat the pigs in Angry Birds.

What will the panel cover?

• How does Investment Crowdfunding work for investors?
• How does it work with "traditional" Angel investing?
• What funding methods can my business leverage?
• How is this type of investing different than investing in the stock market?
• Live Q&A from the audience

Who Should Attend?

• Potential investors, including those who have never invested before. This is for both accredited and non-accredited investors looking to gain insight and knowledge
• Startup owners that are preparing to raise funds at seed stage or series A and beyond, and existing profitable business owners who need to raise funds for growth.
• Food and beverages will be provided

Sponsors:

About TiE Carolinas
The International Entrepreneurs (TiE) Carolinas is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to foster and support entrepreneurship in the Carolinas. We have three objectives: Facilitate networking among members, foster and nurture entrepreneurship and integrate our membership with the mainstream community. Learn more about TiE Carolinas here.

About TiE Carolinas Angels
TiE Carolinas Angels was launched in partnership with the TiE South East chapters as a new capital raise platform designed to invest in high growth entrepreneurial startups with a primary focus in the Carolinas. We are an organization of like-minded accredited investors who wish to partner with other investors in a portfolio approach. In our first 15 months, the TiE South East chapters have completed investments into 10 companies for a total of $2.4 million, making us one of the fastest-growing angel groups in the southeast. Learn more here.

About CrowdfundNC
Our mission is to enable North Carolina startups and existing businesses to get funded using a variety of online private and public offering strategies including Investment Crowdfunding. CrowdfundNC is a Public Benefit LLC (for profit) aiming to create a community that invests in each other for sustainable impact. Learn more here.