10.07.2025
Launching Your Startup – getting ‘Investor Ready’

Join us as Michael Wellwood, Managing Director, 88 Street Capital Inc., discusses the fundamentals of launching your startup business, what the books don't tell you, and how you avoid common startup mistakes.
Objectives:
Learn about 5 key knowledge areas to prepare your company for investment including:
- Simplified business modelling - a systems engineering approach
- Financial modelling - simulation to test you business model
- The capital stack - Debt, equity, and hybrids? Designing your securities and modelling - simulation to test your business model
- Cap tables - understanding dilution and the exit
- Securities Laws - raising capital legally in the Exempt Market. Key guidance to stay 'onside' with the Securities Commission