About the Event
One of the challenges facing entrepreneurs, startups and businesses around the globe is funding. Some ideas have died without seeing the light of the day because founders and inventors of those ideas could not access the much-needed funding to launch or take their business to the next level.
In this series of WES panel, you will hear from venture capitalists talk about the various funding streams available for start-ups and entrepreneurs of businesses as well as how best to access them. We will also look at the various stages of these funding streams and what investors are looking for when accessing which idea to fund. So join us in this very important discussion.
The panel will be moderated by David Izuogu, the Wolfson Entrepreneurs Society President.
About the Panellists
Co-Founder and COO, Start Codon
Daniel Rooke is an entrepreneur and COO/Co-Founder at Start Codon. Daniel has held previous positions as General Counsel at a Cambridge-based but US-focused pharmaceutical company focusing on the rare and orphan drug markets and has been a senior lawyer in several notable law firms, in particular Taylor Wessing LLP, one of Europe’s best-known, and most active, venture capital law firms. Daniel has been involved in several hundred venture capital financings, ranging from smaller seed rounds to later-stage rounds of hundreds of millions of dollars, in several capacities, but most notably as an investor, as a lawyer and as an entrepreneur/company executive.
Whilst in private practice, Daniel was rated in various legal guides as a “leading individual” for venture capital investments. Daniel has also lectured for a variety of third parties on the key legal and commercial issues related to venture capital investments, tech transfers and trade sales. Daniel sits on the Consulting Editorial Board for Life Sciences at Lexis PSL (part of Lexis Nexis), is a contributing author for Practical Law’s life sciences product offering and is also a mentor on the Cambridge Judge Business School’s “EnterpriseTECH STARS” programme, that focuses on mentoring the next generation of scientific and business leaders in Cambridge.
Associate, Playfair Capital
Henrik Wetter Sanchez is an associate at Playfair Capital. After graduating from Cambridge in French and Spanish, he spent two years working on UK M&A and IPO deals as an analyst at Bank of America. While at university, he founded a meet-up & discovery app and an access-led tutoring platform. Henrik has also built a portfolio of c.40 small equity crowdfunding investments over the past five years, including Monzo, Revolut and Camden Town Brewery. He speaks fluent French and Spanish and is learning Portuguese and Python.
Join us in this live session on any of the following platforms (No initial registration is required)
Date: Monday 19 October 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:30 (GMT+1)
Location: Live across the listed platforms (see hyperlinks below)
Twitter - @wolfson_wes
Facebook - Wolfson Entrepreneurs Society Facebook page
Youtube - Wolfson Entrepreneurs Society YouTube channel
