AoA Webinar – How to Build a Compelling Investor Pitch

Raising funding can often be a stressful and time consuming task for founders. In this talk, serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni reveals the key things that investors look for in a pitch. He provides an outline for a killer investor pitch and discusses how founders can weave together a compelling story that will result in a second meeting with an investor and eventually a term sheet. Shirish Nadkarni has raised over $30 million in funding in the best of times and the worst of times.

Shirish Nadkarni is a serial entrepreneur with proven success in creating multiple consumer businesses that have scaled to tens of millions of users worldwide. Shirish was the co-founder of Livemocha, the world’s largest language learning site with 15+ million registered members from over 200 countries. Livemocha was acquired by RosettaStone in 2013. Prior to Livemocha, Shirish was the founder of TeamOn Systems, a mobile wireless e-mail pioneer that was acquired by BlackBerry in 2002. The TeamOn technology served as the core foundation for Blackberry Internet E-mail which serviced over 50 million BlackBerry users. Shirish is the author of From Startup to Exit – An Insider’s guide to launching and scaling your Tech business.

Shirish received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.