Jan 28 2025 56 mins
🕰️ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:44 - Having Multiple Term Sheets
04:39 - Real-Life Fundraising Scenarios
07:27 - Strategies for Effective Fundraising
11:08 - ‘Best Outcome’ when Raising Funding
14:10 - Single v/s Multiple Term Sheets
18:33 - How to secure Multiple Term Sheets
25:37 - Role of Investors in Fundraising
30:15 - VC Support in Fundraising
34:07 - Timing and Control in Fundraising
38:35 - Managing Investor Relationships
41:41 - Delaying Dataroom is a Negative Sign?
43:59 - Prioritizing & Qualifying Investors for Intro Calls
47:25 - Purpose of Intro Calls
51:51 - Do well-run fundraising processes correlate with company success?
54:44 - Communicating through the Fundraising process
56:14 - Conclusion
About
Camila is a General Partner at Grand Ventures. In this role, she identifies promising investment opportunities across the firm’s sectors of interest, works closely with portfolio companies on strategy development and implementation, and spearheads fundraising and operations for the firm.
Camila has 12+ years of venture capital, consulting, and corporate experience. Prior to Grand Ventures, Camila worked at General Electric holding management positions within finance, portfolio management and business strategy. She spent six years at GE Ventures, playing a crucial role in building the foundation for it to become one of the most active corporate venture capital firms in the country, and managing a portfolio of over 150 investment companies. She has also held operational roles in startups, including an extensive project with Zinc, a GE Ventures portfolio company acquired by ServiceMax, and Imaginare Studios, a company she co-founded with two MBA colleagues.
Her recent recognitions include being named a Venture Capital’s Rising Star 2024 (PEI), 50 Most Influential Women in West Michigan (Crain’s 2024), and 39 Most Important VCs in the Midwest (Insider 2022).
She is a class 27 Kauffman Fellow and currently serves as a Board Director of the Michigan Venture Capital Association. Most recently she co-founded the Great Lakes Venture Capital Association.
Camila earned a BBA from the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Brazil and received her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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