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Author: Jim Shirley

Part 2 of 2: Inside the VC Mindset: Raising Smarter, Raising Bigger

Date: Thursday 26th November 2025
Time: 12:30 – 13:30 GMT
Venue: Online Register

Is your business based in the Midlands, innovative, generating £100k+ revenues, scaling fast, or commercialising cutting-edge innovation at TRL5+? Then venture capital may be the right partner to accelerate your growth. But VCs don’t just want ideas—they want credible teams, traction, and a scalable investment case.

Part 1 of 2: From Traction to Term Sheet: How to Secure Angel Funding Webinar

Date: Thursday 6th November 2025
Time: 12:30 – 13:30 GMT
Venue: Online Register

Are you based in the Midlands and building a high-growth business with early traction, revenues over £100k, and ambitions to raise £500k–£1m? Angel investors are often the first to believe in founders like you but only if you know how to speak their language.

The Missing Skill in Ent Ed: Embedding Funding Readiness into Curriculum

Date: Thursday 10th April 2025
Time: 15:00 – 19:30 GMT
Venue: Online Register via Eventbrite.

Join Matthew Draycott (Associate Professor in Innovation Management, BCU, Enterprise Educators UK) and Jim Shirley (Founder of FundingHero, author of The Startup Fundraising MBA) as they share insights, strategies, and examples of curriculum design that build the knowledge, skills, and confidence students need to navigate the fundraising journey.

How to Build Your IP Strategy

Your intellectual property (IP) can be the most valuable part of your startup. Yet too many founders treat it as an afterthought. Here’s why that’s a mistake—and how to build a solid IP strategy with help from the experts at Potter Clarkson.

Investment Ready Workshop: Raising Funding for High-Growth SMEs

Jim Shirley teaching at a FundingHero event

Date: Monday 16th June 2025
Time: 10:00 – 13:00 GMT
Venue:Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings, Spring Gardens Shrewsbury SY1 2SZ
Host: FundingHero & Shropshire Growth Hub

Equity Funding Masterclass to gain expert CFO-level insights and prepare your high-growth potential business for external investment

Stephen Johnson: Why Series A Funding is the Most Pivotal Phase

For companies pursuing a VC-backed fundraising journey, the Series A investment is arguably the most pivotal phase for determining what scale the company can and will get to. For those seeking to pursue a big outcome, it’s the last chance you have to fundamentally “figure things out” and find (what appears to be) product/market fit. For Series B and beyond, investors want evidence you’ve found it.

High Growth Roadshow – Investment Ready Workshop – Staffordshire Technology Centre – SOLD OUT

Date: Tuesday, 3rd December 2024
Venue: Staffordshire Technology Centre
Host: FundingHero and Staffordshire County Council
Status: Sold Out

The workshop will provide high growth funding and CFO level scaleup expertise. With a focus on four key areas – Fundraise Planning, Financial Strategy, Fundraise Budget and Fundraise Timeline – you will gain a thorough understanding of the investment process and be provided with vital tools to help raise external investment from a range of funding sources of debt and equity.

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