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Fundraising is never easy, particularly during challenging economic climates such as today. Join us to learn practical tips to help you stand out from the crowd, as well as the metrics and messaging that attract investors.
Featuring SVB's Patrick Johnson, along with Yoni Rechtman, a Principal at Slow Ventures based in NYC, our July Fundraising Workshop on July 24th will be hosted live in NYC, and virtually via livestream.
During the workshop, we’ll discuss ways to navigate the current landscape, and Yoni will share his views around the early-stage VC and tech landscapes.
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Yoni is a principal at Slow Ventures based in NYC.
He is a generalist investor backing companies across industries at the pre/seed stage with an interest in vertical market software, real world businesses, fintech, and healthcare (basically anything that touches the real economy).
Prior to Slow he was an investor at Tusk Ventures.
Patrick is a managing director at SVB responsible for SVB’s Startup Banking business development, sales, and founder success across key East Coast markets and is based out of the firm’s Washington, DC / Arlington, VA offices. Prior roles at SVB included serving as head of strategy for SVB’s Commercial Bank as well as chief of staff, both reporting to the president of SVB.
Prior to SVB, Patrick completed multiple stints at Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington DC, Singapore and San Francisco, leading diverse consulting engagements for Fortune 500 companies and large public sector clients and non-profits (market entry, product/market fit, cost restructuring, new business and revenue models, corporate ventures and innovation, etc.) as well as helping launch Booz Allen’s solution studio in San Francisco around new product development.
He also co-founded a startup in the food/tourism space that went on to become the top ranked restaurant in Paris from 2013-16. While based in Paris, he worked with the OECD to design policies to help increase entrepreneurship.
He’s been mentoring and advising startups for over a decade. He graduated magna com laude and Phi Betta Kappa from the University of South Dakota (USD) and currently serves on the USD Foundation Board, with additional studies completed at Georgetown, Peking University and Johns Hopkins SAIS.
