Funders & Founders Night by AltaIR Capital: The New Shape of Early Stage

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The rules of early-stage venture are changing. How are investors and founders adapting?

The venture market in the US and Europe looks very different from two years ago. Capital is flowing differently. Investor expectations are shifting. And founders are rethinking how they build, grow their companies, as well as how they raise capital.

At Funders & Founders Night, we're bringing both sides of the table into one room to explore what this new reality means for early-stage startups.

From the investor's side: What are funds backing today and what have they stopped backing? How have investment theses, valuations and expectations for early-stage companies changed? And what makes a startup stand out in today's market?

Igor Ryabenkiy — Founder & Managing Partner, AltaIR Capital

Pedro Santos Vieira — Partner, 500 Global

Alexander Korchevskiy — Partner, I2BF Global Ventures

Alex Zhuravlev — Founder and Managing Partner, Mento VC.

Moderated by Alisa Korneeva, Co-founder & CEO, Digitalista; Creator of GTM Singularity, an online conference exploring the future of GTM.

How should founders read the shift? Igor Ryabenkiy, Founder & Managing Partner of AltaIR Capital, brings the investors' conclusions to the founder's side of the table: what VCs' new expectations mean in practice, and how founders should adapt the way they build, grow and raise.

From the founder's side: Building a company in a changing environment requires to rethink some old playbooks. Three founders share the decisions they've made to keep growing, from navigating new market realities to rethinking their approach to product, fundraising and growth.

Josh Sirota — Founder & CEO, Eragon. Building an AI operating system for enterprise software, Eragon raised a $12M seed round at a $100M post-money valuation.

Anastasia Denisova — Co-founder & CEO, AIcelerate, a revenue execution infrastructure company. In just six months of US operations, AIcelerate has landed Fortune 100 clients and grown 200%.

Stan Suchkov — Co-found

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