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Three hours inside the funding room

A live masterclass on raising your first cheque in India.

1,840 founders rate it 4.9 out of 5

3 hourslive, one Saturday

₹96 crraised by past attendees

300seats, then it closes

Seats from ₹1,490

Early-bird until 26 September.

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Live, not a courseTaught once a quarter

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Team seatsUp to five on one request

Why this exists

Most first rounds are lost before the pitch

The same three things go wrong.

A price you cannot defend

The number falls apart.

A broken cap table

Six weeks of cleanup.

A term sheet read late

Founders sign first.

So this is the session we needed in 2019.

What you leave with

Six things you will do differently on Monday

Read a term sheet properly

Line by line, on screen.

Model your dilution

Before the first meeting.

Price a defensible round

Three ways funds triangulate.

Know the data room

31 documents, in order.

Build a fund list

Two tranches, not forty emails.

Spot a bad deal early

While you are still in the room.

Session details

One Saturday morning, start to finish

Live, capped, cameras off.

Live on ZoomNot a pre-recorded course.

Cameras offAsk anything in the chat.

Real documentsAnonymised, on screen.

Capped at 300So the Q&A still works.

Session spec

The three hours

Hour by hour, nothing padded

We start at 10:00 sharp.

Every seat includes

What lands in your inbox, and what you keep

Honestly compared

Three hours here against eight months of guessing

What matters

The Funding Room

Learning it mid-raise

You will learn all of this either way.

61First cheques written

Who teaches it

Radhika Menon has sat on both sides of this table

She raised, then she invested.

Sixty-one first cheques.

Raised as a founder
61 first cheques written
340 diligence files read
Four cohorts taught

Radhika MenonPrincipal, Nilgiri Ventures

Past cohorts

1,840 founders have sat through it

4.9average rating

96%would send a co-founder

₹96 crraised by attendees

From the last cohort

The room, when it is full

Seats

300 seats. The room closes when they go.

Registration closes when the 300th seat goes.

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Before you book

Seven questions we get every cohort

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Three hours inside the funding room

Most first rounds are lost before the pitch

A price you cannot defend

A broken cap table

A term sheet read late

Six things you will do differently on Monday

Read a term sheet properly

Model your dilution

Price a defensible round

Know the data room

Build a fund list

Spot a bad deal early

One Saturday morning, start to finish

Session spec

Hour by hour, nothing padded

What lands in your inbox, and what you keep

Three hours here against eight months of guessing

Radhika Menon has sat on both sides of this table

1,840 founders have sat through it

The room, when it is full

300 seats. The room closes when they go.

Seats left in this cohort

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Seven questions we get every cohort

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