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Leveraging Your Personal Brand to Build a Powerful Network - Casey Adams

Casey Adams is an 18 year old Best Selling Author, Entrepreneur, and Public Speaker who has been able to turn his negative situation into a positive outcome. After almost becoming paralyzed during a football injury, Casey was able to start his journey by looking at ways to leverage social media & build a personal brand. Casey runs a top 50 business podcast known as the  “Rise of The Young” podcast, and has interviewed some of the worlds most successful entrepreneurs. Casey has spoken on stage all over the world on the power of building a personal brand on social media, and has been recognized by some of the largest business publications in the world.

How to Pitch VC's and Raise Funds From Silicon Valley Investors - Arie van Gemeren, Rising Tide VC

Arie is a Principal at Rising Tide VC, an early stage investments firm with a focus on early-stage technology and healthcare. Arie is focused on big ideas in FinTech, InsurTech, real estate and blockchain technology, and also on delivering value-add work for the Firm's current portfolio of promising companies as well as the Firm's tremendous group of Limited Partners. Previously he served as an investment advisor with Goldman, Sachs & Co., advising a very exclusive group of ultra-wealthy families and institutions across the United States and abroad on all manner of investments. Prior to this he was an equity research analyst with Fisher Investments, an international money management Firm.

How to Think Like an Investor and Raise Funds - Osayi Igharo, Africa's Top Investor Ripple VC

Ripple VC works with highly technical, capital efficient companies to expand market opportunities and scale product-market fit. Ripple VC provides seed capital and focuses energies on helping with Fortune 500 relationships: helping them become customers, investors, and acquirers. The mission is to become the go-to firm for the best seed deep tech companies from Africa.

Fundraising Strategies for Early-Stage Founders: Raising Your First Round - Matt Cole, Investible

Investible is a new-breed scalable angel investor and business generator bringing together the skills of early stage VC investors with the scalability enabled by our world-class experiential business building program. Investible produces a formidable pipeline of investible businesses and startup ready talent.

How to Get Investors to Reach Out to You About Your Startup - John Mannes, Basis Set Ventures

John Mannes is an investor at Basis Set Ventures, a $136 million early stage venture capital fund focused on supporting startups using machine learning to address big problems across industries. Prior to Basis Set Ventures, John was a TechCrunch writer covering machine intelligence startups, machine learning research and major AI initiatives from big tech.