Venture Finance Development

We help you get investor ready, and coach you through the whole process, from beginning to end, through the ups and downs, for a period of 12 months

The Digital Venture Finance Academy - 12 month program

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The greatest problem faced by startups in their quest for funding is a lack of tailored strategic advice to create truly compelling financing offers

That’s why the 12-Month Digital Venture Finance Academy as been designed to offer all of the essential tools, feedback and information

  • Complete Venture Finance Audit - in just few days find out what and how you need to adjust in your business to be investors ready.
  • Condense months of your time into just 4.5-hours of Venture Finance PRO Masterclass video course on the essentials of creating your compelling minimum viable offer.
  • To maintain your project privacy, you will have six personal Zoom calls with Brad Furber.
  • You will have an access to 12 months bi-weekly group coaching calls where you will meet other startup founder who are raising money for their startups. Hearing their stories and sharing your experience you will move faster and smarter than ever before to raise your next round.
  • A library of essential curated resources and templates will help you avoid $500/hr calls with fancy lawyers to explain you venture finance terminology.
  • You will gain access and ability for Networking with external resources and expertise. Wider contact circles will help you reach right investors faster.
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The 12-month digital accelerator is your opportunity to get objective, neutral, and inspiring coaching on your journey to investment readiness and success. It has been designed based on 30 years of venture finance experience and involvement in thousands of deals

Take advantage of

  • Remote learning – work online from wherever you are in the world.
  • Open schedule – start anytime and organise calls to suit your timetable.
  • Flexible pricing
  • Top-quality, professionally-produced video content

The Venture Finance Academy

Includes PRO Masterclass and 12 months access to bi-weekly group coaching calls

Monthly Payments

Venture Finance
12 months Academy

We help you get finance ready, and coach you through the process
until you raise your next funding round

  • A comprehensive venture finance questionnaire
    to determine your current state and what remains to be done to get to your preferred future state.
  • Complete Venture Finance Audit
    Take a Complete Venture Finance Audit to discover what you need to do to get Finance Ready
  • Lifetime Access to 4.5 Hours of Detailed Venture Finance PRO Masterclass online course with 42 video lessons
    Condense months of your time into just 4.5-hours of Venture Finance PRO Masterclass video course on the essentials of creating your compelling minimum viable offer.  
  • Total 6 one hour 1-on-1 Coaching calls
    with Brad Furber
    To review the results of your venture Finance Audit, understand what you need to do to get funding ready, and get his personal feedback on your documents and presentation over a 12 month period.

      1) initial consultation and coaching instructions
      2) questionnaire assessment of strengths and gaps, and tailored next steps; 
      3) review and assess quality of the minimum viable offer and toolkit and strategy, and tailored next steps;
      4) final review of the minimum viable offer and toolkit and strategy, and tailored next steps post-accelerator;
      5) Two one hour 1-on-1 personal AMA (Ask me Anything) calls
  • Private 1-on-1 Access to the Venture Finance Academy
    so you can post questions for Brad, members of his team, and other members of the Academy while you are on your venture Finance Audit (during a 12 months period).
  • 12 months access to bi-weekly Group coaching calls
    1 year access to two hours bi-weekly Group Coaching Calls and all recording on Venture Finance with Brad Furber and other students focused on a specific part of the knowledge base and toolkit, including opportunity to ask questions and receive answers from seasoned experts (including guest speakers), and “peer to peer” learning and sharing among other like-minded and similar situated entrepreneurs
  • Downloadable files library
      * Downloadable material with step-by-step checklists to help you perfect your offer.
     
      * A library of essential curated resources and templates
         (36 documents), which will be supplemented if necessary to address your unique facts and circumstances tailored to your company and jurisdiction.
     
      * Downloadable templates (e.g., model agreements, pitch decks, and due diligence matters) that will save you time and money. 

    * Global Venture Finance Directory (Angel networks with contact information, Family offices, etc) You will know where to start looking for investors locally and globally.

    * Downloadable templates (e.g., model agreements, pitch decks, and due diligence matters) that will save you time and money.

      * Printable Worksheets that will allow you to create all the documents you need to get business funding.
     
      * Printable PDF Slide Decks that will allow you to follow along and take notes as you go through the presentations.
     
      * Printable Transcripts of the videos that will allow you to follow every part of the course and refer back to it for easy reference
  • Networking with external resources and expertise
    if there is a venture finance challenge that we can’t help you address directly, we will do our best to help you identify someone or someplace that can!
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Precondition
Before applying it is required that YOU HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED
the Investor Readiness Test.

We reserve the right to cancel any application calls scheduled if you have not previously completed the Venture Finance Masterclass.

Why us?


We are the education, coaching and advisory business


We are not a direct investor in our customers, and we are not a "finder" or "broker/dealer".

Our experience is in helping startup founders and CEOs access the necessary knowledge, expertise and connections to attain their venture finance goals.

150+

Angel and venture capital financings

50+

Mergers and acquisitions

10+

Public offerings

$ 1B+

Aggregate capital financing raised

MEET BRAD FURBER

Founder of Aery Advisors

I’m Brad Furber. I’m a seed investor, company advisor, entrepreneur and lawyer who’s been working closely with funders, intermediaries, founders and visionary entrepreneurs just like you during my entire professional career.

I’ve been a strategic mentor, advisor and angel investor in 50+ tech startups, 15 of which have already achieved an exit or liquidity event. I served as President and CEO of a bootstrapped and profitable consumer Internet software + services global tech startup, co-founder of an innovative law firm for startups and emerging growth companies, and founding business leader of a cross-faculty innovation centre at one of the world’s top 50 research intensive universities.

I’ve been engaged to advise on more than 150 angel and  venture capital financings, more than 50 mergers and acquisitions, and 10+ public offerings. 

Over the past ten years, I’ve lived and worked in four countries – the USA, Denmark, Australia and now Switzerland. I understand that each region and each jurisdiction has its own unique culture and way of doing deals. I’ve seen first hand what’s worked and what hasn’t. Venture finance is not one size fits all. It requires empathy, design thinking, legal, financial and marketing know-how, strategy, persistence and true grit.

That is what I am sharing in this course.

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I spoke to a startup founder with a $400K investment from a local investor. He was planning to spend it all to generate $200K revenue. I suggested it might be smarter to spend some of it, say $15K, on a compelling venture finance offer that could improve his balance sheet by $1M or more. That’s what I’m talking about – building foundations and capabilities, and selling your dream to investors who can help you innovate, compete and grow.

I want to help you help yourself – by sharing access to knowledge, expertise and networks that will enable you to meet and exceed your venture finance goals and objectives.

Companies and Organizations that trusted Brad Furber

TESTIMONIALS

What other startup founder say about working with Aery Advisors and Brad Furber

Printify Inc., headquartered in Riga, Latvia, announced in September 2021 that it successfully closed a $45 Million Series A financing, led by Index Ventures, H&M Group and Virgin Group.

Latvia’s Printify Closes $45 Million Series A Round in September 2021

If you can have somebody experienced like Brad, that is huge because it can save you a ton of money

“I think the most expensive thing in business is the mistakes you make and mistakes in terms of the direction of where you want to bring the company, and the time you waste in going the wrong direction or focusing on the wrong thing.

And if you have somebody experienced like Brad, that is huge because it can save you a ton of money.

Having the possibility to have the advice from somebody who has been there and done that before is incredibly valuable.”

-James Berdigans Founder and CEO of Printify.com

Aery Advisors’ founder Brad Furber has been working with the co-founders of Printify since late 2016. Since that time Brad has participated in multiple financing rounds, including Printify’s Series A round. Over the years, Brad has acted on behalf of Printify in multiple capacities, including as mentor, coach, strategic litigation manager, Series A term sheet negotiator, and outside advisor to counsel Printify going forward in connection with its print on demand platform scale up globally.

ZEMP's product suite enables small and medium businesses to sell across channels, manage operations across all core disciplines, engage with customers, accept payments and ultimately grow their business.

Swiss startup raised $1.3M swiftly in 2021

When I started talking to the first potential investors and they asked "Can I have a look into your data room" and I was prepared. It was a very positive thing. It was much easier to get traction in the market. It was first preparation of 3 months and 4 months of negotiations with investors. All in all, within 7 months we raised 1.3 million dollars.

Brad was tangible, we had open conversations, coaching sessions, I had trust in him because he’s done it, he went through it, he talks from experience, and he has a very huge heritage. You accepted his advice because it worked. It is not a standard class. This is bespoke sessions with him where he focused and adapted his knowledge to my needs.

I would definitely 100% recommend it. I believe there is nothing that cannot be improved so no one has ever got from me a 10, as there is always room to improve, but I would say the experience has been a clear 9 for me.

Founder of Zemp Business Solutions
Lucerne, Switzerland | zemp.io

SanityDesk is a CRM + Website Builder/Marketing Automation tool that has all of the systems a small business needs to set up, organise, and grow their business online for a low monthly cost

If I hadn't had Brad's coaching, I'd be nowhere close to raising almost $2 million dollars in a pre-seed round

If you do not get your house in order as Brad teaches, you shouldn't go out and raise money.

What I really learned was that there is a process and a system to get your house in order, and that makes all the difference in the world. Aery Advisors has created an entire tool kit to help entrepreneurs do that in the venture finance course. What the course and programs teach is critical to achieving venture finance success.

WATCH FULL DEEP DIVE VIDEO CASE STUDY WITH SANITYDESK

-Samuel P. N. Coo, CEO & Founder of SanityDesk.com

iPromote, headquartered in San Luis Obisbo, California, provides digital advertising technology and solutions designed to help underserved SMBs access the high growth programmatic digital advertising market in an efficient and cost-effective way. 

Brad helped us raise more than $1M in equity

If I could do it over again, I would compress the time that we spent in the early years and bring in expertise as early as possible to make sure that you're enlisting people that have that explicit knowledge, that “been there, done that" experience, to help guide you move forward.

I was fortunate that I've known Brad for a long time. I've known him since he was 20 years old and I've participated with him, watching him work all around the world. He has extensive experience helping entrepreneurs, startups and emerging growth companies raise capital globally.

In July 2021, Cohere Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm made a strategic growth investment (8 figures) in iPromote.

- Gregg Albright, CEO of iPromote

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