RVC x EDA: Friends and Family Funding Pitch Event

RVC x EDA Friends and Family

Funding Pitch Event

@ Thrive Centennial

9200 E Mineral Ave, Centennial, CO 80112

Before companies come to angel groups like RVC for venture funding, they typically raise between $10,000 and $250,000 in “friends and family money” contributed from friends and family, or from the founders themselves from savings, a second mortgage, credit cards, or other ways of getting capital to build prototypes, MVPs, and initial market testing.

There are many founders who are underserved by investors and do not have access to this sort of capital. These founders may be from rural areas, or they may be in other under-funded groups such as Black, Hispanic, or female founders. This means that it is extremely difficult for them to get started, much less look for angel funding, Series A or beyond.

Presenting Companies:

Wisary

Wisary helps Product leaders align business and engineering to build the products customers need while unlocking knowledge trapped in human minds and making it accessible to AI. Wisary facilitates the creation of planning documents like PRDs, leverages AI to identify gaps, communicates with stakeholders, and keeps documents up-to-date, paving the way for future AI applications.

Ritter offers an AI toolbox that initially makes modern water heater installations easy for plumbers. Our technology doubles profit margins and saves the average building owner over $10,000 through incentives and energy savings. We provide AI-driven software that includes remote designs, integrated rebates, and personalized training. Ritter's powerful AI-driven platform helps contractors across trades modernize their businesses as they enter the electrification era.

Capstone Aero Solutions is modernizing aviation real estate through data, delivering forecasts, pricing, and strategy through software. Our goal is to be a single point platform solution for capital planning and operational strategy for ground assets in aviation.

HapChic is a technology company that creates wearable technology. Our product is the HET, which is a wearable assistive technology that provides people who are blind, low vision, or have Autism with real - time information about nonverbal communications during social interactions. Through an intuitive mapping of visual information translated to a haptic (sense of touch) sensation applied to the forearm, the HET device breaks down barriers to effective and engaging conversations by raising awareness of non-verbal communication cues in real-time.

As an investor attending this event, you'll have the opportunity to invest in these promising companies. Unlike a traditional RVC raise, there is opportunity to work directly with founders on your own investment terms. With the selected early stage companies, investments as little as thousands of dollars can make an substantial impact. Even if you are not a potential investor, RVC encourages you  to attend and support this new effort and promising entrepreneurs.

If you know of a company who may not be aware of the upcoming Friends and Family Funding Pitch Event, please share this opportunity!