Friends and Family Funding - Pitch Event

Join us for our first Friends and Family Funding pitch event! 

This event is Free and open to both RVC Members and the Public!

It will be in-person at the Commons on Champa
(with a virtual Zoom option)

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” that may indeed come 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.

With the help of the EDA, RVC is hosting a new event called “Friends and Family Funding” and our first event will be on September 7^th, 2023.  Founders who are Black, Hispanic, or otherwise underserved, should apply to pitch by following the instructions at this link.  Founders will have access to, and are highly encouraged to attend, RVC’s Pitch Academy on August 30^th to get ready.

As an attendee to this event, you'll have the opportunity to invest in these promising companies.  Unlike a traditional RVC raise, your opportunity with these companies will be for you to work out directly with the founders for however  much that makes sense.  It is after all, meant to be a "friends and family" round that we are helping with.  For some of these companies, even just a few thousand dollars can make an enormous difference.  If you're not a potential investor, we'd still love to see you there to support this new effort and these promising entrepreneurs.

Presenting Company's:

Clusivi is a software-as-a-service company that is disrupting and democratizing access to credit by facilitating and rating installment prepayments which our lending partners use as the sole underwriting criteria. https://clusivi.com/

finish’d brings access to on-demand services and providers that many of the 55.8 million older adults nationwide are excluded from accessing. It is the first multi-service on-demand app tailored for the older adult population. finish’d provides on-demand access to vital and key services allowing this population to remain independent longer and age in place comfortably. It also allows gig workers and service providers to perform outreach to this growing population, while allowing them to keep 100% of their revenue earned. https://www.finishd.app/

MilVet Navigator provides technical solutions to higher education institutions to better serve their military-affiliated students and manage their benefits. http://milvetnavigator.com/

myPerforma is an early stage (SaaS) tech company and RVC HyperAccelerator graduate. The company has developed an autonomous process for Athletic Relationship Management from Mindset Performance Indicators by structuring a simple, routine framework to collect, measure and utilize athlete perception for long term success and performance improvements. https://www.myperforma.com/