Online Fundraising Workshop 

by Unorthodox Ventures x JV Network x January Ventures

🗓Friday 10th of February 2023, 12-13.30pm
📍Webinar link to follow

Workshop agenda
If you are a female founder and are raising capital, please join us for a webinar with Tamta Gamezardashvili, Valérie Aelbrecht and Maren Bannon.

• Part 1: We will deep dive on fundraising techniques, best practises and on how to run your capital raise as a complex sales cycle.
• Part 2: You will hear directly from investors on what their expectations are from founders and what is their success criteria. The investors will also touch on questions submitted by attendants in the form below.

The experts


Tamta Gamezardashvili

• Tamta is a CEO and a Founder of Unorthodox Ventures Ltd, an advisory firm working with start ups and Venture Capital funds on capital raise and revenue acceleration. Her approach is very unique and quite unorthodox, in line with her company name. She combines explicit and implicit data, psychoanalyses investors and advises on the best approach and investor acquisition strategy. Tamta comes from enterprise tech background and has worked at big blue chip tech companies such as Salesforce, Google and Palantir. Since she has entered the VC/start up industry she has been referred to by her clients as a “secret weapon”. More and more funds who are trying to raise, innovate and have a fresh perspective are having conversations with her to become more relevant, advanced and innovative in how they run their fundraising and engage with LPs. She is also involved in portfolio companies and advised on revenue acceleration. Furthermore, Tamta is a passionate supporter of female entrepreneurs and has created a community of female founders and investors for whom she organised monthly get togethers. This community has organically grown from 4 to over 250+ women in a span of a couple of months and consists of high calibre, influential females changing and challenging the status quo.

Valérie Aelbrecht

• Valérie is a founder turned investor. She joined the AlbionVC B2B Software team in 2022 where she focuses on B2B tech propositions. She started her VC career at Cherry Ventures, after having been a founder and operator for 8 years in the FoodTech space. Valérie exited her dark kitchen business in 2019, and stayed on as COO to streamline the operations of the joint venture  – which is where she saw the potential of tech in workflow automation and supply chain management. Being slightly obsessed with operations & processes, Val continued her operator journey as a freelance consultant & advisor to a variety of start-ups and scale-ups.Valerie is passionate about creating more opportunities for female entrepreneurs, and co-runs The JV Network, an investment network bringing female founders & investors together.

Maren Bannon

• Maren is an engineer turned entrepreneur and investor. She is Cofounder and Managing Partner of January Ventures, a $20m fund focused on replacing the friends & family round and re-writing the network in venture capital. Before Cofounding January Ventures, Maren was CEO and Cofounder of LittleLane, a mobile marketplace for local activities. Her operating experience also includes marketing and sales roles at a tech startups as well as leading consumer marketing for a $1B product at Genentech. She is a contributor at Forbes and a Mentor at Stanford StartX and TechStars. She has an MBA from Stanford and an Engineering degree from Dartmouth.