Raising Angel Investment
A practical founder’s course for preparing, pitching, negotiating, and closing angel funding
Raising Angel Investment is a practical Business course for founders who want to prepare for, pitch, negotiate, and close angel funding with confidence. You will learn how angel investors evaluate opportunities, how to build a credible funding story, and how to manage the process from first meeting through post-investment relationships.
Build A Clear Path To Raising Angel Investment
- Learn whether angel funding is the right fit for your company, stage, goals, and Business model.
- Create a fundable narrative, realistic milestones, a clear use of funds, and a credible pitch deck.
- Understand investor targeting, warm introductions, due diligence, valuation, SAFEs, notes, and equity rounds.
- Gain practical tools for managing investor meetings, objections, commitments, closing steps, and post-round relationships.
A practical founder’s course for preparing, pitching, negotiating, and closing angel funding.
This course gives founders a structured, realistic view of Raising Angel Investment from the first funding decision to the final close. You will begin by learning where angel capital fits within startup funding, how to decide whether it supports your Business goals, and what investors look for before they commit.
You will then develop the core materials and thinking needed for investor readiness, including your company narrative, round size, milestones, use of funds, financial story, pitch deck, data room, and due diligence preparation. The course also shows you how to find the right angel investors and angel groups, qualify investor fit, and approach conversations through warm introductions or thoughtful cold outreach.
As the course moves into execution and deal structure, you will practice handling first investor meetings, follow-up, objections, valuation discussions, SAFEs, convertible notes, priced equity rounds, and key investment terms. You will also learn how to maintain momentum, avoid common legal and communication mistakes, close the round, and build productive relationships with angel investors after funding.
By the end, you will understand the full angel funding process and be better prepared to present your Business clearly, negotiate with discipline, and manage Raising Angel Investment as a focused founder-led process.
Full lesson breakdown
Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.
Funding Foundations
2 lessons
Investor Mindset
1 lesson
Investor Readiness
2 lessons
Pitch Preparation
3 lessons
Investor Targeting
2 lessons
Pitch Execution
2 lessons
Deal Structure
3 lessons
Closing the Round
2 lessons
Post-Investment Management
1 lesson
Professor Elizabeth Evans
Professor Elizabeth Evans guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.