<aside> 👉 Welcome to the NEAR Horizon "Ready to Raise Bootcamp" Fundraising Toolbox, your comprehensive guide and resource hub designed to navigate you through the intricate and sometimes formidable landscape of fundraising. With this toolbox, we aim to address the key challenges faced by early-stage web3 projects and equip you with the skills and resources to confidently embark on the fundraising journey.

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Overview

The Horizon "Ready to Raise Bootcamp" is a specialized five-week intensive program curated for the promising startups within the Horizon community that are primed to raise capital.

We often get similar questions from Founders:

The answer is an often unhelpful, “It depends.”

So we’ve packaged some repeatable tactics and best practices designed to get you started on each step of the fundraising process.

In this toolkit, you’ll find resources to help you find and build relationships with VCs, prepare your fundraising materials, and move the process forward.

<aside> 💡 "Ready to Raise Bootcamp” Curriculum (click to read each section)

Storytelling 101

Running a Fundraising Process

Building a Data Room

Negotiating Deal Terms

🎥 **Weekly Zoom Link (We'll Use The Same Link Each Week!)**

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We designed each module to be practical, tactical, and actionable - from creating compelling narratives to managing your fundraising process, building an effective data room, and negotiating the best deal terms. Each week, we’ll have a pre-read to prepare for our session - please take 15-20 minutes each week to review the context and exercises beforehand in order to make the most of our time.

<aside> 👉 If you don’t read anything else, read these:

Fundraising Guide

A Template to Write Out Your Fundraising Pitch Narrative

The 23 Rules of Storytelling For Fundraising

Investor CRM

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Tools


Fundraising Guide

Investor CRM

Pitch Feedback Tracker