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We help you get investor-ready, and coach you through the whole process, from beginning to end, through the ups and downs, for a period of 12 months

The Digital Venture Finance Academy - 12-month program

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The greatest problem faced by startups in their quest for funding is a lack of tailored strategic advice to create truly compelling financing offers


That’s why the 12-Month Digital Venture Finance Academy has been designed to offer all of the essential tools, feedback, and information

  • Complete Venture Finance Audit - in just a few days find out what and how you need to adjust in your business to be investors ready.

  • Condense months of your time into just 4.5-hours of Venture Finance PRO Masterclass video course on the essentials of creating your compelling minimum viable offer.

  • To maintain your project privacy, you will have 6 personal Zoom calls with Brad Furber.

  • You will have access to 12 months of bi-weekly group coaching calls where you will meet other startup founders who are raising money for their startups. Hearing their stories and sharing your experience you will move faster and smarter than ever before to raise your next round.

  • A library of essential curated resources and templates will help you avoid $500/hr calls with fancy lawyers to explain your venture finance terminology.

  • You will gain access and the ability for networking with external resources and expertise. Wider contact circles will help you reach the right investors faster.

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If I hadn't had Brad's coaching, I'd be nowhere close to over halfway subscribed in a 1.35 million dollar pre-seed round for a pre-revenue company

SanityDesk is a CRM + Website Builder/Marketing Automation tool that has all of the systems a small business needs to set up, organise, and grow their business online for a low monthly cost

If you do not get your house in order as Brad teaches, you shouldn't go out and raise money.

What I really learned was that the process and the system of getting your house in order is everything. He has an entire tool kit to help you do that in the venture finance course. What he teaches is critical.

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- SAMUEL P. N. COOK, CEO & FOUNDER OF SANITYDESK.COM

SanityDesk is a CRM + Website Builder/Marketing Automation tool that has all of the systems a small business needs to set up, organise, and grow their business online for a low monthly cost

If you do not get your house in order as Brad teaches, you shouldn't go out and raise money.

What I really learned was that the process and the system of getting your house in order is everything. He has an entire tool kit to help you do that in the venture finance course. What he teaches is critical.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FULL CASE STUDY WITH SANITYDESK

- SAMUEL P. N. COOK, CEO & FOUNDER OF SANITYDESK.COM

The 12-month digital accelerator is your opportunity to get objective, neutral, and inspiring coaching on your journey to investment readiness and success.

Take advantage of

  • Remote learning – work online from anywhere in the world.

  • Open schedule – organise calls to suit your timetable.

  • Flexible pricing – choose basic or premium packages

  • Top-quality videos – professionally-produced video content

Aery Advisors

VENTURE FINANCE 12 MONTHS ACADEMY

We help you get finance ready and coach you through the process
until you raise your next funding round

A comprehensive venture finance questionnaire

... to determine your current state and what remains to be done to get to your preferred future state.

Complete Venture Finance Audit

Take a Complete Venture Finance Audit to discover what you need to do to get Finance Ready

Lifetime Access to 4.5 Hours of Detailed Venture Finance PRO Masterclass online course with 42 video lessons

Condense months of your time into just 4.5-hours of Venture Finance PRO Masterclass video course on the essentials of creating your compelling minimum viable offer.  

Total 6 one hour 1-on-1 Coaching calls with Brad Furber

To review the results of your venture Finance Audit, understand what you need to do to get funding ready, and get his personal feedback on your documents and presentation over a 12 month period.

Private 1-on-1 Access to the Venture Finance Academy

... so you can post questions for Brad, members of his team, and other members of the Academy while you are on your venture Finance Audit (during a 12 months period).

Networking with external resources and expertise

If there is a venture finance challenge that we can’t help you address directly, we will do our best to help you identify someone or someplace that can!

Downloadable files library with step-by-step checklists to help you perfect your offer.

A library of essential curated resources and templates that will save you time and money (36 documents).

  • Global Venture Finance Directory (Angel networks with contact information, Family offices, etc) You will know where to start looking for investors locally and globally.

  • Printable Worksheets that will allow you to create all the documents you need to get business funding.

  • Printable PDF Slide Decks that will allow you to follow along and take notes as you go through the presentations.

  • Printable Transcripts of the videos that will allow you to follow every part of the course and refer back to it for easy reference

12 months access to bi-weekly Group coaching calls

  • 1 year access to two hours bi-weekly Group Coaching Calls and all recording on Venture

  • Finance with Brad Furber and other students focused on a specific part of the knowledge base and toolkit, including opportunity to ask questions and receive answers from seasoned experts (including guest speakers), and “peer to peer” learning and sharing among other like-minded and similar situated entrepreneurs

But Don't Just Take Our Word For it...

Samuel Cook

Sam from SanityDesk closed a $1.35M pre-seed round for a pre-revenue company

Oliver Zemp 

Oliver from Zemp Business Solutions raised $1.3M

Gregg Albright

Brad helped IPromote raise over $1M

Venture Finance Academy also includes

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Venture Finance Academy has been designed based on 30 years of venture finance experience and involvement in thousands of deals

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Why trust us?

We help startup founders and CEOs like you access the necessary venture finance expertise and connections to grow your venture faster, smarter and on a budget you can afford

150+

Angel and venture capital financings

50+

Mergers and acquisitions

10+

Public
offerings

$ 1B+

Aggregate capital financing raised

Meet Brad Furber

Founder of Aery Advisors

That is what I am sharing in this course.

"I spoke to a startup founder with a $400K investment from a local investor. He was planning to spend it all to generate $200K revenue.
I suggested it might be smarter to spend some of it, say $15K, on a compelling venture finance offer that could improve his balance sheet by $1M or more.
That’s what I’m talking about – building foundations and capabilities, and selling your dream to investors who can help you innovate, compete and grow."

~ Brad Furber

I’m Brad Furber. I’m a seed investor, company advisor, entrepreneur and lawyer who’s been working closely with funders, intermediaries, founders and visionary entrepreneurs just like you during my entire professional career.

I want to help YOU help yourself by sharing access to knowledge, expertise and networks that will enable you to meet and exceed your venture finance goals and objectives.

That is why I am sharing my expertise in format of online course and working directly with startup founders in Venture Finance Academy.

Venture finance is not one size fits all. It requires empathy, design thinking, legal, financial and marketing know-how, strategy, persistence and true grit.

I’ve been a strategic mentor, advisor and angel investor in 50+ tech startups, 15 of which have already achieved an exit or liquidity event. I’ve been engaged to advise on more than 150 angel and venture capital financings, more than 50 mergers and acquisitions, and 10+ public offerings. 

Over the past ten years, I’ve lived and worked in four countries – the USA, Denmark, Australia and now Switzerland. I understand that each region and each jurisdiction has its own unique culture and way of doing deals. I’ve seen first hand what’s worked and what hasn’t.

I served as President and CEO of a bootstrapped and profitable consumer Internet software + services global tech startup. I was co-founder of an innovative law firm for startups and emerging growth companies. Also, I was a founding business leader of a cross-faculty innovation centre at one of the world’s top 50 research intensive universities.

That is what I am sharing in this course.

"I spoke to a startup founder with a $400K investment from a local investor. He was planning to spend it all to generate $200K revenue.
I suggested it might be smarter to spend some of it, say $15K, on a compelling venture finance offer that could improve his balance sheet by $1M or more.
That’s what I’m talking about – building foundations and capabilities, and selling your dream to investors who can help you innovate, compete and grow."

~ Brad Furber

I’m Brad Furber. I’m a seed investor, company advisor, entrepreneur and lawyer who’s been working closely with funders, intermediaries, founders and visionary entrepreneurs just like you during my entire professional career.

I want to help YOU help yourself by sharing access to knowledge, expertise and networks that will enable you to meet and exceed your venture finance goals and objectives.

That is why I am sharing my expertise in format of online course and working directly with startup founders in Venture Finance Academy.

Venture finance is not one size fits all. It requires empathy, design thinking, legal, financial and marketing know-how, strategy, persistence and true grit.

I’ve been a strategic mentor, advisor and angel investor in 50+ tech startups, 15 of which have already achieved an exit or liquidity event. I’ve been engaged to advise on more than 150 angel and venture capital financings, more than 50 mergers and acquisitions, and 10+ public offerings. 

Over the past ten years, I’ve lived and worked in four countries – the USA, Denmark, Australia and now Switzerland. I understand that each region and each jurisdiction has its own unique culture and way of doing deals. I’ve seen first hand what’s worked and what hasn’t.

I served as President and CEO of a bootstrapped and profitable consumer Internet software + services global tech startup. I was co-founder of an innovative law firm for startups and emerging growth companies. Also, I was a founding business leader of a cross-faculty innovation centre at one of the world’s top 50 research intensive universities.

Testimonials

Ace Forsythe Fiduciary, Advisor, Attorney
We hired Brad to assist with the acquisition of our firm by a publicly traded company. His experience, skill and advice were invaluable during that transaction. We were able to do the due diligence and some of the legal work in-house but it was great to have Brad's expertise on our side. Even though we were on the West Coast, our, acquires were on the East Coast and Brad was in Australia, I firmly believe we hired the right guy. I know we ended up with a better agreement, and would recommend others at least talk to him before doing anything.
Alastair Rampell General Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz
As a partner, adviser, and friend, Brad is fantastic on all counts. I met him as a forward-thinking client (Xeriton under Brad became our first client), became the beneficiary of his valuable advice, business ideas, and introductions, and have emerged as one of his biggest fans...even though he is one of very few people who has out-negotiated me every time! 😉 He's quite the poker player. If you have a startup or even an established business, you should get Brad involved sooner rather than later.
Nicholas Hawtin Investor Network Builder, Founder and Mentor
I had the pleasure of working with Brad in Copenhagen as a founder, investor, and mentor. He brought the ‘Term Sheet Battle’ concept with him from the US West Coast, where he staged a mock term sheet negotiation between a startup and an investor. The local ecosystem loved the program so much that it has spawned a host of imitators in the Nordic startup scene. Brad worked with a number of startups either as founder, interim CEO, advisor, investor, and mentor.

Companies that trusted Brad Furber in venture finance matters

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