This session explores the pivotal stages that drive a startup founder's path to funding success. Delve into the initial phases focusing on customer discovery and achieving product-market fit that lays the foundation for a compelling business proposition. Discover valuable strategies for identifying the best-fit, value-aligned angel and venture capital investors to make your dream a reality. You will leave with an understanding of how to validate your idea, capitalize your business, and practical next steps for your venture.

September 6 at 1:30pm (GMT +7)
Park Hyatt Jakarta 


About the instructor

C’pher Gresham, Technologist and Serial Entrepreneur

C’pher is an entrepreneur, leader, and technologist, is passionate about helping achieve global impact through entrepreneurship. With a rich background, C’pher was the former CEO of SEED SPOT, a globally recognized startup accelerator, and led AWS Activate: Founders globally, the leading startup program for startups adopting the cloud. Notable for co-founding Swillings Coffee, an impact-driven Colombian coffee company, and co-founding Front Row, the first political and cause-based NFT marketplace. Currently, C'pher is a co-founder of a stealth startup advancing the electric grid space.

C'pher has received the Mandela-Washington Fellowship funded by the US Department of State, lived on a 135' tall ship in the Caribbean studying oceanography and worked internationally in Uzbekistan, Benin, Colombia, Thailand, Tunisia, and Nepal. He is a Mentor-in-Residence at the George Washington University Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He holds a B.A. from The George Washington University and an MBA Summa Cum Laude from Thunderbird School of Global Management, specializing in early-stage financing.