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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181214
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DESCRIPTION: Location: The Vaults (Events Room) \n\n Content of the Keynote
 : \n\n \n My Funding Journey \n What I wish I knew before raising \n Creat
 ing a funding plan \n How to avoid the common funding pitfalls \n \n\n Mee
 t Your Speaker \n\n  \n\n Brian Norton\, Co-Founder of Future Finance and 
 Supply Finance \n\n Brian is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for buil
 ding new\, innovative companies solving real-world issues. After graduatin
 g from Harvard and working for a number of Financial Services companies\, 
 Brian co-founded investment firm Ridge Road Partners with Adam Jiwan makin
 g 8 deals across 3 continents. The two went on to found Future Finance. To
 gether\, they raised over €150m to become the first large-scale private 
 student lender in Europe. After scaling operations and teams across Dublin
 \, London\, and Chicago\, Brian moved on to co-found Supply Finance\, a fi
 ntech platform providing SMEs the finance tools they need to compete with 
 large corporations. Within the first year of operation\, Brian has already
  secured a €4M Series A round. He continues to lead Future Finance as Ex
 ecutive Vice Chairman and scale Supply Finance to new heights. \n\n About 
 Supply Finance \n\n Brian co-founded Supply Finance with a simple mission 
 to gives Europe's small businesses the same financing tools as the big guy
 s\, and then stand back and watch the magic happen. They have built a stat
 e-of-the-art system\, backed by industrial-grade operations\, processing\,
  and capital to bring trade finance to companies of all sizes. To make it 
 all happen\, they are partnering with a number of best-in-class trade fina
 nce companies across Europe and helping them to expand their offerings to 
 deliver great services and product to small businesses in their backyards.
  \n
LAST-MODIFIED:20190123T155706
LOCATION:Dogpatch Labs\, The chq Building\, Custom House Quay\, D1\, Dublin
 \, Ireland
ORGANIZER:mailto:jon@dogpatchlabs.com
SUMMARY:Keynote: What I learned Raising €150M
URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/dogpatchlabs/first-fridays-for-startups-keynote
 -dec-7th-2018
URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/dogpatchlabs/first-fridays-for-startups-keynote
 -dec-7th-2018
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