Improve Your Venture Funding Readiness

RAIse Your Fundability is a six-part, hands-on workshop series designed for founders and key team members of high-growth ventures that will need capital.

Join them every other Friday, September 11 to November 20, 2026 at Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics, Argyros College of Business and Economics, Chapman University, 549 W. Palm Ave, Orange, CA 92868.

Participants will use AI tools throughout the series to strengthen the capabilities that increase fundability, including value accounting, entrepreneurial finance, business structure, growth capital preparation, intellectual property strategy, and venture communication.

The workshops will be held in person. The six sessions build on each other, helping founders assess their current fundability, develop practical venture materials, and better prepare for future conversations with funders, lenders, and investors.

This series is designed to help entrepreneurs move from a promising venture story to a clearer, more fundable business case.

Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of their venture’s funding readiness, a stronger financial and structural foundation, AI-supported tools for investor preparation, improved venture communication and a better understanding of how to prepare for growth capital.

Six Capabilities That Increase Fundability

This series of six progressive sessions is an opportunity for founders and their ventures to gain the knowledge and tools that better position them to receive growth capital. Participants will utillize AI to develop the following capabilities:

Value Accounting
Know why your venture is worth funding.

Entrepreneurial Finance
Understand the business behind your venture.

Business Structure
Set up your business for growth.

Growth Capital
Prepare for and improve the odds of getting your raise.

Intellectual Property
Identify and protect what is worth protecting.

Venture Communication
Leverage your value to connect with and compel investors.

Please register here to attend.

Thanks to Chapman Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics for offering this local startup event, the details, and the graphic!