Crowdfunding Stories and Panel Discussion

16 West Martin Street,Raleigh NC 27601

15 February, 2023

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Join us for light appetizers, drinks and a crowdfunding panel discussion. Tickets will be $10 each. Agenda: $19m+ has been raised via crowd investing by North Carolina entrepreneurs. Want to know how your fellow founders are doing it early stage to Tweener Fund funded? Come hear from those actually raising.Offline has 7k+ paying customers and oversubscribed a $2m crowd investment round by nearly $500k after receiving prior investment from the Tweener Fund. They've announced their crowd helping them expand into 2 new markets after their raise.Incolo's community of founders have raised over $9m with 55%+ coming from the crowd and their startups are collectively valued at $150m+. The startups receiving funding range from outdoor recreation centers, food & beverage franchises, to nanotech and B2B software.FemHealth Insights consulting services have influenced the women's health strategies of Fortune 500 companies ranging from tech to pharma. The CEO, Dr. Brittany Barreto, hosts the #1 women's health podcast, FemTech Focus, which has over 75K subscribers in 128 countries. Pete is an attorney with Fourscore Business Law, and will be sharing experience with Reg CF crowdfunding campaigns including SPV setup, equity offerings, debt financing with crowd notes, crowd SAFEs, revenue shares, and sidecar Reg D financing for accredited investors as well as Form C reviews and other securities filings to boot.Panelists: David Shaner, Founder and CEO of OfflinePeter Singh, Attorney at Fourscore Business LawBrittany Barreto, PhD, Founder and CEO of FemHealth InsightsModerator: William McGuire, Founder & CEO of IncoloBios: Will's Founder & CEO of Incolo which runs a community-owned accelerator with a goal to help 1,000 founders fund & scale through the crowd by 2030. In 2022, Incolo's Founder Community raised 36% of all Investment Crowdfunding successfully closed by NC startups. Incolo's on a mission to create a world where the rewards of capital are accessible to all. David is the founder and CEO of Offline, a restaurant club reimagining the way people dine out in their city. Offline is live in Raleigh, Durham and Charlotte, and is launching in Tampa Bay, Nashville, and Atlanta in 2023. Offline recently closed a $2M crowdfunding round on Wefunder, the largest and fastest crowdfunding round in NC history. Nearly 70% of their crowd investors were paying Offline subscribers. Every day Dr. Barreto dedicates her work to advancing women’s health innovation by equipping key stakeholders with data-driven insights and strategic advice on the femhealth market. She received a doctorate from Baylor College of Medicine in Molecular and Human Genetics where she discovered a small RNA that regulates genomic mutation rate. She founded several businesses including Pheramor, the world's first DNA-based dating app, and is a US patent holder on predicting personality from DNA. Additionally, she worked in venture capital and launched the Gulf Coast Branch for Capital Factory, the most active venture fund in Texas. Dr. Barreto noticed how underserved the women's health (femtech) industry was and set out to bring awareness, resources, and capital to it. She hosts the #1 femtech podcast, FemTech Focus, co-founded an early-stage femtech investment firm, Coyote Ventures, and founded FemHealth Insights a boutique consulting firm with a market research software tool specializing in women's health innovation. At Fourscore, Pete primarily helps startups, investors, and businesses at all stages of growth with financing, intellectual property protection and licensing, commercial transactions, organization and governance, and other corporate matters. Pete has also previously assisted with a wide range of matters including copyright and trademark cases, dispute resolution, contract drafting and negotiation.