Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur with Billionaire Heshan De Silva

Getting a business up and running or pushing a brilliant product to the marketplace requires capital. For many entrepreneurs, a lack of start-up capital can be the single biggest roadblock to their dreams of success and fortune. However, some of today's fastest-growing entrepreneurial companies have financed themselves by raising venture capital. Yet few people have a firm grasp of how venture capital deals really come together.

If you have a million dollar idea that requires funding, or a business that is looking for a venture capitalist or angel investor, then LYP February Talk The Business Of Venture Capital: Insights On How I Built A Billion Dollar Company By Age 25 on this Thursday 13th February at Tin Tin Restaurant from 6:00pm -8:00pm is for you.

 

Our Guest speaker is The 25 Year Old Billionaire Heshan De Silva! He will help you understand what is involved in raising money from an angel, an angel group or a venture capital firm. How do you find them? How do you approach them? What are they looking for? What exactly do they want to see, hear, and feel before they take out their checkbooks? He will also share with us his story on what it takes to make a billion.

Speakers Profile Heshan de Silva, 25, is the CEO of VenCap, a venture capital fund invested in 17,000 businesses. De Silva first tried his hand at business with less than $200 and has built a multi-million dollar enterprise over the last seven years. The portfolio of companies under the De Silva Group spans various sectors including commodities, technology, renewable energy, insurance and agribusiness. In 2008, De Silva was selected by the US Congress as one of Kenya’s Brightest Young Leaders. The university dropout seeks to use his businesses to reduce poverty in Kenya from 60% to 40% over the next five years.

 

Charges: LYP Members Ksh. 500, Non Members Ksh. 1,000. Register for the forum by paying & filling in the forum registration form attached and send it to info@ypkenya.org. Payments can be done in our Equity Bank account. Account Name: League of Young Professionals. Account Number: 0240293600721 Branch: Equity Bank: Harambee Avenue. You may also conveniently deposit directly to the above account via MPESA using the following details; Paybill Business Number (Equity Bank) 247247. Account number 0240293600721.

 

FAQ

• Find our 2014 calendar attached.
• Sponsorship packages attached.
• Club Membership registration fee is Ksh. 2,000 per year, with annual renewal 1,000 for the subsequent years. Membership is open to all professionals over the age of 20 years. There is no upper age limit. Membership Form attached. Duly filled and completed form to be forwarded to admin.nairobi@ypkenya.org upon payment of membership fees.
•  more info contact Christine 0738 782 048, Josephine 0723 736 086, Karim 0721 691 219
• Our next social event is as below

We have planned the first social event this year on 8th March 2014 from 1000hrs to 1600hrs. The event will be at PAINTBALL FURY's Karen Yard. The event cost package is as follows:-

 

Charges for the day is Kshs 2,000 covering for :-

• Paintball round
• Lunch (Fried potatoes, Rice, Chicken nuggets, Salad, BBQ Beef Cuts, Samosa, Tea + Coffee )
• LYP Foundation Support 

PS: Kids above 10 can play the game !! Payments and bookings can be bone through the same payment details above

 

Those using PSV will meet at Kencom bus stop at 0945 for departure to Karen.For  self drive participants the map to the site can be found on this link: http://paintballkenya.com/index.php/2012-09-21-07-36-49/karen-location

 

For more details on the paintball contact

Munyaka Njiru
Director Social Events

LYP Nairobi Chapter

+254 725 157 834

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