Department of Financial Technologies and Entrepreneurship
Education and Research Institute of Business, Economics and Management Sumy State University

How to attract funding during a pandemic: practical experience from Raccoon.Recovery

6.11.2021, 4th-year students majoring in 072 “Finance, Banking and Insurance”, educational program “Entrepreneurial Finance and Accounting”, group F-81 in the disciplines “ Corporate Financial Strategy ” (lecturer Liudmyla Zakharkina), “Financial Management” (teacher Zakharkin OO) and 2nd-year students majoring in 076 “ Business, trade and exchange activities”, educational programs “ Electronic business, finance and communications ” and ” Business, trade and exchange activities “, groups EN- 01/1pe, EN-01/2bfk, EN-01/3pe-1, EN-01/4bfk-1 within the discipline “Technology Commercialization” (lecturer Liudmyla Zakharkina) joined the webinar “How to find the perfect investor for your a startup?”

Yuriі-Volodymyr Blavt, CIVITTA Associate Partner, Financing Expert, and Svitlana Malovina, CEO & Co-founder of Raccoon.Recovery (https://raccoon.world/uk/pro-nas/), provided answers and life hacks to investor search questions.

During the webinar, the speakers talked about the mechanism and processes of attracting investment for a startup at different stages of its life cycle. Considerable attention was paid to the question of the typology of investors (angel, venture and private), as well as how to properly present their decision to the investor (The art of pitch).

Svitlana Malovana gave real examples of attracting investment in the startup Raccoon.Recovery in the amount of 900,000 euros, and also shared life hacks in search of investors during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Thank you Yuriі-Vladimir and Svitlana for an interesting webinar!