About Course
If you are reading this, then you likely have been looking for help with fundraising for your early-stage impact startup. It’s no secret how hard it can be to accelerate and scale from ideation to revenue and beyond – and have the biggest impact – without the necessary funding!
Is Investment Readiness the right course for you? If you answer ‘YES’ to the following questions, then we designed this course specifically for YOU:
- Are you the founder of an impact/sustainable startup?
- Are you currently (or almost!) raising your first seed or pre-seed investment round?
- Are you new to or struggling with investment fundraising?
- Are you new to or nervous about pitching your startup?
- Do you have a pitch deck, but you’re not sure what to do with it or if it’s missing any crucial information?
- A process to build an active investor list with the highest likeliness to invest in your business.
- A strategy of how to approach them to get a face to face pitching opportunity.
- A fundraising roadmap with the highest likelihood of successfully raising venture capital funding.
About the instructor

Chief Entrepreneur at PositiveEarth.com
I’m an entrepreneur with a love for tech, nature, finance, efficiency and great design that solves real-world problems. Excited about starting businesses in South Africa - I help fund and advise impact startups that are imagining the future and having a positive global impact. Previous founder and managing director of Pet Heaven - Making Pet Parenting Easy. Over the next 20 years I will be supporting 50 impact startups to help them start, grow and succeed. I like to get things done, find innovative ways to solve problems and develop systems to create value and efficiency, not only for ourselves but also for our communities. It’s time to take action, to be different through giving back more than we take and positively impacting our planet. If you have or are the founder of an impact startup and need funding, get in contact. Would love to chat!
Course Curriculum
Module 1
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Schalk Kearney Introduction
00:00 -
Lesson 1
00:00 -
Lesson 2
04:20 -
Lesson 3
02:25 -
Lesson 4
03:47 -
Lesson 5
03:13 -
Lesson 6 – Discussion
00:23 -
Assignment
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Lesson 7
03:42 -
Lesson 8
01:25 -
Assignment
Module 2
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Lesson 1 – Introductory Lecture
02:51 -
Lesson 2
03:44 -
Lesson 3
04:19 -
Lesson 4
01:22 -
Lesson 5
05:06 -
Lesson 6
03:24 -
Lesson 7 – Exercise
03:04 -
Lesson 8 – Case Study
07:25 -
Assignment
Module 3
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Introductory Lecture
01:00 -
Lesson 1
14:52 -
Lesson 2
02:33 -
Lesson 3 – Exercise: Create your fundraising roadmap
03:22 -
Assignment
Module 4
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Lesson 1
02:53
Module 5
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Lesson 1
01:14 -
Exercise
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