Funding Readiness: Seed & Series A for Founders

Preparing for a Seed or Series A raise? This is a practical, founder-facing webinar on what your first preferred-stock financing actually requires, from instrument choice to the documents that carry real weight, without getting lost in the technical mechanics you don't need to master yourself.

Topics of Discussion:

We'll cover how to get ahead of a term sheet: the prep and clean-up that make diligence boring (in the best way), cap table math and option-pool increases, and the housekeeping founders put off, like chasing down unsigned IP assignments, nailing down equity you promised but never papered, and wrangling a long list of SAFE holders before they need to sign your investment docs. Do it early and each later round starts from something, not from scratch.

We'll also get honest about legal cost. Using AI in drafting, together with standardized NVCA and Series Seed templates and the common negotiated terms that come with them, can meaningfully reduce fees on a vanilla financing. But judgment is where cost lives: thorny diligence, complex drafting, issues investors raise, or a complicated cap table can all make pricing hard to predict, especially for multi-founder startups with multiple share classes, super-voting or non-voting structures, or founder disputes. Some of that you can't control. What you can control is hiring good counsel early and documenting from the start, which prevents the expensive clean-up and chasing later. A lot of this comes down to harm reduction and cost mitigation.

And because we're an AI-native firm, we'll show what that means for Series A pricing: how standardized templates, master prompts, and fallback redline playbooks let us deliver a high-value transaction without big-firm rates, and where a human's judgment is still the thing you're paying for.

Bring your questions. You can submit them when you register, and we'll work through as many as we can in a live Q&A.

Who should come: first-time and repeat founders heading into a Seed or Series A, plus the operators who own finance and legal.

Host & Speakers:

Eugene Kim, Founding Partner, NanoGC. Former Quinn Emanuel attorney. Apple v. Samsung. Venture financings, M&A, governance, and high-stakes disputes.

Eugene Kim, Founder of NanoGC, serves as general counsel for founders, providing practical legal guidance to help startups navigate critical decisions and protect their businesses from day one.

Connect with Eugene on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugene-kim-1299a913

Joshua Kauffman is of counsel at NanoGC, advising digital health and wellness companies on healthcare regulatory and privacy compliance. With over a decade of experience in privacy and compliance leadership, he specializes in HIPAA, HITECH, state privacy laws, GDPR, PIPEDA, and healthcare AI governance. Connect with Joshua on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-kauffman-12515248/

Whitney Stanley is of counsel at NanoGC, focused on data and consumer privacy. She has over a decade of experience advising companies in healthcare, life sciences, and financial services on privacy, compliance, risk management, and cross-border regulatory issues.

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 1:00 to 2:00 PM PT. Virtual.

This event is part of #LATechWeek, a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.