Rural Investor Education Series | Four-part Series, Feb 12–15

The Rural Investor Education Series is an 8-hour course, broken down into four 2-hour segments. This series runs from February 12–15, 2024 at 7–9pm MST.

Learn how to invest in early-stage, rural Alberta-based companies you believe in. This course is free for eligible people based in Alberta.

Taught by someone who’s done it! Before raising $32 million for her first venture capital fund, Brooke Harley was an angel investor targeting purpose-driven companies she believed in. She is a former VC fund manager, Lululemon executive and M&A Attorney. She’s from the prairies too – Winnipeg, Manitoba!

Do you want to invest in an innovative businesses in your community – but you’re not quite sure how?

The goal of this education series, provided through the Alberta Innovation Network partnering with ClassRebel, is to introduce you to angel investing and to get you so well-versed and comfortable with the language and mechanics of angel investing, that you can confidently approach any early stage founder whose company you really believe in, and secure yourself an investment that could change your life and your community, no matter how small your cheque.

After the Rural Investor Education Series, you’ll be able to:

• Develop an industry-specific investment thesis
• Understand how Convertible Notes and SAFEs work
• Understand how the Priced Round works (Convertible Preferred Shares)
• Understand how equity in a Company’s option plan works
• Persuade a founder to let you invest in their early-stage company