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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>RVC Angel Accelerator Week #6: Valuations Workshop (Friday, June 05, 2026)</title>
      <description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;
  &lt;p style="line-height: 21px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;FREE TO RVC ACTIVE INVESTOR MEMBERS&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;img src="https://rockiesventureclub.wildapricot.org/resources/Pictures/AI501-logo-withRVC.png" border="0" width="302" height="140"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;h3 align="center"&gt;RVC Angel Accelerator Week #6: Valuation Workshop&lt;/h3&gt;

  &lt;h3 align="center" style="line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Friday, June 5th, 2026 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm MT&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

  &lt;h3 align="center" style="line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Virtual via Zoom: Meeting link shared upon registration&lt;/font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 20px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

  &lt;h3 align="center" style="line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;For both investors and entrepreneurs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;How does someone learn how to be a successful Angel Investor?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p style="line-height: 21px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;Participate in the RVC Angel Accelerator and learn how to be a smart Angel. New Angels who don’t take this workshop often spend years and $250,000 or more learning how to do Angel investing! Receive a great return on investment, avoid taxation, learn about leading-edge innovation and meet interesting people!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p style="line-height: 21px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;This Angel Accelerator advances Angel Investors' learning with a combination of hands-on exercises, working with experienced angel investor mentors, and solid content and toolkits that you'll need for successful Angel Investing.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Topics Covered in this Workshop Include:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;div align="left"&gt;
    &lt;font face="Arial"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Week #6 (June 5th, 2026)&lt;/strong&gt; This Valuations class is&amp;nbsp;designed&amp;nbsp;for both investors&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;entrepreneurs&amp;nbsp;to learn valuation&amp;nbsp;side by side.&lt;/font&gt;
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        &lt;font face="Arial"&gt;How can you assign value to a company with no income and no assets?&lt;/font&gt;
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      &lt;div align="left"&gt;
        &lt;font face="Arial"&gt;Does discounting future&amp;nbsp;value work?&lt;/font&gt;
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    &lt;/li&gt;

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      &lt;div align="left"&gt;
        &lt;font face="Arial"&gt;What is the role of risk&amp;nbsp;quantification in&amp;nbsp;early stage valuation.&lt;/font&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;
      &lt;div align="left"&gt;
        &lt;font face="Arial"&gt;Find out how an inflated valuation&amp;nbsp;can deflate a company.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;
      &lt;div align="left"&gt;
        &lt;font face="Arial"&gt;Hands-on practice with FIVE different valuation methodologies.&lt;/font&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li&gt;
      &lt;div align="left"&gt;
        &lt;font face="Arial"&gt;How to use valuation models for negotiation.&lt;/font&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;
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        &lt;font face="Arial"&gt;How exit strategies five years in the future can impact your valuation NOW.&lt;/font&gt;
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    &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;/ul&gt;

  &lt;p align="left"&gt;You’ll also learn how to read and analyze cap tables, understand how ownership evolves across funding rounds, and forecast potential returns under different exit scenarios. Using real-world examples, this workshop helps both investors and founders see how deal mechanics play out from first investment to exit.&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p align="left"&gt;Participants will walk away with practical tools and templates for reviewing term sheets and modeling cap table changes, along with insight into how to spot red flags and create win-win deal structures.&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p align="center" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;For your best deal, you should consider ACTIVE INVESTOR MEMBERSHIP in Rockies Venture Club, Colorado's leading angel network. That gets you a FREE pass to this workshop, as well as the Angel 501, Practicum, and other workshops offered every month.&amp;nbsp; Active Investor membership also gets you free access to the other 140+ events we do every year including the Angel Capital Summit, Colorado Capital Conference Angel Forums and investor-only events.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Active Angel Investor&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;members attend free!&lt;br&gt;
  Open for both investors and entrepreneurs&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://rockiesventureclub.wildapricot.org/Membership"&gt;Become a member - Click&amp;nbsp;Here&amp;nbsp;and Save!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <link>https://rockiesventureclub.wildapricot.org/event-6642693</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>RVC Pitch Academy - June 2026 (Wednesday, June 10, 2026)</title>
      <description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;
  &lt;img src="https://rockiesventureclub.wildapricot.org/resources/Pictures/PA-logo-tagline-large.png" alt="" title="" border="0" width="399" height="253"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;RVC Pitch Academy&lt;/strong&gt; is a half-day workshop designed to do much more than just polish a founder’s pitch and presentation skills. From delivering a compelling presentation to negotiating a successful deal, this workshop will prepare founders to understand many of the terms and processes used by VCs and sharpen their venture strategy.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Key topics include:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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  &lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Preparing a business for a deal&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Designing a deck&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Delivering the pitch&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Communicating the value for venture funding&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Balancing pitching a product vs. pitching a company&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Raising equity vs. convertible debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Communicating risks that don’t raise red flags&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Understanding investor psychology&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Following up with interested investors&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;p style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;font&gt;RVC’s Pitch Academy instructors have years of experience working with angel + venture capital investors; the Pitch Academy content reflects deep and useful insights about investor priorities and interests. Multiple instructors ensure one-on-one engagement,&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font&gt;including pitch practice with real-time feedback.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;For early-stage companies, this is the most cost-effective fundraising consulting you can get! Pitch Academy is free to RVC Investor and Entrepreneur members.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="left" style="line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Learn more about membership: &lt;a href="https://www.rockiesventureclub.org/membership" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong style="line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;RVC Membership&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Founders&lt;/u&gt;: Please bring a pitch deck and laptop to practice.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Note: To pitch to investors at an upcoming RVC Investor Forum, you must&lt;/font&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.rockiesventureclub.org/pitch/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#0000FF"&gt;&lt;u&gt;apply to pitch&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;font color="#000000"&gt;and be accepted by the RVC investment screening committee.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <link>https://rockiesventureclub.wildapricot.org/event-6704231</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>RVC Angel Accelerator Week #7: Term Sheets and Cap Tables Workshop (Friday, June 12, 2026)</title>
      <description>&lt;p style="line-height: 21px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;FREE TO RVC ACTIVE INVESTOR MEMBERS&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;img src="https://rockiesventureclub.wildapricot.org/resources/Pictures/AI501-logo-withRVC.png" border="0" width="302" height="140"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3 align="center"&gt;RVC Angel Accelerator Week #7: Term Sheets and Cap Tables Workshop&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;h3 align="center" style="line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Friday, June 12th, 2026 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm MT&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;h3 align="center" style="line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Virtual via Zoom: Meeting link shared upon registration&lt;/font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 20px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;h3 align="center" style="line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;For both investors and entrepreneurs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;How does someone learn how to be a successful Angel Investor?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="line-height: 21px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;Participate in the RVC Angel Accelerator and learn how to be a smart Angel. New Angels who don’t take this workshop often spend years and $250,000 or more learning how to do Angel investing! Receive a great return on investment, avoid taxation, learn about leading-edge innovation and meet interesting people!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="line-height: 21px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;This Angel Accelerator advances Angel Investors' learning with a combination of hands-on exercises, working with experienced angel investor mentors, and solid content and toolkits that you'll need for successful Angel Investing.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Topics Covered in this Workshop Include:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;Term Sheets &amp;amp; Cap Tables: Gain a deep understanding of how deal terms impact your investment outcomes and ownership over time. This session breaks down the structure and purpose of term sheets, including valuation, liquidation preferences, anti-dilution provisions, and investor rights — so you can negotiate confidently and protect your interests.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;You’ll also learn how to read and analyze cap tables, understand how ownership evolves across funding rounds, and forecast potential returns under different exit scenarios. Using real-world examples, this workshop helps both investors and founders see how deal mechanics play out from first investment to exit.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;Participants will walk away with practical tools and templates for reviewing term sheets and modeling cap table changes, along with insight into how to spot red flags and create win-win deal structures.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;For your best deal, you should consider ACTIVE INVESTOR MEMBERSHIP in Rockies Venture Club, Colorado's leading angel network. That gets you a FREE pass to this workshop, as well as the Angel 501, Practicum, and other workshops offered every month.&amp;nbsp; Active Investor membership also gets you free access to the other 140+ events we do every year including the Angel Capital Summit, Colorado Capital Conference Angel Forums and investor-only events.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Active Angel Investor&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;members attend free!&lt;br&gt;
Open for both investors and entrepreneurs&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://rockiesventureclub.wildapricot.org/Membership"&gt;Become a member - Click&amp;nbsp;Here&amp;nbsp;and Save!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <link>https://rockiesventureclub.wildapricot.org/event-6643569</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>RVC Angel Accelerator Week #8: Lead Investor &amp; Board Seats (Friday, June 19, 2026)</title>
      <description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;
  &lt;p style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;FREE TO RVC ACTIVE INVESTOR MEMBERS&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;div align="center" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;
    &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;img src="https://rockiesventureclub.wildapricot.org/resources/Pictures/AI501-logo-withRVC.png" border="0" width="302" height="140"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;h3&gt;RVC Angel Accelerator Week #8: Lead Investor &amp;amp; Board Seats&lt;/h3&gt;

    &lt;h3 align="center" style="line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Friday, June 19th, 2026 | 10 am - 12 pm MT&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

    &lt;h3 align="center" style="line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Virtual via Zoom: Meeting link shared upon registration&lt;/font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 20px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

    &lt;h3 align="center" style="line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;For both investors and entrepreneurs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

    &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;How does someone learn how to be a successful Angel Investor?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;Participate in the RVC Angel Accelerator and learn how to be a smart Angel. New Angels who don’t take this workshop often spend years and $250,000 or more learning how to do Angel investing! Receive a great return on investment, avoid taxation, learn about leading-edge innovation and meet interesting people!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;This Angel Accelerator advances Angel Investors' learning with a combination of hands-on exercises, working with experienced angel investor mentors, and solid content and toolkits that you'll need for successful Angel Investing.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Topics Covered in this Workshop include:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Week #9 (Friday, June 19th, 2026)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;- Lead Investors &amp;amp; Board Members: Learn what it means to serve as a Lead Investor and best practices for serving as a board member.&lt;br&gt;
    &lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;This is the workshop for investors who are interested in leading an investment deal through an angel syndicate. The lead investor plays an important role in getting the deal done beginning with showing a commitment for the deal and communicating with peer investors to gauge interest and guide them through the deal. The lead works closely with the due diligence team to make sure that all the critical questions are answered and that risk has been mitigated for investors. The lead assists RVC staff in negotiating the deal by preparing the term sheet and ensuring that the terms are acceptable to all investors in the deal. The lead may also play a role in syndicating, not only within RVC, but with outside VC and angel groups. This helps bring out of state money into Colorado, but also helps to fund RVC companies and close out the rounds.&lt;br&gt;
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    This workshop walks participants through the deal process and gives tips at each stage to drive engagement, evaluate the deals and, when appropriate, to bring in investors and get the deal done. Workshop participants receive resources to help them through the process as well as answers to the most common questions first time leads have.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;
    &lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;

    &lt;p style="line-height: 21px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;For your best deal, you should consider ACTIVE INVESTOR MEMBERSHIP in Rockies Venture Club, Colorado's leading angel network. That gets you a FREE pass to this workshop, as well as the Angel 501, Practicum, and other workshops offered every month.&amp;nbsp; Active Investor membership also gets you free access to the other 140+ events we do every year including the Angel Capital Summit, Colorado Capital Conference Angel Forums and investor-only events.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Active Angel Investor&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;members attend free!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://rockiesventureclub.wildapricot.org/Membership"&gt;Become a member - Click&amp;nbsp;Here&amp;nbsp;and Save!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>RVC June 2026 Investor Forum &amp; Happy Hour (Tuesday, June 23, 2026)</title>
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&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 24px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RVC June 2026 Investor Forum&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hosted at Foley &amp;amp; Lardner (1144 15th St Suite 2200, Denver, CO 80202)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;RVC Investor Forums bring together accredited angel investors interested in fast-growing, early-stage companies in Colorado. These forums serve to pool the wisdom, expertise, and capital of many individual angels. At this forum, investor members will hear pitches, and afterwards the founders are excused and investors discuss the merits and risks of each venture. There is no requirement to invest and each investor has an opportunity to indicate interest in following or leading a specific deal.&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;Both new and experienced investor members are welcome at forums -- this is the best way to learn hands-on about angel investing!&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Meeting Agenda:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome and Introductions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3:00pm to 3:15 pm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;3:15pm to 3:30pm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;3:30 pm to 4:15pm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Investor Only Discussion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;4:15 to 5:00pm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Investor Social&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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