AWS Startup Workshops

Evaluate

Building self awareness is the first step toward growth. The Torch Leadership Assessment helps experienced professionals gain clarity on existing strengths and development opportunities.

Coach

During regular 1:1 video sessions, an experienced Torch coach will help the leader build a custom development plan based on their leadership assessment results.

Execute

Leaders then set their own growth goals with the help of their Torch coach. Together, they will define specific actions to track progress and hit leadership development targets.

How it works

Integrate learnings and capture insights for a new leadership future.

Grow

You'll meet with your mentor monthly during your 6-month partnership, to work on your goals and focus areas

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About Charly:
Charly Kevers is the Chief Financial Officer at Carta. In his 20+ years of experience, Charly has held various roles in finance and strategy, including investor relations and corporate development in multiple countries across North America, Europe, and Asia. Before joining Carta, Charly served as the VP of Finance at marketplace lender LendingClub where he oversaw all finance activities supporting new product and strategic initiatives. Prior to that, Charly led acquisitions, strategic investments, and key initiatives at Salesforce, Hewlett Packard, J.P. Morgan and Samsung.

The Brex and Carta Perspective
Building Investor Pipeline in Seed and Series A Rounds

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About Andrea:
Andrea Baptiste leads the Global Strategic Startups and Connections teams at Amazon. She has been a founding member/CEO at 4 tech startups, in Canada and Silicon Valley where she led corporate vision & strategy, raised financing rounds (over 12 rounds of financing including friends and family, angel, seed and Series A-C), drove product-market fit, scaled companies globally, established new markets and channels, and exited through M&A and an IPO. Andrea is a mentor with Techstars, a real estate investor, and an Angel investor in tech and CPG companies. Andrea was a founding member of the Women Founders series at Ryerson DMZ University Accelerator and speaks often at events including StartupLife, Women in Engineering, Female Founders & Funders and Go Eng Girl.

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Who should watch:
Entrepreneurs who are planning to fundraise or are in the midst of fundraising — we have some tips for you.

About Michael:
Michael Tannenbaum is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer of Brex. He was the Company’s first employee and oversees Finance, Operations, Risk, Rewards, Financial Partnerships, Customer Support, Business Development and Capital Markets. He supervises Brex profitability across all of its business segments. Tannenbaum joined Brex from online lender SoFi where he was promoted six times in three years, ultimately to Chief Revenue Officer. During his time at SoFi, Tannenbaum was VP of Finance where he negotiated Softbank’s record-breaking $1 billion Series E investment and also ran the mortgage business. Tannenbaum began his career in the investment banking division of J.P. Morgan, worked at private equity firm Hellman & Friedman. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Finance in 2016 and the SF Business Times 40 Under 40 in 2017.

This workshop is for anyone who is planning to fundraise or in the midst of fundraising. Join the CFOs of Brex and Carta, as well as an AWS startup expert who has founded tech companies with successful raises and exits, to learn about tried and true strategies in raising a round and early dilution considerations to be aware of that can have impact down the line for future fundraises.

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About Brex:
Brex announced its $425M Series D round reaching a $7.3B valuation in May this year. Brex is an all-in-one financial platform that offers credit cards, business cash accounts, and built-in expense management software to VB tech, ecommerce, and small businesses across the US.

About Carta:
Carta announced its $180M Series F round in 2020 and has now reached a $6.9B valuation. Carta is a company revolutionizing the way that founders, investors, and employees manage their fundraise, equity ownership, get benchmarking data for fundraising, get compensation data and offer liquidity.