Full Circle: From Building Companies to Backing Them

About this event

Come join the LiLa community in what is sure to be a riveting conversation with three women who built companies, sold them, and now write the checks!

Leah Townsend took her medical device company to an exit and is now at Co-founders Capital, where she also leads the Angel Capital Association’s national women’s capital initiative.

Susan Wall spent sixteen years at the New York Times before founding startups through to an IPO, and now invests in climate and ag tech alongside 140 other angels at E8.

Kristie Shifflette scaled Orangetheory Fitness from one North Carolina studio to forty locations and 550 employees, exited during COVID, and is now building something new.

And to keep this LiLa Learning top notch, we’ve asked Logan Yonavjak to moderate the conversation! Logan has the unique background of investor turned founder pathway!

This discussion promises to go beyond surface questions. We will cover the first check and what happened to it, what each of them got wrong while they were accredited and investing but still figuring it out, how you actually build a personal investment thesis instead of falling for a founder you like, and how you tell whether a team can do it without you in the room.

If you have the means and the instinct and have not written your first check yet, this hour is built for you.

Location

Partners I, 1017 Main Campus Drive, Suite #1650, Raleigh, NC 27606