Online event
Building an investible business: How to go from chasing capital to attracting capital
Thursday 10 September at 11:00AM
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Learn how to move from chasing capital (cold outreach, generic pitches, hoping investors say yes) to attracting it (building a business investors actively seek out).
What you’ll learn
- Diagnose the investibility gap: Identify the specific gap between "good business" and "investable business," and assess where your business currently sits.
- Understand investor logic: Learn how investors actually evaluate risk and return, and identify the core drivers of investor decisions.
- Build a fundable narrative: Walk away with a framework for closing the information and expectation asymmetry that causes most fundraising conversations to fail.
Description
Every founder wants funding. Very few understand what makes a business fundable. That gap - between wanting capital and being investable - is where most fundraising efforts stall.
This workshop introduces the investibility framework, showing founders how to move from chasing capital (cold outreach, generic pitches, hoping investors say yes) to attracting it (building a business investors actively seek out). We'll unpack the difference between a good business and an investable one, why traction alone doesn't guarantee funding, and how information and expectation asymmetry between founders and investors quietly kills good deals before they start.
Founders will leave with a practical lens for assessing their own investibility - not generic fundraising tips, but the underlying business fundamentals investors actually screen for. Whether you're pre-raise, mid-raise or knowledge-seeking, this session reframes fundraising as a byproduct of building right, not a separate skill to master.
Speakers
Davies Okeowo
Founder, PitchHub Ltd
Davies Okeowo is the founder of PitchHub Ltd and a leading voice on investment readiness. He helps founders raise capital and helps investors source high-quality opportunities; solving the information and expectation asymmetry that often stalls deals. His work has empowered founders globally to build investable businesses and successfully close funding rounds.