Funding Secrets
The Secret of Success
Funding Secrets is an exclusive 8-week group coaching program designed specifically for founders of early-stage companies navigating the complex fundraising landscape.
In weekly collaborative sessions, our experienced advisors demystify term sheets, valuation methodologies, investor psychology, and pitch optimization—transforming fundraising from an overwhelming obstacle into a strategic advantage.
Whether you’re preparing for pre-seed conversations or planning your Series A strategy, Funding Secrets equips you with the practical frameworks, network connections, and confidence to approach investors with clarity and purpose, dramatically increasing your chances of closing rounds efficiently while maintaining favorable terms and equity positions.
Insider Knowledge
Gain understanding on the nuances, strategic choices, and lesser-known tactics that successful founders leverage to secure capital at every growth stage.
1:1 Individual Coaching
Regular weekly 1:1 sessions to tailor your experience to your company’s needs.
Group Resources
You will join our Founder community to be able to engage with Founders just like you in their fundraising journey. Share successes, failures, ideas and everything in between.
Fundraise Support
Ongoing fundraising support in our community, with our coaches, our library of content resources, events and monthly meetings beyond the course.
Our Course – By the Weeks
From Week 0 to Your Launch, You Have Access to our Coaching Team & Fundraising Support.
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Schedule 1:1 with Coaches + Platform Access
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Fundraising Fundamentals: Finding Traction & Standing Out
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Fundraising Fundamentals: Strategies from Seed to Exit
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FUNDRAISING FUNDAMENTALS: Term Sheets, Valuations & More
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FUNDRAISING FUNDAMENTALS: Perfect Pitch
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The FUndraising Launch: Preparing for the Next Raise
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THE FUNDRAISING LAUNCH: Building An Army of Advocates
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Connecting To INvestors & Accelerating The Close
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Maximum velocity: Gain momentum & Critical Investor Relations
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Founder Community Membership + Monthly Group Meetings
Book Your 1:1 Session & Register Here
FAQs
- How to find, connect and close close deals with investors quicker
- Perfect your pitch and craft your narratives through expert coaching
- Build lasting relationships with fellow tech founders
- Master fundraising fundamentals for long-term success – beyond the raise
- Stay motivated with peer support throughout your journey
- Understand the fundraising options from angels, VCs, PE, crowdfunding and more
- Create a fundraising blueprint to cover more ground and connect with a variety of funding options simultaneously
- Access ready-to-use templates for decks, datarooms and investor tracking
- Maintain business momentum during fundraising
- Create a network of champions for your startup
- Build business momentum WHILE you fundraise
- Weekly cohort group session with Founders
- 1:1 Personal Coaching each week
- Access to the Founder Community
- Private community of our Founders to share thoughts, files, ideas and more
- Access to content updates and trends shared from Coaches, Founders and Funders
- Template and Video library of resources
- Monthly Founder events
- Access to private podcast updates and extended content
- Partnership discounts and events
- Most Founders in the coaching program are raising their first seed round or up to $5M
- Founders in the program must be engaged and commit to attending weekly meetings
- Founders in the broader community are at all stages from their first pre-seed round to those considering early IPO
- 8-Week Program – $4950 – Launch Rate: $2950 until September 2025
- Includes Access to Founder Community Fundraising Support
- Founder Monthly Community Membership – $100 (starting after the 8-Week program)
Meet Your Coaches
Travis Brodeen, Co-founder & CEO
Travis is the former co-founder of Newchip, the largest equity crowdfunding Marketplace and the largest global accelerator for early stage companies.
As an award-winning startup executive, Travis Brodeen is “The Entrepreneur’s Coach.”
He helps founders accelerate their growth and maximize their profit and impact through direct coaching and business consulting. Travis has helped hundreds of people scale including many to seven and eight figures using his proven methodology and helped hundreds of startups successfully raise funding.
He has a strong mix of early dotcom startup experience, mixed with a Fortune 50 consulting career. In 2011, he bootstrapped a company from $3,000 to over $1.2M/month in the first quarter.
Travis believes the only way the world improves is through entrepreneurship. He’s a proud husband, father, and philanthropist with a concentration on solving the homeless crisis, funding entrepreneurs in impoverished countries and giving clean water to those who don’t have any.
Greg Gerik, Esq., Co-founder & COO
A seasoned start-up executive, Greg founded Pathony, an executive coaching firm, to elevate leaders and develop talent.
He has helped hundreds of founders navigate growth challenges to find success. Having served in multiple global leadership roles, Greg and his team have helped accelerate growth and build successful leadership and sales teams for early-stage companies.
As a licensed attorney, Greg brings a unique blend of business, leadership and transformation experience to clients. His experience also includes developing the first social engagement teams at Thomson Reuters and 3M as well as launching the first ever digital PGA tournament experience. His teams have also won 8 Emmy awards for content excellence.
From Fortune 50 global companies to founder-led startups Greg has a passion for helping direct entrepreneurs to achieve 3X+ returns and find a successful path to exit.
He passionately believes that fundraising can make or a break a company’s outlook for long-term success and, when executed correctly, fundraising activities can lay the groundwork for continued customer success long after the campaign ends.
