Rockies Venture Club upcoming events

RVC Angel Accelerator Week #3: Exit Strategy Workshop (Friday, May 08, 2026)

Fri, 08 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT

FREE TO RVC ACTIVE INVESTOR MEMBERS

RVC Angel Accelerator Week #3: Exit Strategy Workshop

Friday, May 8th, 2026 | 10am - 12 pm MT

Virtual via Zoom: Meeting link shared upon registration

For both investors and entrepreneurs

How does someone learn how to be a successful Angel Investor?

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!

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.

Topics Covered in this Workshop include:

Week #3 (Friday, May 8th, 2026) - Exit strategy canvas. Learn the six things that smart investors know how to look for in a great exit strategy. Remember - the exit is the only way Angels get their money back!

The workshop starts out by “beginning with the end in mind.” The exit strategy workshop is where investors & founders will learn about building value not just for their first customer who buys their product, but for the “second customer” that is likely to acquire the company and return capital to investors.

For those looking to create strategies around growth and eventual exits (critical for returning capital to investors), this is a must-attend class!

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. 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.

Active Angel Investor members attend free!

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RVC Pitch Academy - May 2026 (Wednesday, May 13, 2026)

Wed, 13 May 2026 18:00:00 GMT

The RVC Pitch Academy 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.

Key topics include:

Preparing a business for a deal
Designing a deck
Delivering the pitch
Communicating the value for venture funding
Balancing pitching a product vs. pitching a company
Raising equity vs. convertible debt
Communicating risks that don’t raise red flags
Understanding investor psychology
Following up with interested investors

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, including pitch practice with real-time feedback.

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.

Learn more about membership: RVC Membership

Founders: Please bring a pitch deck and laptop to practice.

Note: To pitch to investors at an upcoming RVC Investor Forum, you must apply to pitch and be accepted by the RVC investment screening committee.

Healionics Investor Update & Deep Dive (Thursday, May 14, 2026)

Thu, 14 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Healionics has developed a safer, more reliable means of dialysis access for patients with kidney failure. Our FDA Breakthrough-designated STARgraft vascular graft (synthetic blood vessel) has demonstrated superior 24-month clinical results showing resistance to both occlusion and infection -- the two primary causes of failure in on-market grafts. The company has 33 issued patents and a diverse product pipeline leveraging our core biomaterial technology to create novel implantable devices in additional cardiovascular, dialysis access, and general surgery applications. Comparable exits in dialysis access have been pre-revenue with average valuation of $500M.

Healionics is raising a $5M preferred equity round, led by Keiretsu Capital, to support the STARgraft pivotal clinical trial, FDA approval, and potential exit.

This session provides an opportunity for RVC portfolio company, Healionics, to update existing RVC Investors while engaging those interested in the current follow-on investment.

The RVC Deep Dive is a 90 minute virtual meeting held between company executive leadership, RVC Investors, and RVC staff. The purpose of this meeting is to cover all major due diligence questions such as business strategy, team, product, competition, IP, market, traction, key risks, and exit strategy.

The structure of the meeting is as follows:

Company Pitch (15 minutes)
Guided Q&A w/ Investors (45 minutes)
Investor Only Discussion (30 minutes)

To attend, you must be an accredited investor (net worth of at least one million US dollars, not including the value of one’s primary residence, or have made at least $200,000 each year for the last two years [or $300,000 together with his or her spouse if married] and have the expectation to make the same amount this year). We do not require a minimum investment.

RVC Angel Accelerator Week #4: Due Diligence and Term Sheets (Friday, May 15, 2026)

Fri, 15 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT

FREE TO RVC ACTIVE INVESTOR MEMBERS

RVC Angel Accelerator Week #4: Due Diligence & Term Sheets

Friday, May 15th, 2026 | 10am - 12 pm MT

Virtual via Zoom: Meeting link shared upon registration

For both investors and entrepreneurs

How does someone learn how to be a successful Angel Investor?

Topics Covered in this Workshop include:

Due Diligence - Move well beyond the basic checklist. Learn the strategies required to make the diligence process transparent and effective for everyone. Remember - it is essential for entrepreneurs to understand an investor's motivations and prepare appropriately, while investors must conduct thorough diligence to secure their chance at a 10x return!
Term Sheets - Once diligence is complete, it's time to structure the deal. In this section, founders and investors will dive into understanding key terms, learning how to avoid dilution on both sides of the table, and mastering the most critical points of negotiation.

For entrepreneurs looking to maintain momentum in their fundraising and investors looking to secure the best possible deal structures, this is a must-attend class!

Active Angel Investor members attend free!

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RVC May 2026 Investor Forum & Happy Hour (Tuesday, May 19, 2026)

Tue, 19 May 2026 21:00:00 GMT

RVC May 2026 Investor Forum

Hosted at Foley & Lardner (1144 15th St Suite 2200, Denver, CO 80202)

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. Both new and experienced investor members are welcome at forums -- this is the best way to learn hands-on about angel investing!

Meeting Agenda:

Welcome and Introductions

3:00pm to 3:15 pm

Deal-in-Play Discussion

3:15pm to 3:30pm

Company Pitches

3:30 pm to 5:00pm

Investor Only Discussion

5:00 to 6:00pm

Investor Social

6:00 to 7:00pm

Presenting Companies

TBD

To attend this event, you must be accredited: Net worth of at least one million US dollars, not including the value of one’s primary residence, or have made at least $200,000 each year for the last two years [or $300,000 if jointly filing] and have the expectation to make the same amount this year. We do not require a minimum investment.

RVC Angel Accelerator Week #6: Financial Proformas & Capital Strategy Workshop (Friday, May 29, 2026)

Fri, 29 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT

FREE TO RVC ACTIVE INVESTOR MEMBERS

Accelerated Course on How to be an Angel Investor: Financial Proformas & Capital Strategy Workshop

Friday, May 29th, 2026 | 10 am - 12 pm MT

Virtual via Zoom: Meeting link shared upon registration

For both investors and entrepreneurs

How does someone learn how to be a successful Angel Investor?

Topics Covered in this Workshop include:

Week #6 (Friday, May 29th, 2026) - How to Analyze a Proforma Financial Statement and determine whether it is "believable" or not. Finance Strategy: find out if you're going to get diluted out of a profit, or if future raises will give you a smaller piece of a bigger pie and great returns. (virtual via Zoom)

RVC's Financial Strategy Class Cluster has everything that investors and startup founders alike need to create and evaluate financial projections (proforma) and to think about capital strategy including the timing and amount of raises, total capital needs, milestones between raises, runway strategy and how to think about dilution in follow-on rounds.

RVC's course content is based on years of real-life stories and examples. Participants, both angels and entrepreneurs, are encouraged to bring their questions, proformas that they may be working with, and valuation assessments for real-time discussion.

Active Angel Investor members attend free!

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