Ravi Belani (he/him)
Managing Director, Alchemist Accelerator
Ravi Belani is the Founder and Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator, a venture backed accelerator for enterprise startups. Ravi also is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, where he leads the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (the largest class on entrepreneurship at Stanford). Ravi formerly worked in venture capital as part of the investment team at DFJ in Menlo Park. Through Alchemist and DFJ, Ravi has been the 1st or 2nd institutional check in 4 unicorns – Twitch, LaunchDarkly, Pubmatic, and Rigetti. Ravi holds a BS and MS in Engineering from Stanford, and an MBA from Harvard Busines School.
Sessions
Meet your 2024 Mentor faculty!
July 10, 2024 5:50 PM – 5:55 PM
We have amassed an incredible group of founder, experts, investors, accelerators and authors to help you solve your most pressing problems - we can't wait to introduce them to you! See more.
Mentor Roundtables: Let's solve your problems
July 10, 2024 5:55 PM – 6:55 PM
Every startup must master a range of skills, from hiring and selling, to delivering products, to crafting superb communications that compel and entice. Bring your biggest domain-specific challenges to our expert Mentors, who will help you unravel even the most challenging problems across the many domains on which a startup needs to execute. See more.
Closing Your Seed Round: Tactical Tips For Fundraising
July 10, 2024 7:25 PM – 7:55 PM
In this talk, we will cover a practical toolkit for orchestrating a seed raise. Specifically, we will cover the nuts and bolts around key elements for fundraising preparation, outreach, meeting effectiveness, and closing. Time permitting, we may dive into themes around the psychology and strategy for successful fundraises. These lessons are gleaned from over a decade of experience of founders completing fundraises through Alchemist, a leading enterprise accelerator. Alchemist has launched over 600 startups that have collectively raised $3.6B, or roughly $6 million / startup on average. See more.
Mentor roundtables: Taboo Topics (back by popular demand!)
July 11, 2024 5:10 PM – 6:10 PM
There's no such thing as a stupid question—but there are plenty of questions nobody asks, because they're taboo. How do you fire a co-founder? When is it okay to lie to your employees? Can you take orders before you know you can deliver on them? How accurate do forward-looking statements need to be in a pitch deck? We're creating round table conversations for the questions everybody ponders but nobody says out loud. See more.