Looking to fund your FashionTech venture?!
Digitally Chic and San Francisco's finest FashionTech advisors team up to discuss strategies on how to finance your fashion startup, brand, or blog.
Digitally Chic is taking over The Vault, an SF startup ecosystem, for an evening of networking, insights and focus on how to grow your FashionTech venture. The new year is right around the corner, so it’s the perfect time to plant the seeds for a successful 2015 and reconnect with the DC community!
Join the… Show more conversation with Lili Balfour of Atelier Advisors and Rachel Fischbein of Law on the Runway to discuss the best ways to finance your business from angel investments to crowd funding. Walk away with actionable insights, guidance, and a support system who is committed to your success!
You'll also have a chance to view some of the latest fashions from LiveLoveModa 's Pop-Up Shop and dress your nails with love from NailedKit . Take time to connect with each speaker during our refreshments and networking session and ask those burning questions that matter to you.
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” –Walt Disney
SCHEDULE
Welcome Reception: 6 - 6:30pm
Finance Discussion w/ Lili + Rachel: 6:30 - 7:00pm
Q+A Session: 7:00 - 7:15pm
Intro to Pop-Up Shops: 7:15 - 7:30pm
Networking & Drinks*: 7:30 - 8:30pm
*Yummy refreshments and light bites will be provided!
Speakers include...
Lili Balfour
Lili Balfour is the founder of Atelier Advisors, a boutique investment bank that serves early-stage companies. She has advised fashion designers (Erin Fetherston and Alexandre Plokhov) and fashion brands (Bag, Borrow, or Steal and M2F Brand Denims) on growth and funding strategy. She is the creator of several online courses designed to teach entrepreneurs how to master entrepreneurial finance.
Rachel Fischbein
Rachel Fischbein is the founder of Law On The Runway . She is a graduate of Santa Clara University School of Law and licensed to practice law in California. Additionally, she holds a bachelor's degree in fashion marketing from Woodbury University. Law On The Runway primarily assists fashion and beauty entrepreneurs as they build the foundation of their companies and navigate contractual relationships. Ms. Fischbein is an active member of the San Francisco Fashion and Merchant Alliance, Digitally Chic, and a registered panel attorney for the California Lawyers for the Arts.
Keily Hernandez
Keily Hernandez is the founder of LiveLoveModa, an online fashion boutique that brings you timeless pieces that are budget friendly and versatile. Keily is originally from Puerto Rico and has a degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Washington. After graduating she worked in sales for an insurance company in New York and started a fashion blog to be able to record her addiction to fashion. She launched LiveLoveModa in February 2014.
Rachel Kim
Rachel Kim is a seasoned consumer tech product marketer and the founder and CEO of Nailed Kit, a DIY nail art company with a mission to make nail art easier and the designs better. Nailed Kit has been featured in Seventeen Magazine, Refinery29, Lucky Mag, Teen Vogue and many more!
Rachel previously held marketing and product positions at Google, Zynga and Bleacher Report. She is a cum laude graduate of Northwestern University and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. She has been interviewed and featured a variety of business publications including the New York Times, CNN, Fox Business News, Entrepreneur Magazine and Yahoo! Finance.
About DC :
Digitally Chic is a fashion and technology networking group based in San Francisco, California. We focus on uniting individuals in the fashion industry with their key counterparts in tech. Have a cool fashion start-up and need fashion bloggers to help promote it? We got you covered. Our networking group consists of stylists, bloggers, fashion designers, graphic designers, newspaper editors, app and website developers, marketing managers, and more.
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