Fundraising Playbooks

I run Fundraising Playbooks as part of which I do 1-1 Investor Sprints with Founders and Masterclasses on Investor Outreach that actually gets replies. Between cold emailing my way to Richard Branson, Mark Cuban, getting replies from Sequoia Capital partners in <24h, VC replies in under 20min, a 7-figure HNWI reply in under 5min, and an avalanche of other results achieved by founders who use my methodology, the feedback I've been receiving can't stop raving about how my sessions are "singlehandedly the best session I ever attended", "world-class", "best one I've ever been on", "extremely practical", "had me on the edge of my seat and left with 4 pages of notes" - their words, not mine.

Managing Director

Block Dojo

Sourcing dealflow and assisting with the investment for Block Dojo's cohorts of early-stage startups. Block Dojo is a global blockchain incubator, putting companies and their founders through their paces during an intense 12 week programme, offering a mix of cash plus services to build the future of blockchain technology.

Investment & Dealflow Manager

True Altitude

Since inception, True Altitude has grown (and exited) several successful businesses, supporting clients and portfolio companies to elevate their value:
- Supported clients to raise over $625 million in capital over 3 years 
- Supported over 130 high growth entrepreneur-led companies 
- Committed over $13m principal investment 
- Completed portfolio 41 investments
- Successfully delivered market leading accelerator programs with commercial outcomes
- Supported partners to elevate their value 
- Realized exit value and secondaries for 3 investments to date

Senior Associate

KapVista Ventures

Supporting the dealflow & investment processes of a small early stage fund & advisory.

Investment Associate

Facilitating IBM's Europe's Technical Leadership Team's planning, organisation and governance of a number of company-internal initiatives (such as educational programmes to develop the technical skillsets, masterclasses and networking events) to ensure the acceleration of technical leadership growth and identification of high-calibre professionals for career progression.

Technical Sales Leadership Team Support

Eva Dobrzanska (fundraisingplaybooks.com) helps startup founders reach more investors with step-by-step strategies used by founders in real life to raise millions. Her playbooks secured:
- VC reply within 20min of hitting ‘Send’ ⏱️ 
- a reply from Mark Cuban 🤝 
- a reply from Sequoia Capital in <24 hours 🌳
- a reply from Richard Branson’s team in 1 day 💼
- a stellar 100% response rate within first the first 4 hours of sending out 8 cold emails (8/8) 🎯

Her masterclasses are regularly oversubscribed with a record of 1k+ signed up in July this year. 

So far delivered in partnerships with 
- HSBC Innovation Banking,
- SeedLegals, 
- HubSpot for Startups,
- Google Cloud, 
- Scribe, 
- Plugged
- Foras, 
- NBT,
and many other amazing companies and organisations.

Fundraising Playbooks (www.fundraisingplaybooks.com) are a set of ready-to-use resources and copy & paste templates for investor outreach and investor relationship building.

Eva enjoys meeting new people (when in her extroverted months), discovering a new song that ends up on repeat the whole day, and researching all things related to startups & investment trends to uncover new strategic playbooks. 

She works with Startup Founders 1-1 in form of Investor Sprints and the most exciting part of them is when “you get to uncover new fundraising playbook specifically for that founder”. 

Part time video gamer (lassoing horses in Red Dead Redemption 2 🐎), learning how to row (across Thames), reading (Red Notice) and trying to continue her daily meditation streak.

(I also like bird watching and 80s music)

Feel free cold email me anytime. 

eva@fundraisingplaybooks.com

Eva Dobrzanska

Oxford SimCell Ltd

Oxford SimCell Ltd is a spin-out company from the University of Oxford, developing SimCell, a non-replicating bacterial cell platform for various healthcare applications. We currently focus on bacterial vaccine development. Other SimCell applications are also explored, including infectious diseases and cancers.

• Direct, manage, and coordinate internal operations in alignment with the policies, goals, and objectives set by the CEO and the Board of Directors.
• Participate in fundraising efforts and the development of business plans.
• Oversee the establishment and management of the lab, finance, human resources, and quality management systems.
• Build and maintain relationships with suppliers, vendors, consultants, partners, and clients.
• Manage public grant projects~£2M to ensure timely achievement of milestones.

Oxsed

• Delivering on and leading new product development of in vitro diagnostic medical devices, including clinical trials
• Participating in the establishment of ISO 13485 and ensuring that all product development plans are consistent with professional standards and regulatory requirements (2 products with CE Marking)
• Performance management of 15 Scientists, Engineers, and Laboratory Technicians and accountable for the effective performance of the R&D Department
• Engaging in ongoing market research related to market trends as well as current and prospective market drivers
• Participating in setting up and maintaining ISO 15189 for operating analytics/medical testing laboratories to a high standard
• Proactively identifying and managing project risks and issues and coordinating with the relevant internal and external stakeholders

Head of R&D

• Advising on new product development for in vitro diagnostic medical devices (2 products with CE Marking)
• Communicating with the manufacturer, advising on process R&D and scale-up (from 200 to 10K kits/day)
• Leading collaborative clinical trials

Consultant

University of Oxford

Project manager of Oxford-JITRI Institute of Materials and Processes for Advanced and Critical Technologies (IMPACT Institute), University of Oxford
• Facilitating UK-China collaborations across academia and industry
• Managing JITRI R&D grants and research calls (£900K)
• Organising international conferences and collaboration meetings (2 international conferences in the UK and China)

Project Manager

Tissue Engineering and Bioprocessing Group with Prof Zhanfeng Cui & Prof Hua (Cathy) Ye
• Developing a rapid testing technology for COVID-19 (featured on CNN and BBC; spun out into a social enterprise, Oxsed Ltd.)
• Developing structured hydrogels for neural tissue engineering applications
• Developing a spectroscopic platform to monitor neural differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPS) for disease modelling and drug screening applications
• Biomedical Engineering Representative, Oxford Solid Mechanics Workshop (2018 - 2020)
• Researcher Committee, Department of Engineering

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration

Working with OXWASH (an award-winning, eco-friendly laundry & dry cleaning services) to analyse market segment recovery and to make informed recommendations on the OXWASH market focus post COVID-19.
• Collecting and reviewing financial and demographic data, conducting company and industry research
• Performing market analysis for the market size and trends and the competitor landscape
• Writing a recommendation report and giving a client presentation

TOSCA Consultant - Oxford Strategy Challenge

Imperial College London

Teaching, lab demonstration, and invigilation

Graduate Teaching Assistant

National Science Council

• Translating 12 scientific articles from English into Chinese to enhance public engagement in
science (7 articles were selected as Finalists)

Scientific translator

COO at Oxford SimCell Ltd

A highly motivated, solution orientated, commercially focused professional offering a valuable combination of leadership, analytical and interpersonal skills. A proven track record of leading scientific research in in vitro diagnostics, regenerative medicine, and bioengineering. With additional expertise across all areas of product development, data visualisation and analysis, global public health improvement research/initiatives, stakeholder engagement, reporting, quality management systems, regulatory submission, coaching and influencing. Confident, diligent, gritty and thoroughly dedicated in all pursuits.

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