Learn how to position yourself and your business for stronger investor conversations, aligned partnerships, and sustainable growth with KK Hart!
June 25th, 2026 | 11:00 AM PT
For venture-backable founders, fundraising is about far more than pitching a great idea. Investors are evaluating market opportunity, traction, scalability, founder readiness, timing, and your ability to communicate a compelling vision for growth. In today’s competitive funding landscape, founders need a strategic approach to capital raising—not just a deck.
The Nasdaq Center is excited to be joined by KK Hart, Entrepreneur and Strategic Investor and Advisor, for a session designed for entrepreneurs building high-growth companies and preparing to raise institutional capital. This webinar will explore what investors are really looking for at different stages of growth, how to position your company effectively, and how to build a fundraising strategy that aligns with your long-term vision and market opportunity.
From refining your narrative and identifying the right investors to understanding fundraising timelines, metrics, and relationship-building, founders will gain practical insight into how to approach capital raising with greater clarity and confidence.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn the signals venture investors evaluate when assessing founder readiness, market potential, and scalability.
- Discover how to clearly communicate your vision, traction, differentiation, and growth strategy.
- Gain insight into investor targeting, outreach, timing, and relationship management throughout the fundraising journey.
- Understand how fundraising strategy connects to operational readiness, milestones, and long-term company building.
Meet our special guest
KK Hart
Meet KK Hart: The 10x Entrepreneur Redefining "Generational Growth."
In a world obsessed with the hustle, KK Hart offers a new blueprint for success. As a highly sought-after growth advisor and investor, KK specializes in helping leaders scale their businesses without succumbing to the "human energy crisis."
Passionate about alternative paths to growth, KK champions strategies for every stage of the lifecycle- from agile startups to established empires. She is a leading voice in Entrepreneurship through Acquisition, emPOWERing founders to grow beyond the build.
KK’s philosophy is simple yet radical: true growth is impossible without personal and professional focus. Merging behavioral science with modern sales and marketing strategies, she has built, invested in, collaborated with, and scaled multi-million dollar brands and top-tier companies such as Liquid Death, Create & Cultivate, MINDBODY/ClassPass, Xplor, Pure Barre, and Lilly.
She offers a full suite of services designed to scale businesses, combining hands-on tactics with high-level strategy. Her expertise covers all aspects of growing from great to better: sales, operations, marketing, strategy & finance, consulting/mentorship, and collaborative partnerships, including but not limited to:
- Comprehensive hands-on growth support: sales, marketing, and business development
- Software and conversion optimization
- Low-cost, new client advertising
- Strategic investment
- Consulting/mentorship
- Collaborative partnerships
- Staff management
- Analytics and data review
- Profitability and growth analysis
KK is deeply passionate about driving results in: Health & Wellness (From Fitness to Beauty and everywhere in-between) | Tech & Software | The Future of Work & Money.
Central to her approach is her proprietary Cash Flow 2.0 Growth Operating System. Built on over 20+ years of experience, this system helps businesses evolve from "great" to "better," providing the optionality to grow both internally and externally with profitability and cash flow as you grow.
KK’s own journey- including becoming a mom of two through foster care and adoption- deeply fuels her commitment to growth and acquisition, both in business and in life. This experience has profoundly shaped her unique leadership approach and advocacy for self-care from the inside out, which serves as the foundation for her most recent acquisition, Ghost Democracy skincare.
Now, through her docuseries, Generational Growth, KK authentically pulls back the curtain on her experiences. She challenges and inspires audiences to "get their assets together" and make the ultimate investment: in themselves.
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