LIVE EVENT
GCN Investor Conference in Newport Beach, CA
MARCH 25 · NEWPORT BEACH, CA
LIVE EVENT
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A growing number of startups outside the US are discovering that flying to Silicon Valley or Newport Beach isn't the only way to access an established investor network — the network can come to them instead. Bringing an established investor relations organization to your city to run a conference or private dinner is a fundamentally different approach than trying to build local investor relationships from scratch.
Building a genuine investor network in your own city takes years, especially if local capital markets are less developed than established hubs. Meanwhile, flying founders and teams repeatedly to the US or other capital hubs is expensive, time-consuming, and puts the company at a disadvantage compared to founders already embedded in those networks.
Bringing an established network's investor relationships to your city instead compresses that timeline dramatically — the relationships already exist, the process is proven, and the event lands with credibility a first-time local effort can't easily replicate.
Rather than a founder or local ecosystem trying to build investor relationships from nothing, an established network like Global Capital Network brings its existing investor relationships — 200K+ investors across 45+ countries — to organize a conference or private investor dinner in your city, built around your local companies and ecosystem.
This typically involves:
This approach tends to work best for cities or regions with a growing startup ecosystem but limited existing investor infrastructure — places where there's real founder activity and interesting companies, but the local investor network hasn't caught up yet. It also works for individual companies or accelerators looking to host a signature investor event without building the guest list and logistics capability internally.
Whoever runs the event, the local groundwork makes a big difference to the result. Cities and organisers that prepare well tend to have more productive conversations from the start.
Build a simple list of local startups that are raising now or expect to raise soon. Note each company’s stage, sector, and what kind of investor it needs. This list is the core of the case for an event.
Accelerators, universities, coworking spaces, and founder communities can help find companies, share the event, and host smaller sessions. Agree early who does what.
Decide what success looks like. It might be introductions for a specific group of companies, more outside investor attention for the region, or a recurring event that builds over time.
A conference suits regions with many companies and a wish for visibility. A series of smaller dinners suits regions with fewer, more advanced companies. Our comparison of investor dinners and investor conferences explains the trade-offs.
Help presenting founders sharpen their pitch decks, data rooms, and follow-up plans before investors arrive. An event can only showcase companies that are ready.
Agree on measures before the event. Useful ones include the number of qualified investor meetings, follow-up meetings in the weeks after, and companies that progress to diligence. Tracking the same measures each time shows whether a recurring event is building real momentum.
No — some of the most valuable opportunities are in growing ecosystems that don't yet have an established investor conference circuit, where a well-run event can have an outsized impact.
Planning timelines vary based on scope and format, but working with an established network with existing processes is typically faster than building local investor relationships from scratch, which can take years.
Both. Some cities are a better fit for a large flagship conference, while others benefit more from a series of smaller, curated private investor dinners.
Bringing an established investor network to your city can compress years of relationship-building into a single, well-run event. Get in touch to discuss bringing a GCN event to your market.
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