Malaysian equity crowdfunding platform pitchIN has launched pitchIN Academy to offer practical and easy-to-understand educational programmes, activities and content on alternative financing and investment.
pitchIN Academy aims to enhance the communication, education and public awareness outreach of innovative financing and investment in Malaysia. It will offer programmes catering to the general public, entrepreneurs and investors.
The academy is headed by Hanif Tamin, who previously served at SME Corp.
Sam Shafie, CEO of pitchIN, said: “Awareness and education has always been an important subject matter. It is because of that we decided to set up a specific department that will focus, curate and cater towards addressing awareness, education and the promotion of financial literacy. The pitchIN Academy through its fundraising accelerator (FA) programme has successfully completed a total of nine cohorts, impacting over 100 companies and 180 founders so far.”Currently, the Academy offers three main programmes: Fundraising Accelerator (FA), Investment Workshop (IW), and Masterclass (MC).
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FA is designed to help founders and entrepreneurs who are raising funding for the first time by equipping them with a comprehensive suite of fundraising learning and training programmes. They will be given access to pitchIN’s broad network of legal, marketing and financial practitioners. In addition, pitchIN also provides bespoke fundraising consultations as well as preferential access to pitchIN’s equity crowdfunding offerings to FA participants.
IW is designed to educate the general public, especially first-time investors with little knowledge and experience in private market investing and alternative investment space. The modules are organised into easily digestible segments to help investors understand how to make important investment decisions. The workshop content is built from real-life investment experiences of successful startup investors and venture capitalists in Malaysia.
MC covers specialised topics that can help entrepreneurs and investors stay updated on the latest industry developments while expanding their understanding of building investable businesses or investing in the alternative investment space.
pitchIN Academy will also look to play an active role in strengthening the educational and awareness efforts of positioning regulated alternative financing and investment as the preferred option in Malaysia.
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