Practical, investor-led workshops for founders, scale-ups, advisors and economic development teams.
P2 designs and delivers practical workshops for founders, scale-up teams, public agencies and economic development organisations. Our sessions focus on the real-world mechanics of raising capital, entering new markets, preparing for international growth and understanding how investors actually make decisions.
These are not theory-led seminars. They are working sessions built around live company challenges, investor expectations, founder behaviour, market-entry decisions, funding readiness and the practical steps required to move from ambition to execution.
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Selected Workshops
01 —
Entering the European Union. Ireland as a Gateway.
Delivered for
Calgary Economic Development Board
Date
October 24, 2024
Location
Fifth Avenue Place, 237 4 Ave SW, Suite 2600, Calgary, AB T2P 4K3, Canada
A practical workshop for Canadian economic development and business leaders exploring Ireland's role as a gateway into the European Union. The session examined Ireland's position as an English-speaking EU market, its founder and investment ecosystem, public agency supports, routes to market, regulatory considerations and the practical decisions companies need to make before expanding into Europe. The workshop focused on how North American companies can use Ireland as a strategic base for EU growth, while avoiding the common mistakes that come with under-planned international expansion.
02 —
Cracking the Investor Code
Delivered for
Early-stage and scale-up founders
Date
October 21, 2024 · 9:00am to 4:00pm
Location
Enterprise Ireland, Dublin 3
An immersive one-day workshop helping founders understand how investors think, what they look for and how to prepare for serious fundraising conversations. The session covered investor targeting, narrative development, pitch structure, funding readiness, deal process, red flags, valuation, follow-up discipline and the practical behaviours that separate prepared founders from speculative fundraisers. Founders left with a clearer understanding of how to attract the right investors, structure a credible fundraising process and avoid the common mistakes that weaken investor confidence.
03 —
Funding for Scaling & International Readiness
Delivered for
Enterprise Ireland Portfolio & Client Advisors
Date
September 16–17, 2024
Location
Enterprise Ireland, Dublin 3
A two-day workshop designed for Enterprise Ireland portfolio and client-facing advisors supporting companies preparing for growth, funding and international expansion. The session focused on how to assess funding readiness, identify gaps in a company's investor proposition, understand the connection between capital strategy and international ambition, and support founders as they move from domestic validation to overseas growth. Topics included investor expectations, commercial proof points, management-team readiness, market-entry sequencing, funding options, advisory interventions and the practical signals that indicate whether a company is genuinely ready to scale.
04 —
Learnings and Insights from International Scale-up Investor
Delivered for
Enterprise Ireland Investment Team and Client Advisors
Date
January 29–30, 2025
Location
Enterprise Ireland, Dublin 3
A practical session drawing on completed deals, investor conversations, founder outcomes and international scale-up experience. The workshop explored what actually drives enterprise value, why exit-readiness should influence decisions long before a company is for sale, and how founders can unintentionally create risk through weak structure, unclear positioning, poor investor fit or unmanaged strategic drift. A central theme of the session was: you are what you exit; everything else is at risk. The workshop examined how companies can build with the end state in mind, while still making disciplined near-term decisions on funding, market entry, team structure, governance and growth.
05 —
Funding for Scaling & International Readiness
Delivered for
Early-stage and scale-up founders
Date
September 18–19, 2025
Location
Enterprise Ireland, Dublin 3
A founder-focused workshop designed to help early-stage and scaling companies understand what it takes to become funding-ready and internationally credible. The session covered the relationship between funding strategy and growth strategy, helping founders assess whether they were raising for the right reasons, targeting the right investors and presenting a sufficiently clear case for scale. The workshop included practical work on investor narrative, capital requirements, market prioritisation, commercial proof, team capability, funding options and the common gaps that appear when companies prepare to move beyond Ireland.
06 —
Decoding Term Sheets
Delivered for
Early-stage and scale-up founders
Date
October 15, 2025
Location
Online
A focused online workshop helping founders understand the commercial, legal and strategic implications of investment term sheets. The session broke down the key terms founders need to understand before accepting investment, including valuation, liquidation preferences, board rights, reserved matters, founder vesting, anti-dilution, drag and tag rights, investor controls and the long-term consequences of apparently small clauses. The objective was to give founders enough fluency to have better conversations with investors, lawyers and boards, and to understand how today's terms can shape tomorrow's options.
07 —
Pathway to Investment
Delivered for
Client Advisors and Founders
Date
May 15–16, 2025
Location
Enterprise Ireland, Dublin 3
A two-day workshop designed to help founders and advisors understand the full pathway from early funding need to investor-ready proposition. The session explored how companies should prepare before entering the market for capital, including investor targeting, funding strategy, evidence building, pitch development, commercial validation, governance readiness and managing the fundraising process. For advisors, the workshop provided a practical framework for identifying where companies are on the investment-readiness journey and how to support them with targeted, useful interventions.
08 —
A Funding Raise Blueprint
Delivered for
Early-stage and scale-up founders
Date
April 18–19, 2024
Location
Enterprise Ireland, Dublin 3
A practical workshop giving founders a structured blueprint for planning and executing a fundraising process. The session covered the core building blocks of a raise: defining the funding requirement, building the investor narrative, preparing materials, identifying investor fit, managing outreach, handling investor meetings, maintaining momentum, responding to diligence and negotiating from a position of preparation. The workshop was designed to move founders away from ad hoc fundraising and towards a more disciplined, planned and credible process.
Work With P2
Need a workshop for founders, advisors or economic development teams?
P2 works with founders, public agencies, investment teams and economic development organisations to design practical workshops around funding, scaling, market entry and investor readiness.
Whether the audience is early-stage founders, scaling companies, client advisors or international partners, the focus is the same: clear thinking, practical tools and real-world execution.
