Jade Lockard

Are you ready to raise venture capital but not sure where to start? Or, more importantly, do you even know if VC is the right fit for your startup? I'm Jade, a former impact investor, current startup advisor, board member and a VC Firm advisor. I work with early-stage founders on Hubble to answer exactly those questions, and then build the best capital strategies based on your business model, traction and goals. Let's talk about: ✔️ How to pitch, and when ✔️ Emerging manager strategies ✔️ Startup founder GTM ✔️ Founder community building ✔️ Capital raising strategy for folks building in traditionally overlooked markets I run SeedSprout, a boutique investor relations advisory I founded in 2023 to help venture-backed founders and VC firms turn warm networks into closed capital. Over the past five years I've worked with more than 150 early-stage founders and supported over $50M in capital raised across venture and philanthropic vehicles. Along the way I've managed a $90M fundraising pipeline across two debut funds, built programming that reached over 700 founders, and architected the launch of the country's largest HBCU-focused founder network. I tend to be useful when the question is less "what's our story" and more "who exactly do we call, in what order, and what do we send them." Book time if you need pointing in the right direction on pitching, fundraising, GTM, or building the kind of community that gets you unstuck.