The Capital Raiser Show

In this episode of The Capital Raiser Show, founders, fund managers, and family office investors share what is actually working in capital raising right now - the tools, strategies, and relationship approaches driving real results in 2025. This panel cuts through the noise and delivers the honest, practical playbook from people actively raising and deploying capital. Topics covered: - What capital raising strategies are working right now across different asset classes - How ChatGPT and AI tools are changing investor outreach and education - Why in-person networking still outperforms digital-only approaches - Oil and gas, precious metals, real estate, cannabis, art, and robotics insights - How the best capital raisers use investor education as a trust-building tool - What family offices look for before they engage with a new capital raiser - IR strategy and investor communication that keeps LPs engaged - The tools separating capital raisers who close from those who stall The Capital Raiser Show brings together family offices, billionaires, and elite capital allocators to discuss capital raising, investing, and strategic growth. Subscribe for more interviews with top investors, founders, and family offices.

In this episode of The Capital Raiser Show, a panel of single-family office investors ranging from $100M to $1B+ in assets reveal exactly what they are looking for in deals right now - their real mandates, pitch expectations, and the most common reasons they pass. This is one of the most direct investor mandate panels in the series. No theory - active investors sharing live what gets them to say yes. Topics covered: - Real investment mandates from $100M to $1B+ single family offices - What pitch structure actually works with family office investors - How to build trust before your first meeting with a sophisticated allocator - Why valuation expectations kill more deals than anything else - What skin in the game signals to a family office - How AI and proprietary strategy are changing family office deal evaluation - The emotional alignment and storytelling that moves investors to act - What the best capital raisers do before they ever send a deck The Capital Raiser Show brings together family offices, billionaires, and elite capital allocators to discuss capital raising, investing, and strategic growth. Subscribe for more interviews with top investors, founders, and family offices.

In this episode of The Capital Raiser Show, Richard C. Wilson answers live questions from capital raisers on the most practical challenges in fundraising today: how to get investors to respond, how to use AI tools for outreach, and how to build credibility fast when you don't have a long track record. This is one of the most tactical Q&A sessions in the series - direct answers, no filler. Topics covered: - How AI tools help find and target the right investors on LinkedIn - Getting responses from cold outreach when you're unknown - Building pitch credibility without a 10-year track record - What to say in the first 30 seconds of an investor conversation - How follow-up timing and cadence affects investor response rates - The biggest mistakes capital raisers make in their first outreach - What family offices actually respond to vs. what they ignore - How to use AI to sharpen pitch decks and investor communications The Capital Raiser Show brings together family offices, billionaires, and elite capital allocators to discuss capital raising, investing, and strategic growth. Subscribe for more interviews with top investors, founders, and family offices.

In this episode of The Capital Raiser Show, Richard C. Wilson delivers a live training on applying Robert Cialdini's proven influence principles specifically to capital raising - and how to use them ethically to build deeper investor trust and close more deals without compromising your reputation. Richard breaks down exactly how authority, social proof, scarcity, reciprocity, and pre-suasion work in real investor conversations, and why ethical influence is the most durable competitive advantage a capital raiser can build. Topics covered: - How to apply Cialdini's 6 principles directly to investor conversations - Why ethical reputation is a capital raising asset that compounds over time - Authority positioning before your first investor meeting - How social proof works differently with family office vs. institutional investors - Using reciprocity to build relationship capital before you need it - Pre-suasion: setting the investor's mindset before the pitch starts - The difference between influence and manipulation in capital raising - In-person meeting strategies for high-trust deal environments The Capital Raiser Show brings together family offices, billionaires, and elite capital allocators to discuss capital raising, investing, and strategic growth. Subscribe for more interviews with top investors, founders, and family offices.

In this episode of The Capital Raiser Show, Richard C. Wilson sits down with Kevin Harrington - original Shark Tank investor, inventor of the infomercial, and founder of As Seen on TV - for a focused second session on the real mechanics of scaling to $1B+ in product revenue, the licensing and deal structures behind his biggest wins, and what capital raisers must do to get his attention in 60 seconds. Kevin shares the Tease-Please-Seize-Close framework, the performance habits behind operating at high velocity, and why most capital raisers fail before they ever get in the room. Topics covered: - What it actually takes to scale a business to $1B+ in product revenue - Licensing, royalties, and equity structures that close fast - The Tease-Please-Seize-Close pitch framework for capital raisers - What gets Kevin's attention in the first 60 seconds - Deal structuring so both sides want it to close - Media leverage and downtime arbitrage as capital raising tools - Performance and health habits for high-velocity capital raising The Capital Raiser Show brings together family offices, billionaires, and elite capital allocators to discuss capital raising, investing, and strategic growth. Subscribe for more interviews with top investors, founders, and family offices.