More Than Equity: Creative Capital Vehicles for Business Growth & Financial Return
For ESO investors, it's not just better businesses—it's better deals
Join Dr. Angelique Johnson for a live conversation with Wayne Encalarde (Capital Strategist and CEO, Encalarde Consulting) and Dawn Batts (Capital Architect and Co-Founder, Commune Angels) as they explore how ESO fund creators and investors can move beyond basic equity investments. This session unpacks how to uncover overlooked opportunities, design creative investment vehicles, and assemble fit-for-purpose capital stacks — using approaches like contract financing, revenue-based financing, DAFs, creative repayment structures, third-party guarantees, catalytic and blended capital, and angels participating as LPs.
Key Takeaways
In this one-hour live podcast seminar, we'll explore:
- Uncovering overlooked investment opportunities — Identify investable deals that traditional business-level underwriting may miss.
- Structuring creative investment vehicles — Match the vehicle to the economics, risk, and return potential of the opportunity.
- Creatively capitalizing the deal — Build fit-for-purpose capital stacks that bring together investors, funders, guarantees, and catalytic capital.
WHY THIS CONVERSATION MATTERS
One investor's pass is another investor's perfect fit. Too many strong deals get shelved simply because they weren't shaped for the capital that was in the room. The good news is that ESOs are uniquely positioned to change that. It starts with expanding how founders and fund creators think about capital — beyond straight equity to contract financing, revenue-based financing, blended and catalytic capital — and building the deal structures that unlock the right investors, not just the most obvious ones.
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