VC Breakfast Club with Joyce Chung, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures, Focus: Software, Services, Clean Technology,

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Start: 10/23/2008 - 9:30 pm
End: 10/23/2008- 10:00 pm

VC Breakfast Club with Joyce Chung, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures, Focus: Software, Services, Clean Technology, and Material Sciences (not Life Sciences)

Contact Info: Jai Kumar Email: jai@vigyana.com
Location: Townsend, Townsend and Crew LLP Cell: 408-406-4693
379 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301

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VC Breakfast Club with Joyce Chung, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures, Focus: Software, Services, Clean Technology, and Material Sciences (not Life Sciences)

Garage Technology Ventures, http://www.garage.com

Garage Technology Ventures is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund, focusing on investing in startups with novel technologies and the potential to build significant companies.

Since becoming a venture capital fund in 2002, Garage has backed several well-known companies, including Miasole, Simply Hired, Kaboodle, and WhiteHat Security. Garage started as an accelerator in 1998, helping about 100 startups raise nearly $400 million, including such companies as Tripwire, Lefthand Networks, Hoku Scientific, Pandora Media, and Xora.

Joyce Chung, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures

Joyce Chung has over 10 years of operating experience in technology companies and 10 years of venture capital investing experience. She was a founding partner of Cardinal Venture Capital, a $125 million early stage venture fund. At Cardinal, Joyce was responsible for investments in Chipcon (acquired by Texas Instruments), Mobilygen, Valista, and Zilliant. She continues to co-manage the current Cardinal portfolio. Prior to forming Cardinal Venture Capital, Joyce managed venture investments for Adobe Ventures. Her portfolio companies included Vignette (Nasdaq: VIGN), DigitalThink, Digimarc (Nasdaq: DMRC), and Virage. Joyce also held operating roles at Adobe Systems, Sony Corporation, and Cambridge Technology Group. She received an S.B. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Joyce is active at the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and is on the board of the Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA), Chair of the Northern California chapter of AMITA and Member of the Executive Council of Astia.

WHEN: Thursday, October 23

8 – 9:30 AM

LOCATION: Townsend, Townsend and Crew LLP, 379 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301

PRE-REGISTERED RATES:

Members - $25; Affiliates who advertise this event - $39; General Public - $49.

This event is intended for entrepreneurs seeking feedback on their startup ideas and funding strategies. Please do not register if you do not fit this profile.

This event is co-sponsored by Townsend, Townsend and Crew, http://www.townsend.com.