EBS: Demystifying VCs: How to Make the Right Impression
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Start: 03/10/2010 - 6:00 pm
End: 03/10/2010- 8:00 pm
Contact Info: Dana Shultz Email: dana@danashultz.com
Location: Crow Canyon Country Club Cell: 510 326-2123
Demystifying VCs: How to Make the Right Impression
The mystery of how to satisfy venture capitalists and raise an investment has spawned lots of folklore and myths. Do VCs follow a proven business model, or are they just hard to please? Do they make sound decisions for their investors, or are they greedy?
Our panel will explain what VCs need to understand and validate before making an investment and why they have these criteria. Learn what drives their business so you can identify the right VCs for your company and present it effectively.
The panel:
Robert Antoniades, Managing Director, RBC Venture Partners
Ben Choi, Principal, Maveron LLC
John Steuart, Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures
Moderator: Martin Kan, Director, SVB Capital
When: Wednesday, March 10
6-6:30 pm: Networking and Buffet Dinner
6:30-8 pm: Panel discussion and Q/A
Pre-registration closes 9 AM the day of the event.
Cost: (Includes buffet dinner, coffee and tea; cash bar available)
Members - $25
Affiliates who advertise this event - $25
General Public - $35
Walk-Ins: Add $10 to rates above
Locations:
Directions: Exit I-680 at
DRESS: Business casual or business attire, please - no jeans or shorts allowed.
PARTICIPANT BIOS:
Robert Antoniades, Managing Director, RBC Venture Partners (www.rbc.com/vp)
Robert is Managing Director, RBC Venture Partners and focuses on a broad range of technology areas ranging from information security to sales and trading applications. Robert also uses his over eleven years of expertise in venture capital to assist in the development and commercialization of emerging technologies developed within RBC. Prior to RBC, Robert was a Vice President at BMO Nesbitt Burns Equity Partners and Executive Director of CIBC Capital Partners’ Silicon Valley office in Menlo Park where he collectively made investments in financial services software, internet service providers, enterprise and internet software, e-healthcare, wireless application development, security products, optical networking and semiconductor companies, among others. Robert served as a board member or observer for several of his investee companies. Additionally, Robert has a broad base of transaction and industry experience as a capital markets professional. Robert has a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute and a Certified Investment Manager.
Ben Choi, Principal, Maveron LLC (www.maveron.com)
Ben joined Maveron as a principal in 2009 and focuses on investments in the mobile and Web enabled consumer services sectors. Ben joins Maveron from Storm Ventures where his board involvement included Ad Infuse, Adgregate Markets, Boorah, DeviceVM, Marketo, Mobio, and YieldBuild. Ben began his career in venture capital at RRE Ventures, where he invested in Massive, an in-game ad network purchased by Microsoft in 2006 for over $200 million. He later joined the strategic venture capital arm of the CIA, In-Q-Tel, where he led their investment in Rhevision, maker of tiny cell phone zoom lenses. Ben came to venture as an operator in several technology startups. Most recently, Ben served as vice president strategy at Greystripe, a mobile rich media ad platform. At Yahoo, he directed the Southeast Asia mobile strategy. Ben was also an engagement manager at ZEFER, an Internet consulting firm (acquired by NEC), which raised over $150 million in venture capital financing and grew to over $100 million in annual revenue. Ben received his BA in Computer Science with honors from Harvard University, and his MBA from Columbia Business School, with Dean's List and Beta Gamma Sigma distinctions. Ben is also a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program, an exclusive professional organization for the venture capital industry..
John Steuart, Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures (www.claremontvc.com)
John has spent the last 20 years managing, building and investing in technology and life science companies. John focuses on the intersection of the information technology and life sciences markets including bioinformatics, molecular diagnostics, genomics, proteomics, software and instrumentation for med-tech industries. John serves on the board of directors of Arcxis, Tibion, Fluxion, Gene Security Network and Wired Benefits. He is an Industry Fellow at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the College of Engineering as well as a member of the Advisory Council to the Lester Center's Berkeley Entrepreneurs' Forum at UC Berkeley. Early in his career, he joined Alafi Capital, an Emeryville-based venture firm specializing in early-stage biomedical companies, where he served as an officer of the General Partner. At Alafi, John lead investments in more than a dozen successful start-ups, and served as the senior executive and board member of various firms such as Tanox, Software Ventures, Lipomatrix and Megan Health. In the mid-90s, together with colleague Nat Goldhaber, John helped start Cybergold, an Internet marketing and payments company, serving as the early COO and CFO through its IPO, merger with Mypoints and sale to United Airlines. John continued with the Mypoints unit of United serving as the Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships.
Martin Kan, Director, SVB Capital (www.svb.com/accelerator/)
Martin Kan is a director in the Entrepreneur Services Group at SVB Capital. He is focused on working with both pre Series A and other software companies in their need for venture capital by leveraging the bank's various resources and strong network in the venture capital community. Previously, Kan was a relationship manager in the Emerging Technologies Group at Silicon Valley Bank where his responsibilities were to provide banking services to early stage companies. He also managed a portfolio of venture-backed companies and has extensively underwritten credit facilities to these companies. Prior to Silicon Valley Bank, Martin held several project management and engineering positions at TRW (now Northrop Grumman). While at TRW, he worked on such strategic missile projects such as MX/Peacekeeper and Minuteman III weapon systems and on various Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) programs. Kan holds a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and a master's in business administration from New York University's Stern School of Business.
This event is co-sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures, http://www.claremontvc.com, and Sonnenschein Venture Technology Group, http://www.sonnenschein.com.
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