THE VC BREAKFAST CLUB UPCOMING EVENTS
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FEATURING A DIFFERENT VC
EVERY WEEK
The SVASE VC Breakfast club provides a
terrific opportunity for entrepreneurs to
meet
with VCs in a relaxed, informal setting, to
build
relationships and get valuable feedback on
their startup idea. Participating
entrepreneurs
deliver an extended elevator pitch for 8 -
10
minutes, and the guest VC provides
immediate
feedback, enabling fast, effective,
accessible
mentoring and relationship
development.
A unique opportunity indeed for
entrepreneurs
to meet with potential investors who they
otherwise would struggle to meet, and take
away ideas, advice and possible leads
from
the guest VC as action steps.
VC Breakfast Club with Savinay Berry, Vice President, Granite Ventures Focus: Software and Advanced Mobile Services
Granite Ventures, http://www.granitevc.com
Granite Ventures has helped early-stage technology companies build solid foundations for success since 1992, when we began investing as the early-stage venture capital group within Hambrecht & Quist. Granite became an independent firm in 1998, but continues to leverage decades of investment and technology experience to benefit and create value for our portfolio companies. We focus our investments on sectors where our partners have deep domain expertise, broad industry knowledge, and significant investment experience.
Granite manages over $1 billion in venture capital and has invested in more than 90 private companies. We partner with promising and successful entrepreneurs to create businesses that have a competitive edge and achieve category leadership.
The Granite team consists of a seasoned group of investors who, together, share more than 150 years of venture and technology industry experience. Our team has invested in early-stage technology companies through multiple economic cycles and brings together complementary skills and experience to the Firm. In addition to extensive early-stage investing experience, the Principals have been successful entrepreneurs, executives, attorneys, research analysts, and investment bankers. This collective experience gives Granite a powerful combination of technology, entrepreneurial, operational, and transactional expertise.
Savinay Berry, Vice President, Granite Ventures
Savinay Berry joined Granite Ventures in August 2008. He focuses on software and advanced mobile services.
Prior to joining Granite Ventures, Savinay held associate positions at JK&B Capital and MK Capital. Prior to that, Savinay worked in Dell Inc. in various product and business development roles, most recently as senior global commodity manager for enterprise and consumer mobile products. Prior to that, he was with Instrumented Sensors Technology, a data recording equipment startup, where he helped develop a real-time operating system for embedded data recorders.
Savinay received his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was a Director of the Venture Capital Club and won the Sustainable National Venture Capital Competition. He also has a Masters degree in Engineering Management from the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at Northwestern University and a Master's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University. He received a B.S. degree from University of Pune, India.
When: Thursday, January 20, 2011
8 - 9:30 AM
Location: Kilpatrick Townsend, 390 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
Kilpatrick Townsend, http://www.kilpatricktownsend.
VC Breakfast Club with Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures, Focus: Internet, Software, Networking and Semi Conductors
Garage Technology Ventures, LLC, http://www.garage.com
Garage Technology Ventures is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund. We're looking to invest in entrepreneurial teams with big ideas and a need for seed capital to turn their ideas into great companies.
We are willing to invest in unproven teams attacking unproven markets with unproven solutions. We're not interested in teams that are creating the nth solution to the same old problem nor companies who are trying to improve things by only 10 or 20 percent.
On a more tactical level, the characteristics of the companies we invest in are:
Sectors: Software, services, clean technology, and material sciences (not life sciences)
Funding: Seeking seed or early investments from $500,000 to $3,000,000
Geography: California or Western US based
Business model: requiring less than $5,000,000 to reach break even or sustainability
Bill Reichert Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures, LLC
Bill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology and materials science companies. He sits on the Boards of CaseStack, WhiteHat, ClearFuels, cFares, and ThermoCeramix.
Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, and Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and the World Bank.
Currently he is the Chairman of the Small Fund Roundtable of the VC Taskforce and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
When: Thursday, January 27, 2011
8 - 9:30 AM
Location: Kilpatrick Townsend, 390 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
Kilpatrick Townsend, http://www.kilpatricktownsend.
VC Breakfast Club with Bipul Sinha, Principal, LightSpeed Venture Partners Focus: Digital/Social Media, Internet, SaaS, and Software Infrastructure
LightSpeed Venture Partners, http://www.lightspeedvp.com
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm that manages over $2 billion of capital commitments. We closed Lightspeed VIII, an $800 million fund, in early 2008. Over the past two decades, our investment professionals have backed more than 150 companies, many of which have gone on to become leaders in their respective industries. Our team invests in the U.S. and internationally, with investment professionals and advisors located in Silicon Valley, China, India, and Israel.
Bipul Sinha, Principal, LightSpeed Venture Partners
Bipul Sinha is a Principal at Lightspeed and focuses primarily on Internet and software sectors, with a particular interest in advertising technology, social media, digital media and software infrastructure. He has over fourteen years of operations and technology investment experience.
Previously, Bipul worked at Blumberg Capital where he led investments in digital media, Internet and datacenter software infrastructure sectors. His selected investments include DoubleVerify, Nutanix, ZipZapPlay, Mertado, Hootsuite and CarWoo. Prior to venture capital, Bipul was with Banc of America Technology Investment Banking Group where he worked on M&A and equity financing transactions. Prior to banking, Bipul was Director of database and middleware products with Oracle Corporation where he worked with customers, brought innovative solutions to market, and managed teams. Bipul also held sales and engineering positions at American Megatrends and IBM.
Bipul received his B.Tech. (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and holds an MBA from The Wharton School where he was a Palmer Scholar. Bipul also holds several patents in distributed computing
When: Thursday, February 3, 2011
8 - 9:30 AM
Location: Kilpatrick Townsend, 390 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
Kilpatrick Townsend, http://www.kilpatricktownsend.
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