Pitch Night: Pitch to Ignition Partners, Voyager Capital & Naiss Ventures
You are invited to pitch to Kellan Carter, Principle at Ignition Partners, Curtis Feeny, Partner at Voyager Capital, and Ed Fernandez, Partner at Naiss Ventures.
Ignition Partners has invested in companies such as Docker, Bill.com, Cloudera, heroku, Splunk, and DocuSign, just to name a few. Voyager Capitial has over $420 mill under management with exits such as aQuantive, Elemental and Bluebox. And Naiss Ventures is an early stage VC firm focusing on tech startups.
Agenda
6:00pm – 6:45pm – Registration, food and networking
6:45pm – 7:00pm – Sponsors & Demo Table mentions
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Startups pitch to the investor panel
8:30pm – 9:00pm – Meet the investors and network
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Date:
Thursday, 08/25/2016
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6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location:
Founders Floor
2 North 1st St., 5th Floor
San Jose, CA 95113
COWORKING ACCELERATOR
Interested in taking your startup to the next level?
Who Should Attend
Startup founders looking to raise funding. This is an opportunity to pitch a panel of investors and receive constructive quality feedback specific to your company. Also a great opportunity for any founder to fine-tune their pitch delivery for a specific time limit, gain further experience holding a mic and speaking in front of large crowds.
In addition, startup founders and entrepreneurs who are NOT ready to pitch are welcome to attend as audience members and watch. This can be a highly valuable learning experience to better understand the pitch process and what investors look for, and learn from feedback given by the investor panel. Then, apply these learnings to your own startup!
The Pitch Night Format
The Pitch Night event has a limited amount of pitch slots available, so purchase your pitch ticket now before they are all gone. Each startup will have 90-seconds to verbally pitch the investor panel (no pitch deck). Each investor on the panel will then provide feedback to that startup.
At the end of the event the investor panel will choose the best pitch of the night, who will receive one free demo/sponsor table ($75-$100 value) at one of our future events held within the next 30 days.
Investor Panel
Kellan Carter
Principle
Ignition Partners
Prior to Ignition, Kellan spent two years in investment banking at Mooreland Partners in San Francisco. There, he helped execute M&A transactions for technology companies in a variety of sectors, including mobile, enterprise software, systems, and infrastructure. Prior to Mooreland Partners, Kellan was an associate in KPMG’s advisory practice in Orange County, CA, where he helped structure asset-backed securities collateralized by student loans, auto loans, and residential and commercial mortgages.
Kellan holds a BS degree in business administration from the University of Montana in Missoula. He currently is a board member of MADE, a University of Montana affiliated program designed to promote entrepreneurship in Montana.
Curtis Feeney
Managing Director
Voyager Capital
Curtis has served on 18 boards, public and private. He currently sits on the board of CBRE (CBG:NYSE) and prior he was on the board of Trammell Crow Company (TCC:NYSE).
Curtis represents Voyager on the boards of AutoGrid, Ayla Networks, ClearCare, Sensys, Vidder and Wise.io.
Before joining Voyager, Curtis was Executive Vice President of Stanford Management Company, managing Stanford University’s endowment.
Curtis has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS ME from Texas A&M University.
Ed Fernandez
Partner & Cofounder
Naiss.io
Ed is a regular contributor to CNBC and author at publishing house Plataforma Editorial. He is also a mentor at Singularity University and visiting lecturer at UIMP University and IE Business School. Ed is a seasoned mobile industry veteran with more than two decades of experience combined holding various high executive positions at BlackBerry and Nokia (where he received Nokia Circle of Excellence Award).
He is member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and is also member of High IQ societies EPL & TenIQ. He made it to the World Genius Directory. Ed finished his post-graduate degree at University of Chicago School of Business & IE Business School. He also graduated from the Global Engineering Leadership Program at UC Berkeley.
Free street parking
Abundant street parking is available for free after 6:00 p.m. in downtown San Jose. Streets closest to Founders Floor with free street parking are Santa Clara St., North Market St. and St. John St.
Free parking garage
Founders Floor will provide a 2 hour free parking voucher to the Market & San Pedro Square Parking Garage. This garage is only one block away from Founders Floor. It’s located at 45 N. Market St., between W. Santa Clara St. and W. St. John St. Upon check-in at the Founders Floor event, make sure you ask for the 2 hour free parking voucher.
Public transportation
VTA Light Rail is right outside our building, and runs every 20 minutes making public transportation fast and easy. Both the Mountain View-Winchester and the Alum Rock-Santa Teresa VTA light rail stop at the Santa Clara Station(s) which is located just a block away.
Refund Policy
You may request a refund up to 48 hours before the event. Unfortunately, any refunds requested less than 48 hours before the event cannot be honored. Thank you for your understanding.
Disclaimer
By participating in this Founders Floor Event, you agree to this liability disclaimer: www.foundersfloor.com/disclaimer