Pitch Night with 2 VCs from Garage Ventures and Rubicon Venture Capital
You are invited to pitch to Bill Reichert, Venture Capitalist at Garage Technology Ventures, the early-stage venture capital firm he cofounded with Guy Kawasaki, the famous venture capitalist, author, and former Apple evangelist.
Some of Garage’s most successful startups include Pandora, Tripwire, LeftHand Networks, Coremetrics, Hoku Scientific, Kaboodle, WhiteHat Security and Simply Hired.
And, Andrew Romans, Venture Capitalist at Rubicon Venture Capital, a very active early stage VC fund focused on backing consumer and enterprise technology companies in the internet, software and connected hardware verticals at Late Seed, Series A and B stages.
Rubicon’s coinvestors include Sequoia, Battery, Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, NEA, Crosslink Ventures and many others.
Food and beverages are provided.
Pitch slots are limited, so purchase your ticket now.
SPACE IS LIMITED.
You must purchase a ticket to attend.
Agenda
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, 2/23/2017
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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
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Who Should Attend
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!
Other audience attendees can be angel investors looking for quality deal flow, skilled individuals looking to work with interesting startups or consultants providing value-add services to startups.
The Pitch Night Format
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.
SPACE IS LIMITED.
You must purchase a ticket to attend.
Investor Panel
Bill Reichart
Investor
Garage Technology Ventures
Bill Reichert is Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, the early-stage venture capital firm he cofounded with Guy Kawasaki, the famous venture capitalist, author, and former Apple evangelist
Some of Garage’s most successful startups include Pandora, Tripwire, LeftHand Networks, Coremetrics, Hoku Scientific, Kaboodle, WhiteHat Security and Simply Hired.
Bill has spent most of his career as an entrepreneur and operating executive.
Prior to joining Garage, Bill was a co-founder and senior executive at several early-stage, venture-backed technology companies, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, Infa Technologies, and Academic Systems.
Earlier in his career, Bill worked at McKinsey & Co. in Los Angeles, the World Bank in Washington, DC, and Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York.
Bill earned his BA from Harvard University and his MBA from Stanford University.
Bill is a frequent speaker at local, national and international conferences and has spoken at many events organized by Stanford University, Kauffman Foundation, SV Forum, VC Taskforce, etc.
Andrew Romans
Investor
Rubicon Ventures
Andrew Romans is a General Partner and co-founder of Rubicon Venture Capital, a very active early stage VC fund with offices in San Francisco and New York City focused on backing consumer and enterprise technology companies in the internet, software and connected hardware verticals at Late Seed, Series A and B stages.
Rubicon raises capital from corporates, individual high net worth angel investors, family offices and institutional LPs creating a powerful network ready to help its startup portfolio.
Rubicon’s coinvestors include Sequoia, Battery, Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, NEA, Crosslink Ventures and many others.
Rubicon has recruited a team of 17 Venture Partner investors based in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York and other key tech corridors in the US, UK, Europe, Japan, and China.
Andrew recently published MASTERS OF CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL: Collective Wisdom from 100 VCs Best Practices for Corporate Venturing – How to Access Startup Innovation & How to Get Funded.
Andrew previously founded The Founders Club, an innovative equity exchange fund and secondary VC fund.
He was also the Founder & President of The Global TeleExchange (The GTX), a $50M VC-backed telecom VoIP venture.
He was Managing Partner at Georgetown Venture Partners, a venture capital & M&A corporate finance boutique.
He built sales organizations from scratch for Sentito Networks (sold to Verso) and Motive Communications (IPO NASDAQ).
Andrew holds an MBA in Finance from Georgetown University completed on scholarship.
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