SOLD OUT: Andrew Romans, VC @ Rubicon, coinvestor: Sequoia, Andreessn, Greylock
– MASTERS OF CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL: Collective Wisdom from 50 VCs Best Practices for Corporate Venturing How to Access Startup Innovation & How to Get Funded
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– THE ENTREPRENEURIAL BIBLE TO VENTURE CAPITAL: Inside Secrets from the Leaders in the Startup Game
More than 20% of all venture capital financing’s include at least one corporate VC and thus startups need to understand how corporate venture capital works.
Andrew captured wisdom from interviews with 100+ Corporate Venture Capitalists (CVCs), independent VCs, CEOs of startups, bankers and lawyers to write the definitive book on the topic of corporate venture capital.
If you are a startup or entrepreneur, this is a talk you do not want to miss!
Agenda
6:45pm – 7:00pm – Intros, demo/sponsor tables mentions
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Speakers program and Q&A
8:30pm – 9:00pm – Meet the speaker, networking
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Date:
Tuesday, 04/28/2015
Time:
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?
Discussion Topics
Also, Andrew will share findings from his research and experience on why and how corporates should establish CVCs.
Other topics included:
– How to partner with corporate VCs and big companies
– Landmines to avoid that can be disastrous for startups and other VCs involved
– How to position your startup to be acquired by a large corporation
– How corporations can use venture capital to access startup innovation, a steady pipeline of partnerships, investments and ultimately M&A opportunities
– And much more…
Speaker
Andrew Romans
General Partner and co-founder
Rubicon Venture Capital
Co-investors include Sequoia, Battery, Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, NEA, Crosslink Ventures and many others.
Rubicon has recruited a world class team of 14 Venture Partner investors based in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York and other key tech corridors in the US, UK, Europe and Japan.
Romans is a frequent venture capital guest speaker on TV shows including CNBC and MSNBC.
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 lived in Europe for 15 years working in the venture capital, software & telecom ecosystem and is fluent in English, German & French and conversant in Slovak.
He holds a BA UVM, (exchange student Duke University, FU Berlin) and an MBA in Finance from Georgetown University completed on scholarship.
Free street parking
Free parking garage
Public transportation
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