Sep 16, Mountain View, CA event - “Ingredients Needed to Raise Venture Capital in Today’s Market”
RHP Presents: “Ingredients Needed to Raise Venture Capital in Today’s Market”
The Execution Matrix is a series of interactive leadership sessions designed to build a foundation for achieving the next round of funding. We are currently focusing on understanding the mind of the VCs in today’s market.
Who should attend: CEOs, founders, management team members of startup companies looking to raise early stage capital from SV VCs.
Keynote Speaker: Vivek Mehra, GP at August Capital
Vivek joined August Capital in 2003. He invests broadly in IT infrastructure and areas of interest include data center technologies, systems management, security, storage, and cloud computing systems and software.
Prior to joining August Capital, Vivek co-founded Cobalt Networks in 1996. As CTO & VP of Product Development, Vivek built the first successful server appliance and grew Cobalt into a worldwide leader in the category, culminating in a successful IPO and acquisition by Sun Microsystems for $2B. At Sun, Vivek served as the Vice President and General Manager of the Cobalt Business Unit and a member of Sun’s Technical Architecture Council.
Prior to founding Cobalt, Vivek held a number of technical and management positions at Apple, SGI, and Digital Equipment Corporation and successfully developed numerous products including Internet enabled set-top boxes, PDAs, RISC workstations, and high performance graphics subsystems.
Vivek received a BS in Electronics from Punjab University , India , and an MS in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University .
Current Investments and Board Affiliations: DotNetNuke, Mavenir and Virsto Software.
Previous August Capital investments: Reconnex (acquired by McAfee), Encentuate (acquired by IBM), NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco), PulseCore Semiconductor (acquired by ON Semiconductor), PacketTrap Networks (acquired by Quest Software), Mimosa (acquired by Iron Mountain ), and Iridigm (acquired by Qualcomm). Prior to joining August Capital, Vivek was an investor in NetFish (acquired by Iona ) and Octane Software (acquired by Epiphany), was an advisor to Perfigo (acquired by Cisco) and served on the board of Net6 (acquired by Citrix). Panel Speakers: Curtis Feeny, GP at Voyager Capital; Ryan Floyd , GP at Storm Ventures; Warren Weiss, GP at Foundation Capital and Keval Desai, Partner at InterWest Partners Moderator: Rebekah Wu, Founder at Right-Hand Partners. She will ask the tough questions you’ve been wanting to ask at this event during the panel Q&A session.
About the event:
Vivek will discuss typical progression from idea/conception to forming a fundable founding team to bootstrapping through product development to raising seed capital to acquiring referenceable customers to meeting with VCs and what ingredients are necessary at every step to get to raise venture capital. Following the keynote, the panel will take any Q&A’s from the audience and share their preferences and ingredients they look for when evaluating a deal for investment. VCs look closely at your business model, market opportunity, team and technology. Each firm puts more weight on one or 2 of those 4 ingredients.
Come find out what ingredient is the most important for these individual VCs when evaluating a deal for investment!
This event is sponsored by IEEE-CNSV and Fenwick & West
Agenda: 9/16/2011
8:30am to 9:00am – Registration
9:00am to 10:00am – Keynote on the topic of “Ingredients Needed to Get Funded in Today’s Market” – Vivek Mehra, GP at August Capital
10:00am to 10:15am – break
10:15am to 11:15am – Q&A and Panel (Curtis Feeny, GP at Voyager Capital; Ryan Floyd , GP at Storm Ventures; Warren Weiss, GP at Foundation Capital; and Keval Desai, Partner at InterWest Partners)
11:15am to 11:30am – networking
Location:
Fenwick & West
801 California Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
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