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Are you an entrepreneur, freelancer or student interested in learning more about the tech & startup scene in NYC? 
Great! But where do you start?
Join us on our second Startup Tour NYC on Tuesday, September 27th as we formally introduce you to the NYC tech scene and startup ecosystem. You will connect with fellow startups & technologists, meet mentors and investors active in the NYC tech community, explore different resources and networks that can help your business or career and listen to great leaders in the space talk about their experiences building their ventures in New York. As a bonus, you'll also meet & interact with members of different startup communities visiting NYC that same day (Philadelphia, NJ, etc.) as well as local college students who are either launching new ventures or looking to work for a startup.
Our goal is to help each attendee learn how to navigate and work with NYC startup & business community now and in the future.
**PLEASE NOTE - this event starts at RISE New York in Midtown Manhattan (43 West 23rd Street), but will end at Galvanize in Lower Manhattan (315 Hudson Street). Each session will take place at a different venue in Lower or Midtown Manhattan. Lunch will be on your own with other attendees at Chelsea Market. Transportation between venues throughout the day will be via walking or by motorcoach bus depending on distance (greater than 10 blocks = motorcoach transfer)**
 
Who is this for?
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<LI>Founders and startup teams involved with early to growth stage ventures</LI>
<LI>Local mentors, technologists and press interested in exploring connections to the NYC startup scene</LI>
<LI>Students interested in starting or working for a startup</LI>
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What's the agenda?
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<LI>Morning: Check in at 10:45am</LI>
<LI>Program begins at 11:00am</LI>
<LI>Privatefireside chat interview with a Silicon Alley insider</LI>
<LI>Opportunity to share your current work, needs & questions withlocal mentors & investors in NYC</LI>
<LI>Connect with other members of the NYC tech & startup scene local evening networking event</LI>
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PROGRAM & ITINERARY:
Session 1: Intro to the NYC Tech & Startup Scene (approx 11:00am-11:30am), hosted by RISE New York
Interested in hearing more about where NYC Tech is today and where its going? How about a better understand of the opportunities available to you as an entrepreneur in New York? Join us for a fireside chat and discussion with a Silicon Alley insider who will give us the scoop on whats happening and how we can get in!
We welcome <A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliepsamuels" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Julie Samuels</A>, Executive Director of <A HREF="http://www.technyc.org/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Tech NYC</A> as our featured speaker.

Session 2: NYC Mentor Exchange & Brainstorm(approx 11:45am-1:30pm), hosted by RISE New York
Looking for insights into how insiders view various startup verticals and define growth? Do you need advice on how to solve business challenges you may be facing in your own venture? Mentor Exchange and Brainstorm fuses the best parts of a panel discussion with topic driven breakout sessions. First, mentors from local incubator, accelerators and consultancies briefly share best practices & advice on how to build successful ventures in New York City. Then, each panel member will host a breakout session on topics the group wants to discuss based on a vote of attendee suggestions.
Panelists include:
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<LI><A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredsorin" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Jared Sorin</A>, Associate at McCarter & English, Co-Founder at entreprenYours</LI>
<LI><A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chikeukaegbu" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Chike Ukaegbu</A>, Lead Executive, Startup 52</LI>
<LI><A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianating" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Christiana Ting</A>, Strategic Acquisitions Associate, Samsung Global Innovation Center</LI>
<LI><A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenakuznetsova" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Lena Kuznetsova</A>, Chief Analyst and Program Manager, Starta Accelerator</LI>
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Panelists will be added as they are confirmed. 
 
Lunch Session: Mix & mingle with your fellow attendees at Chelsea Market over lunch(approx 2:00pm-2:45pm)---
 
Session 3: Peer Startup Pitch Checkup (approx 3:00pm-3:30pm, onboard bus enroute to Session 4)
How clear is your professional pitch to other people (customers, partners, investors)? Whether it's for your own career or that of your business, your message is central to your success. As we travel together to our Investor panel and evening networking session, you will work in small groups with your peers aboard the bus to answer the hard questions about you, your venture and your goals. 
 
Session 4: Investor Insights Roundtable (approx 4:00pm-6:00pm) hosted by Data Future Labs
Seeking best practices on fundraising for your startup? Or are you interested on how investors source, filter and approach potential investments? Let your curiosity run free at our Investor Insights Roundtable, where Venture Capitalists who invest in early stage companies discuss how to best prepare for fundraising and trends in investment. Following the 45 minute panel, youll have time to meet with the panelists after the event.
Panelists include:
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<LI><A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cfortunato" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Chris Fortunato</A>, Principal at KEC Ventures</LI>
<LI><A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonshuman" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Jason Shuman</A>, Associate at Corigin Ventures</LI>
<LI><A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-freeman-avagliano-b7738520" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Lindsay Freeman Avagliano</A>, Assistant Director, NYS Innovation Venture Capital Fund</LI>
<LI><A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonypeccatiello" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Tony Peccatiello</A>, Principal at Social Starts</LI>
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Session 5: Founders Freestyle (approx. 6:30pm-8:30pm), hosted by Galvanize NYC
The fireside chat interview reimagined. At Founders Freestyle, we empower you, the audience, to guide the conversation with our two featured speakers through live, crowdsourced content. The event features three rounds of storytelling, where each speaker will choose an audience member to share a random idea or thought. The speaker will then have to share a story from their personal or professional lives that involves that thought before the other speaker responds with their own story. Their collective experiences, in turn, will give you a unique perspective into how these accomplished founders paved their road to success.
We're proud to host these accomplished founders at our evening event:
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<LI><A HREF="https://ae.linkedin.com/in/christinesouffrant" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Christine Souffrant Ntim</A>, Founder of <A HREF="http://vendedy.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Vendedy</A> & <A HREF="http://brandentrepreneurs.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">BrandEntrepreneurs.com</A>, Chapter Director Startup Grind Dubai</LI>
<LI><A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellisovetsky" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Michael Lisovetsky</A>, Co-Founder of <A HREF="https://www.skylightapp.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Skylight</A></LI>
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OUR SPEAKERS:

 Julie Samuels, Executive Director - Tech NYC
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Julie Samuels is Executive Director of Tech:NYC. Before that she was Executive Director at Engine, a nation-wide nonprofit focused on technology entrepreneurship and advocacy, where she remains a member of the Board. She is a frequent commentator on technology and policy issues for national mediaparticularly in the intellectual property spaceand has filed briefs with the Supreme Court and testified before Congressional Committees. Earlier in her career, Julie worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), where she was a senior staff attorney and the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.Before joining EFF, Julie litigated IP and entertainment cases. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Julie spent time as a legislative assistant at the Media Coalition in New York, as an assistant editor at the National Journal in D.C., and worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Champaign, IL. Julie earned her J.D. from Vanderbilt University and her B.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She serves on the Boards of Engine, and the Internet Education Foundation, TechCongress,and on various Advisory Boards, such as of the Defensive Patent License and the License on Transfer Network, as well as on ABNY's Steering Committee and Comptroller Scott Stringers Red Tape Commission. She lives in New York City with her family.

 Chike Ukaegbu, Lead Executive - Startup52
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Chike Ukaegbu is an Educator, Entrepreneur, Investor, Humanitarian and Biomedical Engineer who is passionate about curbing disconnection, poverty, educational disadvantage and opportunity divide in underrepresented communities. Chike is an ardent believer in diversity/inclusion and its benefits and continues to advocate for its support and adoption. He is currently raising a diversity focused Venture Capital fund and was recently invited toThe White Houseto do a briefing on initiatives that support diversity, STEM education and entrepreneurship for youths and underserved communities. Chike co-founded Re:LIFE Inc, a 501c3 nonprofit with the mission to empower youth through entrepreneurship, tech and education and have served over 400 youths since its inception. He is also the founder of Startup52, NYC's first diversity focused accelerator with a mission to increase the representation of founders from untapped communities in tech and startup entrepreneurship. He is an ex-fellow of the prestigiousColin Powell Leadership Fellowshipon leadership and public policy, was named a 2014NYC Rising Starby Pave for his contributions to youth development and recently, a 2015Ashoka Emerging InnovatorFinalist. He gave a 2014TEDx talkon entrepreneurship in Hawaii and continues to advocate for economic empowerment of disenfranchised communities through various outlets, among other achievements. Chike and his endeavors have been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Ebony, BizJournal, Opportunity Lives, UrbanGeekz, etc and was recently interviewed byRandi Zuckerberg(sister to Mark Zuckerberg, foundr of facebook) on her SiriusXM show, Dot Complicated! Chike studied Venture Capital & Investments atStanford, MBA courses atUPenn, Executive Leadership and Management atCornell, and Biomedical Engineering atThe City College of New York, where he taught Math for seven years and served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence for two.

 Jared Sorin, Co-Founder - entreprenYours
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Jared is the founder of entreprenYOURS, a new startup accelerator program for early stage companies, providing a one-stop source for access to information, networking and financial and professional services, including accounting, legal, executive compensation, insurance, etc. EntreprenYOURS has a unique cross-ownership structure, whereby every company accepted into the entreprenYOURS network receives an equity stake in entreprenYOURS itself, fostering a collaborative and supportive ecosystem. Jared is also an attorney with McCarter & English. He concentrates his practice on advising entrepreneurial clients from the pre-formation stage through exit(from ideation to IPO)in a broad range of technology-driven industries in the areas of general corporate, transactional and securities law matters.
 
 Christiana Ting, Business Dev & Strategy Associate - Samsung Global Innovation Center
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Christiana Ting is a Business Development & Strategy Associate at Samsungs Global Innovation Center. She focuses on acquisitions and investments in early stage software and services companies. Her areas of interest include digital health and wellness, artificial intelligence and biometrics. She was previously a Private Equity Analyst at Evercore, focused on advising consumer and technology-focused GPs, and an Investment Banking Analyst at Barclays, focused on Industrial M&A. Christiana graduated from Emory Universitys Goizueta Business School with a BBA in Finance and Accounting. She serves as a volunteer and mentor for Per Scholas in New York.
 
 Lena Kuznetsova, Program Manager Starta Accelerator
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Lenais the Program Managerat Starta Accelerator, playing a significant role in building the acceleration program from the ground up as the programs first hire. <A HREF="http://www.startaaccelerator.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">StartaAccelerator</A>is an initiative of Starta CapitalVC fund and is designed to bring together, inspire and accelerate the growth of select startups with Eastern European roots and frontier technology, and overcome cultural differences through a customized educational program that help startups to gain traction in U.S. and become part of the local startup and investing ecosystem.

 Jason Shuman, Associate Corigin Ventures
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Born and raised in Boston, Jason Shuman comes from a family of entrepreneurs. An associateat Corigin Ventures, hes responsible for sourcing and analyzing deals, along with working with, and supporting portfolio companies. Prior to Corigin, Jason founded Category Five, an eCommerce mens footwear company that specialized in handsewn Boat Shoes (hence the twitter name, BoatShuman) and Driving Moccasins. Jason has worked in the identity theft protection space at Identity Force and the real estate industry at Luxury Residential Group. Passionate about entrepreneurship from a young age, Jason has consulted for numerous eCommerce and marketplace startups. Hes also a mentor at MassChallenge, Founder Institute and the Motive Real Estate Tech Accelerator.

 Chris Fortunato, Principal KEC Ventures
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Chris is a Principal at KEC where he focuses on digital media, ecommerce, fintech and vertically-specific enterprise software. Chris came to KEC with a background in financial research and analysis. Prior to KEC Ventures he worked at Aegis Capital performing research on U.S. equities. Before his time at Aegis, Chris worked in the Capital Markets Division at Janney Montgomery Scott. He was a member of the High Yield Corporate Credit team at Delaware Investments prior to his tenure at JMS. Chris has a passion for education and learning. He authored a self-tutoring mathematics textbook for students preparing for standardized exams. Chris holds a bachelor of science from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

 Tony Peccatiello, Principal Social Starts
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Tony comes from a background both as an entrepreneur and an investor. He attended the University of Virginia where he studied Economics and Mathematics. After graduating, Tony worked as a financial analyst for the University of Virginia Investment Management Company. After leaving UVIMCO, he worked for Wiseman and Associate as the director of portfolio management. Realizing his passion was for startups and technology, Tony left to found Pyne in NYC.Pyne was a social polling app that enabled people to ask questions of their friends or strangers as well as have conversations based on the results of those questions.Pyne also expanded into a tool for publishers where media companies could embed polls into their websites in order to drive engagement as well as get feedback.After Pyne, Tony joined joined Social Starts in October 2015 as a principal in NYC and is focused on both sourcing new deals as well as actively helping existing portfolio companies.Tony is also passionate about helping to grow the NYC startup ecosystem and participates in a number of mentor programs.

Lindsay Freeman Avagliano, Assistant Director New York State Innovation Venture Capital Fund
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Lindsay is Assistant Director of the New York State Innovation Venture Capital Fund, an economic development-focused venture fund that supports New Yorks tech ecosystem by providing growth capital to startups in underserved regions and industries. Previously, Lindsay was an associate in the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler, where she advised venture investors, entrepreneurs and startups on a variety of legal, financing and business matters. She has also consulted for startups in the edtech and social enterprise spaces.Lindsay serves on the Associate Board of BUILD, a nonprofit that provides entrepreneurship-based learning programs to high school students in under-resourced communities. She holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.

 Christine Souffrant Ntim Founder, Vendedy & BrandEntrepreneurs.com
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Christine Souffrant Ntim is a Haitian-American entrepreneur with over 7 years business management experience across 30+countries. She was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30, AdAge 40 Under 40, and Caribbean Change Makers 30 Under 30 in 2016. She speaks on leadership, disruptive entrepreneurship, and social impact at the United Nations, TEDx, European Forums and over 20+ global conferences each year. She also interviews top influencers in the Middle East as the Managing Director of Startup Grind Dubai, powered by Google for Entrepreneurs. Her entrepreneurial journey started with Vendedy a social network connecting global travelers to street markets. The innovative platform was featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Huffington Post, Inc Magazine, IBM Global Entrepreneur, Microsoft, the Clinton Global Initiative, Master Card Priceless Pitch, SheKnowsMedia Pitch, Chivas Venture Million Dollar Prize, Forbes Million Dollar Prize Top 40, SOCAP Gratitude Network, Rent the Runway Project Entrepreneur and Digital Entertainment World. Her efforts to digitize the $10 trillion dollar street market economy have been recognized by top influencers of Singularity@NASA and Draper University. Today, Christine is well recognized as a speaker, traveler and serial entrepreneur who builds startup ecosystems for entrepreneurs. Her global initiatives include BrandEntrepreneurs.com (the leading platform of free resources for startup founders), CaribbeanStartups.com (accelerates 100 startups to market each year), and WeStartupHaiti (the central hub for Haitis entrepreneurs). For fun, she travels and binge watches top business shows with her husband and beautiful baby girl.

 Michael Lisovetsky, Co-Founder, Skylight
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Michael is an accomplished entrepreneur based in New York City. He started a web hosting company at the early age of 14 and graduated from NYU Stern with a Finance degree. His recent venture, Skylight, an app that connects users with rooms to rent or sublet, raised $500k from Tim Draper (SpaceX, Tesla, Hotmail), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), and Great Oaks VC.
 
 
OUR VENUE SPONSORS
 
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NYU Tandon Future Labshelp emerging companies transform into thriving businesses by providing guidance, expertise, resources, and community that startups need to succeed. The incubators are a public-private-academic partnership where entrepreneurs are nurtured by university partners with support from government and the private sector. By leveraging the wealth of global talent found in New York City, we are able to accelerate the growth of new ventures and bring economic activity to the area.
The incubators provide collaborative spaces where faculty, students, and alumni engage with the tech community. They provide startups with administrative support in addition to access to talent, markets, capital, research, and resources. A strong network and environment predicated on success allowstartups to flourish.
 
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Galvanize is an education company that blends the lines between learning and working. We believe in creating easy access for anyone who has the drive and determination to jump into the tech world, especially in entrepreneurship, engineering, and data science. Our campuses are home to students, startups, investors, mentors, and other people who are engaged and excited to level up their skills. To learn more about Galvanize, visit<A HREF="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgalvanize.com&esheet=51160395&newsitemid=20150810006351&lan=en-US&anchor=http%3A%2F%2Fgalvanize.com&index=6&md5=3fc13f3fbe4240dd693e40eb4e72f081" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">http://galvanize.com</A>.
 
GENERAL SPONSORS
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Invest in Bavaria, representing Germanys largest, most innovative state, provides free of charge and confidential assistance to US companies considering expansion into Europe. Our services are designed to quickly connect you to the people and information you need in order to establish and develop your presence in Bavaria/Germany/Europe.To give you a unique advantage, Invest in Bavarias New York office will soon launch its European Expansion Incubator (E2I) to help you build your operational framework and strategic plan to enter the EU. Our organization will also host the only event in the US where companies are able to meet 1on1 with sought after global players like BMW, Siemens and more at the same time to discuss their value propositions.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Refund Policy:No refunds or exchanges are allowed. You may transfer your reservation to another person, but the request AND approval of the transfer must be made via email toCoTo Travelat least3 days prior to the event. No Exceptions.
Registration Questions:Part of the experience is connecting members of our community at our events. In order to provide the best possible matches and pairings that meet your needs and interests, we require you to answer a series of questions when reserving your seat. We ask you to describe the problem you need help with and the people youd like to meet. Our goal is to provide a safe environment for the exchange of ideas.
Please note that the answers you provide willNOTbe used by CoTo Travel or our affiliates beyond the scope of our service and related programs. In line with legal standards, we ask that you only share information that you are legally allowed to disclose to the public. If you encounter any questions that may require you to violate this request, pleaseDO NOTproceed with the registration.
Service Disclaimers: Please note that the itinerary, locations and equipment to service this event is subject to change at any time. Should the event be cancelled for any reason, you will receive an email communication announcing the cancellation and a full refund within 3 business days of the announcement. Cancellation by CoTo Travel is the ONLY grounds for a refund.