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With Christian Noske (BMW i Ventures), Shawn Cheng (Vayner Capital), Steven Greenberg (ff VC), Jeremy Harper (ERA Accelerator), Jay Levy (Zelkova VC), Dimitris Kouvaros (Newark Venture Partners), John Albright (Relay VC), Jay Thakrar (SeedInvest), Angelia Mller (XRC Labs), Mark Wachen (DreamIt Ventures), Sumeet Shah (Brand Foundry Ventures).
Tue, Nov 24, 2015 @ 06:00 PM   $25   WeWork, 54 W 40th St
 
     
 
 
              

      
 
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000; font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Pitch 5 investors looking for early stage investments; You should only sign up for this event if you are going to raise money now or in the next 6 months.</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000;">WeWork, our host sponsor, is home to over 14,000 entrepreneurs and creators in New York City. WeWork provides the space, community, and services that small businesses need in order to create a life, not just a living. With new locations opening soon (</SPAN><A STYLE="color: #1155cc;" HREF="https://www.wework.com/locations/new-york-city/wall-street" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Wall Street</A>,<A STYLE="color: #1155cc;" HREF="https://www.wework.com/locations/new-york-city/penn-station" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Penn Station</A><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000;">, and</SPAN><A STYLE="color: #1155cc;" HREF="https://www.wework.com/locations/new-york-city/times-square" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Times Square</A><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000;">), WeWork is growing it's diverse community in Manhattan. </SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Shawn Cheng is a Principal at Vayner Capital, Gary Vaynerchuks venture capital firm. Vayner's focus is on Seed and Series A investments for startups in need of strategic guidance in growth and storytelling. Prior to joining he worked in Strategy, Digital Advertising, Social Media and Search at BBDO, Razorfish and VaynerMedia for 10 years. During that time he helped to builddozens of brands such as, Mondelez, GE, Mondelez, Starwood Hotels and Victorias Secret.</SPAN></P>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dimitris Kouvaros, NVPs Director of Accelerator Operations and a member of the funds early stage investment team, has been a leader of various startup initiatives in the New York metro area, including his roles as Co-Director of NYC Startup Next (acquired by Techstars), Co-Organizer of TechBrunch, NYC Organizer of Startup Weekend, and COO of the Baruch Investment Management Group, a student-run investment fund. Prior to that, Dimitris headed business developments for Huddle Metrics and for Placemeter, a Techstars 2013 Class company, and was a member of Silicon Valley Banks Early Stage team within the banks Entrepreneur Services Group in New York. Dimitris holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from CUNY-Baruch College, and is an avid Mets fan, an occasional standup comic, and co-creator of Live! From Tomorrow, a startup-focused late night talk show on Meerkat.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><SPAN>John is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Relay Ventures,an early stage venture fund exclusively focused on</SPAN><SPAN>mobile</SPAN><SPAN>connectivity, with offices in Toronto and Menlo Park. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Joh</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: -webkit-auto;">n currently serves as a director of Fuse Powered, Touch Bistro, Nymi, Blue Ant Media, InPowered, Difference Capital Funding, theScore and OCAD University. In addition, John serves as an advisor to The Next 36, Ryerson Digital Media Zone, and OCAD Universitys Imagination Catalyst. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: -webkit-auto;">John is a Chartered Financial Analyst and received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Schulich School of Business at York University</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<P STYLE="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-wrap: break-word; color: #393939;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Jay heads up deal sourcing at SeedInvest, a leading investment platform which connects 13,000+ institutional and accredited investors with $495MM+ in collective investor interest to highly-vetted startup investment opportunities. Prior to SeedInvest, Jay was an Investment Associate at Cambridge Associates (CA), where he specialized in private equity and venture capital. Before CA, he led business development at SoluSoft, where he focused on product management and marketing for business process management solutions. He also founded a music and event management company, JT Entertainers, which specialized in private and corporate events globally. He studied Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Marketing at Babson College and Managerial Economics and Strategy at the London School of Economics. During his time at Babson, he was also an Entrepreneurship Mentor on campus. In his spare time, Jay enjoys training karate, mixing music, traveling the world, and exploring new cuisines.</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-wrap: break-word; color: #393939; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Christian Noske is a Senior Associate with BMW i Ventures. Christian focuses on early stage investments in Navigation & Traffic, Smart Parking and Consumer Internet. He also manages BMWs Incubator space in New York and is the organizer of the NY Future Mobility Meetup. Prior to joining BMW i Ventures, Christian was CFO for a digital agency that was acquired by WPP, and worked in Finance and Business Development for Robert Bosch GmbH in Germany and Asia. Christian holds a degree in Business Informatics from the State University Stuttgart in Germany.</SPAN></P>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 15.84px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 18px;">Mark Wachen is the Managing Director of Upstage Ventures, a firm that advises and invests in consumer internet and interactive marketing companies. Wachen is also a Managing Director of DreamIt Ventures, one of the world's leading accelerator programs. Previously, Wachen founded Optimost, the company that pioneered multivariate testing and optimization online. Wachen served as its CEO up until its acquisition by Interwoven in 2007. Prior to Optimost, Wachen was Vice President of Online Ventures for Sony Music. Wachen graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth and has an MBA from Harvard.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 15.84px;">Steven is an analyst at ff Venture Capital, an early stage fund based in New York. Prior to joining ffVC, Steven served as a Project Assistant to the CEO of Aol, Tim Armstrong. Steven was a Co-founder of Unroll.me (acquired by Rakuten), an email subscription management tool which has helped its 2 million users block over 5 billion unwanted newsletters. He additionally held roles as a Product Developer at the Huffington Post and as a Digital Strategist at MKTG.</DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 15.84px;">Sumeet is responsible for sourcing, executing, and monitoring new opportunities at Brand Foundry Ventures. He has 6 years of experience across the startup and private equity industries, formerly running new business strategies at Gist Digital and handling business development and project work at Gotham Consulting Partners. Sumeet graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering, specializing in Biomechanics.</DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 15.84px;">Matthew Moisan is an attorney, an entrepreneur, and an innovator. Matthew strives to add value to his clients beyond providing boilerplate legal services. He and his firm, Moisan Legal, PC, represent the digital age entrepreneur.</DIV>
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