Please join NYC Startup Academy on Wednesday, June 19th as we welcome Lylan Masterman, a GP of White Star Capital for a fireside chat about the current state of the startup environment. We will discuss Lylans insights into how early stage companies are structured & valued, what the hottest industries & investment trends are right now, & the process & approach that investors follow in evaluating opportunities. You may also pick up some pointers on how companies can best position themselves to go to the financing markets. We look forward to a lively discussion & a fun event!

Lylan is a General Partner at White Star Capital, leading the US office. An experienced former Software Engineer & Product Manager, Lylan leverages his experience in leading technology teams as an investor & board member.
In 2004 he joined the Atlas division of aQuantive to help lead the companys big data, rich media advertising platform, targeting product, user experience & internationalization; the company scaled drastically & 3 years later it was acquired by Microsoft for $6.2bn. Lylan has also led product organizations for four early-stage companies, worked as an engineer on WebTV at Microsoft & a technology evangelist at Microsoft Research, & was a member of the product team for the first version of VisualStudio .NET.
Selected by Alleywatch as one of New Yorks 50 Tech Influencers, Lylan has appeared on live TV on Cheddar & TDAmeritrade Network, his writing has been featured in Business Insider, VentureBeat twice & Entrepreneur, & he has been interviewed in the podcasts Something Ventured, Venture Studio & The Successful Pitch.
Lylan is a Kauffman Fellow & holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo & an MBA from Kellogg School of Management. He has lived in Canada, both east & west coasts of the US, & has called New York his home since 2011.