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Inside The Investor Mind
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| With Cristina Georgoulakis (Principal Advisor, WHIPSAW), Patricia Liu (President, MIT Alumni Angels of NorCal), Leah Solivan (Founder, The Precedent Collective). |
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Nov 05 (Thu) @ 04:30 PM
FREE
| | KVIC Silicon Valley, 100 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park
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What does a candid conversation with experienced investors actually sound like?
Join Venturous Counsel for the fourth installment of Inside the Investor Mind, an informal, founder-focused conversation designed to give attendees a closer look at how investors think.
We're bringing together Cristina Apple Georgoulakis, Patricia Liu, & Leah Solivan, three experienced investors, operators, founders, & startup advisors with different backgrounds, perspectives, & approaches to venture investing. Cristina brings experience from both sides of the startup & venture table, including as a former Partner at 776. Patricia is an angel investor, founder of Venture-Ready Pitching, & Co-President of MIT Alumni Angels of NorCal. Leah is the founder of TaskRabbit & now invests in the next generation of companies as Managing Director of Precedent.vc.
The conversation will be candid, practical, & shaped by the people in the room, with plenty of space for founder questions & direct discussion about fundraising, pitching, evaluating opportunities, & what investors are actually looking for.
The event will also feature pitches from a small group of selected startups. Presenting founders will receive live feedback from the panel, while attendees will get to hear how investors respond to companies & pitches in real time.
Interested in pitching? Submit your startup for consideration HERE.
Venturous Counsel is a remote team with members based across different states & countries, which means we are rarely all in the same place. For this event, the Venturous Counsel team will be in town together, giving attendees a rare opportunity to meet & connect with the broader team in person over dinner, drinks, & networking.
Program
4:30 PM - Arrival & introductions
4:45 PM - Investor panel & Q&A
5:45 PM - Startup pitches & investor feedback
6:15 PM - Dinner, drinks, & networking
About the Panelists
Cristina Apple Georgoulakis
Cristina is an early-stage investor, operator, advisor, & board member who has spent her career on both sides of the startup & venture table. A former Partner at 776, she is now a Principal Advisor, Growth & Capital Strategy at WHIPSAW, serves on the board of ScorePlay, & is a Founding Advisor to Shark Tooth Biotech.
Before entering venture capital, Cristina co-founded an e-learning SaaS company in Barcelona & later moved to San Francisco, where she helped open Typeform's first U.S. office. She went on to hold leadership roles at Typeform & Contentful, building & scaling teams inside high-growth technology companies. She now works closely with early-stage founders on fundraising, growth, & the difficult decisions that come with building a company.
Cristina is also a writer, speaker, rare disease advocate, & mother working to advance research & awareness around her son's rare genetic disease.
Learn more: LinkedIn | WHIPSAW | ScorePlay | Shark Tooth Biotech
Patricia Liu
Patricia is a startup pitch advisor & angel investor who works with early-stage founders on pitch decks, presentations, & communicating the venture-scale potential of their companies. She is the founder of Venture-Ready Pitching & currently serves as Co-President of MIT Alumni Angels of NorCal.
Patricia also advises founders through Alchemist Accelerator & Inception Studio & serves as an advisor & selection committee member at Berkeley SkyDeck. She has taught Pitch Perfect: Mastering the Startup Presentation Deck through Stanford Continuing Studies.
Earlier in her career, Patricia spent nearly a decade at Accenture consulting with Fortune 500 companies before pursuing the culinary profession, including work with the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group. She holds both a BS & an MEng in computer science from MIT.
Learn more: LinkedIn | MIT Alumni Angels of NorCal | Alchemist Accelerator | Inception Studio | Berkeley SkyDeck
Leah Solivan
Leah is an entrepreneur, investor, & founder who has spent more than two decades building, scaling, & investing in technology companies. She is the Founder of The Precedent Collective, Managing Director of Precedent.vc, & a General Partner at Fuel Capital, with an investment portfolio spanning more than 150 companies across consumer technology, hardware, education, marketplaces, retail, & other sectors.
Leah is also the founder of TaskRabbit, the on-demand marketplace she launched in 2008. As CEO, she grew TaskRabbit into an international business operating across dozens of cities before transitioning to Executive Chairwoman & overseeing the company's acquisition by IKEA in 2017.
Before founding TaskRabbit, Leah spent seven years as a software engineer at IBM. Her experience as both a founder who raised venture capital & an investor backing early-stage companies gives her a firsthand perspective on what happens on both sides of the fundraising table.
Learn more: LinkedIn | Precedent.vc | Fuel Capital
About the Host
Venturous Counsel is a mission-driven law firm that serves as United States fractional general counsel to values-aligned & diverse-led startups & investors.
Learn more: Venturous Counsel Website | LinkedIn
Gratitude
A special thank you to Korea Venture Investment Corp. (KVIC) for sharing its facilities for this event.
Registration
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