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EVENT DETAILS |
Angel Information Luncheon
For unaffiliated & affiliated accredited investors, VCs & CVCs
September 20 | 11:30-1:30
Perkins Coie| 3150 Porter Drive | Palo Alto
A SPECIAL PRESENTATION:
The Angel Capital Association
will present findings from their Angel Funders Report
My Best Deals
Seasoned Angels discuss their most profitable deals
Our investors will discuss:
Where/how they found their winning company
Company dynamics
Their due diligence process
The investment decision
Term sheet negotiations
The syndication process
The follow-on round process
The exit
ANGEL SPEAKERS
Chris Yeh is an active angel investor & advisor to a wide array of startups. Yeh has been building Internet businesses since 1995. He is the VP Marketing forPBworks, which provides highly vertical collaboration solutions that help businesses work more efficiently & effectively. Its products serve markets such as advertising & marketing agencies, law firms, & education, as well as the broader business market.
Chris is currently a General Partner atWasabi Ventures, a global venture fund, startup incubator, & consulting firm, where he leads the firm's investment committee.
Previously, he was the first investor in & interim CEO ofUstream.TV, which provides an open & distributable platform for live interactive online video. He also helped start numerous other companies, including Symphoniq Corporation, TargetFirst, & Juno Online Services & FarSight Financial Services (divisions of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.).
Chris co-authored Blitzscaling, The Lightning-fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, withReid Hoffman; Foreword byBill Gates.
He also co-authored The Alliance, A New Framework For Managing Today's Employees, with Reid Hoffman & Ben Casnocha.
Chris is the founder & Chairman of theHarvard Business School Technology Alumni Association. He earned two degrees from Stanford University & an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar.
Marcia Dawoodwas a Managing Director in two angel investment groups, BlueTree Allied Angels & Golden Seeds.For BlueTree, she is also the Chairman of the Education Committee & served on the deal flow & screening committees as well as actively leads due diligence projects.Marcia has experience evaluating & mentoring startup companies & investment opportunities She supports women led, impact as well as tech/life sciences & overall fun companies & is passionate about education as well as investment.
Marcia has taken an active role in serving as the syndication lead between BlueTree & Golden Seeds bringing the two groups together to collaborate & optimize deal flow & due diligence information.
Marcia also serves on the Board of the Angel Capital Association (ACA), an organization that represents over 12,000 accredited investor members, 220 angel groups & accredited platforms that have invested in well over 10,000 entrepreneurial companies.
Marcia is currently General Partner, MINDSHIFT Capital. She co-founded Enova Funds I & II at BlueTree Capital & is part of the investment committee of Next Wave Impact Fund I.She is also a member of Golden Seeds.Her position as board member/membership chair of the Angel Capital Association gives her a vast global network of early stage deal flow.
Host: Adrian Rich, Partner, Perkins Coie
Adrian Rich has more than 15 years of experience counseling high-growth, emerging companies & their investors. With an education in biomedical engineering & economics & a lifelong passion for computers & programming, Adrian brings a deep technological understanding & a unique approach to counseling clients from inception to exit, as they undertake financial & strategic investments, licensing, strategic partnerships, acquisitions & public offerings, as well routine corporate matters. He tackles complex negotiations & issues, including deal structuring, reorganizations & down-rounds, using strong quantitative skills, coupled with creative problem solving.
Agenda
11:30-12:00 Registration, networking & Lunch
12:00---1:30 Panel discussions with Q/A
1:30---2:00 Networking
Valerie Badgett & Brenda Swiney
Angel Information Program Co-Chairs
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