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VC Best Practices is an educational series for a group of relatively new investors who want to be exposed to the best venture & startup thinking. Each event is attended by accredited investors & non-partner VCs that skew intentionally, but not exclusively, toward underrepresented backgrounds.
Billions have flooded into AI, but how much of it is smoke & mirrors? Where should first check investors be looking & what inning are we in during this investing cycle? Kristin McDonald (Eniac Ventures), Rob May (Half Court Capital) & Kira Noodleman (Bee Partners) cut through the hype to ask the hard questions: where's the real value, what's already overheated, & which bets will actually stand the test of time?
This is an in-person event in New York City that will not be streamed, so we look forward to seeing you there.
Speakers:
Kristen McDonald, Partner at Eniac Ventures
Kristin is a partner at Eniac Ventures where she invests in B2B software with a focus on vertical SaaS & applied AI. She is particularly excited about founders working to transform antiquated or inefficient systems, including within healthcare, supply chain, & sustainability.
Prior to Eniac, she spent three years at Point72 working as a long/short equity analyst, investing across public markets with an emphasis on mid-cap consumer & TMT.
Kristin graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College, where she studied Environmental Studies & Chinese. Outside of work she loves to travel & is an avid surfer & sailor.
Rob May, General Partner at Half Court Capital
Rob May is a product engineer, serial entrepreneur, & co-founder of HalfCourt Capital. The first company he built was Backupify, the world's first cloud-to-cloud backup & recovery solution for SaaS applications, growing the business to over 9,000 customers & 90 employees before being acquired by Datto. Rob went on to found Talla (acquired by Seva), Dianthus, & BrandGuard.ai, developing AI products for customer support, eCommerce, & marketing, respectively.
In his spare time Rob publishes the Investing in AI newsletter, hosts the AI Innovator's Podcast, runs the AI Innovators Community which he founded, & is a diehard college basketball fan. Prior to founding his first company, he worked as a hardware engineer & holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & an M.B.A. from the University of Kentucky.
Kira Noodleman, Partner at Bee Partners
Kira has spent the past six years investing & growing startups with a focus on go-to-market & minimum-viable product as a product manager in San Francisco & South America. Kira holds an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University & an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Growing up in Silicon Valley, she was captivated by startup innovation, which has translated to focusing on Founders solving the unsolvable. For her, business is all about people. She co-organizes various female VC Communities such as Femme VC in Colorado & FemaleFunders in San Francisco. She's active in her vision for Bee Partners to continue to provide the rails for building the most impactful empires at the center of human & machine convergence, fully acknowledging the responsibility & trust building required to do so.
Kira fine-tuned her ability to be nimble, adaptable, curious, & creative for contributing to sourcing top deal flow & founded Bee Partners' Denver office by pursuing the often overlooked burgeoning non-coastal innovation ecosystems. This move also reinforced the growing acceptance of remote/hybrid workforce which enables & integrates the vast global tech community.
Sponsors:
Cooley LLP - Our lawyers advise venture capital firms, corporate VCs, growth equity firms, family offices & high-growth companies on 1,700+ private financings each year. We understand all angles & offer support at all stages of investment. Our integrated, cross-disciplinary team can take you from fund formation to investment to exit, partnering with your internal resources to guarantee seamless collaboration & offering the specialty platform you need to support your portfolio companies.
KPMG - Whether you are looking to reach new heights, embrace technology, plan for an exit, or manage the transition of wealth or your business to the next generation, KPMG Private Enterprise advisers can help you drive your business forward through each stage of the business journey. Your success is our legacy.
Stifel is a diversified global wealth management, investment bank, & commercial banking company. Our Venture Banking group provides commercial banking & debt capital financing solutions to venture capital-backed technology companies & their investors. Committed to supporting the innovation community, our entrepreneurial culture & long-term vision make Stifel Bank the right banking partner for Founders & Companies.
This is event is hosted by nextNYC. To learn more about nextNYC and/or sign up for their newsletter, visit http://next.nyc
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