Subject: Venture Summit | Top Innovator Nominations
From: "Joseph Cope" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 11:19:03 -0500

Hi Hunter – 

We’re bringing together a large group of investors at the New England Venture Summit and wanted to see if you’d like to nominate any of the companies in your portfolio to present as one of the Top Innovators.

Additional details about the opportunity are below.  We’d also be delighted to have you join us and the many investors already confirmed.

Partial list of VCs and Corporate Investors already confirmed:
John Albright, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Relay Ventures | Grant Allen, Senior Vice President, ABB Technology Ventures | Jim Andelman, Managing Partner, Rincon Venture Partners | Gil Beyda, Managing Partner, Genacast Ventures | Eric Bielke, Senior Investment Associate, Siemens Venture Capital | Sim Blaustein, Principal, BDMI Fund | David Blumberg, Managing Partner, Blumberg Capital | Steven Chrust, Managing Director, Centripetal Capital Partners | Daniel Chui, Manager, Verizon Ventures | Andrew Clapp, Managing Partner, Arctaris Capital Partners | Charles Curran, Senior Director, Qualcomm Ventures | David Donabedian, Vice President, AbbVie Biotech Ventures | James Dugan, CEO & Managing Partner, OCA Ventures | Imran Eba, Partner, Action Potential Venture Capital | Rami Elkhatib, General Partner, Acero Capital | Kevin Ferro, CEO, Vatera Holdings | Alexander Galitsky, Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners | Rich Gliklich, XIR & Partner, General Catalyst Partners | Bosun Hau, Partner, MVM Life Science Partners | Laurence Hayward, Partner, Independence Equity | Ben Hemani, Analyst, Braemar Energy Ventures | Tetsuro Iwata, Senior Manager, MP Healthcare Venture Management | Shamez Kanji, General Partner, North Hill Ventures | Roman Kikta, Managing Partner, Mobility Ventures | Carey Lai, Director, Intel Capital | Al Lauritano, Director, Technology Licensing & Collaboration, BD Technologies | Jim Macdonald, Managing Director, First Analysis | Ignacio Martinez, Partner, Flagship Ventures | Vincent Miles, Partner, Abingworth | David Miller, Executive Managing Director, Clean Energy Venture Group | Jay Onda, Principal, DoCoMo Capital | Praveen Sahay, Managing Director, Wave Equity Partners | Akhil Saklecha, Managing Director, Artiman Ventures | Cory Steffek, Managing Director, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures | Jason Tagler, Partner, Camden Partners | Sebastian Titz, Manager, New Ventures, 3M New Ventures | Tibor Toth, Managing Director of Investments, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center | Brent Traidman, General Partner, Fenox Venture Capital | Kathleen Utecht, Venture Partner, Core Innovation Capital | Geeta Vemuri, Senior Managing Director, Baxter Ventures | Sonali Vijayavargiya, Founder & Managing Director, Augment Ventures | David Ward, Managing Partner, MTI Ventures | Jan Westerhues, Investment Partner, Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH | Keith Witek, Corporate Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, AMD Ventures | Tim Wright, General Partner, Grandbanks Capital; among many others.

Regards

Joseph

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The New England Venture Summit being held on December 9th-10th 2014 at the Hilton in Boston Dedham is an annual gathering bringing together over 500 executives for the purpose of high-level networking and deal making.

The summit features high-level networking among investors and startups, insightful panel sessions and presentations by cutting edge Top Innovators.
Early stage and emerging companies seeking funding have the opportunity to attend and/or apply to present and be showcased in the Top Innovator showcase.
The Top Innovator Showcase program is a paid presentation and demo opportunity designed for early stage and emerging growth companies seeking to raise visibility amongst an audience of active VCs, Corporate VCs, Private Investors, Investment bankers, press, entrepreneurs, and corporate development officers.  A select group of more than 50 qualified early stage and emerging growth companies seeking capital will be chosen to present on 5 tracks including Tech, Life Sciences/Healthcare, Ed-tech, Clean-tech and Mobile.

Below is a link to the NEVS website, video highlights from the 2013 summit as well as testimonials from investors and startup participants. 

To nominate a company simply email us:

Startup #1
Company Name:
Industry:
Founder or Other Contact:
Telephone:
Email:
Why is this company’s business model sure to succeed:

Startup #2
Company Name:
Industry:
Founder or Other Contact:
Telephone:
Email:
Why is this company’s business model sure to succeed:

Startup #3
Company Name:
Industry:
Founder or Other Contact:
Telephone:
Email:
Why is this company’s business model sure to succeed:

Warm regards

Joseph

Testimonials

“YoungStartUps conference was a well structured and organized event with a very high bar for qualifying ventures selected to present. This is the major issue for VC's to consider when selected events to attend as many are diluted with too many companies, many of which have not vetted their concepts.”
 -- Konstantine A. Drakonakis, PE // Director // LaunchCapital, LLC
 
“The caliber of the companies presenting has improved every year, and is actually at quite a nice level…. It’s also impressive that companies can get up there and present what they’re doing in a very short period of time, so it’s a very efficient way to hear about a lot of companies quickly, and I think the panels are good topics; good panel members and a lot of good issues are being addressed. So I think all the way around it’s been a good day overall for everybody.”
-- Noah Kroloff, Managing Partner, NGN Capital

“It’s a great venue for networking first and foremost.  This conference has introduced us to a number of people that we would never have seen otherwise, as well as collaborations with our portfolio companies and other portfolio companies.
So there is good energy in the air, and a very constructive environment.”
-- Dr. Douglas Lind, Managing Partner, GBP Capital

"The quality of the feedback given to entrepreneurs by investors prior to "showtime" was unparalleled in my experience. I highly recommend this conference."
-- Mary Lincoln Campbell, Managing Director, EDF Ventures 
 
“The level and quality of folks that are real venture capitalists, manage in private equity; Folks that are actively looking for opportunities.”
-- Wolf Shlagman, CEO, Consult a Doctor
 
“I have seen about 50-60 business opportunities both in pharmaceuticals, in Healthcare/IT and also medical devices, and I have met so many different venture capitalists and heard their perspective, so that really is and eye opener for me today.”
-- Iqbal Hussain, President, Meridian Laboratories
 
“ I think the most impressive thing is probably the ratio of venture capitalists to entrepreneurs. There are at least 50, if not more venture capitalists that were walking around looking at the deals, and again I think that’s a really nice and healthy ratio for the entrepreneurs, because at the end of the day it’s all about them connecting with us.   I would say the quality of the presenters was very high relative to some of the conferences both on the West coast to the Midwest, and mostly I would say the CEOs are very well prepared and knowledgeable at what it’s going to take to raise money, and I think that they’re prepared for the long haul to meet and make relationships with the venture community.”
-- Mina Sooch, General partner, Apjohn Ventures
 
“I thought the attendance with investors that are active was impressive, and we had a number of good conversations. I think that in this day and age looking for investors for whom a specific value proposition is a fit, is a little of a needle in a haystack, and there were a few needles in the haystack, that was good.”
-- Walter Greenblatt, Hygeia Therapeutics
 
“The actual decision makers are here. And I like the fact that a lot of companies are here, a couple west coast companies are coming here, it’s not just the east coast. Not to mention that being able to tell your story to a large audience and get your name out there is part of what every little company needs.
I’m very impressed; I think we’ll definitely come back next year.”
-- Ali Tehrani, CEO, Zymeworks
 
“I’m very impressed by the turnout. There’s been a lot of interest from the VC industry, and you guys have seemed to capture a lot of the quality firms and representatives here. You guys have done a really good job.”
-- Daniel Wood, General Partner, Mesa Verde VP
 
“We currently have invested 45 million dollars, the real attitude and feeling of this conference is much more upbeat than the last couple of years have been in bio technology. So I’m quite impressed.
We have a lot of people that are very interested in investing, and we have a substantial number of companies that have progressed their company in lean times, and are now ready for further investments.”
-- David Wurzer, Managing Director, Connecticut Innovations
 
“ I was impressed by the number of people here, the level of energy. You wouldn’t think the market conditions were as tough as they are when you walked into this room, people are more optimistic than I expected.
Quality of the deals- technology companies that I have talked to, I was pleasantly surprised across all sectors of pharma, bio, and med-tech. some very strong technology companies with interesting ideas that I think have a lot of promise. We’ll definitely look at a number of business plans that we were introduced to at the conference today.”
-- Sinclair Dunlop, Managing Partner, Rock Spring Ventures

"There are very few venues for emerging companies to receive critical and constructive feedback as well as an opportunity to present to the venture capital community. In both design and execution, the Young Start-Up Summits do just that, effectively and repeatedly. I highly recommend their forum for both investors and emerging companies."
-- T. Forcht Dagi, M.D., Partner, HLM Venture Partners 

We look forward to reviewing your nominations and hope to see you at New England Venture Summit! 

New England Venture Summit
December 9th-10th, 2014
Hilton | Boston Dedham
http://www.youngstartup.com/newengland2014/overview.php

Video Highlights: http://www.youngstartup.com/newengland2014/video.php

Regards,

Joseph

Joseph C. Cope
Venture Consultant | youngStartup Ventures
“Where Innovation Meets Capital”
 
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