The Top Tier Showcase:
DFJ Featuring Steve Jurvetson
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by Corporate VC SIG Chair
David Ai, Vice President, Hitachi Corp.

VC Task Force's Top Tier Showcase is our event that brings top-tier VCs in front of the corporate VC community to share their portfolio companies and their view on technology innovations. The immediate benefit is to for these top-tier VC firms to help their portfolio companies to build strategic and financial relationships with the best corporate VCs. Long-term, such a routine and mutually beneficial gatherings should also enhance the way corporate VC and mainstream VC professionals interact on future deals.

Each Top Tier Showcase will feature one or more top-tier VC firms, where they highlight for the audience - corporate VCs - their selected portfolio companies whose technologies may be of interest to such corporate VCs. Each company's introduction is a short (3 to 5 minutes) description of the technology, executive team, financing history, operating status, and other relevant information. Direct participation by the executives from such portfolio companies is not necessary.

Speaking with Steve Jurvetson:

• Alexei Andreev an Associate at Draper Fisher Jurvetson where he focuses on nanotechnology investment opportunities. Alexei graduated from Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute with a B.S. and Ph.D. in Solid State Physics (cum laude), and has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  
  
• Benjamin Stingle an Analyst at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Previously he served in the software group at Battery Ventures. Benjamin is a Cum Laude graduate of Harvard University, with a BA in Biology.

Background on VC Task Force and Our SIGs
VC Task Force is building a community for venture capitalists to give input and direction to, and get results that benefit both themselves and their portfolio companies.

We were established to provide a system of services including: business, legal and financial programs that provide strategic and tactical information addressing concerns of venture capitalists and portfolio companies. VC Task Force provides a forum for venture capital firms, institutional investors and portfolio company management in which they can share ideas and information that will help them manage their businesses for maximum success.

SIGs (Special Interest Groups) are chapters of VC Task Force spearheaded by members who have uniquely identified needs, where regular events and discussions can greatly enhance their professional knowledge base and network.

Corporate VC SIG is established for corporate VC participants to share their concerns, issues, and solutions, and to enhance their connections with other VCs and high tech community at large.