VC Taskforce™ is building an organization that venture capitalists can give input and direction to and get immediate 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 real-time, strategic and tactical information addressing imminent concerns of venture capitalists and portfolio companies. VC Taskforce™ 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.
Venture capitalists and their portfolio companies can request programs and speakers.
THE MEDIUM
To provide actionable information for highly experience people in the trenches, VC Taskforce™ uses interactive:
Panel Workshops -- several segments of one general topic: each panelist addresses one segment
Interviews -- Prominent venture capitalists interviewed by prominent people
Feature Speaker Presentations -- one person addresses one specific segment of a general topic
Key Note Speakers -- one person addresses a general topic
Panel Discussions -- several perspectives of one specific or general topic
Roundtable Discussions - intimate discussions about one specific segment of a general topic
One On One Meetings -- one hour free consulting arrangements with our speakers
EVENTS OPEN TO ALL
Breakfast Workshops:
Distinguished speakers provide the most relevant and current information about the pressing issues of the day facing venture capital firms and portfolio companies.
Venture Capital Community Mixers:
VC Taskforce™ provides a forum for venture capital firms, institutional investors and portfolio company management in which to share ideas and information that will help them manage their businesses for maximum success.
Emerging Technology Forums:
The Emerging Technology Forum educates investors, entrepreneurs and trend watchers on the commercial potential and likely impact of "coming" technologies. Subjects in this forum have progressed beyond raw technology development but are not yet mainstream products.
Meetings provide an overview of these interesting domains, identifying the problems being solved, highlighting technology and business issues, discussing the evolution of market structure, and identifying likely future opportunities for new market entrants and investors. Each meeting provides an overview of the topic by technology experts, two companies participating in the industry and an investor's perspective from a venture capitalist active in the area.
PROGRAMS FOR VENTURE CAPITALISTS ONLY
The VCsClub
Distinguished, interesting and provocative presenters are invited to meetings for Venture Capitalists only. Should you have questions about events that are "For VCs Only" please feel free to contact the appropriate Program Chair. [Admission to our special interest groups, referred to as SIGs, and Cocktail Parties are often by invitation only.]
General Meetings for VCs
Sunset Meetings
Chair:
, CIMA Senior VP- Investments, UBS
VC Special Interest Groups (SIG)
Corporate VC SIG
Chair: John Park, Associate, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Rohini Chakravarthy, Head of Wireless, Corporate BD, Cisco
SIG Manager: Rose Mortilla, VP YES Partners
Semiconductor VC SIG
Co-Chair:
, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati
Co-Chair:
, Sr. Marketing Manager, Synopsys, Inc.
Committee:TBA
SIG Manager: TBA
Small Fund VC SIG
Co-Chair:
, President, Garage Technology Ventures
Co-Chair:
, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati
Committee:
Rich Weingart
SIG Manager: TBA
Women in Venture SIG
Chair: Sr. Vice President, investments, UBS
Committee:
Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures Lara Druyan, General Partner, Allegis Capital Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones, Partner, Arare Ventures Judy O'Brien, Managing Director, Incubic Venture Fund Heidi Roizen, Managing Director, Mobius Venture Capital Event Committee: Jill Rubin, Consultant Erika Williams, Interim CEO
Cocktail Parties
PROGRAMS FOR VENTURE-BACKED EXECUTIVES
Venture-Backed ExecutivesClub Meetings [VBEC] Business and industry experts are invited to roundtables and small meetings which are designed for "C" level management or CXOs of VC venture-backed companies. Some meetings are for specific functions. Some meetings are open to all types of CXOs.
VC Taskforce contact:
June Riley
1755 Embarcadero, Suite 1166
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Phone: 650.687.4116
e-mail:
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