July 10th - 11th, 2018
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Get noticed and pitch to active investors in your industry. Join 100+ Top Innovators presenting across 6 tracks. Best Presenter awards given to one Startup in each track.
Join the exclusive community of 1000+ top-tier VC Investors and leading startup Founders. Send direct messages and schedule 1 on 1 meetings with our Event App. Dedicated networking breaks throughout the event.
Listen to actionable wisdom from Leading VCs and Angels on exciting relevant Panels tailored for you. Get the most out of your conference experience and set yourself up for growth.
Andrew Abrams
New Science Ventures
Nick Adams
Differential Ventures
Kamran Ansari
Greycroft
Martina Aufiero
Safeguard Scientifics
Mark Austin
Viridian Impact
Juliet Bailin
Insight Venture Partners
Caleb Bank
Safeguard Investments
Amit Bansal
Digitalis Ventures
Peter Bastien
Next47
Mark Bernfeld
Clean Energy Venture Group
Gil Beyda
Comcast Ventures
Wes Blackwell
Scout Ventures
Brandon Blaesser
New World Capital
Kai Bond
Comcast Ventures
Alon Bonder
Venrock
Callum Booker
NextGen Venture Partners
Todd Breeden
KiwiVenture Partners
Kenneth Bronfin
Hearst Ventures
Stanley Buchesky
The Edtech Fund
Don Burton
LearnStart
Jason Cahill
Carbon Ventures
John Callovi
Pearson Affordable Learning Fund
David Ceolin
Innovation Grade Ventures
Sara Chamberlain
Energy Foundry
Grace Chou
Felicis Ventures
Trace Cohen
New York Venture Partners
Michael Cohn
GSV Acceleration
Sarah Cone
Social Impact Capital
Jo Ann Corkran
Golden Seeds
Meghan Cross Breeden
Red Bear Angels
Tracy Deforge
The Players' Impact
Vijay Doradla
Verizon Ventures
Sana Fathima
Lockheed Martin Ventures
Alex Fayette
Sherpa Ventures
Mark Fields
Alsop Louie Partners
Linda Fingerle
Tappan Hill Ventures
Meredith Finn
Salesforce Ventures
Ben Freeberg
Alpha Venture Partners
Elizabeth Galbut
SoGal Ventures
Tarik Galijasevic
Allstate Strategic Ventures
Srishti Mirchandani Gallagher
Oxeon Partners
Anna Garcia
Runway Venture Partners
Stephen Gilfus
Blackboard Inc.
Edwin Goodman
Activate Venture Partners
Lynn Greenberg
Autonomy Ventures
Ed Greer
Dow Chemical
John Gu
Spring Mountain Capital
Daniel Hanks
Lavrock Ventures
Wendi Hao
NewDo Venture
Jamison Hill
Bain Capital Ventures
Westy Hopkins
Time Warner Investments
Merritt Hummer
Bain Capital Ventures
Ulhas Jagdale
NEA
Kanav Jain
Red Sea Ventures
Dinkar Jetley
Pivot Investment Partners
Jalak Jobanputra
FuturePerfect Ventures
Geoff Judge
iNovia Capital
Habib Kairouz
Highland Capital Partners
Ash Kaluarachchi
StartEd
Aman Kandola
Bessemer Venture Partners
Gyan Kapur
Activate Venture Partners
Kris Kemeny
Tekfen Ventures
Aftab Kherani
Aisling Capital
Elise King
Oxeon Partners
Luda Kopeikina
DSM Venturing
Spencer Krug
RiverPark Ventures
Kabir Kumar
Omidyar Network
Josh Kuzon
Reciprocal Ventures
Scott Levine
Time Warner Investments
Matthew Levinson
FinTech Collective
Jacob Levy
SoundBoard Angel Fund
Mary Long-Irwin
Northern Ontario Angels
Oivind Lorentzen
Oak HC/FT
Marissa Lowman
Village Capital
Jiong Ma
Braemar Energy Ventures
Rohit Makharia
GM Ventures
Nurzhas Makishev
NKM Capital
Coppelia Marincovic
Solvay Ventures
Marcos Martinez-Villalba
Revel Partners
Olga Maslikhova
Phystech Ventures
Jon Medved
OurCrowd
Dipa Mehta
Sandbox Industries
Kate Merton
Johnson-Johnson Innovation
Sarah Millar
City Light Capital
David Miller
Clean Energy Ventures
Chelsea Morris
Rethink Impact
Juan Muldoon
Invenergy Future Fund
Courtney Nelson
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments
Hallie Noble
Village Capital
Preston Noon
Agent Capital
Eric Ong
Lightbank
David Orlandella
ORIX Growth Capital
Sumay Parikh
Quake Capital
Manish Patel
Highland Capital Partners
Victoria Pettibone
Astia Angels
Sergei Petukhov
Enso Ventures
Lauren Michelle Pfeifer
Maschmeyer Group Ventures
Daniel Pianko
Achieve Partners
Henri Pierre-Jacques
Harlem Capital Partners
Andrew Pitz
Transamerica Ventures
Jean-Noel Poirier
Clean Energy Venture Group
Gopal Rajaraman
Motorola Solutions Venture Capital
Nitya Rajendran
Tribeca Venture Partners
Brett Rawlings
Charmides Capital
Dylan Reid
KEC Ventures
Gray Robinson
Anzu Partners
Yvette Rodriguez
Cultivation Capital
Mike Rogers
Interplay
David Rogg
FirstMark Capital
Rob Rosenberg
Prolog Ventures
Laura Sachar
Starvest Partners
Mandi Salo
CMFG Ventures
Ben Sampson
GE Ventures
Michael Sandler
Temerity Capital Partners
Abinav Sankar
Sopris Capital
Louis Schick
NewWorld Capital Group
Reese Schroeder
Allstate Strategic Ventures
Chris Seitz
Excel Venture Management
David Selverian
Bessemer Venture Partners
Thomas Seo
Citi Ventures
Naomi Shah
Union Square Ventures
Shardul Shah
Index Ventures
Saurabh Sharma
Jump Capital
Joshua Sherman
Apple Tree Partners
Zacary Sherman
Pereg Ventures
Ishan Sinha
Point72 Ventures
Travis Skelly
Citi Ventures
Adam Smith
Bain Capital Ventures
Emily Snyder
Borealis Ventures
David Spiro
Insight Venture Partners
Amit Srivastava
Cycle Capital Management
Lutz Stoeber
Evonik Venture Capital
Elizabeth Stoner
MPM Capital
Jennine Sullivan
GE Ventures
Kathryn Swintek
Golden Seeds
Ally Tam
14W
Sydney Thomas
Precursor Ventures
Jarrid Tingle
Harlem Capital Partners
Sebastian Titz
3M New Ventures
Henry Toole
RRE Ventures
Laurel Touby
Supernode Ventures
Andrea Turner Moffitt
Plum Alley Investments
Catherine Ulrich
FirstMark Capital
Maria Velissaris
SteelSky Ventures
Sonali Vijayavargiya
Augment Ventures
Hara Wang
Braemar Energy Ventures
Pelli Wang
Consensys Capital
Nima Wedlake
ThomVest Ventures
Cayla Weisberg
InvestHER Ventures
Denmark West
Connectivity Capital Partners
Margaret Wu
Georgian Partners
Anthony Xu
New Ground Ventures
Holly Zimmerman
Golden Seeds
The 18th annual New York Venture Summit, presented by youngStartup Ventures, is the premier industry gathering connecting venture capitalists, corporate VCs, angel investors, technology transfer professionals, senior executives of venture backed, emerging and early stage companies, university researchers, incubators and premier service providers.
Whether you are an investor seeking access to new deals, or founder and/or CEO of a new venture looking for funding, visibility and growth, The 2018 New York Venture Summit is one event you won't want to miss.
This exclusive Venture Capital Summit will feature:
Hear top tier VCs, Corporate VCs and Angel Investors on the key issues facing Investors and Startup CEOs alike. Industry experts will provide updated analyses and share their experience with the audience.
Apply to speakDiscover more than 100 of the hottest early stage and emerging growth technology, mobile, life sciences, healthcare IT, clean-tech and ed-tech innovators as they present live to leading investors.
Apply to presentConnect with investors, startups and potential partners.
PRE-REGISTRATION SAVINGS $100 OFF
Audience Profile: Venture Capitalists, angel investors, corporate VCs, CEOs, CFOs and other senior management of early stage and emerging growth ventures, technology transfer professionals and premium services firms.
To apply, your company must be privately held and ideally come from one of the following industry sectors:
If you are a seed stage company seeking angel funding and would like to present check out our seed stage track.
Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
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Cocktail Reception |
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
| 8:00am |
Conference Registration & Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:45am |
Welcome Remarks Joe Benjamin |
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| 9:00am |
The Future: What’s Next For The Venture Industry? Venture Capital thought leaders debate the challenges and opportunities facing Investors and Entrepreneurs.
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| 9:50am |
Break |
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| 10:00am |
Company Presentations – Round I Cutting-edge venture backed, emerging and early stage companies present live. Track I: Technology (Forum A) |
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| 11:00am |
Networking & Refreshment Break |
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| 11:40am |
Company Presentations – Round II Cutting-edge venture backed, emerging and early stage companies present live. Track I: Technology (Forum A) |
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| 12:50pm |
Lunch & Networking |
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| 1:00pm |
Raising Angel Money: Info & Insights From Seasoned Investors
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Israel The Startup Nation: Opportunities & Trends
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Company Presentation – Round III Cutting-edge venture backed, emerging and early stage companies present live. Track I: Technology (Forum A) |
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| 3:00pm |
Fundable Deals: Making VCs Sit Up And Take Notice Ideas are all well and good, but in order to attract capital they will need to be packaged and presented in a way that will entice investors and of course a SOLID business model. This panel will discuss the skills required to make a highly effective pitch that will attract potential financiers and the types of deals investors want.
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| 3:00pm |
Green Dollars For Clean-Tech Deals This session will discuss the trends in the financial markets and the future of venture capital investment in clean-tech.
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| 3:00pm |
Report Card On Ed-Tech Innovation & Funding Ed-tech Investors will take center stage to grade the Ed-tech sector and share insights on the trends they’re seeing.
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| 3:00pm |
Company Presentations Cutting-edge venture backed, emerging and early stage companies present live. Track I: Fintech (Hub Two) |
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| 3:50pm |
Networking & Refreshment Break |
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| 4:30pm |
Where’s The Exit? It’s the goal-and the challenge-of every venture capitalist: a successful exit from an investment. Now with the door to IPO seeming as if it’s locked, does today’s economy alter the game strategy? How do you find it? Step one: attend this session on exit strategies and values. Panelists will cover early-stage planning, exit strategies and corresponding values, picking the right advisers and managing expectations.
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| 4:30pm |
Corporate VCs – Strategic Funding This session will explore the value-add of raising Corporate funding and how it yields important dividends that are ‘beyond the bottom line,’ both for the investor and for the startup firm.
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| 4:30pm |
Banking on Fintech Innovation Join top-tier VCs to discuss the rise of fintech, the integration of groundbreaking technologies within financial services, and the future of digital finance.
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| 5:20pm |
Awards & Closing Remarks Joe Benjamin |
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| 5:30pm |
Summit Adjourns |
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