Venture Summit 2020 | youngStartup Ventures | 5 May 2020 | VIRTUAL EVENT

Come meet, interact and network with more than 1,300 VCs, Corporate VCs, angel investors, industry execs and founders of venture backed, emerging and early stage companies at the prestigious Venture Summit. Whether you’re a startup seeking capital and exposure, or an investor seeking new deals, Venture Summit West presented by youngStartup Ventures - is the event of the year you won't want to miss.

A highly productive venture conference, Venture Summit | West is dedicated to showcasing VCs, Corporate VCs and angel investors committed to funding venture backed, emerging and early stage companies.

2020 Speakers

Ben Abadi
Managing Director, Energy Innovation Capital

Andrew Abrams
Vice President, New Science Ventures

Susan Akbarpour
Partner, Candou Ventures

Tala Al Jabri
Investor & Founding Member, Saudi Angel Fund

Joel Albarella
Head, New York Life Ventures

Navid Alipour, JD/MBA
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Analytics Ventures

Shaun Arora
Managing Director, MiLA Capital

Doug Atkin
Managing Partner, Communitas Capital Partners

Shannon Austin
Partner, Financial Venture Studio

Jennifer Azapian
Partner, Mighty Capital

Steffen Bartschat
Member & Investors and Hill Angels

Maureen Boyce
Managing Partner &Co-Founder, Good Growth Capital

Peter Bruce-Clark
Partner, Social Impact Capital

Pratik Budhdev
Investment Director, Volvo Cars Tech Fund

Amy Burr
Managing Director, Operations and Partnerships, JetBlue Technology Ventures

Carlos Bustamante
Venture Partner, F-Prime Capital

Darren Cooke
Teaching Faculty, Life Science Angels

Martha Cosgrove
Investing Associate, Boeing HorizonX

Danny Cotter
Principal, The Westly Group

Ross Darwin
Investor, Owl Ventures

Anne DeGheest
Founder, HealthTech Capital

Angelo Del Priore
Partner, HP Tech Ventures

Jun Deng
Investment Partner, Joyance Partners

Dan Doble
Global Technology Leaderm, SABIC Ventures

Ted Driscoll
Managing Directorm, DigitalDX Ventures

James Dugan
CEO & Co-Founder & Managing Partner, OCA Ventures

Robert Dunkle
Founder & CEO, ABES Venture PartnersABES Venture Partners

Ali Farahanchi
Managing Director, DHVC

Chenoa Farnsworth
Managing Partner, Blue Startups

Anna Fokina
Senior Associate, Data Collective

Isabelle Freidheim
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Starwood VC

Emily Fritze
Senior Associate, The Westly Group

Will Fung
Associate, Samsung Catalyst Fund

Carolin Funk
Investor, Blue Bear Capital

Norm Gitis
Managing Partner, Lymo Ventures

Alex Golod
Member, Chicago ArchAngels

Ajay Gopal
Principal, Framework Venture Partners

Daniel Greene
Principal, Wipro Ventures

Linda Greub
General Partner, Avestria Ventures

Sheeraz Haji
Managing Partner, Zip Dragon Ventures

Charlie Hanna
Associate, Marcy Venture Partners

Daniel Harris
Managing Director, DPH Ventures

Florian Haupt
Partner, TruVenturo

Guy Horowitz
Partner, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners

Jens Horstmann
Founder & Managing Director, Crestlight Ventures

Michael Julve
Associate, 500 Startups

Kathleen Jurman
Corporate Technology Scout, Dow Ventures

Jimmy Kan
Principal, Anzu Partners

Vic Kapur
Founder & Managing Member, VisionPassage

James Kempf
Investor, E8 Angels

Najib Khouri-Haddad
General Partner, Sway Ventures

Howard Ko
Principal, Morpheus Ventures

Steven Konsek
Program Director, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, National Science Foundation

Shruti Kothari
Director, Kaiser Permanente Ventures

Daniella Kranjac
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Dynamk Capital

Elaine Kunda
Chief Executive Officer, Disruption Ventures

Ricky Lai
Principal, Portag3 Ventures

Anh Le
Partner, CRCM Ventures

James Lee
Associate Director, Photon Fund

Marina Levinson
Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures

Larry Li
Managing Partner, AMINO Capital

Darwin Ling
Founder & GP, Good AI Capital

Catherine Lu
Managing Partner, Alumni Ventures Group (AVG)

Vincent Lui
Partner, XCEL Asia

Hector MacQuarrie
Senior Investment Associate, Shell Ventures

Radhika Malik
Senior Associate, Samsung Catalyst Fund

Ricky Margolis
VP Business Development, ARIE Capital

Melina Mathur
Principal, Asset Management Ventures

Manan Mehta
Founding Partner, Unshackled Ventures

Eric Meyer
Vice President, Activate Capital

Jonathan Mo
investor, 11.2 Capital

SC Moatti
Managing Partner, Mighty Capital

Weston Moyer
Investor, Spike Ventures

Mark Mueller-Eberstein
Investor, Alliance Of Angels

Maxim Nazarov
Investment Director, FinSight Ventures

Ivan Nikkhoo
Managing Partner, Navigate Ventures

Kira Noodleman
Principal, Bee Partners

Faran Nouri
Managing Director, Lam Capital

Brett Noyes
Founder & Managing Director, Unbank. Ventures

Demi Obayomi
Venture Capital Investor, NextWorld Capital

Nihar Patel
General Partner, Journey Venture Partners

Charles Paul
Vice President Technology, Henkel Ventures

Damien Petty
Principal, Morpheus Ventures

Patrick Pfeffer
Leader of Growth Strategy and venture Investment, Juniper Networks

Scott Pinizzotto
Senior Director, ENGIE New Ventures

Era Qian
Principal Investment, Galaxy Digital

Bill Reichert
Managing Director & Co-Founder, Garage Technology Ventures

Mario Ruiz
Investor, Paypal Ventures

Ernst Sack
Partner, Blue Bear Capital

Praveen Sahay
Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners

Gayatri Sarkar
Managing Partner, Hype Capital VC Fund

Jordan Segall
Associate, Unusual Ventures

Kristina Serafim
Managing Director, Verizon Ventures

Charles Sidman
Managing Partner & Member, ECS Capital Partners

Richard Simoni
Partner, Asset Management Ventures

Sean Simpson
Investment Manager, GM Ventures

Ratan Singh
Investor, Fort Ross Ventures

Kenn So
Associate, Shasta Ventures

Allison Steitz
Investor, BlueRun Ventures

Li Sun
Partner, Foundation Capital

Jessica Tan
Associate, 500 Startups

Grahme Taylor
Analyst & Investment, Wildcat Venture Partners

Ariane Tom
Life Sciences Associate, Anzu Partners

Jonathan Tower
Managing Partner, Catapult VC

Erica Van
Venture Investor, Charles River Ventures

Anuj Varma
Investor, BAM Ventures

Kutral Veerabadran
Principal, Flow Capital

Alessandro Vigilante
Head of Global Innovation Ecosystem, Fidelity Investments

Sonali Vijayavargiya
Manager & Co-Founder, Augment Ventures

Jordan Wahbeh
Managing Partner, Bay Angels

Alex Whitney
Senior Analyst, ManchesterStory Group

Liz Wilkinson
Director of Ventures, Nielsen Innovate

Dea Wilson
Investor, Wharton Angels

Henry Wong
Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures

Joanne Wong
General Partner, REDDS Capital

Yuanling Yuan
Senior Associate, SignalFire

Russell Yue
Investor, H.I.G. Growth Partners

Elaine Zelby
Principal & Director of Growth, SignalFire

Stephanie Zepeda
Senior Associate, Arbor Ventures

Yanan Zhao
General Partner, Magnet Ventures

Sebastian Zhou
Investor, Alpha Square Group

Simin Zhou
Corporate VP & Managing Director, UL Ventures

2020 Sponsors and Partners

DIAMOND SPONSOR:
• Perkinscoie

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• America's Seed Fund

COACHING SPONSOR:
• Pepper Hamilton LLP

LUNCH SPONSOR:
• Bridge Bank

BREAKFAST SPONSOR:
• Certent

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Cartika
• Mongotel
• True Balance

SILVER SPONSORS:
• PitchBook

VENTURE SPONSORS:
• Oca Ventures

INDUSTRY PARTNERS:
• GEORGOA BIO
• SOS
• Israel Advanced Technology Industries
• mbolden
• Si
• CLSA
• VCTASKFORCE
• LinkSV
• CICC
• APYEF
• California-Spain Chamber of Commerce
• VALMA
• SoCalBio
• Innovation Guelph
• Centraal
• FinTech
• SJSU
• LAVA
• PrivateBanking
• NavOBA
• CVTA
• LA
• Leaders in Pharmaeceutical Business Intelligence
• FINTECHNA
• PLUGANDPLAY
• unbank
• NAWBO
• CryptoNewsZ
• IEEE
• energycentral
• Royse AgTech
• KC WISDOM
• FINTECH INSTANBUL
• Fintech News
• The Graphene Council
• CBCC
• LifeSciences British Columbia
• SVCA
• AWIS
• mbia
• AnalyticsVentures
• e8
• ITC
• Alchemist Accelerator
• SCLG