Venture Summit West 2019 | youngStartup Ventures | 6 March 2019 | Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, 1333 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA

The 7th annual Venture Summit | West, 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 2019 Venture Summit | West is one event you won't want to miss.

This exclusive Venture Capital Summit will feature:

• Venture Panels
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.

• Company Presentations
Discover 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.

• High Level Networking
Connect with investors, startups and potential partners.

2019 Speakers

Maxx Bricklin
Founding Principal, Bold Capital Partners

Pratik Budhdev
Investment Director, Volvo Cars Tech Fund

Edouard Bulteau
Investment Manager, Total Energy Ventures

Chris Calder
Director, EPIC Ventures

Andy Cao
Principal, Comcast Ventures

Jeffrey Carter
General Partner, West Loop Ventures

Joy Chen
Chief Investment Officer, TAL Education Group

Kelly Chen
Principal, Data Collective

Ketting Chu
Venture Partner, Lyfe Capital

Asha Collins
Investor, Pipeline Angels

Andrea Course
Principal, Schlumberger Technology Investments

Ned Daoro
Senior Associate, Clocktower Technology Ventures

Angelo Del Priore
Partner, HP Tech Ventures

Jun Deng
Partner, Joyance Partners

Dan Doble
Managing Director, SABIC Ventures

Rexhi Dollaku
Principal, Base10

Ted Driscoll
Managing Partner, DigitalDX Ventures

Marah Dudenhoeffer
Manager, Verizon Ventures

Susannah Duke
Associate, Pelion Venture Partners

Robert Dunkle
President, ABES Venture Partners

Victor Echevarria
Principal, Jackson Square Ventures

Howard Edelman
Committee Chair, Life Science Angels

Sean Engel
Principal, Top Tier Capital Partners

Michael Fanfant
Senior Associate, Runa Capital

Kristen Faulkner
Associate, DFJ

Spencer Foust
Principal, Sozo Ventures

Ben Freeberg
Investor, Alpha Venture Partners

Karim Gillani
Co-Founder and General Partner, Luge Capital

Garrett Goldberg
Partner, Bee Partners

Jocelyn Goldfein
Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners

Baris Guzel
Principal, BMW i Ventures

Daniel Harris
Managing Director, DPH Ventures

Laurence Hayward
Partner, Independence Equity

Alicia Castillo Holley
Investor, Sand Hill Angels

Jens Horstmann
Founding Director, Crestlight Ventures

Anup Jacob
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Activate Capital Partners

Alexis Ji
Partner, Illumina Ventures

Gary Jinks
Founding Managing Director, South Valley Angels

Matt Jones
Managing Director, Solvay Ventures

Kathleen Jurman
Corporate Technology Scout, Dow Ventures

Amir Kabir
Investment Principal, Munich Re Ventures

Steve Kishi
Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Yasemin Kliman
Co-President, Harvard Business School Angels

Daniella Kranjac
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Dynamk Capital

Nathan Krishnamurthy
Principal, Capital One Growth Ventures

Vivek Krishnamurthy
Associate, Commerce Ventures

Kwasi Kyei
Associate, Sandbox Industries

Christian Lassonde
Founder & Managing Partner, Impression Ventures

Roberta Lee
Angel Investor, Life Science Angels

Julie Lein
Managing Partner, Urban Innovation Fund

Geraldine Le Meur
Founding Partner, The Refiners

Ephraim Lindenbaum
Managing Director, Advance Ventures

Tanya Loh
Operating Partner, M12

Vincent Lui
Senior Director of Corporate Ventures, SK Telecom Americas

Silvia Mah
Executive Director and Founder, Hera Angels

Tasneem Manjra
Head of Network Development, Volvo Cars Tech Fund

Jillian Manus
Managing Partner, Structure Capital

Mary McDougall
Vice President, Astia

Ben Metcalfe
Principal, Ridge Ventures

Wouter Meuleman
Director of Investments, Illumina Ventures

SC Moatti
Managing Partner, Mighty Capital

Peter Mullen
Partner, Arc Capital Development

Sasha Ostojic
Angel investor, Playground Global

Umesh Padval
Venture Partner, Thomvest Ventures

Victor Pascucci
Managing Partner, Lightbank

Phoebe Peronto
Investor, Salesforce Ventures

Ricardo Politi
Partner, Mindset Ventures

Salil Pradhan
Venture Partner, Draper Nexus

Peter Redford
Investor, Band of Angels

Bill Reichert
Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures

John Ricci
Founder & Managing Partner, US Angels

Jennifer Richard
Senior Associate, Cross Culture Ventures

Andre Rocha
Investor, Glasswing Ventures

Peter Rojas
Founding Partner, Betaworks Ventures

Praveen Sahay
Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners

Natalie Sandman
Senior Associate, Shasta Ventures

Miraj Sanghvi
Principal, DigiTx

Jason Schoettler
Co-Founder & Partner, Calibrate Ventures

Wes Selke
Managing Director, Better Ventures

Prashant Shah
Managing Director, TiE LaunchPad

Tanya Soman
Venture Partner, 500 Startups

Adam Spector
Independent, Angel Investor

George Straschnov
Managing Director, Bisk Ventures

Marcus Stroud
Managing Partner, TXV Partners

Mayra Tama
Principal, Initial Capital

Wei Tao
Life Science Angels, Chair Bio Genomics Committee

Craig Taylor
General Partner, Alloy Ventures

Laura Thompson
Principal, Sapphire Ventures

Vishal Verma
General Partner, Edgewood Ventures

Sonali Vijayavargiya
Managing Director, Augment Ventures

Che Voigt
Chairman, North Bay Angels

Jordan Wahbeh
Managing Director, Bay Angels

Timothy Wang
Principal, Westly Group

Patricia Wexler
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Starlight Ventures

James Wu
Senior Associate, M12

Jonathan Wu
Board Director and Vice President, Sand Hill Angels

Margaret Wu
Investor, Georgian Partners

Ray Wu
Managing Partner, Skychee Ventures

Veronica Wu
Managing Partner, Hone Capital

Wei Wu
Healthcare Investment Director, BOE Ventures

Wenz Xing
Associate, Bullpen Capital

Sue Xu
Partner and Operations Director, Amino Capital

Lu Zhang
Founder & Managing Partner, Fusion Fund

Jimmy Zhu
Vice President, Citi Ventures

Shelley Zhuang
Founder and Managing Partner, 11.2 Capital

TX Zhuo
Managing Partner, Fika Ventures

2019 Sponsors & Partners

PLATINUM:
• America's Seed FUnd

BREAKFAST:
• Certent

GOLD:
• JustWorks
• Paul Hastings
• Sherwood Partners
• Gillon Tax Advisors
• Xooker
• Cartika
• Mongotel

SILVER:
• PitchBook

PARTNERS:
• Georgia Bio
• FreeMind
• Asia Cloud Computing Association
• Council
• Indiana Health Industry Forum
• International Cleantech Network
• Imet
• Israel Advanced Technology Industries
• IoTNor
• Action Innovation Network
• Queen City Fintech
• IcoHolder
• Hysta Svc
• French American Chamber of Commerce
• Green Business Networking
• Branded Content Marketing Association
• The Pad
• StartupSac
• Association for Women in Science
• Agritecture
• Gaba California German American Business Association
• AAMA
• Austin Technology Incubator
• Bay Angels
• Project Eve
• NexChange
• FinTech
• OJC
• Excite
• The California Israel Chamber of Commerce
• LACI
• APYEF
• Rhode Island Israel Collaborative
• Caia Association
• Female Funders
• Fintech Association of Hong Kong
• Angel News
• Singapore International Chamber of Commerce
• TechWadi
• Connection Silicon Valley
• National Veteran Small Business Coalition
• ChickTech
• The Lonely Entrepreneur
• Black Girsl Code
• Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship
• Fung Institute for Engieneering Leadership
• Los Angeles Venture Association
• Czech Fintech Association
• Prosper Portland
• Empowered Tech