World funding Summit 2017 | World Funding Summit | 17 November 2017 | L.A. Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California 90015, US

World Funding Summit is the premier mission-driven event in modern venture financing and a unique knowledge-driven platform that stands at the forefront of financial innovation, seeking to widen access to capital for small businesses and underserved markets while featuring THE MOST comprehensive mix of capital sources.

We are uniting disruptive investors & leading financiers to educate, connect and empower the next generation of entrepreneurs and financiers on a global scale. In two days only, build your capital network, meet our elite SPEAKERS and be ready to become fluent in the following topics:

•ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings), cryptocurrencies & blockchain
•Online fundraising & crowdfunding under the JOBS Act
•Liquidity: mini-IPOs (Reg A+) and modern stock exchanges
• P2P lending
• Venture Capital (VC), Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) and online VCs
• Royalties/Revenue Share financing & investing
•Foreign investors & EB-5 programs
•“Free money"(government & corporate grants/financing programs,etc)

2017 Speakers:

Rupert Scofield
President and CEO of FINCA International

Nisa Amoils
Venture Capitalist at Scout Ventures & Angel Investor

Kirsten Green
Venture Capitalist, Founder & Managing Director at Forerunner Ventures

Mark Suster
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures

Arthur Lipper
World renowned financier, author, FinTech inventor, and philanthropist

Eric Bunting
Early-stage investor, Founder & Managing Partner at Overbrook Capital

Mona DeFrawi
Founder of InsideVenture (acquired by SecondMarket) and at RADIVATE MEDIA, Inc.

Josh Maher
Angel Investor & Author of “Startup Wealth: How the Best Angel Investors Make Money in Startups”

Marc Scott Zicree
Leading producer, writer and director

Kevin Lamb
Entrepreneur and Film Financier, CEO at Advanced Tissue

Andrew Kyzyk
Vice President & Head of Advisor Relations at OTC Markets Group

Irena Chaushevska
Head Organizer of "NASA Space Apps Challenge" in Silicon Valley
Co-Founder at Next Billionaires Capital

Manie Eagar
Chairman at Blockchain Association of Canada (BAC)
Founder & CEO at DigitalFutures B.U.I.L.D.

Jor Law
Co-founder at Homeier Law PC & VerifyInvestor.com

Michael Hughes
Senior Director, Equity Crowdfunding
Indiegogo

Richard Kivel
Venture Capitalist and Private Investor, Managing Director of GrayBella Capital

Kim Kaselionis
Managing Partner at Breakaway Funding LLC

Michael G. Homeier
EB-5 & equity crowdfunding attorney, Founder at Homeier & Law, P.C.

Vivian Shimoyama
Regional Director, SoCal, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program

Rick Smith
Venture Capitalist, Co-founder and Managing Director at CrossCut

Greg Bohlen
VC, Managing General Partner at Union Grove Venture Partners

Xiaocheh Zhang
President at FinTech4Good

Jouko Ahvenainen
Founder and Executive Chairman @Grow VC Group, a global fintech holding company

David Koepsell, PhD
CEO & Founder of Encrypgen: blockchain genomics via the Gene-Chain

Alexander Kokhanovskyy
CEO & Founder DreamTeam.GG

Laurent Ruben
Founder & General Manager at French Accelerator

Barry E James
Co-founder & CEO of TheCrowdfundingCenter.com and CrowdDataCenter.com

Ekaterina Dorozhkina
Entrepreneur & Financier, Raised $5M via ICO

Alan Yong
Co-Founder of DNotes, a Bitcoin alternative digital currency

Valentin Preobrazhenskiy
Founder & CEO of LAToken

Robert Lewis
Nonprofit Professional, “No Box” Critical Thinker, Founder & President at Black Cooperative Investment Fund (BCIF)

Paul Scanlan
Angel Investor, Equity Crowdfunding Pioneer Cofounder & CEO Legion M Entertainment, Inc.

Dina Ellis Rochkind
Of Counsel in the Paul Hastings Government Affairs, Washington, DC

Celu Ramasamy
Bitcoin Investor, Cryptocurrencies evangelist, Partner at Focus Investments

Volodymyr Panchenko
CEO & Founder DMarket.io

Delilah Panio
Founder and CEO, Fortuna

Kim Folsom
Founder of LIFT Development Enterprises, Inc and Co-Founder and CEO of Founders First Capital Partners, LLC

Smita G. Bagla
Founder and CEO - Aligned Strategies LLC, Managing Partner at Amritt, Inc.

Jonatan H. Bergquist
Co-founder of Crowdstart Capital, first ICO based out of Germany

Erin Shipley
Venture Capitalist, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at The Helm

Andrew Hinkes
Partner, Berger Singerman LLP

Edward "Coach" Weinhaus
Chairman of The Co.in Group & Lecturer, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Eric Gravengaard
CEO at Athena Bitcoin, Inc.

Omkar Naik
Microsoft/ Global top 10 internal influencers of Blockchain

2017 Sponsors:

PREMIUM:
• Dmarket
• Dream Team
• NextGen Crowdfunding

PRESENTING:
• 10000 small businesses
• Long Beach City Centre
• Focus Investments
• Rock.com
• VerifyInvestor.com
• Homeier & Law
• The Blaine Group, Inc.
• Growvc group
• Encrypgen
• Breakaway Funding
• MetroPole Capital Group
• GrayBella Capital
• BondIt Media Capital
• California Lutheran University