Early-Stage Technology Investing Panel in New York City
Leading Venture Capitalists will speak to Entrepreneurs at FundingPost's Roundtable Discussion in New York City
New York, NY (PRWEB) July 28, 2005 -- On August 10, 2005, leading Venture
Capital investors are set to speak at the FundingPost (http://www.FundingPost.com)
“Early-Stage Technology Investing” event in New York City sponsored by Morrison
and Foerster. What does it take for an early-stage technology company to secure
funding? At this breakfast event, including Release 2.0 author Esther Dyson and
Milestone Venture Partners General Partner Edwin Goodman, will answer this and
other key questions by discussing what they are looking for in new investments
right now. The FundingPost Event Calendar and registration information are
online at: http://www.FundingPost.com/events.asp
FundingPost has
completed 20+ sold-out venture events in New York City over the past three years
and it is proud to announce its August 10th “Early-Stage Technology Investing”
event in New York. At the morning session, the venture capitalist panelists will
discuss critical topics including: valuation trends, term sheets, and hot
industry trends. In addition, two companies will have the opportunity to give a
20-minute pitch to the panelists. For more information about pitching, contact
Keith Henry, 203-659-6649, or visit the FundingPost website at http://www.FundingPost.com/events.asp.
The speakers on
the “Early-Stage Technology Investing” panel include:
* Robert Dennen,
Managing Director, Enhanced Capital Partners
* Esther Dyson, Editor-at-Large,
CNET Networks (Angel Investor)
* Edwin Goodman, General Partner, Milestone
Venture Partners
* Douglas P. Miscoll, Principal, Newlight Associates
*
Brett Topche, Associate, NJTC Venture Fund
“We are delighted to be
hosting an event on early-stage technology investing. We have seen some terrific
activity in this sector and we know that New York really needs an event focused
on this industry. We are excited to be able to bring such a powerhouse group of
venture capitalist together to speak on the topic. We are certain that the
entrepreneurs in attendance will find this roundtable discussion incredibly
valuable,” said Joe Rubin, Director, FundingPost.
Mr. Dennen is a
Managing Director for Enhanced Capital Partners, LLC, and is responsible for
making qualified investments in the various CAPCO states. His initial area of
focus is New York. He is a member of the firm's investment committee. He serves
on the Board of Directors of PartSearch Technologies, Inc. Prior to joining
Enhanced Capital Partners, LLC, in June 2001, Mr. Dennen has held senior
positions at technology firms. He was a founder, CFO and Chief Technology
Officer for Prism eSolutions, a provider of Internet-based knowledge management
and training, focused on quality management compliance. He was responsible for
the design, development, commercialization and launch of the company's initial
product. Previously, Mr. Dennen was the VP of New Product Development for
barnesandnoble.com, a leading e-commerce site. In addition, he was a Director
for Simon & Schuster in their Education Technology group commercializing
on-line uses of proprietary business content. Mr. Dennen started his technology
career at Andersen Consulting where he was a Senior Manager in their
Telecommunications Industry Consulting Practice for 10 years. He worked as a
staff accountant at Arthur Andersen during which time he became a Certified
Public Accountant (CPA).
Mr. Dennen received a Bachelor of Science in
Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Esther Dyson is editor-at-large at CNET Networks, where she
is responsible for its monthly newsletter, Release 1.0, and its PC Forum, the
high-tech market's leading annual executive conference. As editor-at-large, she
also contributes insight and content to CNET Networks' other properties. She
sold her business, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks in early 2004.
Previously, she had co-owned EDventure and written/edited Release 1.0 since
1983.
At Release 1.0 and in her private investment activities, Dyson
focuses on emerging technologies, emerging companies and emerging markets. Among
the topics she has covered for Release 1.0 recently are social software and
social networks, registries of people and things, the Internet, the
transformation of e-mail to "Meta-mail," identity management, and the use of
"consumer" Internet services such as Yahoo! eBay and Google by small businesses.
By 1994, she had already explored the impact of the Net on intellectual
property (among other things, why many software products are now turning into
online services). In 1997, she wrote a book on the impact of the Net on
individuals' lives, "Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age." It
includes a number of chapters about today's hot topics such as security,
privacy, anonymity and intellectual property.
Dyson is also an active
player in discussions and policy-making concerning the Internet and society.
From 1998 to 2000, she was founding chairman of ICANN (the organization
responsible for overseeing the Domain Name System). A variety of government
officials worldwide turn to her for advice on Internet policy issues.
In
addition, Dyson donates time and money as a trustee to emerging organizations
(Bridges.org, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Eurasia Foundation).
For several years in the '90s she was chairman of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation.
Edwin Goodman, General Partner at Milestone Venture Partners,
is a venture capitalist with 27 years of experience with highly-regarded venture
firms, including Patricof & Co. (7 years) and Hambros Bank (17 years). Mr.
Goodman joined Patricof & Co. as its third employee in 1974, and managed the
fund that invested in the final private financing round raised by Apple Computer
in the summer of 1977.
In 1979, Mr. Goodman and his associates at
Patricof raised the first substantial fund ($26 million) that included money
from ERISA institutional investors. This fund marked the beginning of U.S.
pension fund participation in the venture capital business. At Hambros, Mr.
Goodman was Chief Executive Officer of U.S. operations, and during his tenure,
with his partners, managed several private equity funds with over $150 million
collectively under management. He has reviewed thousands of investment
proposals, and teams under his management have invested in more than 100
companies. Twenty-five of these companies went public and many were profitably
sold. Mr. Goodman is also a visible spokesman and leader within the venture
capital industry. From 1986-1995, he chaired the annual Venture Investing
conference sponsored by International Business Forum, which afforded him an
excellent overview of the national venture capital community. Mr. Goodman holds
a B.A. from Yale University (1962) and an M.S. from Columbia University Business
School (1979).
Douglas Miscoll is a Principal of Newlight Associates.
Previously, he was a Managing Director of Laidlaw & Co., an investment firm
that he purchased with an investor group and subsequently sold. He also served
as Managing Director of Northgate Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on
investments in early-stage technology companies. Mr. Miscoll was a founding
member of the management team that created K-III Communications, now Primedia, a
publishing and media company sponsored by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Mr.
Miscoll holds a B.A. from Santa Clara University, an M.A. from Templeton
College, Oxford University, and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.
Brett Topche joined NJTC Venture Fund as an Associate from the
University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, where he achieved a dual major with
high honors in Finance and Legal Studies and a minor in Political Science. He
previously worked for MRA International in real estate development consulting,
and for the accounting firm Frankel and Topche. At NJTC Venture Fund, Brett
focuses primarily on software and communications companies.
For more
information about the New York City “Early-Stage Technology Investing” event and
other FundingPost events, contact Keith Henry at 203-659-6649 or visit the
FundingPost website at http://www.FundingPost.com/events.asp
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the nation each month.
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