Win free admission and a chance to volunteer at Venture Summit | West on March 13th – 14th at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley. The Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University is a co-sponsor of this event that brings together over 500 VCs, Corporate VCs, Private Investors, Investment bankers and CEOs of cutting edge companies, will feature an impressive line-up of more than 150 VCs on interactive panels; presentations from more than 50 Top Innovators and high-level networking opportunities.
Students who are interested in volunteering can fill out the form available here or email gil@youngstartup.com specifying which day(s) they are available as well as include their cell phone number.
Students are able to gain free admission and in turn help out for part of the day and enjoy the summit for the other part. Volunteers assist with setup, registration, program coordination, company presentations etc. The volunteer time slots are:
Tuesday, March 13th
9:30am – 5:30pm (the reception follows)
Thursday, March 14th
6:30am – 5:30pm
Here is a link to the program website for full details:
https://www.youngstartup.com/VSWest
VC funds confirmed to speak:
- Shan Aggarwal, Investor, Greycroft Partners
- Shawn Ahdout, Associate, Alsop Louie Partners
- Grant Allen, Managing Director, ABB Technology Ventures
- Dan Altschuler Malek, Venture Partner, New Crop Capital
- Jennifer Azapian, Partner, Mighty Capital
- Seth Bannon, Founding Partner, Fifty Years
- Ethan Batraski, Vice President, Venrock
- Andrew Beebe, Managing Director, Obvious Ventures
- Jacques Benkoski, Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
- Ashley Bittner, Investor, Owl Ventures
- Kris Bjornerud, General Partner, Wavemaker Partners
- Ryan Bloomer, Managing Director, Kairos Fund
- Edouard Bulteau, Investment Manager , Total Energy Ventures
- Gareth Burns, Managing Director, Statoil Energy Ventures Fund
- Leah Busque, General Partner, FUEL Capital
- Alicia Castillo Holley, Investor, Sand Hill Angels
- Bryan Chang, Principal, Collaborative Fund
- Amit Chaturvedy, Head of IoT Investments, Cisco Investments
- Sunil Chhaya, Investor, NextWorld Capital
- Asha Collins, Investor, Pipeline Angels
- Kathleen Collins, Principal, Industry Ventures
- Rafael Costa, Partner, Vulcan Capital
- Heather Crawford, Investor, Band of Angels
- Sanjit Singh Dang, Director, Intel Capital
- Marianne De Backer, Vice President Venture Investments, Johnson & Johnson Innovation
- Angelo Del Priore, Partner, HP Tech Ventures
- Lidiya Dervisheva, Investor, G2VP
- Cong Ding, Investor, Comcast Ventures
- Dan Doble, Investor, SABIC Ventures
- Yizhen Dong, Investor, 11.2 Capital
- Vijay Doradla, Director, Verizon Ventures
- Tim Draper, Founder & Managing Partner, Draper Associates
- Tom Eggleston, Managing Partner, Charmides Capital
- Jeff Ellington, Investor, FUEL Capital
- Laura Evans, Investor, Wildcat Venture Partners
- Michael Fanfant, Investor, Runa Capital
- Banafsheh Fathieh, Principal, Naspers Ventures
- Curtis Feeny, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Data Capital
- Zoe Feldman, Managing Director, Almanac Investments
- Victoria Fram, Co-Founder & Managing Director, VilCap Investments
- Lea Freeman, Investor, Qualcomm Ventures
- Ann Gaddy, Co-Founder and Managing Director, BioPacific Investors
- Tarik Galijasevic, Director, Allstate Strategic Ventures
- Shruti Gandhi, Founder & Managing Partner, Array Ventures
- Alicia Garabedian, Investor, SamsungNEXT Ventures
- John Giannuzzi, Managing General Partner, Sherbrooke Capital
- Yael Gilboa, Investor, DBL Partners
- Andrew Goldberg, Principal, Vivo Capital
- Zach Gonzales, Investor, Norwest Venture Partners
- Rashmi Gopinath, Partner, Microsoft Ventures
- Rich Grant, Founder & Managing Director, Touchdown Ventures
- Kanu Gulati, Principal, Khosla Ventures
- Baris Guzel, Senior Associate, BMW i Ventures
- John Hartnett, Co-Founding Partner, SVG Partners
- Yash Hemaraj, Principal, Benhamou Global Ventures
- Scott Horner, Managing Director, Middleland Capital
- Carolina Huaranca, Principal, Kapor Capital
- Wally Hunter, Managing Director, EnerTech Capital
- Villi Iltchev, Partner, August Capital
- Noel Jee, Investor, Illumina Ventures
- Alexis Ji, Partner, Illumina Ventures
- Jennifer Kaehms, Investor, Canvas Ventures
- Ansaf Kareem, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Eylul Kayin, Investor, NEA
- Eva Khoo, Principal, Vertex Ventures
- Maxwell Kim, Investor, Interwest Partners
- Jocelyn Kinsey, Investor, DFJ
- Howard Ko, Principal, Morpheus Ventures
- Lauren Kolodny, Partner, Aspect Ventures
- Gabriel Kra, Managing Director, Prelude Ventures
- Shrina Kurani, Investor, Better Ventures
- Michael Lavin, Founder, Germin8 Ventures
- Rob Leclerc, Cofounder, AgFunder
- Lisha Li, Principal, Amplify Partners
- Robin Li, Vice President, GGV Capital
- Shripriya Mahesh, Partner, Omidyar Network
- Lisa Marrone, Principal, August Capital
- Susan Mason, General Partner, Aligned Partners
- Tom Mastrobuoni, Chief Financial Officer, Tyson Ventures
- Melina Mathur, Associate, Asset Management Ventures
- Katie McCann, Investor, Mighty Capital
- Brad McManus, Investment Director, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital
- Irem Mertol, Director, McKesson Ventures
- Ben Metcalfe, Principal, Ridge Ventures
- SC Moatti, Managing Partner, Mighty Capital
- Alex Morgan, Principal, Khosla Ventures
- Stephanie Mui, Investor, NEA
- Ravi Mulugu, Principal, Next47
- Ami Naik, Principal, Radical Impact
- Ben Narasin, Venture Partner, NEA
- Suman Natarajan, Vice President, Citi Ventures
- T.T. Nguyen Duc, Managing Director, Pearson Affordable Learning Fund
- Marlon Nichols, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Cross Culture Ventures
- Anita Nunes, Investor, Pipeline Angels
- Jay Owen, Managing Partner, DOM Capital Group
- Diane Palme, Investor, Sand Hill Angels
- Luke Pappas, Investor, NEA
- Luke Pappas, Investor, NEA
- Preetha Parthasarathy, Investment Director, Intel Capital
- Heidi Patel, Partner, Rethink Impact
- Lauren Michelle Pfeifer, Investor, Maschmeyer Group Ventures
- Ulrich Quay, Managing Partner, BMW i Ventures
- Aanand Radia, Managing Director, University Ventures
- Vivek Ramaswami, Investor, Redpoint Ventures
- Brandon Reeves, Investor, Lux Capital
- Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
- Lucas Rocha, Investor, JetBlue Technology Ventures
- Michael Rose, Partner, Better Food Ventures
- Praveen Sahay, Founder & Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners
- Priya Saiprasad, Principal, Microsoft Ventures
- Maria Salamanca, Investment Associate, Unshackled Ventures
- Parsa Saljoughian, Vice President, IVP
- Uday Sandhu, Principal, Presidio Partners
- Shrikant Sathe, Partner, Vedanta Capital
- Ken Sawyer, Partner, Saints Capital
- Carol Schrader, Investor, Astia Angels
- Reese Schroeder, Managing Director, Tyson Ventures
- Abhishek Sharma, Investor, Nexus Venture Partners
- Ajay Sharma, Principal, JetBlue Technology Ventures
- Lindsay Sharma, Vice President, Industry Ventures
- Han Shen, Founding Partner, iFly.vc
- Abhishek Shukla, Managing Director, GE Ventures
- Monica Simo, Investor, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- Richard Simoni, Managing Partner, Asset Management Ventures
- Ajit Singh, Partner, Artiman Ventures
- Ishan Sinha, Associate, Point72 Ventures
- Tanya Soman, Venture Partner, 500 Startups
- Pedro Sorrentino, Co-founder and Managing Partner, ONEVC
- Michael Stewart , Principal, Applied Ventures
- George Straschnov, Managing Director, Bisk Ventures
- Li Sun, Investor, Bessemer Venture Partners
- Rajesh Swaminathan, Investment Director , Applied Ventures
- Sydney Sykes, Investor, NEA
- Chuck Templeton, Managing Director, S2G Ventures
- Sydney Thomas, Investor & Head of Operations, Precursor Ventures
- Leigh Thompson, Investor, Dow Ventures
- Esther Tricoche, Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund
- Jeff Truong, Investor, Altos Ventures
- Marc van den Berg, Partner, DBL Partners
- Anarghya Vardhana, Principal, Maveron
- Kamal Vasagiri, Senior Associate, GE Ventures
- Sophia Viklund, Managing Director, Golden Seeds
- Tim Wang, Investor, Westly Group
- Dea Wilson, Investor, Tech Angels
- Jen Wolf, Partner, Initialized Capital
- Matthew Wukasch, Managing Director, Charmides Capital
- Brandon Yahn, Principal, Convivialite Ventures
- Chris Yeh, Co-founder and General Partner, Wasabi Ventures
- Elizabeth Yin, Partner, Hustle Fund
- Kevin Zhang, Investor, Bain Capital Ventures
- Lu Zhang, Managing Partner, Fusion Fund
To apply as a volunteer, please fill out the form Click Here
Here is a link to the program website for full details:
https://www.youngstartup.com/VSWest