Agenda

Wednesday, 23 September

1:00pm

1:30pm

    • James Mawson, Founder & CEO, Global Corporate Venturing

    • Prutha Atre, Director, Silicon Foundry

1:35pm

  • What Limited Partners look for in Emerging Managers and dealing with the crisis in consolidation.

    Keynote address by event co-chairs:

    • Ira Ehrenpreis, Founder & Managing Partner, DBL Partners

    • Dave Mullen, Partner, Pinegrove Capital Partners

    • Moderator: Greg Heibel, Partner, Orrick

    Limited Partners are constantly searching for signals of future alpha. A common evaluation framework is to consider the track record of the Fund staff, what sourcing edge can provide true differentiation and fund calculations on optimisation for returns, rather than management fees. This panel discussion explores the realistic challenges Limited Partners have when engaging with Emerging Managers and how empathy can be generated with General Partners and deal with 80% of capital going to a handful of mature GPs.

2:00pm

  • What General Partners look for in Limited Partners

    Speakers:

    • Winter Mead, Founder, Coolwater Capital

    • George Hoyem, Former EVP of Investments, In-Q-Tel

    • David Zhou, Co-founder, The Side Letter

    VC firms and corporations are increasingly active as LPs in other venture funds to help broaden the funnel of future dealflow and collaboration opportunities and as an ‘eyes-and-ears’ strategy to track the thousands of startups. For the GPs it builds future syndicates and helps portfolio companies increase their value if the value-add can be delivered through landing the value as customer/supplier relations and exit routes. Examination of why emerging managers with strategic LPs are twice as likely to raise their next funds, according to GCV data.

2:25pm

Afternoon break

2.45pm

  • Eight opportunities for one-to-one meetings between Limited Partners and General Partners.

5:40pm

  • Kauffman Fellows and Stanford share their 4 top tips on building emerging firms and enduring

    Introduction:

    • Nicolas Sauvage, founder and president, TDK Ventures

    Speakers:

    • Allen Taylor, Endeavor Catalyst and Current Board Member, Kauffman Fellows

    • Claudia Fan Munce, Venture Advisor, NEA & Lecturer, Stanford Business School

6:15pm

Drinks reception