Digital health funding declines for the third year in a row
AI-enabled digital health startups raised $3.7B, 37% of total funding for the sector
Read more...Are you a female entrepreneur with a really cool company or idea? Do you want a chance to mingle with some top VCs (mostly women), such as Renata Quintini (Felicis Ventures), Cindy Padnos (Illuminate Ventures), Maha Ibrahim (Canaan Ventures), Katherine Barr (MDV), Sharon Wienbar (Scale Venture Partners), and Rebecca Lynn (Morgenthaler).
What are you waiting for? Come join us at The Ritz-Carlton at Half Moon Bay.
Girls in Tech, Thomson Reuters and Vator are looking for superstar women to attend Amplify, an event focused on empowering women to take leadership roles in the entrepreneur ecosystem.
AMPLIFY 2013 is hosted by Thomson Reuters’ PartnerConnect West Conference (#AMPLIFY2013). The event is expected to attract more than 1,000 investors over several days, and 300 to 500 on any given day.
Do you want a demo table to get in front of hundreds of investors from 1:30 pm to 7 pm?
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Here's the agenda:
1:30 to 2:00 pm -- Check in and networking
2:00 to 2:10 pm -- Opening remarks: Adriana Gascoigne (Girls in Tech) and Bambi Francisco (Vator)
2:10 to 2:50 pm -- (40 minutes) How have early-stage venture investing models evolved and how are early-stage investors helping their portfolio companies deal the Series A Crunch? Renata Quintini (Felicis Ventures), Dave McClure (500 Startups), Cindy Padnos (Illuminate Ventures), Paul Lee (Lightbank); Moderator: Alastair Goldfisher (Thomson Reuters)
2:50 to 3:10 pm -- Reinventing the book industry - Eileen Gittins (Blurb, Founder & CEO)
3:10 to 3:40 pm -- (30 minutes) Mixing business with pleasure: Do husbands and wives make great founding teams? And can women have it all? Andra Davidson (A&E Networks), Heidi Zak (ThirdLove), Jennifer Wong (Alt21), Kristen Goldstein (BackOps); Moderator: Adriana Gascoigne (Girls in Tech)
4:00 to 4:40 pm -- (40 minutes) Venture capital is being turned on its head! What will venture capital look like in five years? Maha Ibrahim(Canaan Ventures), Katherine Barr ( MDV ), Sharon Wienbar ( Scale Venture Partners ), Rebecca Lynn (Morgenthaler); Moderator: Bambi Francisco (Vator)
4:40 to 5:20 pm -- (40 minutes) CEO panel - How to land a Series A - Kristen Goldstein (BackOps), Lynn Perkins (UrbanSitter), Karla Gallardo (Cuyana); Moderator: Laura Bushnell (King & Spalding)
5:20 to 5:30 pm -- Closing remarks
5:30 to 7:00 pm -- Cocktail reception (time to see demo tables)
AI-enabled digital health startups raised $3.7B, 37% of total funding for the sector
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Sharon invests in Mobile and Internet companies at ScaleVP. She sits on the boards of Actiance, BeachMint, Everyday Health, PlayPhone, Reply.com and uTest.