Entrepreneurs meet Early-Stage Investors in Silicon Valley

May 23, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
Silicon Valley, CA (May 23, 2007) – On May 29, FundingPost (www.FundingPost.com) is hosting a panel discussion with leading Angel Investors at its “Silicon Valley Early-Stage Venture Investing” event, hosted by the City of Menlo Park. FundingPost has created a unique niche because while most Investor events deal with Venture Capitalists and later-stage investors, this event allows early-stage companies a chance to meet local early-stage Private Investors known as “Angel” Investors and Seed-stage Venture Capitalists. For more information about this event, the FundingPost Event Calendar and registration information are available online: http://www.FundingPost.com/events.asp

After hosting a highly successful series of Angel Investing events for four years, FundingPost is continuing this proven formula again this year. The panelists for the event include:

• Richard Irving, Managing Partner, Pond Venture Partners
• Andrew Braccia, Accel Partners
• Tom McKinley, Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Partech International
• Robert McNeil, Ph.D., Managing Director, Sanderling Ventures
• John Hall, General Partner & Co-Founder, Horizon Ventures
• Edward Esber, Jr., Member, The Halo Fund
• Ben Dubin, Asset Management Company
• Igor Sill, Managing Director, Hambrecht Geneva Ventures
• Ravi Belani, Associate, Draper Fisher Jurvetson


Following the breakfast presentation, two companies will have the opportunity to “pitch” to the entire panel of investors. “It’s a fantastic opportunity for an early-stage company to spend 20 minutes pitching a room full of early-stage Investors,” said Joe Rubin, Director, FundingPost. “Seed-stage VCs are always on the lookout for great ideas, and FundingPost is proud to provide a forum for them to locate promising new ventures.”

For more information on the Investor conference and other FundingPost events, contact events@fundingpost.com, call 800-461-5509 or visit the website at http://www.FundingPost.com/events.asp

About FundingPost.com
FundingPost is an entrepreneur and investor network reaching more than 200,000 executives and 6,000 Venture Capital and Angel Investors across the nation each month.

For over six years FundingPost has worked with thousands of Angel and Venture Capital Investors and Entrepreneurs. FundingPost has hosted over 5,000 CEOs and 600 Venture Funds at events in 15 cities nationwide, as well as providing a quarterly Dealflow magazine and a deal-exchange Website that has, on average, seen an introduction of an Investor to an Entrepreneur every business day since its inception. FundingPost’s mission is to reach investors and entrepreneurs in every medium possible – both online and offline, and it is experiencing strong growth as the venture capital markets continue to improve worldwide. For more information: http://www.FundingPost.com
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