AlleyBoost: Startup Investor Night (TICKETS TO PITCH)

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If you would like to Attend as an Audience Member please RSVP via our SplashThat Page - https://abstartupinvestornight.splashthat.com/ .

Pitch, Make Connections with, and Get Valuable Feedback from 5 - 10 Investors who are looking for early stage investments (Seed to Series A)

You have 10 Min to make it happen:1 min Set Up; 6 min Demo/Presentation; 2 min Q&A with VCs; 1 min Break Down.

Limited to just 18 startups so you don’t get lost in the crowd. A startup "Presenter" ticket gets you admission for up to two team members and information of how to focus your presentation to maximize likelihood of receiving financing.

Make sure to Purchase "To Watch" tickets for any additional team members who will be pitching with you.

The winning Startups for the evening will also receive:

Grand Prize: (Winner of Pitch off between two First Place Startups) Free Consultation with Sheppard Mullin (http://www.sheppardmullin.com/)’s emerging company attorneys, covering incorporation, early stage legal documentation and financing strategies.

1st Prize: (First Place in Room 1) One-on-one consultation with Cohn Reznick (https://www.cohnreznick.com/)'s Technology Industry Practice, which would cover the following areas:

Strategic tax planning – including corporate structuring, as well as local and industry specific tax incentives

Financial reporting insights – company specific

Accretive business/industry introductions

1st Prize: (First Place in Room 2) A month of FREE CoWorking at WorkVille (http://workvillenyc.com/) with the ability to bring a colleague.

2nd Prize: (2nd Place in Room 1) $500 credit towards data warehousing from Snowflake (http://www.snowflake.net/).

2nd Prize: (2nd Place in Room 2) Skype/Phone Consulting Session with Wazi, CEO of The Small Business Oracle - provider of Strategic Execution and Financial Guidance (SEx & $) to 5 - 50 person companies.

Other Prizes:

All Startup Founders under the age of 33 will also be eligible to be nominated for the “33Under33 Awards” in Early 2017

Three “Most Likely to Succeed” Startups (as judged by AlleyBoost) will win discounted BDSM (Business Development, Sales & Marketing) Sponsorship for 12 months

If you're interested in pitching at an upcoming investor night email Jason@AlleyBoost.com to reserve a spot in advance. Come watch this one to gain valuable insights and tips so your pitch is effective next time.

Agenda:

6 - 7 pm Pitches

7 - 7:15 pm Break

7:15 - 8 pm Pitches

8 - 8:30 pm Networking with VCs/Angels

Light refreshments will be served

Use the hashtag #AlleyBoost during the event! :)

Judges

Deepen Parikh, Partner, Courtside Ventures

Deepen is a Partner at Courtside Ventures, which is an early-stage VC fund that invests in technology and media, as it relates to sports. Prior, he was a Partner at Interplay Ventures, a NY based incubator and early-stage investor. He co-founded NYVC Sports (part of the New York Venture Community) with the mission of bridging the gap between sports leagues, teams, investors, entrepreneurs, and media companies.

Dimitris Kouevaros, Director of Accelerator Operations/VC, Newark Venture Partners

Dimitris Kouvaros, NVP’s Director of Accelerator Operations and a member of the fund’s early stage investment team, has been a leader of various startup initiatives in the New York metro area, including his roles as Co-Director of NYC Startup Next (acquired by Techstars), Co-Organizer of TechBrunch, NYC Organizer of Startup Weekend, and COO of the Baruch Investment Management Group, a student-run investment fund. Prior to that, Dimitris headed business developments for Huddle Metrics and for Placemeter, a Techstars 2013 Class company, and was a member of Silicon Valley Bank’s Early Stage team within the bank’s Entrepreneur Services Group in New York. Dimitris holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from CUNY-Baruch College, and is an avid Mets fan, an occasional standup comic, and co-creator of Live! From Tomorrow, a startup-focused late night talk show on Meerkat.

Meghan Cross, Director, Red Bear Angels

As Managing Director, Meghan joined Red Bear Angels with nearly a decade of operating experience launching and growing media & software companies in New York and Silicon Valley. She draws venture experience from working with Bowery Capital, Foundation Capital, Metamorphic Ventures, and StarVest Partners, where she analyzed potential investments and provided portfolio value-add. She is the founder of Cross Venture Services LLC, a launch advisor to such commerce platforms as Sailo (TechStars ’15), Shareswell, and Thursday Boot Co.

Swatick Majumdar, Venture Partner, Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV)

Swatick Majumdar is the Venture Partner of Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV). Previously he was a Managing Director at Chatsworth Securities, LLC a Greenwich, CT based boutique investment bank. At Chatsworth he directed all his attention to the investment banking activities in the US-India corridor where he helped execute numerous successful financings in various sectors such as Technology, Media and Telecommunication (TMT), Renewable Energy (new and traditional), Biotechnology and Medical devices. He has been active as an advisor in the start-up evolution of companies and brings a wealth of global relationships, expertise and operating history to the team at DEV. He serves as a board observer at Easy Energy Systems, a renewable energy company and Global Path Capital.

Damion Hankejh, Founder, Ingk Labs

Ingk Labs is a privately held IP Accelerator based in New York City led by a team of industry luminaries who rescue hand selected IP from the intellectual graveyard in partnership with Venture Capitalists, corporate R&D departments and university labs. Damion Hankejh is also the CTO/founder of InstantService (now Oracle Live Help) and winner of the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge with his adaptive educational smart toy, FANG (Friendly Anthropomorphic Networked Genome). His investing interests include education, enterprise services, payments/finance, luxury/fashion, and the corporate/consumer social stack.

Sumeet Shah, Senior Associate, Brand Foundry Ventures

Sumeet is responsible for sourcing, executing, and monitoring new opportunities at Brand Foundry Ventures. He has 6 years of experience across the startup and private equity industries, formerly running new business strategies at Gist Digital and handling business development and project work at Gotham Consulting Partners. Sumeet graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering, specializing in Biomechanics.

Roger Chen, Investor, Genacast Ventures

Roger is an investor at Genacast Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm affiliated with Comcast Ventures. He focuses on B2B technology startups that have a presence in the Northeast US. Prior to joining Genacast Ventures, Roger held several roles in tech and venture capital including several years working on product at Google with stints in Maps, Chrome, and Spam. Roger holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Michigan and is completing his MBA at Wharton.

Joshua B. Siegel, General Partner, Rubicon Venture Capital

Joshua B. Siegel is the General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital, a VC fund combined with value added LPs, investing in Later Stage Seed and Series A & B venture capital financing rounds of high potential early stage disruptive technology companies. They operate as a venture capital fund as well as provide a sidecar mechanism for LPs to invest, on a deal by deal basis, into each startup. They focus on FinTech, Adtech, Mobile, Big Data, IoT, Enterprise Saas, B2B, B2C, Hospitality Tech and the like. Rubicon does not invest in Edtech, Healthcare, Pharma, Bio, energy or other capital intensive businesses.

Jeremy Harper, Principal, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

Jeremy is an Associate at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, focusing on early stage technology investing and mentoring across multiple sectors, both enterprise and consumer. Jeremy was previously an early employee on the Booz Allen Hamilton commercial team, a digital strategist for Unilever, and the head of marketing for The5thMedium. Jeremy received a B.A. from Brown University.

Dave Grossman, CEO, DG Intreractive / Angel Investor

Dave is the founder of DG Interactive and DG Medical Animations. When it comes to angel investing, he believes the most important things are the team and the proof of concept. He looks for opportunities where he can add value and he believes strongly that founders should be looking for smart money that can help take them to the next level. He also believes it’s important to have strong mentors and enjoys guiding newer entrepreneurs. Follow him on Twitter @thedavegrossman where he talks about entrepreneurship and venture capital.

Amy Kadomatsu, Co-Founder and President, ROKO Labs

Amy Kadomatsu is co-founder and president of ROKO Labs, a mobile platform company that helps app creators build better apps by adding deep-linking, Refer-A-Friend, promo code tracking, and push notification to their apps in less than a day. Prior to ROKO Labs, Amy was a Managing Director at McGraw-Hill Financial, a Fortune 500 company. A serial entrepreneur, Amy has created and launched multiple start-ups including TheMarkets.com, which was sold to S&P Capital IQ in 2010 for $300M. Passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship, Amy is an active seed investor with HBS NY Angels, a mentor at Entrepreneurs Roundtable and advisor to start-ups. She also serves as Board Chair for MOUSE, a national nonprofit that empowers students to become leaders, inventors, and creators in the technology ecosystem. Amy is a graduate of Harvard University and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Vinnie Cuccia, Angel Investor

Vincent Cuccia runs Planet Pepper, where we “bootify” the Glamazons of the world by providing hip pads to drag queens and transsexuals. He tripled sales in just 3 months with social media and won several business competitions. Before starting Planet Pepper, he cofounded the nonprofit Ti Piace-Italian American Presentations where he increased funding 100%. He teaches Public Speaking for Business at Kingsborough Community College/CUNY where he works on and grades 200 pitches a year. He is also the Faculty Advisor for the LGBTS Alliance and the Liberal Arts Council where he has organized drag shows and other events that promote the mission of the groups. He received his Masters from Queens College/CUNY. He is an expert in niche/community and online marketing and public speaking.

Jason Shuman, Associate, Corigin Ventures

Born and raised in Boston, Jason comes from a family of entrepreneurs. An associate at Corigin Ventures, he’s responsible for sourcing and analyzing deals, along with working with, and supporting portfolio companies. Prior to Corigin, Jason founded Category Five, an eCommerce mens footwear company that specialized in handsewn Boat Shoes (hence the twitter name, BoatShuman) and Driving Moccasins. Jason has worked in the identity theft protection space at Identity Force and the real estate industry at Luxury Residential Group. Passionate about entrepreneurship from a young age, Jason has consulted for numerous eCommerce and marketplace startups. He’s also a mentor at MassChallenge, Founder Institute and the Motive Real Estate Tech Accelerator.

Brittany Gorevic, Partner, Lattice Ventures

Brittany Gorevic is a General Partner at Lattice Ventures, providing launch capital to entrepreneurs serving industries underserved in innovation. Prior to launching Lattice, Gorevic served as GM at Union Square Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with $1B+ under management, investments include Etsy, Twitter, SoundCloud, Twilio, and Kickstarter. Her entrepreneurial endeavors include founding VetsinTech NYC, transitioning military veterans into technology jobs, and founded gtrot, a social travel recommendation engine sold to Groupon. She has a BA in Marketing and International Business from NYU.

Kevin Weeks, Partner, Dozen Digital

Kevin is a Partner at Dozen Digital, where he works with startups on creating and testing scalable customer acquisition systems. Prior to Dozen Digital, Kevin worked with several VC funds and startups, including Bain Capital Ventures, Scout Ventures, Thanx and BloomThat. He spent six years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, most recently in the strategic investments group. Kevin is a major supporter of Defy Ventures, an entrepreneurship training program for formerly incarcerated adults. He is a graduate of Columbia Business School and the University of Pennsylvania, where he played offensive line on the football team.

Chris Fortunato, Principal, KEC Ventures

Chris is a Principal at KEC where he focuses on digital media, ecommerce, vertically-specific enterprise software and fintech.

Chris came to KEC with a background in financial research and analysis. Prior to KEC Ventures he worked at Aegis Capital performing research on U.S. equities. Before his time at Aegis, Chris worked in the Capital Markets Division at Janney Montgomery Scott. He was a member of the High Yield Corporate Credit team at Delaware Investments prior to his tenure at JMS.

Chris has a passion for education and learning. He authored a self-tutoring mathematics textbook for students preparing for standardized exams. Chris holds a bachelor of science from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Matt J. Moisan, Moisan Legal P.C.

Matthew Moisan is an attorney, an entrepreneur, and an innovator. Matthew strives to add value to his clients’ beyond providing boilerplate legal services. He and his firm, Moisan Legal, PC, represent the digital age entrepreneur.

Peter Nicholas, Director of Investment Strategy, Facilitated Growth

Before joining Facilitated Growth in 2013, as a series 7 and 63 registered representative, Pete was involved in investments spanning both the public and private markets. At National Securities, he maintained client relationships, managed client accounts, and oversaw a team of people. As Director of Investment Strategy at FG, he is currently using his assets to assist entrepreneurs in navigating through the early stages of the business process, with a focus on investor sentiment. His ability to read and assess situations is considered by the partners when making a proprietary investment.

Mike Campagna, Manager, Michael Page

Michael Page is a global, executive recruitment firm with 164 offices in 35 countries. Mike heads up the technology sales recruitment division within Michael Page, New York. He specializes in placing sales professionals with tech startups here in New York City, and manages a team that does the same.

Light refreshments will be served

Use the hashtag #AlleyBoost during the event! :)

All sales are final.