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Venture Capital Panel: What's Hot in 2026! Tickets, Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite

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Venue:

Snell and Wilmer
5 Palo Alto Square
(Ground Floor Event Center)
3000 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306

A panel of distinguished venture capitalists will discuss what's hot in 2026 in the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem.

Please come with your questions and comments.

(This is not a pitch event. Startups will not be pitching to the panel.)
Dinner will be provided.

Agenda
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Check In, Food, Networking, Demo Tables
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Program
8:30 pm to 9:00 pm Networking
After Party

Panelists:
(More panelists TBA.)

Ellen Damaso, Venture & Capital Partner, Plus Ultra Capital Partners
Yvonne Lutsch, Investment Director, Lam Capital
Eric Ver Ploeg, Managing Director, Tunitas Ventures
Joe Jasin, Managing Director, DNA Partners
Daniel Theobald, Venture Partner, Republic Ventures
Bill Reichert, Partner, Pegasus Tech Ventures

Moderator:
Roger Rappoport, Partner, Snell and Wilmer

If you would like a startup demo table or sponsor marketing table, send an email message to:

pitchanddemo@gmail.com

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W 1/21/26 Tabler

Organizational Sponsors:

Insperity
HR-Solutions

Insperity champions the power of startups as a driving force behind America’s economic vitality.

Launching and scaling a successful business demands courage, resilience, and a relentless focus on building an exceptional workplace culture.

But it also requires getting the fundamentals right, from payroll and HR policies to employee benefits and regulatory compliance. That’s where Insperity comes in.

As a leader in outsourced human capital management, we deliver innovative HR solutions that help startups accelerate growth, reduce risk, and stay focused on what matters most: achieving their long-term vision.

Contact:
Lisa Fields
Business Performance Advisor
insperity.com/lisa.fields
Schedule a call
Lisa.Fields@insperity.com

Chordify, Inc

Helping Startups Grow

Need software development help for your startup?

Chordify provides Idea to MVP and fractional CTO services to ensure timely launches.

To learn how Chordify helps start-ups grow through offshore development and staff augmentation services, contact Ken Morris at:

LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/kenmorris

www.chordify.com

GreenEventKit.com

Make Your Event Sustainable – Reusable Cups, Plates, Silverware & More!
Hosting an event?

We can help you reduce waste with our reusable dishware service.

We provide:

• Reusable cups and water dispensers
• Plates, forks, knives, and spoons
• Cloth napkins

Our service includes delivery, setup support, and post-event pickup with full washing. No hassle for you.

Perfect for private events with up to 125 guests.

Affordable. Efficient. Zero waste made easy.(Pricing negotiable)

Try our reusable plates, cups, and silverware at upcoming Idea to IPO events—and come chat with us about zero-waste catering for your own event.

Cut back on disposables. Fight climate change. Let’s make sustainability the standard.

Visit:
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Crewz - shared rides better than Uber/Lyft at the price of public transit!
Crewz is a new type of shared rides app that helps riders and drivers to easily save 50%+ of their time, money, and emissions, while meeting new friends and business contacts through curated carpools.

We do this through a unique combination of traditional carpooling and shared Uber/Lyft/taxi rides, and we're focused on partnering with event organizers.

Anyone with a car can sign up and offer a ride in seconds and make up to $20 or more by picking up a fellow attendee.

How it works for users

1. click on the specific Crewz carpool link for your event
2. sign up as a driver, and/or rider and/or Uber/Lyft/Taxi rideshare
3. see others going to the same events or with similar trips (first name, last initial, other info optional)
4. see others' LinkedIn (if connected), and see a fair price for sharing fuel/etc. calculated based on distance
5. message others, if necessary
6. choose who to invite/accept
7. share rides, save money, and make new friends!

Event organizers, employers, universities, or investors, please contact:

Paul Breslow, PhD, CEO/Founder
paul@crewz.cowww.crewz.co
linkedin.com/in/paulbreslow
Calendar: crewz.co/mtg

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-strategize-and-execute-your-job-search-with-chatgpt-in-one-hour-tickets-1976049571462?aff=ideatoipo

Most people take weeks or even months to organize their job search. In the AI era, the market moves so fast that by the time you’ve figured out your plan, everything has changed—and you’re stuck pivoting again. The result? Job seekers are always chasing the market instead of leading it.
It doesn’t have to be this way.

AI isn’t just for recruiters and hiring managers—it’s for you too. If you’re stuck figuring out where to start, how to build a strategy, or just want to get back into the market faster, this one-hour webinar is your solution.
Using ChatGPT, you’ll learn how to plan, organize, and execute your job search with clarity and speed—without the burnout—with a real resume and LinkedIn profile from a peer.

This isn’t about quick answers from AI. It’s about using ChatGPT as a thinking partner to help you take control and move forward confidently.

### We'll cover how you can use ChatGPT to:

• Serve as your personalized career advisor with your existing resume and LinkedIn profile.
• Act as an accountability partner for your job search, including with daily tasks.
• Edit your resume and LinkedIn so it can be more visible, including tailored for individual job listings.
• Identify where you need more experience or education so you can become a better candidate.
• Develop a company application strategy, including reading the trends and seeing what's hot and what's not.
• Improve your interviewing, including creating interview answers and as a mock interviewer.
• Build your personal brand in your voice.
• And much more!

### What you’ll walk away with:

• A repeatable system for job searching in 2026
• Custom ChatGPT prompts you can use immediately to: Organize your thoughts into a clear strategy, create compelling, tailored content for every stage of the process, prepare with confidence for networking and interviews

Finally, this session will be recorded. If you sign up and cannot make it, a recording will be sent to you.

Organizational Sponsor:

Startup House

Need a place to stay short term in Silicon Valley?

Stay at Startup House in Palo Alto - the heart of Silicon Valley - for as low as $50 a night!

-Network, socialize and connect with entrepreneurs all over the world!
-Enjoy social events and startup and venture capital-related programming!
- Have access to world class amenities, iconic tech companies, top tier venture capital firms, Stanford University, etc. - all within walking or biking distance!

For more info, send an email message to:

siliconvalleystartuphousing@gmail.com

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Silicon Valley Startup Housing

This event is 100% online.

Participants can be located anywhere in the world!

This event is FREE to attend!

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Silicon Valley Business Networking (Online) Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite

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There's no content or speaker at this event -- just business networking.

Build your business network - face to face (online)!

Join a virtual gathering of professionals from all walks of life from all over the world!

You may meet your next business collaborator, client, employer, employee or friend!

Meet Silicon Valley movers and shakers and influencers from all over the world - tech entrepreneurs, developers, engineers, attorneys, bloggers, academics, thought leaders, community organizers, artists, financiers, and investors!

Network, socialize and connect!

For more info on Idea to IPO events, visit:

www.idea-to-ipo.com (our main meetup group among 160 meetup groups globally)

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-build-a-speaking-career-with-your-expertise-in-2026-tickets-1980337574996?aff=ideatoipo

A FREE 90 min training with Steve Brossman & Manny Wolfe — two global powerhouses joining forces to eliminate the two biggest pains experts face:



• “If only more people could see what I do”
• “I spend too much time chasing speaking and podguesting opportunities”
• “When I do speak I don’t get paid.”
• “I talk to people but not enough buy. I don’t want to be Pushy. ”

You’re not alone.

Most of you stepped into business to because you love doing what you do and are great at it.

You didn’t sign up to be a booking agent or a hotshot sales person.

## Your Message Matters — But If Nobody Sees You, Nobody Pays You.

INTRODUCING THE SOLUTION
The “Get Seen, Get Known, Get Paid” Framework
Delivered by:

Steve Brossman
International speaker (Spoken in 15 countries to 35,000+ people live), authority strategist, sales mentor, 9 x Best Selling Author.,
An expert at making experts the pre-eminent choice in their market.

Manny Wolfe
Founder of OPUS Speaker Services, booking & tech systems genius, Known for getting speakers booked without the grind, the hustle, or the guesswork.

Together, they’ve built something unprecedented:

A system that gets you consistently booked AND continuously bankable … without you chasing anything. AND

This workshop gives you the blueprint.

What You’ll Walk Away with in this Training: