"Behind the Scenes of Venture Capital" - raise VC money or become a VC yourself

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Only a small percentage of startups get funded by venture capitalists. Why some founders get VC money and some don't?

Nina Achadjian - VC at Cota Capital - will go "Behind the Scenes of Venture Capital" and share some of the secrets of the VC world.

She will also discuss how you could become a Venture Capitalist yourself.

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Nina recently gave this talk in front of the MBA students at Stanford University (Graduate School of Business).

Cota Capital's investments include Google, Dropbox, Uber, Addepar, Getaround, Memebox, Gusto, Funders Club, InDinero, Washio, Klout, Munchery, SoundHound, etc.

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The event starts with a networking reception where food and drinks will be provided.

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SPEAKER

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NINA ACHADJIAN

Nina Achadjian is a Venture Capitalist and founding team member at Cota Capital, a hybrid between a venture capital fund and a hedge fund. She focuses on Digital Health, Enterprise SaaS, and eCommerce.

Nina is involved in Cota Capital's investments in Canary, Gusto, OpenGov, Chrono Therapeutics, SoundHound, TubiTV, Memebox, Tachyus, DotDashPay, CareSkore, Greensmith Energy, Eight Sleep, Medisas, FLYR, Cover and Revfluence.

Nina has built strategic partnerships with Expa Labs, MIT Media Labs, Carnegie Mellon, Singularity University Labs, Harvard University and Stanford University.

She also has evaluated and invested in public SaaS companies as part of Cota Capital's stage agnostic mandate, including Shopify and Mimecast.

Nina is part of the investment team and leads diligence on both public and private investments. Her responsibilities include sourcing deals, fundraising, and forging strategic relationships with some of the top incubators and university research labs.

She has evaluated 1,000+ startups and has driven key investment decisions for 30+ portfolio companies. She is also a Board Observer for FLYR and Revfluence.

Before joining Cota, Nina worked at Google and worked in investment banking at Citibank.

She also founded HIVE, the first seed fund focusing on Armenian entrepreneurs ($5M fund). Portfolio companies include CodeFights, Collectly, Wakie, Eventgeek, Embodied, IntelinAir, Discotech, Bazillion Beings and Abaka.

Nina graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. She was one of six recipients of the Rockefeller Scholarship and also was part of Harvard's NCAA Division 1 Water Polo Team.

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MODERATOR:

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DEA WILSON

Dea is the Founder of Lifograph – The Wiki of People.

She is a serial entrepreneur, Venture Partner at Founders Floor Accelerator and Founder of Silicon Valley Incubator.

She is also a member at Tech Angels. Her investment interest is in consumer, mobile and SaaS startups.

Dubbed “Ms. Silicon Valley”, Dea is what people call a “super-connector”, her expansive network including the “Who’s Who” in startups, venture capital, technology, entertainment, etc.

Dea has been featured and interviewed in many publications including Entrepreneur Media, Silicon Valley Business Journal, Yahoo Finance, Investor Business Daily, etc.

As an Executive Director at The VC Network and LifographTV, Dea interviews many prominent VCs, angels, executives and founders in Silicon Valley and tech.

She has a Masters Degree from University of Washington and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania).

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AGENDA:

6:00pm - 6:45pm: food and networking, demo/sponsor tables

6:45pm - 7:00pm: intros, demo/sponsor tables mentions

7:00pm – 8:30pm: speaker program and Q&A

8:30pm - 9:00pm: meet the speaker, networking

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Demo/sponsor table includes:

• 2 (two) general admission tickets

• 1/2 (half) table

• promotion before the event

• present your company in front of the attendees and speaker(s)

• business cards of attendees

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