T 3/24 Pitch to Carol Sands, Managing Member, The Angels' Forum 6 pm to 9 pm College of San Mateo
| From: | Rob |
| Sent on: | Friday, March 13, 2015, 1:50 PM |
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Carol Sands, the founder and managing member of The Angels' Forum, is one of the most prominent investors in Silicon Valley.
Her investment focus includes new disruptive technologies or business models in software (SaaS, enterprise, mobile), tech (big data, big storage, hardware), mobile and media (the Internet of things, financial tech, and security), life sciences (devices, health tech, tools), and consumer and retail.
Carol is also the founder and managing general partner of The Halo Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on high-growth investments at the front edge of business and technological innovation in Silicon Valley. The fund invests in companies led by extraordinary people who are pursuing opportunities in, life sciences, consumer products, education technology, clean technology, and high technology. The Halo Fund attracts Silicon Valley's most disruptive processes and ideas that are "must-have" (verses "nice to have") technologies. The Halo Fund seeks to make investments that impact the world in a positive manner.
Halo Fund partners are successful investors and entrepreneurs who have built ventures from the ground up, raised private capital and managed public companies. In addition, The Halo Fund has a long history of attracting top co-investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, US Venture Partners, and Sequoia Capital. The Halo Fund also leverages an exclusive relationship with The Angels' Forum to pre-screen the majority of their deal flow. The most promising of these investment opportunities are further evaluated through Halo Fund's due diligence process.
Come and meet Carol and learn how she evaluates investment opportunities. A few startups will be given the chance to present their investment proposition to her… and she will share her reactions to the investment opportunity (not the presentation).
Audience members (even those who are not pitching) will benefit from the insights offered by Carol and will learn more about the startup investment ecosystem.
Startups will also have the opportunity to display their products or services on demo tables during the networking portion of the event.
If you would like to apply to pitch to Carol and/or have a demo table, please forward your executive summary to:
[address removed]
The pitch format is:
Twelve minutes, with slides, followed by twelve to fifteen minutes of Q & A/ and feedback by Carol. Carol will let pitchers know if she is interested in a follow up meeting.
Because of this format, only two startups will be presenting at this event.
Prospective pitchers should plan to attend the following workshop/tryout as part of the curation/preparation process:
M 3/16 How to Pitch to Investors / Angel Investor Gary Jinks
6:30 pm to 9:30 pm Bay Area Entrepreneur Center San Bruno
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-pitch-to-investorsangel-investor-gary-jinks-tickets-16147147553
Agenda
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Check In, Food, Networking, Demo Tables
7:00 pm to 8:45 pm Program
8:45 pm to 9:00 pm More Networking
About the Speaker
Carol Sands is the Founder and the Managing Member of The Angels' Forum and the Founder and Managing General Partner of The Halo Fund. She has 30 years of experience with investing, entrepreneurial, and large corporate institutions. Carol's career started in the Midwest where she was a bank officer with First Bank Systems and held marketing and sales positions with Motorola and Xerox Computer Services. After moving to San Francisco, she was hired into executive positions at Arthur Young (Ernst & Young) and Coopers & Lybrand (Price Waterhouse Coopers).
In 1997, she formed The Angels' Forum, an innovative angel group. The Angels' Forum organizes individual investors with previous entrepreneurial experience to invest using a venture capital model for due diligence, mentoring, and board management.
In 2000, Carol co-founded The Halo Fund, a $25 million venture fund invested in early stage, Silicon Valley based start ups, with Ed Esber, Phil Schlein, Craig Sirnio and Ed Berkowitz. The same core partners later launched Halo II and Halo III.
A globally recognized expert, Carol consults with government officials and corporations about early-stage investing and innovation. She teaches a course called "Angel investing for the Serious Investor" through Stanford University's Continuing Studies and has guest lectured at other universities around the world.
An active investor, she belongs to or consults with many organizations that support the entrepreneurial spirit including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)( as a Charter Member), SV Forum, M31, CINA, The Band of Angels, Golden Seeds, Berkeley Angels, and The Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs. Carol is involved in women's leadership organizations; she is on the Advisory Board for Global Women's Leadership Network and is a member of The International Women's Forum.
Passionate about the impact that small amounts of money can make when combined with innovative thinking, she is also a Director of the Sands Family Foundation which funds early stage and pre NIH (National Institute of Health) research relating to prostate and ovarian cancers.
Carol received her B.A. in Business Administration from The University of Iowa.
Interests
Capital efficient companies
Disruptive technologies or business models
"Must Have" verses "Nice to Have" products or services
Does good while making a LOT of money
Only Bay Area companies
Strengths
Financing strategies, term sheets, and M&A negotiations
Board of Director formation, development & governance
Sales & Marketing
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-sands/21/aa7/a9
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