What we’re about
As the founder of Silicon Valley Startup Entrepreneurs, we share your vision of creating a space to meet, dream, learn, strategize and co-create. Yes, we are fully on board that dreaming is still part of the creation process!
Silicon Valley Startup Entrepreneurs began with a vision to provide startup founders access--access to educational and other information that every first time founder should know or be exposed to. This includes access to high caliber angels, VCs and “been there done that” successful, serial entrepreneurs. The Silicon Valley ecosystem is unique, and, that’s why we created a new meetup group “Access Silicon Valley” that extends beyond the geographical borders of Silicon Valley! In fact it’s much more than just a Meetup group…it’s the opportunity to become part of the Silicon Valley ecosystem or “mindshare” as we like to think of it.
Access Silicon Valley is the “virtual bridge” to Silicon Valley, where startup entrepreneurs and serial entrepreneurs in real time, get access to and interact with, angels, VCs and great entrepreneurs that they otherwise wouldn’t get the opportunity to see, hear or possibly connect with. In addition we have put together valuable workshops to prepare startup entrepreneurs for the roller coaster ride of the startup world!! We encourage you to join us.
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Upcoming events (2)
See all- STARTUP FUNDAMENTALS #3/3: NEGOTIATING THE TERMS SHEETSProcopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, Palo Alto, CA
This information-packed event focuses on terms and term sheets for a seed, angel, convertible debt, Safe (pre-money and post-money), and Series A round, in an interactive, informative session with great takeaway materials and actionable items.
Seating is extremely limited so **CLICK HERE **to reserve your seat on Eventbrite. This event always sells out.
*REGISTERING ON MEETUP IS NOT ENOUGH TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT. YOU MUST REGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITEThis is the third workshop in the Access Silicon Valley Startup Fundamental Series for startup founders, startup executives, entrepreneurs, innovators, and developers. While advantageous to attend all 3 workshops, this is stand-alone content presented by one of Silicon Valley's most notable startup attorneys and Procopio Partner, Roger Rappoport.
MATERIALS
A comprehensive 50-page digital workbook with an actionable step-by-step guide will be distributed to all registered event attendees on the event day.CURRICULUM
In this third workshop of the Startup Fundamentals series, Roger Rappoport, a former entrepreneur and currently a partner and the leader of the Emerging Growth & Venture Capital Practice Group at Procopio, an AMLAW 200 law firm in Silicon Valley, will conduct an interactive, informative session with great takeaway materials and actionable items, with in depth content on the terms and term sheets for a seed, angel, convertible debt, Safe (pre-money and post-money) and Series A round.This session will cover:
· when and from whom to take money;
· when is an amount raised too much or too little, and the perils of both;
· the anatomy of a term sheet;
· understanding the structure of, and the provisions that will most likely be included in, a convertible debt, Safe, angel and venture financing term sheet;
· how to arrive at a realistic pre-money valuation;
· the impact of term sheets on existing shareholders;
· the provisions that will impact control of major and day-to-day decisions at your startup;
· the most recent trends relating to:
· liquidation preferences
· participation rights
· anti-dilution provisions
· pay-to-play provisions
· redemption rights
· registration rights
· rights of first refusal
· drag along right
· co-sale rightsAGENDA:
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Dinner and networking
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Speaker and sponsor introductions
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM - Startup workshop Part A
7:30 PM - 7:45 PM - Intermission
7:45 PM -8:45: PM - Startup workshop Part B
8:45 PM - 9:00 PM - Q & ASeating is extremely limited so **CLICK HERE **to reserve your seat on Eventbrite. This event always sells out.
*REGISTERING ON MEETUP IS NOT ENOUGH TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT. YOU MUST REGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITEABOUT THE SPEAKER: Roger has extensive experience in advising startup and well-established startup and emerging growth technology companies.
Roger is a frequent speaker and panelist on topics and issues related to the development and implementation of a company's formation and funding strategy. Before attending law school, he was the founder of a technology company.
Roger is very connected with investors in Silicon Valley and beyond and is an active angel investor. As an attorney, he has been involved in hundreds of M&A transactions, private equity and venture capital financing transactions, and complex restructuring transactions.
He is also the founder of Access Silicon Valley, a platform for entrepreneurs, on a global basis, to gain access to Silicon Valley's best and brightest Venture Capitalists, "been there done that" entrepreneurs, and experts. Take a closer look at the Access Silicon Valley Video Fireside Chat Series hosted by Roger, with representatives of some of the Valley's most high-profile VCs, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Foundation Capital, Floodgate, Venrock, Canaan Partners, and more.
#StartupSuccess #Entrepreneurship #StartupWorkshop #BusinessFundamentals #Funding
Not open - Decoding the AI Funding Ecosystem: Insights for Startup EntrepreneursProcopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, Palo Alto, CA
AN RSVP ON MEETUP WILL NOT GET YOU A SEAT.
Seating is extremely limited. You must reserve your seat on Eventbrite.Are you ready to delve into the world of entrepreneurship and venture capital? Access Silicon Valley and U First Capital invite you to join us on April 25, 2024, for an EXCLUSIVE one-night only discussion with Vijay Reddy, a partner at the Mayfield Fund, one of the hottest, most innovative, and respected venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, who have recently closed on the $250.0 million AI Start Fund, focusing on early stage AI companies (investing $500K-$5.0 million). Mayfield has raised more than 20 U.S. funds, has more than 120 IPOs, 225 M&A exits, $3.0B under management and made more than 550 investments in startups.
In this Unleashed event (we call it "unleashed" because this event will be interactive, audience driven), Vijay will delve into the dynamic landscape of entrepreneurship and venture capital and the rapidly changing world related to AI and AI investments. Vijay has a unique experience to share—he co-founded his first startup after dropping out of his PhD program, and held several senior Business Development and Product Development roles at Broadcom and Intel. He has over a decade of inception and early-stage investing experience in AI and deeptech, from Clear Ventures, Intel Capital and Mayfield. Vijay has invested across the AI stack from silicon, systems, infrastructure software, data, middleware & tools and applications.
AGENDA
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Dinner, refreshments and networking
7:00pm - 8:00pm: Conversation with Vijay
8:00 -8:30: Audience Q&A
8:30pm - 9:00pm: Networking
AN RSVP ON MEETUP WILL NOT GET YOU A SEAT.
Seating is extremely limited. You must reserve your seat on Eventbrite.SEE THE UPCOMING ACCESS SILICON VALLEY EVENTS:
ABOUT VIJAY
Vijay brings over a decade of inception and early-stage investing experience in AI and deeptech, from Clear Ventures and Intel Capital. He had a front-row seat to the rise of AI when neural networks first beat human benchmarks in vision, speech and language. Vijay has invested across the AI stack from silicon, systems, infrastructure software, data, middleware & tools and applications. Some of his past investments include SambaNova, DataRobot, Lilt, Landing.ai, Hypersonix, Joby (NYSE: Joby), BabbleLabs (Acquired by Cisco) and AEye (Nasdaq: LIDR).
As a former R&D engineer, Vijay enjoys collaborating with leading technical innovators and researchers who are leveraging bold, disruptive ideas with extreme clarity of purpose to build best in class companies. He takes a founder-first and team-oriented approach and works tirelessly with inception stage entrepreneurs to achieve product market fit and help them scale rapidly.ABOUT MAYFIELD
Mayfield is a venture capital firm with a 50+ year track record of investing at the inception stage in iconic enterprise, consumer, semiconductor, and human & planetary health companies. Proud to have served as early investors to over 550 companies leading to 120 IPOs and over 225 M&As. They have raised 20 U.S. funds over, including the two most recent funds, the $580M Mayfield XVII, the $375M Mayfield Select III and the most recent $250M Mayfield AI Start Seed Fund.
ABOUT ROGER RAPPOPORT AND ACCESS SILICON VALLEY
Roger Rappoport is a former entrepreneur and the founder and leader of Procopio's Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Practice Group. He has extensive experience in advising startup and well-established emerging growth companies across all sectors and industries, from formation through multiple rounds of funding and exit.As an emerging growth and venture capital attorney, he has been involved in hundreds of transactions such as merger and acquisition transactions, private equity and venture capital financing transactions, and complex restructuring transactions.
Roger is also the founder of Access Silicon Valley. Take a closer look at the Access Silicon Valley Video Fireside Chat Series hosted by Roger, with representatives of some of the Valley's most high profile VCs, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Foundation Capital, Floodgate, Mayfield, Venrock, Canaan Partners and more.
