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When it comes to funding, everyone agrees the Bay Area is the place to be. That said many questions often remain:
While the ranks of women entrepreneurs continue to grow, less than 10% of startups led by women successfully receive any VC funding.
The SF International Women Entrepreneur Forum has put together an outstanding panel of advisors, entrepreneurs and investors to share their insights on how to achieve success.
Topics covered include:
Confirmed Panelists:
Ari Horie - Founder & CEO of Women's Startup LabGrowing up in Hiroshima, Ari Horie wore a pink backpack when all the other school children wore red ones. As a business leader and former IBM employee navigating international marketing and product management in the Valley, Horie recognized "the pink backpack", or being a woman, as an influencing factor when leading a company. To Horie, cultural shifts take too long to wait for. Her business vision focuses on what women can do right now to kick butt in business and how to leverage the innovation and free thinking of the technology industry to build leading tools and solutions.
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Michele Maguire - Head of Business Development at Predicta.ioMichele is a business development executive who has built media products internationally in the technology and games industry. Previously Director of the Game Developers Conference, she was responsible for M+A and international development in the technology sector for UBM, a $1b+ B2B media company based in London. Currently she heads business development for Predicta, an innovative early stage data science company, which is reinventing e-commerce catalog search, and is an advisor to China game market research firm, Niko Partners. |
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Viki Forrest - CEO, ANZA Technology NetworkViki Forrest is a respected leader with a demonstrated ability to design and build sustainable organisations from initial start-up phase to maturity. She has over 20 years of international experience in the high-tech industry spanning Australia, Asia and America. Viki joined ANZA Technology Network in 2005, having consulted with ANZA over the previous 3 years. She is responsible for the design and execution of a sustainable business model that supports the organisation's mission to expand the reach of Australian technology and biotechnology companies into markets in China and America. |
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Inessa Obenhuber - Partner at The Seraph GroupInessa is a partner at the Seraph Group, a growing global investment Micro VC Fund (Super Angel fund). Her role as a partner and an active Investor, she assists Seraph in identifying start-up companies that stand to benefit from the expertise and guidance of Seraph's 170 members as the companies expand and grow. The firm seeks out burgeoning companies with exceptionally promising products and commits anywhere from $50,000 to $2 million in funding. Inessa is also an Angel Investor at Astia Angels, a seed and early stage investment group with focus in companies with gender balanced teams. |
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Anne Bezançon - Founder and President of PlacecastAnne Bezançon is the founder and President of Placecast, the leading enterprise platform for monetizing mobile location and user data at scale. The company specializes in providing proven, secure, privacy-first solutions for big data monetization to the largest Telecom (AT&T, Rogers, Telefonica), Financial Institutions and Media companies in the world. On the advertising side, over 400 brands have used the Placecast platform, including Starbucks, Subway, HP, JetBlue, McDonald?s, and Pizza Hut. |
Thursday Oct 2, 2014
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
6:00 - 6:30 pm Registration / Networking Reception
7:00 - 8:00 pm Panel - 6 panelists with moderator
8:00 - 9:00 pm Networking
K&L Gates
4 Embarcadero Center, Suite 1200
San Francisco
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