Angel organizations connect entrepreneurs and investors. This exclusive, once-a-year-only event will provide you with an overview and the opportunity to get your questions answered by representatives from the following angel groups:
Sujal Patel co-founded Isilon Systems back in 2001 to provide companies with cheaper and more efficient data storage for multimedia content hosting and delivery. It attracted venture funding from leading VCs, including Madrona Venture Group, Atlas Venture, and Sequoia Capital. Isilon flew high and raised $108 million in an IPO at the end of 2006. By the following year, the company was failing to meet its own sales projections, and its stock price plummeted.
Have you heard about recent exits in which start-ups have been acquired for several million dollars within a couple of years of founding with little or no outside investment? Or clean energy start-ups that can’t raise the millions needed to grow their business? Or a game company that sold for hundreds of millions of dollars with relatively little VC participation? What’s going on?
Join us as Rebecca Lovell of GeekWire moderates our panel of industry insiders including:
Come join us for our first Mix & Mingle of 2012 at Seattle’s Pyramid Alehouse on Thursday, January 19! You can inquire about our latest volunteer opportunities, network with fellow local entrepreneurs, current and future volunteers, as well as our chapter's leadership and program committee members.
REDpoint International, Inc.,a medical device company that has developed innovative primary tubing stabilization devices for catheters. This IV Sleeve greatly reduces the risk of preventable IV failures. It also reduces IV care cost and enhances patient comfort, eliminating tapes and adhesives with its soft comfortable materials.
DRUM ROLL PLEASE .... Here are the names of our six Fall DEMO finalists who will be demo'ing their wares at our Fall DEMO event on December 1 sponsored by Adobe and DLA Piper:
Swype broke on the Seattle tech scene in May 2008 by winning our Spring Northwest Startup DEMO. In a little over three years, the company has gone from concept to a recently announced successful exit (acquisition by Nuance Communications). Join us Nov. 3 for our next VLab and learn best practices from Swype executives for your business. Register online at http://bit.ly/oljeXn.
