Seed and Angel Financing

When:
May 3, 2016 @ 6:30 pm – 9:45 pm America/New York Timezone
2016-05-03T18:30:00-04:00
2016-05-03T21:45:00-04:00
Where:
Constant Contact, InnoLoft Great Room
1601 Trapelo Rd
Waltham, MA 02451
USA

Entreprenurs’ Network

PRE-MEETING DINNER at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci’s, Waltham.

Are you getting ready to raise seed investment for your company? Want to know what goes on behind the scenes when angel and seed investors contemplate whether or not to fund a venture? Or how to create an investor-friendly financial model for your business?

On May 3rd, ENET will host a panel of leaders from the Boston seed and angel investing community who will answer your questions about how they make investment decisions. There will be no presentations and no slides. At this meeting it will be just you, our panel of Angels, and your questions. As a founder, or founder-to-be this is your chance to ask the panel all those questions that are going through your mind about raising capital. Here are a few very common questions:

– What are the best ways to find an Angel who’s investment interests align with your objectives?
– How do Angels pick investments? What criteria is most important to them?
– How do Angels decide how to value my company and how much to invest?

As with every ENET meeting you will also get the chance to network with the panelists and other meeting attendees, both before the start of the meeting and afterwards. There will also be an offsite pre-meeting dinner for additional networking.

Panelist: Deb Kemper, Managing Director, Boston Chapter of Golden Seeds, http://www.goldenseeds.com/ , Twitter: @Deb_Kemper

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Deb Kemper is an active early-stage investor, mentor to entrepreneurs, and board member. She is an experienced advisor with cross-cultural leadership experience; she has lived and worked on three continents. Deb has provided leadership support to organizations in China and the United States. Deb recently directed the launch of Stone Soup Global Leadership, a YGL task force incubated within JUCCCE. Stone Soup is focused on inspiring and enabling leaders who catalyze change. JUCCCE’s mission is to accelerate the greening of China. Previously, Deb was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. She has consulted to clients in a variety of industries including energy, utilities, electronics, and healthcare. Her functional experience includes product development, lean operations, strategy development, professional development, and leadership coaching. She has served on non-profit Boards of Directors in the United States, Peru and China. Deb earned her MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College where she was named an Edward Tuck Scholar. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Cornell University where she graduated With Distinction and was a member of the Varsity Women’s Crew. She has recently repatriated after living overseas in Peru and China for 8 years. She resides in Boston with her husband and two children.

Panelist: Joseph W. Alsop, Venture Partner, Alsop Louie Partners, http://www.alsop-louie.com

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Joseph W. Alsop is a Venture Partner with Alsop Louie Partners, focusing on supporting early stage companies applying information technology in innovative ways. He was the co-founder and until 2009 the CEO of Progress Software Corporation, a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications. Joe led Progress from its founding to its position as a global software industry leader with annual revenue exceeding one half billion dollars. Alsop has over 25 years of management and technical experience in the computer industry.

Alsop received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and attended the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Panelist:Michael R. Pratt, Managing Partner, Select Venture Partners, LLC., http://www.selectventurepartners.com

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Michael Pratt has over 40 years of experience in management and finance, in both domestic and international organizations, as well as more than two decades of involvement in the startup and venture capital industry. Michael’s experience includes early-stage company management, negotiation of strategic partnerships and alliances, and service on the Boards of Directors of several companies, including a public-traded corporation in New Zealand.

Michael is the Managing Partner of Select Venture Partners LLC, an early stage, post-seed/pre-Series A venture capital firm, with an experienced team, all of whom have extensive cross-industry and cross-functional operating experience in software startups. He is also Lecturer in Technology Entrepreneurship at the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Prior to Select, Mike co-founded and was CEO of SpydrSafe Mobile Security, Inc. SpydrSafe was acquired in February 2014. Prior to SpydrSafe, Michael was the COO of CardStar, Inc., a mobile loyalty company sold to Constant Contact (NASDAQ: CTCT). From 2006 to 2010, Michael was the CFO/COO of Trust Digital, Inc., a venture-backed Mobile Device Management company sold to McAfee (NYSE: MFE). Prior to Trust, Michael was CFO of Galt Associates, Inc., a venture-backed software company sold to Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ: CERN) in July 2006. Earlier professional experience includes CEO of CrossMedia Networks Corp.; CEO of Point of Care Technologies sold to Siemens Healthcare in 1999 (ETR: SIE); various senior finance and operations positions with Mobil Corporation in both domestic and international settings, including President and General Manager of three Mobil subsidiaries. Michael began his professional career with Arthur Andersen & Co.

Michael holds a BS in Finance from East Carolina University, a post-graduate degree in Business Administration from Massey University in New Zealand, and an MS, Marketing from The Johns Hopkins University.

Moderator: Greg Dawe, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregdawe, Twitter: @GlostaKenshi.

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Greg is ENET’s Vice Chair of Operations. He has been working in the software industry for over 30 years, first as an engineer and later in management. For over 10 years, Greg held senior management positions in the computer network security industry including experience with RSA Security, Inc. Greg specializes in establishing and growing new organizations directly linked to improving company results.

Pre-meeting Dinner at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci’s, Waltham, (Exit 27B, Route 128).

E-Minute Presentations will be given at the start of the meeting. These very short presentations enable young startup entrepreneurs to gain experience in presenting their summary business plans to expert panels and audiences.

Check for Updates at: Boston Entrepreneurs’ Network Website at ( http://www.boston-enet.org )

Directions: Constant Contact is adjacent to RT 128 / 95 at Exit 28B.
See: http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/office-location-waltham.jsp

Reservations: ENET Constant Contact meetings are free to ENET members,$20 for non-members and $10 for students with a valid ID. No reservations are needed for the premeeting dinner. To expedite sign-in for the meeting, we ask that everyone — members as well as non-members — pre-register for the meeting online. Pre-registration is available until midnight the day before the meeting. If you cannot pre-register, you are welcome to register at the door.