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SILICON VALLEY OPEN DOORS CONFERENCE, JUNE 10-11, 2015
Event date: 10 Jun 2015 , 9am to Thu, Jun 11, 2015 @ 9pm
Event place: Computer History Museum
Dear Friends – startup founders, investors and tech industry professionals!
Silicon Valley Open Doors ("SVOD") is a leading boutique technology investment conference that brings in startups, successful entrepreneurs, angel investors and top venture capitalists from all over the world to the heart of it all - the Silicon Valley.
Since its inception in 2005, SVOD hosts an eclectic mix of 1,000+ most creative, forward-thinking, and insightful people in the entrepreneurial and investment world as speakers and investor judges of SVOD start-up PITCH.
From founders to CEOs, from industry legends to brand young entrepreneurs, SVOD brings together the people who are shaping our lives today and influencing our future by hosting fireside chats and keynotes about technology innovation with the gurus of technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship, and providing access to a variety of pre-selected young entrepreneurs and startups that think outside of the box.
SPEAKERS
SVOD speakers include: George Zachary, Charles River Ventures (Midas List, first investor in Twitter, Yammer, Shutterfly); Byron Deeter, Bessemer Venture Partners (Midas List, investor is Box, Twilio, DocuSign); Ed Kozel, CEO, Range Networks (formerly, CTO, Deutsche Telekom, CTO, Cisco, Board Member: Yahoo! Cisco, Reuters, Red Hat); Phil Libin (CEO, Evernote), Pitch Johnson, Steve Jurvetson (DFJ), Tim Draper, Esther Dyson, Matt Cohler, Max Levchin (PayPal, Yahoo!), Keith Rabois, Partner, Khosla Ventures (COO, Square; Executive @ Slide, LinkedIn, PayPal; Early Investor: Yelp, Xoom, YouTube, Yammer, AirBnB, Eventbrite, & Quora), Steve Blank, Guy Kawasaki, John Morgridge (Chairman, Cisco), Bill Tai, Ron Conway, Charles Giancarlo (SilverLake), Vinod Khosla, and many other amazing people.
Every year SVOD brings in reporters from top media editions, such as TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Forbes, The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley Business Journal, Bloomberg, Fortune Magazine, & Wall Street Journal.
WHAT TO DO AT SVOD
- Mingle with 500+ successful start-up founders and 150+ top investors who share their experience on how to invest/raise funding, work with angels and VCs, & launch products. Learn about the latest developments in their industry and their needs, aspirations and future plans.
- Hear 25 carefully pre-selected startups (seed to Series B) presenting on stage in front of the audience of top Silicon Valley angels and venture capitalists.
- Meet with 500+ professionals working in the technology area as experts, mentors, service providers and so much more!
Historically, every 2nd company gets funding after SVOD Conference (Evernote is one of such success stories of the first SVOD Conference; the funds that invested in our pitching companies include: Founders Fund, Draper Associates, Salesforce, Aspect Ventures, Broadway angels, Yuri Milner, YCombinator, TechStars, 500Startups, Bain Capital Ventures, and many more).
SUPER NETWORKING
As SVOD is a boutique conference, it offers unique networking opportunities that are not available at most of other conferences.