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Demystifying the VCs' Investment Selection Process
- through the eyes of a seasoned VC
| Speaker : |
Mr. Tony Sun
Managing General Partner of Venrock Associates |
| Date: |
5 September 2000 (Tuesday) |
| Time: |
6.00pm - 7.30pm (Light refreshments
will be available from 5.30pm to 6.00pm) |
| Venue: |
Hon
Sui Sen Auditorium |
Abstract
With the correction of the Nasdaq, dotcoms have seemingly
lost their lustre to investors. Have the dotcoms really
been consigned to their dot-gone fates? The market's fixation
with B-to-C and B-to-B has fizzled with the spectacular
melt-down of technology-heavy Nasdaq. Moving forward,
the emphasis for investors and venture capitalists alike
is on P-to-P, path to profitability. How do the budding
technowannabes and start-ups attract the attention of
the VCs who are now more selective and particular about
their investee companies? What are the attributes and
qualities a VC would look for when investing in a high-tech
start-up team? What are the key challenges faced in bringing
such early-stage companies to their IPO stages? This talk
will give an overview on the VC funding environment in
the US and the latest trend in preferred areas of investments
by VCs in the US. Singaporean technopreneurs and the aspiring
'Sim Wong Hoo' would benefit tremendously from the speaker's
experiences as a VC in the hotbed of technology exploitation
- in Silicon Valley.
About the Speaker
Tony is currently a managing general partner of Venrock
Associates, a venture capital partnership representing
the Rockefeller Family in New York City. He has been a
general partner since 1979 and is currently in charge
of their California office in Menlo Park. Recently, the
partnership accepted seven major universities as investors
in Venrock, including MIT and Stanford University. In
his current capacity, Tony sits on the board of directors
of over a dozen high tech companies, including six publicly
traded companies, most of which are located in Silicon
Valley. Tony received his SBEE and SMEE in 1974 and an
Engineer's degree in 1975 from MIT. He later received
an MBA from the Harvard Business School. For the last
eight years Tony has been a Commissioner at the Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco, a public non-profit museum
of the city. Previously he has held positions of Vice-Chairman
of the Museum and Chairman of the Nominating Committee.
In addition, Tony currently serves as a trustee of MIT
as a member of the Corporation. He also serves on three
other committees at MIT: the Visiting Committee for the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
the Visiting Committee for the Department of Materials
Science, and the Investment Committee. He has also recently
joined the Steering Committee of the California Research
Center of the Harvard Business School, and the Capital
Campaign Committee for the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
at Stanford University.
We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues to attend
the talk.
As there are limited number of seats available, please
register for the talk
via email to Joanne
(cmtsimbh@nus.edu.sg) or Fax: 873 7809,
with your name, designation and company/institution (and
email if via fax),
by 1 September 2000.
Admission is free. |
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