Culture: Founders, Entrepreneurs & Innovators

PrimeTimeVC is headlining TechDay 2024 highlighting 4 Venture Capitalists going head to head debating startup growth strategies, investment thesis and recent tech news.... while founders will vote them off the stage and crown one winning VC! ​Featuring Defending Champion Zehra Naqvi, Investor at Headline Ventures, along with former PrimeTime Champions Chris Cunningham GP at C2 Ventures, Erica Duignan Minnihan Co-Founder & General Partner at Reign Ventures and returning contestant Aubrie Pagano from Alpaca Ventures. Supported by ⁠Fidelity Private Shares | Equity Management Solutions⁠ cap table/data room platform helping startups with incorporation, 409a valuations, equity management, and modeling tools for future fund raises. Mention ‘PrimeTimeVC’ for 20% off! 

Featured Venture Capitalists : ​Jesse Middelton is a GP at Flybridge Capital, ​Olivia O'Sullivan is a Partner at Forum Ventures, Zehra Naqvi is an Investor at Headline Ventures, ​Victoria Kennedy is a GP a Seed to Harvest an early stage fund investing in software companies.  Supported by ⁠Fidelity Private Shares | Equity Management Solutions⁠ cap table/data room platform helping startups with incorporation, 409a valuations, equity management, and modeling tools for future fund raises. Mention ‘PrimeTimeVC’ for 20% off! 

Electric VC lineup: ​Erica Duignan Minnihan, Founder & General Partner at Reign Ventures, ​Adam Mastrelli, Partner at Woodstock Fund US, Carolina Rojas, Principal at Distributed Ventures, Austin Flon, Portfolio Development Leader at IBM Ventures. In this special edition for IBM Z Day, selected StartUp Investors will be answering questions on topics related to how a startup improves its investibility while solving for security and data privacy.  Supported by ⁠Fidelity Private Shares | Equity Management Solutions⁠ cap table/data room platform helping startups with incorporation, 409a valuations, equity management, and modeling tools for future fund raises. Mention ‘PrimeTimeVC’ for 20% off!

Top VCs MatchUp: Elliott Robinson Bessemer Ventures Partners, Ashley Aydin Vamos Ventures, Jason Scott ANIM Fund and Samantha Rodriguez Google for Startups. Venture Capitalists debate the state of venture funding, Ai wave, Cloud computing, tips for the best founder intro calls, moving the needle on driving more $$ to diverse founders & funders, habits of the best founders, unpopular investment verticals, and Elon Vs Zuck!! Fidelity Cap Table Management for Startups E2 Generations Join the Community! PrimeTimeVC.com  

Top VCs MatchUp: Nihal Mehta Partner at Eniac Ventures, Nia Johnson Investor, Olivia O’Sullivan Forum Ventures and Ollen Douglass VC & Board Advisor (Formerly Motley Fool Ventures) Investors debate: What should investors consider when making a bet on Ai during this frenzied environment?  How should founders structure their fundraise? Will VCs start using ChatGPT or Google’s BARD as an investment tool? How important is it for founders to understand exactly how they will build a defensibility moat around their product at the pre seed / seed stage? Cap table: What’s the ideal number to allocate for an employee option pool, why is it important and do you require the pool to be implemented before your investment? bet a billion on anything, where you placing your chips?   Fidelity Cap Table Management for Startups E2 Generations Join the PrimeTime Community! PrimeTimeVC.com  

Top Venture Capitalists Elana Dickman at Red Beard Ventures, Saka Nuru at Funnder, Megan Ananian at H/L Ventures & Pete Mathias at Alumni Venutes matched up April 13th to debate the following Topics: + Current VC Mindset w/ SVB Disrupting Market Conditions + Most Exciting Verticals to Invest In & New Unicorns to look out for + Advising Portfolio Companies on how to handle Competition + PreSeed to Seed, What are most important Hires? + How to Navigate your Cap Table + What Role did VCs play in SVB debacle & what are the Long term Effects? + What New Jobs will be Born from ChatGPT + What are the Best StartUp Analogies /Stories for Success Connect with Shoobx for Cap Table Management Software IBM HyperProtect Accelerator  Building & scaling the next generation of fintech, healthtech & insurtech startups. PitchPages.io  The first end-to-end solution for fundraising!  Entre - The Professional Network for Entrepreneurs

Soraya Darabi, General Partner & Founder of Trail Mix Ventures an early stage investment firm focused on the future of living well.  We talk through qualifying startup investments, the process of raising capital & traits of successful founders. As a 3x Mentor of the Year by Techstars, we discuss the secrets mentorship & finding a good mentor. Advice for female founders, tips for networking & the opportunities open for collaboration. https://www.trailmix.vc/ Past Interviews: https://www.charlienyc.com/leaderslive

Kai is a partner at Courtside Ventures is an early-stage fund focused on sports, fitness and gaming. Kai talks about his past work as 3x Founder,  working at Comcast Ventures leading investments focused on investing underrepresented founders, Hear his process in qualifying startups, founders who stand out, building teams, hiring to motivate & align company culture. He explains thoughts on raising capital, building a network & metrics for performance. Learn the opportunities that Courtside is looking to collaborate on & his words to live by. http://www.courtsidevc.com/ www.CharlieNYC.com http://www.courtsidevc.com/ www.joinentre.com www.CharlieNYC.com

Venture Capital Investor Panel, from Angel to IPO w/ speakers Nikita Singareddy Investor @RRE Ventures | Kunal Mehta Principle @Hearst Ventures & Mario Gabriele @Charge Ventures Panel Presented by Entre CEO Michael Marra Talking Covid-19 Impact on investing, raising capital & how to best strategies approach investors. What Qualities they look for in successful founders, networking & build strong relationships. Technology, healthcare tech, transportation mobility, esports and religious tech? Yes its all here! Mario's Newsletter: https://readthegeneralist.com Kunal’s Book https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Genius-Venture-Capital-Betting-ebook/dp/B07YCZH3NS www.CharlieNYC.com 

Laura Chau is a Principal at Canaan Partners who focuses on investing in early stage consumer technology companies that are changing the way we live, work, and think. Laura has partnered with category-defining startups in various roles, including Coterie, Kabam, Cuyana, Branch Metrics, Greenhouse, Kustomer, and KonMari Media. Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health and medtech.   http://www.canaan.com www.CharlieNYC.com

Jeremy Levine is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) in NYC.  BVP supports entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own by investing in technologies companies seed, early stage, and growth stage. From his early business career at McKinsey to working with BVP for near two decades, Jeremy gives us his principals on communication, customer acquisition, raising capital and networking. Jeremy shares a few great stories on Founders Jeremy Stoppelman at Yelp, Tobi Lutke at Shopify and the key insights that help BVP look for the roadmaps to invest. www.CharlieNYC.com  www.BVP.com www.joinentre.com  

From Wall Street to working with Scott Harrison CEO of Charity Water. Lessons from interviewing the Founders of Betterment, Pintrest, Yippit, Eniac Ventures and others in the Venture Capital Ecosystem.  We discuss his role at Hearst Ventures and their history of Investments in Netscape, Roku, Pandora & Buzzfeed. Thoughts on Investment strategy for Transportation Mobility, FinTech, Cyber Securities and emerging areas in Media. Tips on a collaborative company culture and effective communication. “Realizing Optionality. Embrace your failures and understand their are options and bounce back paths. Theres always more options.” Pick up-  Finding Genius https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Genius-Venture-Capital-Betting-ebook/dp/B07YCZH3NS - Insight on How does venture capital operate and how to get funding from VCs. Check out the video / past shows: https://www.charlienyc.com/leaderslive 

Named as Crain's most influential business woman, Kathy Wylde sits down to talk the future on NYC. We discuss mentor David Rockefeller and partnering w/ Fred Wilson of Flatiron Partners & Union Square Ventures. Thoughts on NYC becoming the world hub of transit innovation, FinTech & Life Sciences. "Know where your going and know how to bring others along with you!" New York City's Silicon Alley is taking over SF Silicon Valley and Kathy is leading the way! The Partnership for NYC represents the city’s business leadership &its largest private sector employers. We work together with government, labor and the nonprofit sector to promote economic growth and maintain the city’s position as a global center of commerce and innovation. Check all Leaders Live shows here: https://www.charlienyc.com/leaderslive  

Heather Hartnett CEO & Founding Partner Human Ventures a venture fund & startup studio investing in exceptional founders who are defining our future. We talk about her mentors Chris Sacca , David Z. Solomon & Beth Comstock - She explains the fund strategy, the type of talent the they like to back, what is the StartUp Studio & the Importance of Adding Value to others first.  http://humanventures.co Check out Past Episodes here: https://www.charlienyc.com/podcast  

Live at Microsoft Start Up Investor Series w/ Nihal Mehta, Founding General Partner, Eniac Ventures talking StartUps, Fundraising, Networking, Company Culture, & Partnerships. So many Gems in this one! Nihal is a 5x Tech Founder & Highly Successful Investor in Uber, Admob and Tapad. Eniac Ventures leads seed rounds in bold founders who use code to create transformational companies.  Past Shows: www.charlienyc.com/leaderslive

Sean Petterson CEO StrongArm Tech on LinkedInLive at New Lab in the Brooklyn Navy Yard! Sean is a Forbes 30 under 30 nominee and CEO of StrongArm Technologies, Inc. develops data collection, assessment, and safety solutions for the industrial worker. The company offers a risk monitoring device that uses machine learning to capture and analyze physiological and environmental risk; and FUSE Risk Management Platform, a cloud-based IoT enabled software informed by an array of motion-interpreting sensors that allow organizations to monitor, assess, and intervene StongArm Tech  http://www.strongarmtech.com Watch Full Video https://www.charlienyc.com/leaderslive 

Lo talks about his mentors Shellye Archambeau & Ken Coleman (Mentor to Ben Horowitz) & starting Plexo Capital, a venture fund formed inside GV (formerly Google Ventures). The fund is based on GV's strategy to increase access to differentiated deal flows and seeks to make investments into women and minority seed stage VCs. This Live show was broadcasted from Studio at Rock Center! Plexo Capital invests as an LP into emerging seed stage VCs and also invests directly into select companies sourced from the Plexo Capital VC Network.  www.CharlieNYC.com

#LinkedInLive w/ Andrea Turner Moffitt CoFounder Plum Alley Investments , Author & Entrepreneur - Plum Alley Investments is a private membership that gives you access to influence innovation and shape the future by investing in private companies. Our goal is simple: get capital to the most promising women entrepreneurs and provide a powerful experience and return to the women and men who invest in them. https://plumalley.co/ Video Replay at www.CharlieNYC.com     

Two Time Founder Lio Slama is launching SquarePlan out of the NYC TechStars Accelerator Program. Revolutionizing Property & Facility Management, SquarePlan is making intelligent properties through ai and better communication between landlords and tenants. Check out this episode on the company that is bringing tech to the real estate world straight outta NYC.   http://www.thesquareplan.com  www.CharlieNYC.com 

Cogent Entertainment is a non-traditional marketing agency connecting brands with the most authentic influencers, celebrities, and experiences. Cogent's headquarters are in New York City and Los Angeles, specializes in talent procurement, brand strategies, influencer marketing and experiential activations. Mark is former Head of Sports for Platinum Rye Entertainment – the worlds largest buyer of celebrity talent for corporate America – where he was responsible for procuring many of the biggest names in sports/entertainment for some of the most recognizable campaigns on TV for Fortune 500 companies Video Replay  www.CharlieNYC.com