Please join the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19, in the LaRose Digital Theater (KBC) for the seventh and final installment of the web conference series on Creating and Funding University Startups.
This week’s session:
What Do Early Stage Investors Really Look For In Startups? (III)
Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 12:30-2 p.m. ET (9:30-11:00 PT)
Thomas L. Churchwell (Managing Partner, Midwest Venture Partners)
Mark Grovic (Founding Partner and Managing Director, University of Maryland, New Markets Fund)
Matt McCooe (Founding Managing Partner, Chart Venture Partners)
Panelist Information:
Thomas L. Churchwell
Managing Partner, Midwest Venture Partners
Thomas L. Churchwell is Founder and Managing Partner of Midwest Venture Partners, LLC, a venture partnership formed to address the gap in early-stage capital in the Midwest by investing in promising life sciences and technology companies and mentoring the entrepreneurs that lead them. He is also Managing Partner of ARCH Development Partners L.L.C., a very-early stage venture partnership which specializes in the creation and funding of high-tech companies in the Midwest.
Mark Grovic
Founding Partner and Managing Director, University of Maryland, New Markets Fund
Mark is a Founding Partner and Managing Director of the New Markets Growth Fund (NMGF), a $26 million venture capital fund focused on high-growth technology companies and housed at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). Mark serves or served on the Board of Directors of Lightningcast (sold to NYSE: TWX), Innovative Biosensors, and Artifact Software, and is a board observer for Biosurface Engineering Technologies, BD Metrics, and Paratek Microwave, all of which are NMGF portfolio companies. Mark is also the Venture Capitalist in Residence for the R.H. Smith School of Business at UMCP, where he is a Professor of Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship. In 2004, he received the US Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship National Outstanding Course Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship in Education. Mark is also a Partner in Smith Advisory and Collaborative Services, a Senior Fellow in the Executive Education Department, and teaches in the UMCP Executive MBA program.
Matt McCooe
Founding Managing Partner, Chart Venture Partners
Matt joined CVP at its inception, coming from Columbia University Science and Technology Ventures (STV) where he managed a portfolio of spinout companies and the deployment of STV’s highly profitable seed fund. During his tenure at Columbia, eleven portfolio companies went public or were acquired by publicly traded companies. Prior to Columbia, Matt led two startup operations, both of which reached revenues in excess of $125MM and were acquired.
Note to Session attendees:
Following presentations by each of the panelists, audience members may submit questions for each panel member or the panel as a whole.
Program Location: LaRose Digital Theater, Ernest A. Koury, Sr. Business Center
Free to: Students, faculty/staff, alumni and members of the community who are interested in entrepreneurship and creating an entrepreneurial culture at Elon University.