CALL FOR INNOVATORS: POSTPONED Venture Summit West — POSTPONED from March 23-24, 2020 to May 5-7, 2020 DIGITAL EDICTION ONLINE ONLY — Santa Clara, CA

We will be featuring a dedicated Cleantech Track at the 8th Annual Venture Summit | West being held ~~on March 23rd and 24th, 2020~~ May 5-7, 2020 ONLINE ONLY at the Santa Clara Convention Center and extend an invitation for Advanced Biofuels USA to join us as a non-monetary industry partner.

This exclusive venture summit will bring together over 1,300 VCs, Corporate VCs, Angel Investors, Investment Bankers and founders of venture backed, emerging and early stage companies; will feature more than 100 VCs as speakers and judges; presentations from more than 100 Top Innovators and high-level networking opportunities.

Partial Initial Lineup of over 100 VCs & Angels confirmed to speak and judge includes:

Ben Abadi, Managing Director, Energy Innovation Capital | Andrew Abrams, Vice President, New Science Ventures | Navid Alipour, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Analytics Ventures | Shaun Arora, Founding Partner, MiLA Capital | Shannon Austin, Partner, Financial Venture Studio | Jennifer Azapian, Partner , Mighty Capital | Wade Bitaraf, Founder, Energy & Sustainability, Plug & Play Tech Center | Dave Blivin, Managing Director, Cottonwood Technology Fund | Greg Bohlen, Managing Director, Union Grove Venture Partners | Maureen Boyce, Managing Partner, Good Growth Capital | Peter Bruce-Clark, Partner, Social Impact Capital | Pratik Budhdev, Investment Director, Volvo Cars Tech Fund | Darren Cooke, Investor, Life Science Angels | Danny Cotter, Principal, Westly Group | Ross Darwin, Principal, Owl Ventures | Anne DeGheest, Founder, HealthTech Capital | Jun Deng, Partner, Joyance Partners | Robert Dunkle, President, ABES Venture Partners | Ali Farahanchi, Director, DHVC | Anna Fokina, Senior Associate, Data Collective | Norm Gitis, Managing Partner, Lymo Ventures | Daniel Greene, Principal, Wipro Ventures | Sheeraz Haji, Managing Partner, Zip Dragon Ventures | Charlie Hanna, Investor, Marcy Venture Partners | Daniel Harris, Managing Director, DPH Ventures | Guy Horowitz, Partner, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners | Jens Horstmann, Founding Director, Crestlight Ventures | Najib Khouri-Haddad, General Partner, Sway Ventures | Howard Ko, Principal, Morpheus Ventures | Elaine Kunda, Founder & Managing Director, Disruption Ventures | Ricky Lai, Principal, Portag3 Ventures | Anh Le, Partner, CRCM Ventures | James Lee, Investment Associate Director, Photon Fund | Marina Levinson, Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures | Darwin Ling, Founding General Partner, Good AI Capital | Catherine Lu, Managing Partner , Alumni Ventures Group (AVG) | Melina Mathur, Principal, Asset Management Ventures | Manan Mehta, Founding Partner, Unshackled Ventures | Eric Meyer, Vice President, Activate Capital | Jonathan Mo, Senior Associate, 11.2 Capital | SC Moatti, Managing Partner, Mighty Capital | Mark Mueller-Eberstein, Angel Investor, Alliance of Angels | Ivan Nikkhoo, Managing Partner, Navigate Ventures | Kira Noodleman, Principal, Bee Partners | Brett Noyes, Founder & Managing Director, Unbank.Ventures | Charles Paul, Vice President – Technology, Henkel Ventures | Damien Petty, Principal, Morpheus Ventures | Patrick Pfeffer, Lead Investor, Juniper Networks | Scott Pinizzotto, Senior Investment Director, ENGIE New Ventures | Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures | Mario Ruiz, Investor, Paypal Ventures | Ernst Sack, Partner, Blue Bear Capital | Praveen Sahay, Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners | Gayatri Sarkar, Managing Partner, Hype Capital VC Fund | Kristina Serafim, Managing Director, Verizon Ventures | Charles Sidman, Managing Partner, ECS Capital Partners | Ratan Singh, Principal, Fort Ross Ventures | Allison Steitz, Investor, BlueRun Ventures | Li Sun, Partner, Foundation Capital | Grahme Taylor, Venture Analyst, Wildcat Venture Partners | Jonathan Tower, Founding Managing Partner, Catapult VC | Erica Van, Investor, Charles River Ventures | Anuj Varma, Investor, BAM Ventures | Kutral Veerabadran, Principal, Flow Capital | Sonali Vijayavargiya, Managing Director, Augment Ventures | Alex Whitney, Senior Analyst, ManchesterStory Group | Henry Wong, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures | Russell Yue, Investor, H.I.G. Growth Partners | Elaine Zelby, Principal & Director of Growth, SignalFire | Stephanie Zepeda, Senior Associate, Arbor Ventures | Yanan Zhao, General Partner, Magnet Ventures | Sebastian Zhou, Investor, Alpha Square Group | Simin Zhou, VP & Managing Director, UL Ventures and many more.

INNOVATOR SHOWCASE

Get noticed and pitch to active investors in your industry. Join 100+ Top Innovators presenting across 6 tracks. Best Presenter awards given to one Startup in each track.

A select group of more than 100 Top Innovators will be chosen to present their breakthrough investment opportunities to an exclusive audience of Venture Capitalists, Corporate Investors, Private Investors, Investment Bankers, and Strategic Partners.

For more information or to be considered for one of the Top Innovator slots click here.

If you are a seed stage company seeking angel funding of less than $1M (and have raised less than $300,000) click here to apply for the Seed stage track. READ MORE

We will be hosting 1on1 startup and investor meetings live at Venture Summit | West [digital edition] online in May. The summit will now be expanded for featured companies to 3 days, May 5^th – 7^th (coaching session + 2 days of content and one on one sessions) and for general attendees to 2 days.

The summit will feature over 150 venture funds as speakers/judges (many others in attendance), more than 100 Top Innovators as presenters, effective and seamless 1:1 meetings + chat, and high-level networking opportunities.

The screening committee is currently interviewing companies and will be selecting more than 100 Top Innovators to present live to the investors at the summit.