Previous Events
Some of our previous events include:
Vancouver, August 1 2018: “How to Plan for Future Fundraisings” Hosted by Rubicon Venture Capital and Fasken.
Dubai, Feb 10-16 speaking at the World Government Summit upon the invitation of the Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai
Dubai, Feb 14 Rubicon & Techstars hosting a fireside chat with Andrew Romans in Emirates Towers
Tokyo December 14-15, 2017, Andrew Romans presened his new book in Japanese at the Mizuho Securities Innovation Field 2017.
Tokyo December 13, 2017, Andrew Romans gave a keynote address at the annual technology event for Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) and DBJ Capital.
Los Angeles, October 2, 2017 (afternoon), @General Assembly – Santa Monica, “Los Angeles: Half Day Seminar on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)”
Los Angeles, October 2, 2017 (evening), @WeWork – Santa Monica, “Los Angeles: Masters of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)”
London, June 27, 2017, @Baker Botts “London: Family Offices & Venture Capital” This event is open to everyone in the startup ecosystem including entrepreneurs, angels, VCs, corporates and everyone supporting startups.
London, June 28, 2017, @Baker Botts “London: Half Day Seminar on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)” This event is designed for family offices, senior execs at corporations thinking of launching a CVC and for investment professionals at existing active CVCs.
Paris, June 29, 2017, @Le Hub Bpifrance, “Paris: Half Day Seminar on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)” This event is designed for family offices, senior execs at corporations thinking of launching a CVC and for investment professionals at existing active CVCs. Contact us to be invited: info@rubicon.vc.
Miami, May 25, 2017 @The LAB Miami “Miami: Half Day Seminar on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)”
Miami, May 24, 2017, @The LAB Miami “Miami: Masters of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)“
Sao Paolo, Brazil, May 15, 2017, “Brazil: Half Day Seminar on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)” This event is designed for family offices, senior execs at corporations thinking of launching a CVC and for investment professionals at existing active CVCs.
Sao Paolo, Brazil, May 15, 2017, “An Evening Discussing Corporate Venture Capital & Lessons of Angel Investing from Silicon Valley, NY & London”
Singapore, April 25, 2017, “Singapore: Masters of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)“
Singapore, April 26, 2017, “Singapore: Half Day Seminar on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)” This event is designed for family offices, senior execs at corporations thinking of launching a CVC and for investment professionals at existing active CVCs.
Boulder, CO, March 20,1017, “Boulder: Masters of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)”
San Francisco, December 2016 @Residence of the Consul General of France, Rubicon private holiday party with Bpifrance
Warsaw, Poland, November 29, 2016 @K&L Gates; “Warsaw: Masters of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)”
San Francisco, November 2, 2016, @Galvanize, “SF: Masters of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)“
New York, October 19, 2016 @Latham & Watkins, “NYC : Masters of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)“
London, September 30, 2016 @private house boat, “Rubicon Private LP investor-Portfolio dinner & drinks”
London, September 29, 2016 @Baker Botts, “London: Masters of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)”
London, September 28, 2016 @TaylorWessing sponsored by Georgetown University, organized by Rubicon Venture Capital, “The Future of Venture Capital: fireside chat with Patrick Magee, Chief Operating Officer, British Business Bank, the largest LP in UK VC funds and Andrew Romans”
London, September 27, 2016 @Baker Botts, “Brexit: Good or Bad for UK & EU Startups & Investors?
New York City, September 14, 2016 @private home, “Annual Private LP-Portfolio Rooftop Rubicon BBQ” – exclusively for Rubicon portfolio founders, LPs & Venture Partners
Palo Alto, August 25, 2016 @private home, “Annual Private LP-Portfolio Rubicon BBQ” – exclusively for Rubicon portfolio founders, LPs & Venture Partners
San Francisco, CA, May 24th, 2016 @ Sheppard Mullin, Panel “Alternative Liquidity Paths for Founders & Early Investors”
New York, NY, May 17th, 2016 @ Dentons, Panel, “Alternative Liquidity Paths for Founders & Early Investors”
Menlo Park, November 18, 2015, VC Panel, “When Tech Disrupts Real Estate”
New York, October 13, 2015, VC Panel, “When Tech Disrupts Real Estate”
London, September 2015, VC Panel, “Blurred Lines in VC”
San Francisco, June 2015, VC Panel, “Big in Japan: The Intersection of Japanese VC and US Tech”
New York, May 2015, VC Panel, “Blurred lines in VC”
Austin, March 2014, VC Panel and M&A Panel, SXSW
San Francisco, November 2014, VC Panel, Startup Pitches and Networking hosted by Rubicon
Moscow, October 2014, @ Moscow State University, Keynote speaker, book tour
New York, September 2014, @ Goodwin Proctor, Rubicon event
Silicon Valley, August 2014, @ home of VMware executive investor / venture partner, Rubicon private LP – portfolio BBQ event
San Francisco, June 2014, @ W Hotel: VC panel, bitcoin panel & book tour
Stockholm, June 2014, @ SUP46, The Future of Raising Angel & Venture Capital Funding, book tour
Stockholm, June 2014, @ DLA Nordic, The Future of Angel & Venture Capital Investing
London, June 2014, @ TaylorWessing, The Future of Angel & Venture Capital Investing
London, June 2014, @ Startupbootcamp FinTech, The Future of Raising Angel & Venture Capital Funding, book tour
New York, May 2014, @ Orrick, Series A – How, Why, When and Topping Off
Boston, April 2014, @ Harvard University, keynote & book tour
Boston, April 2014, @ Choate law firm, book tour event
Austin, TX, March 2014, SXSW @ The Capital Factory: Startup Challenge event with VC panel
Austin, TX, March 2014, SXSW @ DLA Piper, Fireside Chat with Dave McLure of 500startups & startup pitches
Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2014, @ Swedish VC Tech Forum, Romans keynote
San Francisco, January 2014 @ WSGR: Startup pitches & VC Panel J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
Chicago, December 2013, @ 1871: VC panel & book tour
Austin, December 2013, @ DLA: VC panel & book tour
San Francisco, November 2013 @ Orrick: Startup pitches & VC Fireside Chat with Tony Conrad founder of True Ventures ($800m VC) & founder about.me
Silicon Valley, November 2013 @ Orrick: Startup pitches & VC Fireside Chat with Jon Kraft founding CEO of Pandora Internet Radio
Los Angels, October 2013, @ Cross Campus: VC panel & book tour
San Diego, October 2013, @ Jones Day: VC panel & book tour
Silicon Valley, October 2013, @ Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Author Series Event: VC panel & book tour
Washington DC, September 2013 @ 1776: Startup pitches & VC panel
New York, September 2013 @ Goodwin Proctor: Startup pitches & VC panel
New York, July 2013 @ Dream Downtown: GA (Rubicon) & New York Angels Summer Party
San Francisco, June 2013, @ RocketSpace: Startup pitches & VC panel
Silicon Valley, June 2013, @ Orrick: Startup pitches & VC panel
New York, March 2013, @ Duane Morris: Fireside chat with Chairman of New York Angels & Startup pitches
Featured Panelists
Some of our previous panelists include:
(Note: many job titles and companies have changed since our events)
Ajay Kapoor, Corporate Innovation, P&G
Alastair Breward, Chief Operating Officer, Amadeus Capital
Alden Mahabir, Manager, Verizon Ventures
Alex Kayyal, Europe Head, Salesforce Ventures
Alex Niehenke, Scale Venture Partners
Allan Marchington, Apposite Capital
Amir Malayery, Vice President – Industry
Andrew Montgomery, Partner, Mesa+
Anil Hansjee, Head of Corporate Development – Europe, Paypal, formerly Head of Corp Dev EMEA, Google
Arve Johan Andresen, Northzone
Atish Davda, Founder & CEO – EquityZen
Ben Black, co-Founder & Managing Director – Akkadian Ventures
Bernard Daugeras, Auriga Partners
Berthold Hackl, invendo medical
Brad Holden, Tomorrow Ventures
Brad Svrluga, General Partner, Primary Venture Partners
Brad Svrluga, High Peaks Venture Partners
Bret Maxwell, Managing General Partner, MK Capital
Brian Cohen, chairman of New York Angels, cofounder of New York Venture Partners
Bryan Stolle, General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Carmen Yuen, Senior Executive Director – Vertex Ventures
Charles Rim, Corporate Development Google Asia
Charlie O’Donnell, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Chris Girgenti, Managing Partner, Pritzker Group Venture Capital (previously New World)
Chris Morton, Balderton Capital
Chris Saxman, Managing Director, Rockies Venture Fund
Christina Bechhold, Strategic Investments, Global Innovation Center, Samsung Ryan Feit, CEO – SeedInvest
Christina Ku, Director, NTT Docomo Innovations, ex-cofounder, Vodafone Incubation & Ventures, ex-Intel Capital
Chua Boon Ping, CEO – SPH Media Fund
Clelia Peters, Co-Founder, MetaProp RE-Tech Accelerator
Damien Lane, Managing Director, Episode1
Dave McClure, Founder, 500Startups
Dave Sobota, Senior Director, Corporate Development, Google
Dave Ng, Principal – B Capital Group
David Ambrose, Managing Director, Steadfast Venture Capital
David Blumberg, Managing Partner, Blumberg Capital
David Coats, Managing Director, Correlation Ventures
David Cohen, Founder & CEO of Techstars
David McGlashan, Head of Research – Cygnet Capital
David Sonnek, Group Head, SEB Venture Capital
Dayna Grayson, Partner New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Denis Champenois, Innovacom
Denny Otsuga, President and CEO, FVC Americas
Diana Saraceni, 360° Capital Partners
Dominic Endicott, General Partner Nauta Capital
Dr. Geeta Gupta, Family Office Investment Advisor
Edward van Wezel, Managing Partner, BioGeneration Ventures
Eliot Durbin, General Partner, Boldstart Ventures
Eric Garcia, Founder, Harvest Growth Capital, formerly with Austin Ventures
Ervin Lim, Senior Manager – C31 Ventures
Etienne Pollard, Good Energies AG
Francois Tison, 360 Capital Partners
Fredrik Cassel, General Partner, Creandum
Fredrik Tilander, head of BACKSTAGE Invest AB & investor in True Global Ventures
Gary Golding, General Partner Edison Venture
Gary Johnson, Corporate Development, Facebook
Gary Stewart, Director at Wayra UK (a Telefónica Initiative)
George Middlemas, General Partner, Apex Venture Partners
Glen Schwaber, Israel Cleantech Ventures
Grégoire Aladjidi, Demeter Partners
Gregory Carson, Venture Partner, Industry Ventures
Guillaume Lautour, Managing Partner at Level-Up, formerly with ID Invest (AGF Private Equity)
Gus Warren, Managing Director of Investments, Samsung Global Innovation Center
Haakon Overli, General Partner – Dawn Capital
Hans Otterling, General Partner, Northzone
Hillel Milo, AquAgro Fund, L.P.
Howard Leonhardt, Founder & Executive Chairman, Leonhardt Ventures & The California Stock Xchange
Hussein Kanji, Partner, Hoxton Ventures
Ian Crosbie, Jefferies International Limited
Isabelle De Cremoux, Seventure
Skyler Fernandes, Managing Director, Simon Ventures
Jack Leeney, US Head of Investing, Telefónica Ventures
Jack Young, Head of Venture Capital, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, ex-Managing Director, North America, Qualcomm Ventures
Jacob Bratting Pedersen, NorthCap Partners
James Hook, Climate Change Capital
James McNaught-Davis, WHEB Ventures
Jamie McGurk, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Jarkko Penttilä, Eqvitec Partners
Jeff Lee, Principal, DCM Ventures
Jeff Parkinson, Partner, KEC Ventures
Jerry Ennis, Smart Anchor Ventures
Jim Andelman, General Partner, Rincon Venture Partners
Jim Meyerle, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Founders Factory
Jon Kraft, founding CEO Pandora, co-founder at stealth company
Jon Moulton, founder Better Capital & Alchemy Partners
Jonathan Ebinger, BlueRun Ventures
Jörg “George” Sperling, WHEB Partners
Jörgen Bladh, Northzone Ventures
Karl Naegler, GIMV (ex-Ventech)
Katheleen Utecht, Comcast Ventures
Katherine Barr, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, former General Partner, Mohr Davidow
Katie Rae, Managing Director Techstars Boston, & founder, Project 11
Katie Stitch, Managing Director – W Capital Partners
Kerstin Cooley, CEO, MOOR Capital
Kirill Androsov, Managing Director, Altera Capital, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Aeroflot
Kim Kamdar, Partner, Domain Ventures
Kiran Hebbar, General Partner Valhalla Partners
Krishna Srinivasan, General Partner, LiveOak Venture Partners
Laurence Hayward, cofounder, Cornerstone Angels, cofounder, Independence Equity & VentureLab
Leo de Luna, Managing Director, Microsoft Ventures
Lou Kerner, Founder, The Social Internet Fund
Louis Marchetti, Director of Business Development, Vista Equity Partners
Ludovic Copéré, Senior Manager, Growth Ventures & Innovation, Sony Corporation of America
Luis Valdich, Managing Director – Citi Ventures, Venture Capital group (New York & London)
Marc Michel, Metaphormic VC
Mario Aquino, Managing Partner – McKinsey Ventures
Mark Boggett, Managing Partner, Seraphim Capital
Martin Weber, Holtzbrinck Ventures
Martyn Holman, Partner – Forward Partners
Masashi Kiyomime, Investment Director, Mitsui Global Investment
Masatoshi Ueno, Senior Investment Manager, Asahi Glass
Matt Gorin, Contour Venture Partners
Matthias Grychta, Neuhaus Partners
Matus Maar, Cofounder & Partner – Talis Capital
Mauro Pretolani, cofounder & partner, TLcom
Micah Rosenbloom, Venture Partner, Founder Collective
Mike Walsh, Structure Capital
Mitch Kitamura, Managing Director , Draper Nexus
Mohanjit Jolly, Managing Director, DFJ
Moriyoshi Matsumoto, Chairman & Managing Partner, WM Partners, Venture Partner, Rubicon Venture Capital, former CEO & Chairman Japan Asia Investment Co., Ltd, (JAIC)
Naoko Okumoto, Partner, WiL LLC
Nathaniel Becker Chase, Managing Director – Yet2Ventures
Nic Brisbourne, Managing Partner, Forward Partners
Ophelia Brown, Investor, Index Ventures
Nick Brito, Fidelity Growth Partners Europe
Nikhil Kalghatgi, Vast Ventures
Niko von Huetz, Managing Director – Saints Capital
Nils Granath, Swisscom Ventures
Nissim Darvish, OrbiMed Israel (ex-Pitango Venture Capital)
Olivier Litzka, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners
Ophir Reshef, Bessemer Venture Partners
Pat Noonan, Senior Associate, Austin Ventures
Patrick Chung, Partner, NEA
Patrick Magee, Chief Operating Officer, British Business Bank, the largest investor in British VC funds
Patrick Sheehan, cofounder & General Partner, Environmental Technologies Fund
Nektarios Liolios, Managing Director, Startupbootcamp FinTech
Paul Bricault, Venture Partner, Greycroft Partners
Paul Fisher, Advent Ventures
Paul Jenkinson, WHITESPACE VENTURES
Per Roman, cofounder & Managing Partner, GP Bullhound
Per von Zelowitz, Nordic Venture Partners
Peter Nieh, General Partner, Lightspeed
Pitch Johnson, Founder, Asset Management & Draper Johnson
Richard Brekka, Co-Founder & Managing Partner – Second Alpha Partners
Richard Muirhead, General Partner, Open Ocean
Richard Simoni, Partner, Asset Management Ventures
Rick Grinnell, Partner Fairhaven Capital
Roel Bulthuis, Founder & Head, Merck Ventures
Rogan Angelini-Hurll, Founding Partner, PROfounders Capital
Ryan Pollock, Managing Director, Iron Gate Capital
Sanjit Dang, Investment Director, Intel Capital
Scott Birnbaum, General Partner, Red Sea Ventures
Sean Seton-Rogers, General Partner PROfounders
Sergio Levi, Spark Ventures
Seth Levine, Managing Director, Foundry Group
Shai Goldman, 500Startups
Shalin Sheth, Second Century Ventures
Simon Davidson, Partner In-Q-Tel
Simon Murdoch, Managing Director, Episode1 Ventures
Staffan Helgesson, General Partner, Creandum
Sten Verland, Sunstone Capital
Steve Goldberg, Partner, Venrock
Stuart Collinson, Partner, Forward Ventures
Suresh Madhavan, Strategy, Investment and Corporate Development Professional at Verizon Ventures
Susanne Greenfield, Director – Corporate Development, Priceline Group
Sven Weber, President SharesPost 100 Fund – SharesPost
Terry Moore, Moore Venture Partners
Thorsten Claus, Next World Capital
Tim Devane, Principal, NextView Ventures
Tim Dick, General Partner, Startup Capital Ventures
Tim Draper, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
Tom Sperry, Rogue Venture Partners
Tony Conrad, General Partner, True Ventures
Toshiya Otani, Managing Director, TransLink Capital
Travis Skelly, Senior Vice President, Citi Ventures
Vibhor Rastogi, Intel Capital
Victoria Cheng, Senior Vice President, Venture Investing, Citi Ventures
Villi Iltchev, Partner, August Capital & former co-founder of Salesforce Ventures
Vitaly Golomb, Investor & Global Startup Evangelist, HP Tech Ventures
Wendy Johnson, CEO Aries Pharmaceuticals and Venture Partner, ProQuest Investments
Weston Gaddy, Bain Capital Ventures
Will Peng, Red Swan Ventures
William Kilmer, Former Head of Intel Capital EMEA, currently Operating Partner, Mercato Partners, author of the foreword to Masters of Corporate Venture Capital
Yaron Kniajer, Managing Director, Rhodium
Yoji Kawaguchi, Managing Director, ZenShin Capital
Yossi Sela, Gemini Israel Venture Funds