Founders Night - Fundraising in a Recession

443 Broadway St.,San Francisco CA 94133

15 December, 2022

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Founders Village has grown to be one of the largest active communities of founders and investors in the Bay Area and we're excited to keep growing it together! Our community comes together at Founders Night twice a month to build relationships and strengthen the bonds between us, and we're excited to invite you to one of the most exciting events of the year. An exclusive fireside chat on Fundraising in a Recession with the top VCs in the Silicon Valley. Here's what to expect: One of the most iconic and historic SF venues, Broadway StudiosBay Area's 250 most promising founders and top investorsExclusive panel on fundraisin and networking socialGreat music, unlimited snacks & a full barAnd of course, meaningful conversations. Learn more about our panelists. Demi Obayomi is the Vice President at Sapphire. Sapphire is a venture capital firm with $8.8B in AUM and offices across the US and Europe. Sapphire Ventures has invested in 100+ technology companies since 2011 with 55+ exits including 20+ IPOs. Recent exits include Monday.com (IPO), Wise (IPO), AvidXchange (IPO), Auth0 ($6.5B sale to Okta), JFrog (IPO), Sumo Logic (IPO) and Segment ($3.2B sale to Twilio). Amit Garg is the managing partner at Tau Ventures. Tau Ventures is an AI-first, seed-first VC fund in the heart of Silicon Valley. They are currently $85M+ AUM, focus on digital health and enterprise, with a little bit of automation (cars, robots, logistics), and write initial checks typically of $500K Amit has built his career in technology over 20+ years in Silicon Valley. As a venture capitalist he focuses on seed-stage applied AI investments in Digital Health, Automation (cars and robots) and Enterprise. Some of his key successes are nuTonomy (seed, sold for $450M) at Samsung NEXT Ventures and Misfit Wearables (seed, sold for $260M) at Norwest Ventures. Vignesh Ravikumar is a partner at Sierra Ventures. Sierra Ventures focuses on investments in Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and Digital Health/Healthcare IT. Sierra Ventures is a Bay area based early stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on Next Generation Enterprise and Emerging Technologies. With over three decades of experience and over $2 billion of assets under management, Sierra has created a vast network of successful entrepreneurs, Fortune 1000 CXOs, operational executives, and deep domain experts, providing a platform for entrepreneurs around the world. Adam O'Donnell: Former Founder & CEO of Buzz.report. Adam is currently leading startup partnerships at Zendesk for Startups. He is famous for his podcast The Top.VC where he brings tactics & strategies from top VCs & founders to help startups oversubscribe their next round. The event is sponsored by: Zendesk: With Zendesk, your customers will receive better service, engagement, and sales CRM. Additionally, provide your team with a tool that keeps reps selling with an intuitive and central interface Every customer counts when you're a startup. You're handling a lot but you can still build lasting relationships from the start. Zendesk gives you the tools you need to deliver a better experience for your customers and connects you with the resources to help you grow strategically as you scale. Start your free 6 months trial when you sign up through here. Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Check out images of our last event here :)