CVF Past Events: 2003
Here is a brief description of our 2003 events. When possible, we provide the speaker's power point presentation. Please click on the date and topic of interest, and you will be directed to that information on this page.
November 20, 2003
Classic Early Stage Investing
September 18, 2003
Panel Discussion: Innovation in New Mexico
July 17, 2003
Laboratory Commercialization and Early Stage Venture Capital
May 15, 2003
Growing a Venture-Backed Security Company from New Mexico Origins
March 20, 2003
Update from the New Mexico State Investment Council
January 16, 2003
A Panel Discussion On Tax, Securities, and Structural Issues for the Private Equity Investor
NOVEMBER 20, 2003 Featured Presentation:
Classic Early Stage Investing
Stewart Alsop, General Partner
New Enterprise Associates
Description:
Stewart joined NEA in June 1996 as a venture partner focusing in the information technology area. He was named a general partner in 1998. He is currently on the boards ofBoingo Wireless, Inc., Full Audio, Inc., MailFrontier, Inc.,NextHop Technologies, Inc., Scalix Corporation,Sorrent, Inc.and Zinio Systems, Inc. Stewart is also a columnist for Fortune magazine.
Venture Capital Forum:
Beverly Bendickson, Blue Sage Capital
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2003 Featured Presentation:
Panel Discussion: What's Next in Innovation in New Mexio?
Paul Shirley, Moderator,
Qynergy
with David Breecker, Gene Grant, Lisa Kuuttila, and Webb Johnson
Venture Capital Forum:
Valley Ventures
Valley Ventures is an institutionally funded venture capital partnership with $70 million under management.In addition to providing capital to growing companies, Valley Ventures assists management in strategic planning, management development, accessing key industry experts and advising on capital formation events.Valley Ventures has offices in Phoenix, Tucson and Albuquerque.
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JULY 17, 2003 Featured Presentation:
Laboratory Commercialization and Early Stage Venture Capital
David Liddle, General Partner
U.S. Venture Partners
Description:
David Liddle joined U.S. Venture Partners in January 2000, after retiring as president and CEO of Interval Research Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based laboratory and incubator for new businesses focused on broadband applications and advanced technologies, founded in 1992. David is also a consulting professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and has spent his career in Silicon Valley, in activities spanning research, development, management and entrepreneurship. David has served as a director at Sybase, Broderbund Software, Borland International and Ticketmaster Group, as well as numerous private companies, and as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute. He has served on the DARPA Information Science and Technology Committee, and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council.
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MAY 15, 2003 Featured Presentation:
Growing a Venture-Backed Security Company from New Mexico Origins
Dr. Steven Hofmeyr, Chief Scientist, Sana Security
Sana Security
Description:
For the first time, Coronado Ventures Forum (CVF) and Technology Venture Corporation's New Mexico Equity Capital Symposium (NMECS) have coordinated efforts to tie the two technology venture industry programs together. One of the industry clusters at NMECS features aspiring entrepreneurs and start-ups in the information security marketplace. On the evening of Thursday, May 15, at the Hotel Santa Fe, CVF will continue the focus on security from the NMECS conference, which ends for the day early on Thursday afternoon in Albuquerque. NMECS will wind up on Friday morning with a private tour of Los Alamos National Lab for attendees.
If you would like to view the power point presentation, please email Trevor Loy.
Venture Capital Forum:
Murphree Venture Partners
Murphree Venture Partners is a seed and early stage venture capital firm, making direct equity investments into emerging entrepreneurial enterprises, primarily in the southwestern U.S. region. The firm seeks to align itself with entrepreneurs and management groups with whom it can develop strong working relationships, and with whom it can act in concern as owners/investors. They have offices in Albuquerque, Austin, Boulder, and Houston.
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MARCH 20, 2003 Featured Presentation:
Update from the New Mexico State Investment Council
Gary Bland, NM State Investment Officer
Greg Kulka, SIC Staff Member
New Mexico State Investment Council
Description:
Business development objectives can often be achieved more easily with effective public private partnership. The New Mexico State Investment Council has been working diligently on a variety of initiatives that aim to increase investment options for New Mexico businesses. Gary Bland, newly appointed State Investment Officer and SIC staff member Greg Kulka will discuss progress on the SIC initiatives and what their efforts will mean for investors and for the business investment environment in New Mexico. The State Investment Officer working with the State Investment Council manages the Land Grant Permanent Fund and the Severance Tax Permanent Fund. The funds generate revenue from the more than 8 million acres of state-owned lands held in trust to benefit public schools, and the more than 13 million acres of mineral resources that are extracted and taxed. Governor Bill Richardson, Chair of the State Investment Council has proposed the the state use up to $200 million or 2 percent of these permanent funds to invest in New Mexico business.
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JANUARY 16, 2003 Featured Presentation:
A Panel Discussion On Tax, Securities, and Structural Issues for the Private Equity Investor
Greg Beattie, Crosby Heafey Roach & May, Oakland/Palo Alto
Curtis Schwartz, Modrall Sperling, Santa Fe
Mitch Zuklie, Venture Law Group, Palo Alto
Entrepreneur's Forum:
Matthew Ennis
Biophoretix
Biophoretix provides biological separation and detection tools to the immense and rapidly expanding worlds of biodefense, healthcare and management, and pharmaceutical and environmental monitoring. The company is based in Albuquerque, NM. Mr. Ennis is currently president of Argus Insights, a technology competitive intelligence provider with close associations with the pharmaceutical industry.
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