Coaching at Startup Grind Global Program 2018 Pitch Bootcamp
I'm excited to serve as a Pitch Coach later this month for the Startup Grind Global Program 2018 Pitch Bootcamp hosted/mc'd by TD Lowe and her team at 42Phi Ventures. The event at Fox Forum in Redwood City is sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank.
TD Lowe is the founder and CEO of EnovationNation and 42Phi Partners are a diverse set of individuals devoted to fixing Venture's opportunity pipeline, inclusivity, and mentorship deficit.
The day precedes the launch of Startup Grind's Global Conference, where TD is the team member in charge of StartupGrind startup program which filters the best performing startups coming to the conference for the investor community.
My advice to entrepreneurship students: "don't let ego slow down your team"
Judging the all-star Collider Cup at UC Berkeley
Excited to be a pitch judge for this all-star event at UC Berkeley next week!!
The Collider Cup is Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology's all-star showcase of the best student teams from Fall 2017.
Teams pitch to panels of professors, investors and industry experts as they vie to win the grand prize, the Collider Cup!
Thanks to Gigi Wang for the invite.
"A practical, empathetic and effective mentor"
Thanks Jeff Abbott, VC and founder of the Global Scaling Academy, for this fab recommendation at LinkedIn!
"She’s a practical, empathetic and effective mentor whose broad experience and constructive feedback allow her teams go on to perform in the top tier, while also improving the overall program she is a part of."
Judging at the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Summer 2017
It was so much fun to mentor & judge the tech startups at Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship (BMOE) at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. 120 global participants gathered at UC Berkeley for a one week immersive experience into entrepreneurship, team-building, mentorship, and more.
Here's the team I & my fellow judge chose as the winner of our 40-person cohort: BrainyT, an AI-for-manufacturing going to market in Brazil.
I also ran into familiar faces from last month's extreme accelerator in Europe, the European Innovation Academy #eia2017italy: participant & UCB student Bailey Farren, and fellow EIA chief mentors UCB faculty Stephen Torres and Pamela Day, who also was a judge at BMOE!
Looking forward to Harika Kalluri's upcoming interview with me and Pamela for the Berkeley Point Of View. We yakked Harika's ear off about tech investing, product building, and the empowering spirit of entrepreneurship.
A few snaps from some of the seven venture pitches my fellow judge Kal Deutsch (managing partner and founding investor of The Batchery, a Bay Area-based global incubator for seed stage startups) and I judged.
Good job to these teams from Berkeley, Denmark, Brazil & Hong Kong:
- BrainyT, the AI for small manufacturers
- SoWa the wireless professional speakers
- A Slice of Reality interactive media system
- the ed-tech play for lesson plans Athena
- CoffeeX, a connected coffee kiosk
- Candle Sense electric candle for memory boosting
- LedoAds, the marketplace for space ads
Thanks to UCBerkeley's entrepreneurship faculty Gigi Wang, the director of BMOE, for including me in her awesome program!
Photo: Gigi Wang
Congrats to BrainyT for making it into the top 3 startups at BMOE Summer 2017!
Thanks to Harika Kalluri for the interview! You can read it at the Sutardja Center site here.
Considering the Arab Innovation Academy in Doha, Qatar
I'm considering joining the Arab Innovation Academy (AIA). It's patterned on the European Innovation Academy, this new extreme accelerator for the Arab world is run by Maher Hakim, the managing director of the Qatar Science & Technology Park. I had the pleasure of working directly with Maher when he was the Chief of Chief Mentors at the European Innovation Academy in Nice in 2016! The AIA program will be delivered for the first time in Doha, Qatar in January 2018
