Inside the VC Mind
AICEP and the Portugal Fintech Association will host a VC Day with Brian Caulfield, featuring a masterclass on fundraising strategies, fintech trends, and offer selected startups an opportunity for 1:1 meetings ("Office Hours").
Participation in the Office Hours is limited to 6 startups, each with a 30-minute slot.
The companies will be chosen by Brian.
Agenda
10h - 12h | Masterclass
Inside the VC Mind: Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur & VC Brian Caulfield
12h - 13h00 | Office Hours
Meetings One-on-One. It will be subject to approval and has a limited number of places.
14h30 - 16h30 | Office Hours
Meetings One-on-One. It will be subject to approval and has a limited number of places.
But Who is Brian Caulfield?
Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a Venture Partner and former Managing Partner at Molten Ventures (fka Draper Esprit), the leading European venture capital firm.
Prior to joining Molten Ventures, Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital where his investments included AePONA (sold to Intel – NASDAQ: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs – NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware – NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR – LSE:CSR.L).
Previously, Brian co-founded both Exceptis Technologies - sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000 and Similarity Systems, a data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006.
Brian’s Molten Ventures investments include Movidius (sold to Intel – NASDAQ: INTC), Datahug (Callidus Software – NASDAQ: CALD), RhodeCode, Mobile Travel Technologies (Travelport – NYSE: TVPT), Graphcore (Softbank – NASDAQ: SFTBY) and Clavis Insight (Ascential – LSE: ASCL). Brian was a member of the senior management team that successfully listed Molten Ventures on the Dublin and London stock markets in June 2016.
Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association’s "Technology Person of the Year" award; has been inducted into the Irish Internet Association’s Hall of Fame; and in 2010 received the Halo Business Angel Network’s “Business Angel of the Year” award. Brian is a former Chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association and director of the Irish Times, Ireland’s leading news organisation. He currently chairs Scale Ireland, the representative organisation for Irish innovation-driven enterprises and TechIreland, a non-profit open access database of Irish innovation. He is a private investor in/advisor to several early-stage technology companies.