The Investors’ Christmas Mixer
It’s Christmas, so we are doing it properly. Champagne, Chef Julien flambéing pancakes in front of you, and an evening with the people you keep meaning to see before the year runs out.
Join Open Future Forum for a private Christmas reception for investors active in venture and growth. Compare notes on the deals that surprised you in 2026 and what you are looking at heading into 2027. We make introductions all evening, because a venture investor, a corporate investor and a growth fund can look at the same company and see three different opportunities, and it is worth hearing all three.
Conversations are off the record. No panels, no pitches.
Who should attend
Venture capital investors
Corporate venture capital leaders
Growth equity investors
Strategic investors
Family offices active in venture and growth
A limited number of founders, CEOs and operators, by invitation
Request an invitation
Registration is subject to host approval, and there is a $100 million fund AUM minimum. Please include your firm, role and investment focus when you request an invitation. We share the exact location with approved guests.
Hosts
Murray Newlands, CEO, Open Future Forum
Yvonne Newlands, Chief Business Officer, Open Future Forum
Louis Lehot, Partner, Foley & Lardner
Adam Fauvre, Director, RSM US LLP
Open Future Forum
Open Future Forum is a global executive community founded in Silicon Valley in 2019, creating spaces where leaders expand what’s possible. Through Forum Select, its private gatherings, and Forum Events, its open panels, it brings executives together to build relationships, exchange ideas and learn from peers. It runs series for C-suite leaders (CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CISOs and General Counsel), investors (VC and Private Equity), and builders (YC Founders and AI Leaders). Open Future Forum also publishes original research based on first-party surveys and insights from its community. Learn more at openfutureforum.com.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley & Lardner is a nationally recognized top law firm with a Chambers-ranked venture and emerging companies practice advising founders and venture investors from formation through financings, commercialization, M&A, and scale. We bring the speed, experience, and practicality startups need, with the rigor and deep specialist bench investors expect, so deals get done efficiently and companies stay ready to go from garage to global. Find us at the event, meet us at our San Francisco or Palo Alto offices, or contact Louis Lehot at llehot@foley.com.
RSM
RSM provides audit, tax and consulting services to middle-market businesses, investment firms and their portfolio companies. Its teams help clients evaluate acquisitions, navigate tax and reporting requirements, and build finance operations that can support growth. Meet Adam Fauvre from RSM at the reception.