​Event Overview

​Join us for our second annual CVC Platform and Portfolio Development Summit, the essential gathering for CVC builders focused on driving value beyond the check. Scheduled the day after Counter VII, the premier annual conference for CVCs, this summit is designed to bring together the industry’s leading platform and portfolio development practitioners for a deep dive into the strategies, models, and real-world case studies that define success in post-investment value creation.

​Last year's event brought more than 100 builders to Adobe HQ for the inaugural platform day during CVC Week. Check out the insights.

​Key Times to be aware of:

​10:00 AM — Arrival
10:30 AM — Opening Announcements
11:00 AM — Morning Main Stage Sessions
12:30 PM — Lunch
1:20 PM — Lightning Talks
2:00 PM — Breakouts
2:30 PM — Happy Hour
4:00 PM — Close

​Speakers and Flow:

​Welcome remarks:

• ​Abbie Wolf, Director of Platform, Counterpart Ventures

• ​Justin Wang, Director, M&A and Ventures, Adobe

​Main Stage Sessions (Morning)

• ​Adobe Ventures: Strengthening Strategic Partnerships

• ​The SE Ventures Brand Arc with Kara Alter, Head of Marketing and Community, SE Ventures

• ​AWS: Inside a Physical AI Case Study

​Lightning Talks to Breakout Sessions (Afternoon)

​Betting on Yourself: A Career Conversation
with Shuchi Rana, Global Head of Whitespace Intelligence, ServiceNow Ventures
and Hannah Steinhardt, Head, Adobe for Startups

​Elevating Platform: What It Takes to Get a Seat at the Table
with Daniel Yoo, Marketing Partner at Woven Capital (Toyota)

​Building Your Internal Brand: Why Visibility Drives Value
with Teodora Peiffer, Head of Platform at Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures

​Cisco Investments: Integrating early-stage AI companies
with Chris Dallmar, Portfolio Development Lead, Collaboration, AI, and Sustainability
and Neetta Shetty, Global Head, Portfolio Development

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​Who Should Attend

• ​CVC platform and portfolio development professionals

• ​Investors at corporates interested in platform strategy and value creation

• ​Anyone responsible for post-investment support, internal alignment, or ecosystem engagement

​What is Counter Club’s CVC Week?

​Counterpart Ventures is a San Francisco-based VC fund investing in Seed & Series A B2B SaaS startups. Counter is Counterpart Ventures’ annual event that has morphed into the premier gathering of corporate venture capitalists and a full week of events.

​The inaugural CVC Week brought 1,000+ corporates, founders and investors across 20+ events. The main day of the conference, Counter VII, will be on Wednesday, September 30th.  Corporate VCs can request to join the gated community at counterclub.vc for more resources.

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​Many thanks to our friends at Adobe Ventures for hosting at their SF HQ!

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​Our Partners

​Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.