Silicon Valley Tech Week and 10X Growth Strategies present: Women VC Panel Event
Silicon Valley Tech week and 10X Growth Strategies are excited to host a woman VC panel during Silicon Valley Tech week. We are bringing together some of the top women VCs in Silicon Valley. We are grateful to our host partner TiE Silicon Valley and several food sponsors.
You’ll hear from women Venture Capitalists and learn what female investment has allowed companies to do. Women have more education, start 40% of businesses, and by 2030 are expected to control $30 trillion of US wealth. Yet :
Only 1.9% of venture funding goes to women-led companies.
Only 14% of corporate board seats are held by women.
Only 1.4% of wealth is managed by women or people of color combined.
Let us come together to leverage our collective influence and make a difference to women investors and founders.
Panelists
Rachna Dayal, Founder & Managing Partner, Sugati Ventures
Preetha Ram, Managing Partner, Pier 70 Ventures
Karen Sheffield, Founder & Managing Partner, Pachamama Ventures
Preethy Padmanabhan. Technology Executive, Host of 10X Growth Strategies podcast (Moderator)
Agenda
4:30 - 5:00 pm Arrival, Get appetizers and drinks
5:00 - 6:00 pm Welcome, VC Introductions, Panel
6:00 - 7:00 pm Networking
Detailed information on Panelists and Venture firms
Rachna Dayal is the Founder & Managing Partner for Sugati Ventures. Sugati Ventures is an early-stage Venture Capital firm that invests in Medical Devices and Health Tech platforms. Our team is made up of seasoned operators, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and investors. We work alongside many Corporate Strategic Venture arms, network of Providers, Clinicians, Accelerators, and Innovation Hubs to ensure that we have a differentiated deal flow and ability to actively support our startups with follow up capital, growth and exit strategies. We are actively investing and creating a rich pipeline of pre-screened startups together with our network.
Karen Sheffield is the Founder & Managing Partner of Pachamama Ventures. Pachamama Ventures is a venture capital firm accelerating climate tech companies delivering solutions for a more equitable world. Pachamama Ventures Fund I is a SF-based $10MM pre-seed & seed stage venture fund to back experienced founders building breakthrough climate tech companies with more than just capital. We prioritize 3 things: high ownership/conviction, capital efficiency, and active portfolio support (leveraging our Fortune 100 expertise & networks).
Preetha Ram is Managing Partner at Pier 70 Ventures, a venture fund that invests in early stage technology companies creating the Future of Health. We look for diverse teams of brilliant entrepreneurs willing to disrupt the status quo. The fund is anchored by Eli Lilly’s and Company and other like minded investors and family offices. Our investment thesis builds on our previous investment experience and focuses on on early exits so we can return capital efficiently to our investors. With ten portfolio companies, we have proven out our investment thesis, and demonstrated access to a high quality, differentiated deal flow, that is both bicoastal and from the heartland of America.\
Preethy Padmanabhan is a seasoned technology executive with experience in engineering, sales and marketing. She won the 2023 Marketing 2.0 Leadership award, the 2021 Silicon Valley Business Journal Women of Influence award. She is an angel investor with Portfolia, How Women Invest, serves as a Board Director for Nexstem and Board advisor for Sendoso and ChargeLink. Preethy is the founder and host for the popular podcast 10X Growth Strategies featuring CXO, investors and global executives
Host
Nestled in the heart of California, TiE Silicon Valley stands as the founding chapter of TiE, founded in 1992. Since then, our influence has grown to encompass 60 chapters spanning 12 countries. Over the years, TiE Silicon Valley has nurtured more than 25,000 entrepreneurs who collectively generated over $1 trillion in wealth and created over 2 million jobs.
Sponsors
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Jolly VC has launched $10M Seed fund in San Jose, CA to back USA based Software startups in AI, SAAS and IOT, leveraging Partner’s 23 years in Silicon Valley making 44 Angel investments with overall portfolio valuation at 4.3X MOIC. Sunmeet Jolly has angel invested in Female founded and co-founded startups. As a VC, he has many female LPs who are currently invested in Jolly VC Fund I, LP jointly with their husbands or as members of LLCs (investing entities).
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