Startup Funding: Program
Startup Funding, May 2012
Streamlining Venture Capitalists and Business Angels
Faro, 21-22 May 2012
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Provisional Agenda
May 21st – Monday Morning (OPEN SESSION):
09:30 – 10:00 am - Registration
10:00 – 10:10 am - Welcome – João Guerreiro (Rector of the University of Algarve) and Vasco Varela (Foundation for Science and Technology)
10:10 – 11:40 am - Keynote speaker Robert M. Unetich ‐ “Venture Capital in the U.S., Getting Started”:
• Strategic Investor vs. Venture capitalist/Business Angel
• Venture capitalism in the U.S.
• Ways to approach a venture capitalist
• What are the expectations of companies interested in coming to U.S. from a foreign country
• Risk vs. Return
11:40 – 12:00 pm - Coffee Break
12:00 – 12:30 pm - Keynote speaker João Correia de Matos (InovCapital) - “Venture Capital in the U.S., Getting Started”
12:30 – 1:15 pm - Debate:
“The long road to investment: Portuguese companies experience”
João Martins (MuchBETA)
Luke Murray and Sofia Pessanha (Actualsun)
Diamantino Lopes (Metablue)
1:15 – 1:30 pm - Questions and wrap-up1:30 – 2:30 pm - Lunch
May, 21st - Monday Afternoon (CLOSED SESSION):
3:00 – 5:30 pm - “Roadmap” to Assist TTO’s and Start‐up Companies in Raising Funds from Venture Capitalist/Business Angels
1. Approach – How do you get noticed?
2. Pitch – Role playing
3. Types of funding available
5:30 – 6:00 pm - Wrap‐up
May, 22nd – Tuesday
10:00 – 1:30 pm - Independent Meetings with Companies representative and Robert M. Unetich
