Every Founder Showcase event is attended by 100+ professional investors, including the top VCs and angels in Silicon Valley. We welcome all investors, but each event a few Investor Partners provide us with financial support that allows us to keep our ticket costs low, and the pitch competition to be free. Please visit their sites for supporting technology entrepreneurship;
Investor Partners
Javelin Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm specializing in technology based start-ups that leverage key innovations to create scalable, high-growth companies. Our office is located in San Francisco, but we invest throughout the world. If you’re interested in more than just capital from your venture capital partners, and the idea of working with investors who know exactly what you’re going through appeals to you, then we encourage you to contact us.
Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture firm that works closely with innovative entrepreneurs to build exceptional companies. Our team has over a century of relevant experience collaborating with disruptive technology companies in Software, Digital and Social Media, Mobile and Consumer Internet. Our relevant operational expertise and focused network enables us to be bridge-builders, connecting entrepreneurs with key business, technology, and investor partnerships to drive success. Blumberg Capital is headquartered in San Francisco with team members located in New York and Israel.
Shasta Ventures is an early-stage investment firm focused on U.S. companies in the consumer Internet, mobile and software sectors. Shasta was formed to back brilliant entrepreneurs with an unwavering commitment to the customer experience. Our partners’ experience in marketing, as well as technology, gives us a leg up in analyzing products, potential markets and customers. We feel a customer-centric approach is particularly important in this age of social media. Buzz about superior—and inferior—products travels quickly today, leaving little wiggle room for mediocre offerings.
Venrock has developed into one of the country’s leading VC firms with offices in Palo Alto, New York and Cambridge. Venrock entrepreneurs have charted new advancements in cancer, anti-infective and auto-immune therapies, powered semiconductors and the digital era, secured our information technology infrastructure, pioneered on-line advertising, and most recently, are generating power through alternative means, fostering innovation in healthcare IT, and harnessing the social web. Portfolio companies have included Apple Computer, Athenahealth, DoubleClick, Gilead Sciences, Illumina, Intel, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Sirna Therapeutics, StrataCom and Vontu.Become an Investor Partner
The Founder Showcase offers an exclusive package for a few select Investor Partners to gain valuable exposure to the start-up community. Investor Partners are ingrained into the format of the event, receiving significant stage and microphone time as a member of the Judging Panel. They are also invited to post on TheFunded.com’s “VC Perspective Series”. Past Investor Partners include Charles River Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, and SoftTech VC.
To see if you qualify or for more information, contact Nima Adelkhani at nima (at) thefunded (dot) com, or call 408-309-6333.
Investor Tickets
See pitches, benefit from informative talks from successful CEOs, and meet the Founders of cutting-edge companies in the Event Table area. Go to the Ticket Page for more information.
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Partners
Elance, the world’s leading platform for online employment, helps startups hire and manage in the cloud.
CRV is dedicated to helping exceptional entrepreneurs turn their ideas into the next category leaders in high growth technology and media.
Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture firm that works closely with innovative entrepreneurs to build exceptional companies.
Javelin is an early stage VC firm specializing in tech startups that leverage key innovations to create scalable, high-growth companies.
At Shasta, we are committed to helping brilliant entrepreneurs build exceptional companies of lasting value for the digital age.
Venrock continues the 8-decade Rockefeller tradition of helping entrepreneurs establish successful, enduring companies.
SendGrid powers your app's outgoing & incoming email capabilities, through a super-scalable cloud-based infrastructure.
Simple video meetings online, without downloads, for any kind of business on the planet.
The Bay Area’s premier shared office space, offering a coworking and innovative atmosphere for entrepreneurs, writers, developers and other innovators.
Sourcebits helps companies develop design-driven mobile applications that users love. To date, we've created over 500 apps for multiple platforms.
First Republic Bank provides private business banking and the full range of wealth management services with an emphasis on relationships.
UFOstart is the first “Global Crowd Network” for Lean Startups.
JetJaw is the easiest way for you to engage customers - at the moment of their experience.
As the nation's leading law firm representing venture-backed companies, WSGR has counseled thousands of entrepreneurs.
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