Two Amazing Speakers at ACS
A couple of weeks ago I was (and still am) incredibly excited to announce Divya Narendra as the keynote speaker for the 11th annual Angel Capital Summit. Divya was at the forefront of the social wave when he helped start ConnectU, the inspiration behind Facebook. Today I am happy to announce that Andre Durand, founder and CEO of Ping Identity who brought Ping through their $600M+ exit in 2016. Registration for the Angel Capital Summit is open so don’t miss out from learning from these two industry visionaries.
~Ian
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Fort Collins Events This Week
Wed 2/7 | 12-2 & 3-5 | Innosphere 320 E. Vine Dr. Fort Collins, CO
On the first Wednesday of every month Rockies Venture Club hosts two events in partnership with Innosphere and the City of Fort Collins. Both of these events are free for Fort Collins companies.
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Funding Mastermind Meeting
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- Wed 2/7 | 12-2:00 PM
- Register Here
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Colorado Angel Investor Forum (Fort Collins Angel Chapter)
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Wed 2/7 | 3-5:00 PM
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February Pitch AcademyFriday 2/9 | 12:30-5:30 PM | Thrive Ballpark 1415 Park Ave. West Denver
The RVC Pitch Academy is a half-day workshop designed to polish your investor pitch, sharpen your strategy and provide a background on what investors are looking for, connecting with your audience, and negotiating a successful deal.
Colorado Life Sciences Night
Tue Feb 13th | 5-7:30 PM | Polsinelli 1401 Lawrence St #2300, Denver, CO 80202
Life Sciences offer special opportunities for entrepreneurs and angel investors alike. There are huge markets in healthcare and the acquisition environment is hot right now as companies are using acquisition as an R&D strategy rather than taking risks in-house. At the same time, many life science companies have high technology risks and sometimes face costly and lengthy regulatory hurdles.
Angel Capital Summit 2018
March 20-21 2018
The Angel Capital Summit is the largest angel investing event in Colorado. Now in its 11th year this summit promises to be one of the best yet and we are excited to have Divya Narendra as our keynote speaker. Divya is the founder of Sum Zero and helped start ConnectU the inspiration for Facebook. Both the application and early-bird registration windows are closing soon!
To increase diversity in our investing community, we have established the Women’s Investor Network, led by entrepreneur leader Barbara T. Bauer. The purpose of WIN is to engage women with an engaged community, new programs, and educational content.
- WIN Conference Calls– for women investors interested in angel investing
- Thu Feb. 8, 2pm- Register Here
- Thu Mar. 8, 4pm- Register Here
- How to Protect Your Company
- Thu 2/22 | 5:30-7:30 PM
- Are you starting a business? Have you thought about future events that could risk your business – a partner’s illness or decision to leave the company, a divorce or death? Are there strategies and structures that can help you retain control in these difficult events.
- Register Here
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Trout Tank H2O
Application Deadline Feb 9th
The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and Small Business Development Center, Denver Water, Colorado State University, and TAP-IN are partnering to bring you Trout Tank H2O – an accelerator and pitch competition that showcases entrepreneurs and businesses with a water focus and gives them opportunities to sharpen their pitching skills, gain exposure, secure funding, and build connections within the Colorado business and water community.
ACA 2018 Summit
Early Bird Registration Closes Feb 12th
Join 700+ angels at the ACA Summit for a great program, with many new session topics and speakers. Highlights for seven tracks and half-tracks include impact investing, what to know about artificial intelligence, cyber security and blockchain, and using data to improve your investing performance, among 30 topics. 24 amazing startup founders will also join us at the Innovation Showcase. Register by February 12 to get the early bird discount, saving members $80.
All RVC Members are also ACA Members!
ETHDenver: Workshops and Hackathon
Feb 16-18th | The Sports Castle
ETHDenver is welcoming those who want to support and build the decentralized future. The Hackathon is an opportunity to work alongside the developers, thought leaders, advisers, and companies who are making the infrastructure and applications that will power the future.
Startup Grind February Event
February 28th | 6:00 PM
The evening will include a Fireside chat with Frank Valcarcel and Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel, Cofounders of Cuttlesoft, as well as networking with food and drink.
Use the code RVC25 for 25% off.
Rocky Mountain Corporate Growth Conference
March 5th and 6th, 2018
Come to the 2018 Rocky Mountain Corporate Growth Conference to learn from middle market leaders who have successfully adopted and implemented disruptive growth strategies. Discover what disruptors do differently that makes them so successful and how the lessons they have learned can help you grow your business to survive and thrive in this volatile business environment.
C-Level @ A Mile High- Emerging Tech Priority Access
March 15th, 2018
Colorado Technology Association is hosting their 12th annual C-Level @ A Mile High on Thursday, March 15 and is introducing a new event component – Tech Exchange – at this year’s event. Tech Exchange will take place prior to the main event and provides attendees with the opportunity to buy up to three onsite 20-minute 1:1 meetings with select C-Level celebrities.
The RVC Insight Network leverages the wisdom of crowds effect to help drive a better due diligence process, identify experts for deal screening, and to match startup companies with individuals that possess industry and position expertise.
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