SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Levensohn Venture Partners: Focus On Software, Communications And Semiconductors' October 26, 2006

Event: 'VC Breakfast: Levensohn Venture Partners: Focus On Software, Communications And Semiconductors'

Date: Thursday, October 26, 2006 At 08:00
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Contact Info:
CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693 Email: [email protected]
URL: www.svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=565

The featured VC will be Kip Sheeline, Managing Director, Levensohn Venture Partners. www.levp.com/

EVENT LOCATION: Law offices of Davis Wright Tremaine, One Embarcadero Center, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94111

This event is co-sponsored by Davis Wright Tremaine LLP www.dwt.com.

Levensohn Venture Partners
Levensohn Venture Partners is made up of a dynamic team of experienced venture professionals who understand development stage investing. We have business development and operating experience, deep analytical and problem-solving skills and a strong sense of business ethics. We invest in leading information technology companies that have completed technology development and are now generating revenues. These companies still face management, sales, strategic and financial challenges as they scale up their businesses. When we invest, we take a board seat and play an active role in promoting the growth of the company.

Since our founding in 1996, we have made 27 private equity investments. Throughout this period we have focused on investing in information technology companies in the early stages of commercialization. These investments include Atheros, BigFix, Broadlogic, Informative, KnowNow, Radiance, Rapt, Reconnex, Ubicom, Veraz Networks, Vertical Networks, among others.

We currently manage $164 million in two venture capital funds focused on information technology companies in sectors such as enterprise software, communications equipment and semiconductors. We invest alongside an outstanding group of co-investors – early-stage venture capitalists with whom we have developed long-standing and trusted relationships.

Kip Sheeline
Kip is a Managing Director at Levensohn Venture Partners, where he focuses on the software and communications sectors. LVP leads investments in companies at the early stage of commercialization and works closely with the management teams and other directors on the strategic and execution issues associated with rapid company growth. Kip joined LVP from the Summit Accelerator Fund (SAF), which he co-founded in 1999 as a joint venture with Summit Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm.

Prior to Summit , Kip spent 11 years at Hambrecht & Quist, specializing in communications, software and Internet infrastructure. As Managing Director of the communications industry practice at H&Q, Kip was responsible for all of its investment banking activities related to communications, including software, systems, components and services. Prior to H&Q, Kip was Managing Director, Technology Planning at PacTel Corp. (a unit of the Pacific Telesis Group) and worked in software development and international marketing at Oracle Corp., where he was one of the company's earliest employees.

Kip received his BA and an MA in Computer Music from Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics from Stanford Medical School .

COST: $25 SVASE Members; $39 Affiliates; $49 Non-members. This event is for ENTREPRENEURS ONLY, BY PREREGISTRATION ONLY.

This event is co-sponsored by Davis Wright Tremaine LLP www.dwt.com.

CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693

LOCATION: Law offices of Davis Wright Tremaine, One Embarcadero Center, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94111

Official Website: http://www.svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=565