SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Ken Elefant, Founding Partner, Elefant Ventures Focus: Big data, security/compliance, and cloud middleware April 28, 2011

SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Ken Elefant, Founding Partner, Elefant Ventures Focus: Big data, security/compliance, and cloud middleware

Start: 04/28/2011 - 8:00 am
End: 04/28/2011- 9:30 am

Contact Info:
Jai Kumar
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 408-406-4693
Location:
Kilpatrick Townsend
379 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301

URL:-www.svase.org/events/vc-breakfast-club-ken-elefant-founding-partner-elefant-ventures-focus-big-data-securitycompli

Elefant Ventures, www.elefantventures.com
Elefant Ventures was created to help entrepreneurs with outstanding domain experience build long term, sustainable companies. Over the years, we’ve developed strong relationships with many entrepreneurs who come to us time and again with their new ventures. We look for capital efficient companies that have strong intellectual property in the big data, security/compliance, and cloud middleware spaces.

Ken Elefant, Founding Partner, Elefant Ventures
Ken Elefant is a founding partner of Elefant Ventures and is a general partner for Opus Capital’s 2006 Fund. Ken focuses primarily on big data, software and security investments.

From 2001 to 2005, Ken was a Senior Associate at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Prior to this, Ken was a Kauffman Fellow at Battery Ventures.

Previously, Ken worked at Radius Inc. as Director of International Sales and Marketing. His role at Radius included serving as a member of the executive staff and opening the company's first sales and marketing office in the Benelux region of Europe.

He has also held various marketing and business development positions at Claris Corporation (the software subsidiary of Apple) and RealNetworks.

Ken holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton undergraduate division at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

WHEN: Thursday, April 28, 2011
8 – 9:30 AM

LOCATION: Kilpatrick Townsend, 379 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301

PRE-REGISTERED RATES:
Members - $25; Affiliates who advertise this event - $39; General Public - $49.

This event is intended for entrepreneurs seeking feedback on their startup ideas and funding strategies. Please do not register if you do not fit this profile.

This event is co-sponsored by Kilpatrick Townsend, www.kilpatricktownsend.com.