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SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Angels Forum: Focus On Consumer Products, Enterprise Software, Industrial Products, Internet And E-commerce, Medical Devices And Services'

Event: 'VC Breakfast: Angels Forum: Focus On Consumer Products, Enterprise Software, Industrial Products, Internet And E-commerce, Medical Devices And Services'

Date: Thursday, July 05, 2007 At 08:00
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Contact Info:
CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693 Email: [email protected]
URL: svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=992

VC Breakfast: Angels Forum: Focus on Consumer products, Enterprise software, Industrial products, Internet and e-commerce, Medical devices and services

The featured VC will be Jeffrey Yu, The Angels Forum. www.angelsforum.com

EVENT LOCATION: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, 390 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431

This event is co-sponsored by Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP. www.townsend.com.

The Angels Forum
The Angels' Forum (TAF) invests in seed and early-stage business ventures. TAF prefers investing in disruptive technologies that will open new, large market opportunities. However, TAF limits its investments to companies headquartered in the Silicon Valley/Bay Area.

The Angels Forum is a group of entrepreneurial men and women who have the capital, time, experience, skills, and interest to assist other entrepreneurs. The Members are very effective mentors and actively draw on their diverse backgrounds and the business experiences of other Members.

The Angels’ Forum (TAF) has for the last decade employed a unique model for angel (private individual) equity investing in emerging companies. TAF is a private, closed group of 25 investors, including individuals and small corporate and family venture funds. The TAF group reviews 20+ new deals per week and on average makes 5-15 new A round investments per year, as well as follow on B and C round investments in existing portfolio companies. When TAF members invest, TAF creates a special LLC entity to make the investment, making the administration process vastly simpler for the entrepreneur and protecting the privacy of the investors. Members of TAF pay a fee to belong to the organization; entrepreneurs pay no fees or commissions.

The purpose of The Angels' Forum (TAF) is to help Members make a better return on investment than they could make if investing independently. TAF provides a structured environment in which individual Members can more effectively invest their capital and lend their business expertise to early-stage portfolio companies. The Members of TAF are supported by a professional management team that provides investment management services including backroom operations, membership services, and portfolio support.

Jeffrey Yu
Jeffrey Yu recently joined The Angels’ Forum as Managing Director. He has spent the last 10 years working with and investing in early stage companies such as Avici Systems, Dust Networks, Fultec Semiconductors, Paxera Corp., and Zolo Technologies. Prior to joining The Angels’ Forum, Jeff was a Principal at Crescendo Ventures from 2000 to 2007 where he focused on investments in enabling technologies such as semiconductors, optical systems and networking solutions.

From 1990 – 2000, he held various responsibilities at Nortel Networks including R&D, new product introduction, network planning, product management and business development. Before his work at Nortel Networks, Jeff developed ultrasonic techniques for testing materials at the Industrial Materials Institute of Canada; and prior to that worked as a software engineer for CAE Electronics. Jeff holds both a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.

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

This event is co-sponsored by Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP. www.townsend.com.

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

Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, 390 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431

Added by svaseinfo on June 17, 2007