SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Menlo Ventures: Focus On Communications, Internet Infrastructure, Software, Semiconductor, Data Storage, And Computer Hardware' August 24, 2006

Event: 'VC Breakfast: Menlo Ventures: Focus On Communications, Internet Infrastructure, Software, Semiconductor, Data Storage, And Computer Hardware'
Date: Thursday, August 24, 2006 At 08:00
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Contact Info:
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=462

The featured VC will be Shawn Carolan, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures. www.menloventures.com/

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

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

Menlo Ventures
Menlo Ventures provides long-term capital and management support to early-stage and emerging-growth companies. We are one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture capital partnerships, and have organized and managed nine venture funds since our inception in 1976. With over $3.9 billion under management, and a team with over one hundred years of collective experience in technology, marketing, sales and general management, we have the resources to support the most ambitious of projects.

We are pleased to announce the formation of Menlo Ventures X, L.P, capitalized at $1,200,000,000. The fund will be invested in emerging growth companies of all stages within the technology sector. Menlo Ventures continues its commitment to being a long-term, active partner to visionary entrepreneurs.

Shawn T. Carolan
Shawn joined Menlo Ventures in 2002 and has focused primarily on network connected software and services. He represents Menlo Ventures on the boards of CinemaNow, GalleryPlayer, IMVU and TeleNav, and is closely involved with the firm's investments in MobiTV and ePAC. Before joining Menlo, Shawn was a management consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton, but has spent most of his career in engineering and engineering management positions. He was Manager of Software Architecture for Open Port Technology, a start-up that created Internet-based messaging software for data carriers. Prior to that, Shawn worked at Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group and Wireless Data Group, Sprint PCS, and the University of Illinois' Center for Computational Electromagnetics. Shawn is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.) and the University of Illinois, Champaign (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering).

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

LOCATION: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, 390 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94301-1431