SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Shasta Ventures: Focus On Consumer And Business Services, Infrastructure And Software' March 8, 2007

SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Shasta Ventures: Focus On Consumer And Business Services, Infrastructure And Software'

Event: 'VC Breakfast: Shasta Ventures: Focus On Consumer And Business Services, Infrastructure And Software'

Date: Thursday, March 08, 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=784

VC Breakfast: Shasta Ventures: Focus on Consumer and Business Services, Infrastructure and Software

The featured VC will be Ravi Mohan, Managing Director, Shasta Ventures. www.shastaventures.com/

EVENT LOCATION: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, 379 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431

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

Shasta Ventures

We founded Shasta Ventures with a single purpose: to apply our time, experience and passion to building early-stage technology companies that serve consumers and businesses. Because we formed our firm expressly for this reason, we provide exceptional service to the companies in our portfolio. It means we have the time to work with early-stage companies, because we serve on a limited number of boards. And it means we care about the companies we invest in—not only the businesses, but the people as well.

Each of the three Shasta Ventures founders brings a wealth of investing experience from their previous venture firms NEA, Battery Ventures and Trinity Ventures. Collectively, we have created more than a billion dollars in value for investors prior to starting Shasta Ventures. We’ve already helped build 18 successful companies. We’re looking to build more.

At Shasta Ventures, we believe the most exciting innovations are happening in technology-enabled businesses serving consumers and enterprises. We want to back teams that have a unique understanding of customer needs and a plan to offer superior services. We invest in software, infrastructure, business services and consumer services. But more importantly, we invest in people.

We combine our skills and expertise across IT and marketing to work as a team to the benefit of our entrepreneurs. We collaborate on behalf of every portfolio company, sharing ideas, recommending resources and making introductions. We’ve learned a lot from the years we’ve spent in investing and operating roles. We’re here to share those lessons with the entrepreneurs we serve.

Through our team approach, we’re able to apply classic marketing principles to the business of technology, whether it’s being used by a consumer, an IT manager or an engineer. That’s unusual in this industry, but we’ve found it to be a winning formula.

We invest at an early stage, where we can help entrepreneurs the most—either the first or second round of a company’s fundraising. An initial investment ranges from $250,000 to $6 million. We can participate in follow-on rounds for a total investment per company of up to $12 million. We’re primarily interested in companies located in the western United States, but don’t rule out other geographies.

Ravi Mohan

Ravi Mohan has focused his entire career on the software business. Prior to co-founding Shasta Ventures, Ravi was a general partner at Battery Ventures where he led eight investments and served on the boards of 12 software and technology-enabled service companies.

Prior to joining Battery Ventures, Ravi built transaction-processing systems at Accenture, sold and implemented packaged software applications for Hyperion Software Corporation, and ran MIC, a software development firm based in India focused on business intelligence. Ravi also spent time at McKinsey & Company working with consumer packaged goods companies.

Ravi is very active in entrepreneurial circles and helped found the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA) to leverage entrepreneurial activities between India and America. In addition, he is an active Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).

Ravi has a MBA from University of Michigan School of Business and B.S in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell 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

LOCATION: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, 379 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431

Official Website: http://svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=784+