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Introduction to Glen T Rieger of Newspring Ventures. A Venture Capital Fund. Glen talks about the types of deals his fund invests in, and discusses his investment into Nutrisystems. This video clip is from the FundingPost Venture event in NYC. www.fundingpost.com
Dr. Richard Smith
Listen to these investors describe the most important parts of an elevator pitch to Venture Capital and Angel Investors. You can watch more videos and meet investors at http://www.fundingpost.com/video
Sir Ronald Cohen (born 1945) is an Egyptian-born Jewish British businessman and political figure, known as “the father of British venture capital”.After leaving Harvard Business School, Cohen worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company in the United Kingdom and Italy. In 1971, along with two partners, he founded Apax Partners, Britain’s first venture capital firm. The company grew slowly at first, but expanded rapidly in the 1990s, becoming Britain’s largest venture capital firm, and “one of three truly global venture capital firms”. Apax provided startup capital for over 500 companies, and provided money for many others, including AOL, Virgin Radio, Waterstone’s, and PPL Therapeutics, the company that cloned Dolly the sheep. In 1996 Cohen helped establish Easdaq, a technology focused stock exchange intended to be the European counterpart to the American Nasdaq. He is the recipient of a Jubilee Award for services to Israeli business, awarded by Benjamin Netanyahu and the BUCA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a member of the Board of Overseers at Harvard and is also a fellow of Exeter College. In 2005 he started a new investment company called … He also invested in the Hoxton Hotel in East London.
This is a short clip from our early-stage VC event we organized in NYC on 5/23/07.
10 Years In / 10 Years Out
This is a short clip of Arthur Klausner of Pappas Ventures speaking at FundingPost’s first North Carolina VC & Angel Investor event on a typical Investment process
This is an intro to 5 early-stage venture capital investors in NYC from a FundingPost conference. They tell about their Funds and discuss types of deals they look for. http://www.fundingpost.com/video