BPlan Teams –
For the first time, The Haas Business Plan competition is teaming up with EECS to give semifinalists the unique opportunity to present their posters to a group of 28 venture capitalists at the BEARS conference (The Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium). While some of you may feel that it is too early to present your plan to VCs at this time, the VCs are aware that the plans may be preliminary and we encourage you to seize the opportunity to get the early exposure. This exposure may net you information on an unknown competitor, input on a market opportunity you are not aware of, or a mentor for your plan. All semifinalists are expected to present posters at the BEARs conference during lunch (from 1:00 - 2:00PM) on February 15th. For information about the event itself, see http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/IPRO/BEARS/. All teams need to do is bring a poster, and everything else will be supplied (easels, foam board to attach the posters to, and supplies to attach the posters to foam board). Details regarding the poster format, etc. will follow.
Currently we have 28 VCs from the following 22 firms:
3i Technology Partners
Adams Capital Management
Azure Capital Partners
Claremont Creek Venture Capital
Diamondhead Ventures
DoCoMo Capital, Inc.
First Round Ventures
Foundation Capital
Horizon Ventures
Hull and Stevenson
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV)
New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Newbury Ventures
Onset Ventures
Saints Venture Capital
Sand Hill Angels
Shasta Ventures
Siemens TTB
Tallwood Venture Capital
US Venture Partners
X/Seed Capital
