A Changing Landscape
2020 rides on the heels of a record breaking 2019, with over $3.51 billion from venture capital investors across 374 deals in the Seattle region.
We saw a dynamic year for Seattle startups with huge VC rounds in Convoy, Remitly, Sana Biotechnology, Flyhomes, Icertis, Outreach, and Auth0. What can we expect in 2020?
Join us as we bring together a distinguished panel of prominent VCs and C-suite at our 2020 Seattle Investment Outlook panel for an afternoon of networking and thought leadership.
4:30pm: Arrival, Light Appetizers, Refreshments & Networking
5pm: 2020 Investment Outlook Panel
6pm: Networking and Close
Limited seats available, RSVP is required.
Julie Sandler joined PSL as a managing director in June 2017, and spends most of her time running its venture capital arm, PSL Ventures. Prior to PSL, Julie was a partner at Madrona Venture Group, where she led the firm’s investments in Integris, Poppy, and Julep. She is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Washington Foster School of Business and teaches an MBA course on Entrepreneurship for which she has been named a UW “Star Teacher” several years running.
Karan Mehandru is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures where he focuses on the
Future of Work, leading early stage investments in SaaS, big data, cloud computing and mobile startups. Investments have included Auth0, Cohesity, Outreach, MileIQ (acq. Microsoft), Preact (acq. Spotify), RJMetrics (acq.Magento) and Simply Measured (acq. Sprout Social). Before joining Trinity, Karan worked at Scale Venture Partners, where he focused on growth-stage investments.
Prior to Convoy, Brian served as Managing Partner for Olympic Valley Capital and CEO at Cal Net Technology Group. Previously, he was a partner at Duane Street Capital, and an investment professional at Bertram Capital focused on B2B services. He was formerly a management consultant at Oliver Wyman, specializing in supply chain optimization. Brian earned a BA in economics and an MBA from Stanford University.
Cindy is a global financial executive, startup investor and passionate advocate for more women on private and public boards.
She began her career at J.P. Morgan in Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York and Seattle in various roles within the Corporate Investment Bank and Asset Management. In 2016, Cindy led the strategy for an AI fintech company and negotiated licensing deals with major hedge funds internationally. Currently, Cindy is a senior executive at PitchBook Data where she holds several public speaking engagements and panels each year.
Founded in 2006 in Seattle, Substantial is an industry-leading Digital Innovation + Build studio known for partnering with future-driven organizations to create meaningful, business-changing digital products and cultures.
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