New England 2004 Venture Capital Forum

About New England: 2004

On November 12, 2004 at Boston University, Springboard Enterprises and the Center for Women & Enterprises co-hosted a Venture Capital Forum featuring emerging growth women-led businesses from New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and the South East. The Forum showcased 20-25 of the most innovative companies to the region's top corporate, angel, and venture investors.

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• Co-Hosts
• Sponsors
• Supporting Organizations
• Forum Committee

Co-Hosts

Springboard Enterprises

Venture-catalyst Springboard Enterprises is the platform where entrepreneurs, investors, corporate officials, sector experts and service providers meet to build great women-led businesses together. Springboard sources, qualifies, coaches, showcases and supports high growth potential companies seeking equity capital for product development and expansion.

Center for Women & Enterprises

Established in 1995, the Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women start and grow their own businesses. CWE is a national leader among women's business development agencies. CWE's mission is to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship. CWE offers education, training, technical assistance, women's business enterprise certification and access to both debt and equity capital to entrepreneurs at every stage of business development.

Sponsors

Partner Sponsors:

• Bank of America
• Boston University School of Management
• The Castle Group
• Goodwin Procter LLP
• Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP

Supporter Sponsors:

• Bingham McCutchen LLP
• Edwards & Angell, LLP
• MIDIOR Consulting
• MIT
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Weston Presidio
• Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP

Contributor Sponsors:

• Babson College
• Burns & Levinson LLP
• Choate, Hall, & Stewart LLP
• Day, Berry & Howard, LLP
• Goldman, Sachs, & Co
• Gustin Partners
• Morgan Stanley
• Ridge Hill Consulting LLC

Supporting Organizations

• 85 Broads
• Asian Women in Business
• Association for Corporate Growth
• Boston Entrepreneurs' Network
• Boston Israeli Business Forum
• Center for Entrepreneurial Development
• Funding Post
• Greater Baltimore Technology Council
• Industry and Tehcnology Assistance Corporation
• Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
• Massachusetts Biotechnology Council
• Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange
• Massachusetts Software Council
• Massachusetts Telecommunications Council
• MIT Entrepreneurship Center
• MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
MIT Enterprise Forum of Virginia
• MIT Enterprise Forum of Washington, DC and Baltimore
• National Association of Women Business Owners-New York
• New England Business and Technology Association
• New York Software Industry Association
• New York Women's Agenda
• South Asian Women's Leadership Forum
• The Commonwealth Institute
• TiE-Boston
• Women's Business Center
• Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology
• Women in Technology International - Boston
• Women Presidents' Organization

Forum Committee

Forum Committee

Co-Chairs:

• Candida Brush, Associate Professor, Boston University School of Management
• Daphne Dufresne, Principal, Weston Presidio Capital

Committee Members:

• Geraldine Alias, Associate, Battery Ventures
• Elizabeth Ames, Board Member, Center for Women and Enterprise
• Ann Bilyew, Partner, Advent International
• Joe Caruso, President, Bantam Group
• Janet Dunlap, Partner, Goodwin Procter, LLP
• Tom Eisenmann, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
• Kathy Elliot, 8 Wings Enterprises
• Kathy Fields, Partner, Testa, Hurwitz, & Thibeault, LLP
• Michael Greeley, Managing Partner, IDG Ventures
• Michael Goldberger, Founding Partner, MIDIOR Consulting
• Karin Gregory, Managing Partner, Dover Medical Ventures
• Carolyn Hallinan, Principal, Cross Atlantic Capital Partners
• Mary Pat Hinckley, Director - Fast Growth Programs, Center for Women and Enterprise
• Krisztina Holly, Executive Director, MIT Desphande Center
• Marianne Hudson, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• Anita Karcz, Healthcare Opportunities, MIT Enterprise Forum
• Kay Koplovitz, Principal, Koplovitz & Company
• Pamela Lenehan, President, Ridge Hill Consulting LLC
• Sandy Lish, Founder and Principal, The Castle Group
• James Matheson, Principal, Flagship Ventures
• Amy Millman, President, Springboard Enterprises
• James Nahirny, Managing Director, BainCapital Ventures
• Kollol Pal, Principal, Pure Tech Ventures
• Jill Preotle
• Kishore Rao, Senior Associate, Trident Capital
• Jennifer Schmelter, Vice President, Private Equity
• Alison Taunton-Rigby, President and CEO, Forester Biotech
• Monika Vnuk, Senior Associate, Oxford Bioscience Partners
• Clark Waterfall, Co-founder & Managing Director
• Nader Yaghoubi, Senior Analyst, Zero Stage Capital