Join Access Silicon Valley and U First Capital on March 6, 2024 at 6:00 PM for an exclusive evening with Barry Eggers, Co-Founder and Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a top 10 global VC firm. With over 500 portfolio companies and $18 billion in committed capital, Lightspeed has backed industry giants like the Honest Company, Nest, Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, DataStax, Stripe, Snap, Carta, GrubHub, Rubrik, and Ripple, to name a few.

In the “Unplugged” event, Barry will share insights on entrepreneurship, AI, and venture capital. As a Silicon Valley pioneer, he’ll provide invaluable advice on fundraising, pitching to VCs, and the essential components of a persuasive pitch. This session promises unique insights into the world of venture capital and emerging growth companies.

AGENDA
6:00 – 7:00 Light dinner/refreshments, networking
7:00 – 7:45 Conversation with Barry
7:45 -8:00 Audience Q&A
8:00 – 9:00 Networking

ABOUT BARRY
As a co-founder of Lightspeed, Barry is something of a Silicon Valley pioneer. After all, as a native of Sunnyvale, he remembers when the area was filled not with startups but with cherry and apricot orchards. And although he attended undergrad at UCLA, he soon returned to the valley to earn an MBA at Stanford. He’s been here ever since. After grad school, Barry worked in M&A at Cisco Systems, in San Jose, and later, by the recommendation of his old friend and classmate Chris Schaepe, became a partner at Weiss, Peck & Greer. It was here, in early 2005, that he and Chris, along with Ravi Mhatre and Peter Nieh, set out to found Lightspeed. In addition to building the firm, Barry specializes in information technology infrastructure with a focus on analytic platforms, cloud, networking, and emerging infrastructure.

ABOUT LIGHTSPEED VENTURE PARTNERS
For over twenty years Lightspeed has been the first investor and an early backer of some of the most innovative companies in the world. In service of bold founders with big ideas, we stand behind our companies with high conviction from Seed to Series F and beyond. LightSpeed believes in investing behind bold ideas and the founders are brave enough to build them. They pursue those opportunities based on their merits regardless of where the founder resides. The future is global and so is Lightspeed.

ABOUT ROGER RAPPOPORT AND ACCESS SILICON VALLEY
Roger Rappoport is a former entrepreneur and the founder and leader of Procopio’s Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Practice Group. He has extensive experience in advising startups and well-established emerging growth companies across all sectors and industries, from formation through multiple rounds of funding and exit.

Roger is an active angel investor and a frequent speaker and panelist on topics and issues related to the development and implementation of a company’s formation and funding strategy. Before attending law school, he was the founder of a technology company. As an emerging growth and venture capital attorney, he has been involved in hundreds of transactions such as merger and acquisition transactions, private equity and venture capital financing transactions, and complex restructuring transactions.

Roger is also the founder of Access Silicon Valley, a platform for entrepreneurs, on a global basis, to gain access to Silicon Valley’s best and brightest Venture Capitalists, “been there done that” entrepreneurs, and experts. Take a closer look at the Access Silicon Valley Video Fireside Chat Series hosted by Roger, with representatives of some of the Valley’s most high-profile VCs, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Foundation Capital, Floodgate, Mayfield, Venrock, Canaan Partners, and more.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM PST

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

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