Silicon Valley venture capitalists, executives and entrepreneurs will coming together, April 30, for the first annual Corporate Innovation Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. The summit will focus on how to build and maintain a dynamic conduit between corporate investors and promising start-ups, delivering actionable information, strategies and best practices for the success of both. With the support of Silicon Valley denizens, including Silicon Valley Bank, DLA Piper, PWC and others, the summit will facilitate a forum in which Corporate Venture Capital and start-ups will meet and learn from each other.
The founders and advisers of the Corporate Innovation Summit are long-time Silicon Valley venture capitalists, executives and entrepreneurs with extensive experience in and with corporate venture capital. This experience includes having corporate venture as co-investors and limited partners as well as working with corporate venture as a vehicle to engage corporations as strategic partners. Corporate venture capital continues to be a major contributor to the success of viable startups. The goal of the Corporate Innovation Summit is to create a conference that serves both corporate venture capitalists and start-ups in order to accelerate synergies and opportunities and to maximize outcomes for all involved.
Be sure to join us at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., on April 30, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., as we build better relationships between corporate venture capitalists and startups throughout Silicon Valley.
For more information about speakers, sponsors and to register for the Corporate Innovation Summit, go to http://corporateinnovationsummit.com/cis2014/.
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Lara Druyan is the founder of Corporate Innovation Summit and an entrepreneur and investor. Her expertise includes areas such as consumer Internet, mobile, cloud computing, storage, healthcare IT and software.
