NEWS BLAST: Top Tier Silicon Valley Investors At Fusion ‘09
September 15th, 2009
New Media BC is pleased to announce that Bill Maris, Managing Partner of Google Ventures and Thomas Duterme, Corporate Development Manager responsible for acquisitions at Google Inc, will be attending Vancouver’s 3rd Fusion Digital Venture Forum together with top digital media Venture Capitalists Tim Chang of Norwest Venture Partners, Saeed Amidi of Plug and Play Tech Centre and Jeff Clavier, the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. In 2008, Business Week named Jeff (Jean Francois) one of “The 25 Most Influential People on the Web“.
The five Silicon Valley heavyweights will attend Fusion ‘09, the only Western Canadian venture forum dedicated to digital media, on November 12-13 at Robson Square. They will join the “by invitation only” investors from local firms including Steve Hnatiuk of Yaletown Venture Partners, Paul Lee of Vanedge Capital and Tanner Philp of Lions Capital, and 20 local early stage and growth stage entrepreneurs who will present their latest digital media ventures under the games, mobile, Web 2.0/social media and new platforms/applications categories at Fusion ‘09. The event includes a 2 day Entrepreneur Boot Camp(November 5 & 10), Pitch Conference(Nov 12), one-on-one meetings with local entrepreneurs and a private round table investor session(Nov 13). Online registrations from September 15 – October 20 at www.thefusionforum.com For Investor profiles visit the Investor profiles page. CHECK BACK FOR LATEST NEWS!