May 22nd - BASN Fast Pitch Breakfast
Meet Dino Vendetti, General Partner, Formative Ventures, and Marc Imbert, Internet Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
Focus: Technology
Location:
Bay Cafe
1875 Embarcadero Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Phone: 650.856.0999
About Formative Ventures
Formative Ventures is a leading Menlo Park-based early-stage technology venture capital firm launched by partners with firsthand operating experience in growing start-ups into successful companies.
About Dino Vendetti
Dino Vendetti joined Formative Ventures in July 2006 as a general partner, bringing with him over 20 years of operating and investment experience. Dino invests in early-stage companies across a broad range of technologies including wireless equipment, software and services, semiconductors, and communications. His investment and board leadership experience include Staccato Communications, Cswitch, PulseWave RF, Northpoint Communications (NASDAQ: NPNT), and Wavetrace (acquired by Harris).
Prior to joining Formative, Dino spent six years as a general partner at Bay Partners, an early-stage Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm with over $1 billion of capital under active management. As one of Bay’s six partners over the span of three funds, Dino led investments in companies such as Staccato, Capella, PulseWave RF, Turin Networks, and TV Head. Dino began his venture capital career in 1997 as an investing partner at Vulcan Ventures, the Seattle-based investment firm led by Paul Allen. While at Vulcan, Dino invested in a variety of telecom and wireless companies including Northpoint, Wavetrace and Sharewave. Prior to Vulcan, Dino was Vice President and Research Analyst at Dain Rauscher, where he covered the telecom industry.Prior to embarking on a venture capital career that has spanned nearly a decade, Dino held a variety of key operating roles at some of the communications industry’s leading companies. He was Vice President of Product Management at MetaWave (NASDAQ:MTWV), a leading developer of smart antennas for wireless networks. He also held product management and business development positions at Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) and US West Cellular. Dino began his operating career as an engineer at TRW, where he designed satellite communication systems. Dino earned his MSEE and MBA degrees from the University of Washington and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from San Diego State University.
About Marc Imbert
Marc is an internet entrepreneur, advisor and angel investor. He is President of Micro Direct Int’l, a company specialized in the distribution of hi-tech products. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School for Business
Schedule: 8:00 - 09:30 AM
Registration:
To register for this event click here .
(For BASN membership benefits click here )
Contact and Moderator:
Mike Humphries at mhumphries@turneightgroup.com
ph:650 793 0108
Mike is a partner at Turn Eight Group. Turn Eight Group focuses on producing customers and revenues for growing companies.
Breakfast Sponsored by Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies Group PC
(http://www.tipsgroup.org)
Contact: Brian Boyer 650-465-1949
About TIPS Group:
TIPS Group provides technology & intellectual property strategies to companies ranging from start-ups to major international corporations. The firm consults on business formation, financing, and operation, technology development and protection, and provides legal services with emphasis in the areas of corporate, patent law, licensing and dispute resolution. TIPS Group maintains offices in Palo Alto, California and Washington, D.C.
Other BASN Sponsors:
The Venture Exchange (www.theventureexchange.com)
Vencore Solutions (www.vencore-solutions.com)
Forxone (www.forxone.com)
The mission of Bay Area Startup Network (BASN) is
to help San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California startup companies in
technology, health care, life sciences and other fields raise funds and grow
successful companies. We do that by facilitating the networking between
early-stage startups and venture capital providers such as angel group members,
private angel equity investors, and early stage venture capital companies. Our
startup company members typically are raising seed and series A funds,
sometimes series B and C capital. Although our members benefit from our ties
with a number of formal Silicon Valley venture firms and Bay Area angel groups,
BASN, as a non-profit organization whose sole goal is to facilitate the
networking between startup companies and private and institutional investors,
does not invest directly in startup companies.
