NWEN Spring First Look Forum, April 24

Spring First Look Forum

Tuesday, April 24th Arctic Club Hotel 700 3rd Avenue Seattle, WA 98104 Program: 3:00PM – 5:30 PM

Venue:  Arctic Club Hotel, 700 3rd Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104

Program: 3:00PM – 5:30 PM

Presenting Companies:

Booktrope Publishing (Katherine Sears), Reinventing the way books are created – Team Publishing. DealScoopr (Nitesh Goyal), Making travel friendly. ekt, LLC (Randy Neely), A product that prevents the loss of master keys at commercial properties. Greenfab (Johnny Hartsfield), Green, Healthy, Affordable Prefab Homes. High 5 Pies (Dani Cone), It’s Vintage. It’s Modern. It’s Delicious. IDDiOO.com (Cynthia Holcomb), Shopping Made Personal. KineMotion Health (Alistair Hirst), Improving patient outcomes through technology. Leaves, Inc. (Michael O’Donnell), Your Life Story Lives Here. Ligo (Alexandra Filutowski), a legal “SalesForce meets Facebook” SAAS for personal injury lawyers. MyOVS (TJ Merrill), provides solutions that allow customers to maximize their investment in enterprise software. Raveld (Michael Wasser), Clear & Concise Cloud Costs. Social Avatar (Johnathan Buell), Gives you the ability to customize your online persona based on your daily lives and activities!

First Look Forum: this exclusive, bi-annual, invite-only investor showcase is the culmination of an in-depth coaching program that features 12 never-seen-before, early-stage growth-oriented startups from every segment of innovation in the Pacific Northwest. In a fast-paced afternoon, the investor audience votes to select five finalists, who in turn pitch to a panel of the region’s top VC’s. This standing-room only event is attended by representatives of over 20 venture and investment firms and angel groups…all there to hear pitches from entrepreneurs presenting to the investment community for the very first time! Attendance at this unique event averages over 100, and the only service providers in the room are the event sponsors. Spring 2012 FLF Judges include Mark Ashida of OVP, Bill Bryant of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Jan Hendrickson of Denny Hill Capital

Timeline: 3/19: Top 12 announced 3/19 – 3/30: Second round of coaching 4/10 – 4/11: Individual pitch coaching from Pivotal Presentations 4/19: Dress rehearsal with the screening committee 4/24: First Look Forum

To attend: As we prepare for the event, the investor audience is by invitation only. If interested, please email:  [email protected]

Who will be there? The following firms and organizations have previously participated as either coaches or judges! Founder’s Co-Op, Divergent Ventures, Voyager Capital, Glass5 LLC, Denny Hill Capital, Ignition Partners, Alliance of Angels, Revenue Loan, Montlake Capital, Integra Ventures, Madrona Venture Group,Maveron, Trilogy Partners, Olympic Venture Partners, Puget Sound Venture Club, WRF Capital, Seraph Capital, Benaroya Capital and more.

First Look Forum Coaches, Judges, and Pitch Doctors:

Hyer Bercaw Jack Breese Bryan Brewer, Business Plans Northwest Bill Bryant, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Jeff Canin, Canin Advisors David D’Souza, Moprise Vision Chris DeVore, Founder’s Co-Op Kevin Doren, Divergent Ventures Ken Glass, Glass5 LLC Geoff Entress, Founder’s Co-Op David Islett, Concordia Coffee John Jerome, Jerome and Associates Dan Kranzler Nick Malden T.A. McCann, Gist Connie Miller, Pivotal Presentations Jonathan Min-Wook Shirish Nadkarni, Zoomingo Villette Nolon, Seraph Capital Joe O’Neill, Tiger Mountain LLC Christopher Richins, Space Angels Network Vin Ricci, Foster Pepper Gary Ritner, Puget Sound Venture Club Julie Sandler, Madrona Venture Group Bharat Shyam Jim Temple, Atlas Accelerator Russ Weed, Graham & Dunn Wunderman Group