Wednesday, March 4, 2015 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (PST)
Where:
The Center Club
650 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Hosted By:
OCTANe
OCTANe connects people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology industry growth in Orange County.
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Event Details:
With some signs of a turnaround in the national and regional economy, cautious optimism seems to be taking hold in the investment community. Is it justified? How will changes in national, state and regional financial structures affect the outlook for 2014 and for your business?
We will start this program with PwC’s acclaimed Moneytree report, detailing the amounts, sources, and sectors for venture capital investment. This is always one of our most popular sessions and PwC has just released their 2013 report.
Opportunities to raise early and mid stage investment capital have also diversified beyond traditional venture capital.
In this program, we have put together a panel of various types of investors (an angel, a venture capitalist, a strategic investor, and a debt investor) to review the different sources of early and mid-stage capital, and will review the major economic events of 2013 and discuss their forecasts for the investment climate in 2014.
The program will be moderated by long term start-up veteran and partner from Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, and Rosati, Mr. Marty Waters.
Glenn Bier - Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Glenn is an assurance partner in our Southern California technology practice with over 17 years of experience. He has worked extensively with clients in the software, hardware, semiconductor, Internet, telecommunications, life sciences and entertainment industries. His clients have included a wide range of companies from multi-national publicly traded corporations with significant foreign operations to emerging companies, including venture-backed entities.
Derek Hoyt - Senior Technology Banker, Silicon Valley Bank
Derek Hoyt is a senior Technology banker who has been actively working with both private and public innovation companies since 1998. In August 2013 Derek took over SVB’s Growth Technology team for its Orange County office, focusing on software, IT, Digital Media, Cloud, Healthcare IT, & other innovation companies from startup and $100 million in annual revenues. Prior to that he had spent 6 years structuring credit facilities for SVB clients and prospects across the Southern California region. Representative credit facilities include venture debt, asset based, cash flow and recurring revenue financing to support growth, M&A, and working capital financings. Derek earned his degree Business Administration with a Finance emphasis from San Diego State University in 1998.
Martin Waters - Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Martin (Marty) Waters is a corporate and securities partner in the San Diego office and a former member of the firm's Policy Committee. He is a founding partner of the firm's San Diego office and Southern California corporate practice. He was a partner in the Palo Alto office until opening the San Diego office in 2004. Marty is a proven company builder with nearly 20 years of experience providing corporate and securities counsel. He has been instrumental in starting, building, and shepherding through initial public offering or sale numerous emerging growth companies in a broad range of industries, including biotech, clean technology, cloud computing, e-commerce, medical device, new and traditional media, SaaS, semiconductors, social networking, and telecommunications. A partial list of exited emerging growth clients includes Ablation Frontiers, CoreValve, Cytokinetics, evite, eyeonics, Helixis, Heritage Pharma, Illumina, Indigo Systems, Lara Networks, N Spine, Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Pain Therapeutics, SKS Microfinance, TearLab, and TweetPhoto. Marty also represents several public companies in a general counsel capacity, as well as investment banks and placement agents in PIPEs and public offerings. Marty has counseled issuers and underwriters in more than 50 offerings while at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and with Cahill Gordon & Reindel and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in New York.
More speakers added soon!
For sponsorship opportunities please contact Christina@octaneoc.org
Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Networking Opportunities: OCTANe programs provide some of the best networking opportunities available in Southern California. Attendees include entrepreneurs, researchers, inventors, investors, corporate executives, and strategic service providers.