2012 CONFERENCE START-UP FAIR

Come participate in the Start-up Fair and/or VC Pitch Session!

Set up a booth with a product demo (if you have one) and speak with conference attendees, who include VCs, entrepreneurs, sponsors and students from MBA programs, engineering and design.
In addition, apply to pitch in the VC Shark Tank Pitch Session! 20 lucky start-ups will be chosen to pitch to some of the most respected VCs in the business. There will be First, Second and Third place awards.

Please register at http://bit.ly/econfstartupfair2012. A Conference team member will be in touch with you once your application has been processed.

If you have additional questions, please reach out:

Vishy: viv@wharton.upenn.edu
Grace: grsong@wharton.upenn.edu
Cleo: cleosham@wharton.upenn.edu

Thanks!

Pricing:

Student package: Penn/Wharton student on the founding team; two representatives from these startups can attend the Startup Fair.

Professional package: For non-Penn student startups, the Professional package will accommodate one representative.

Both Student and Professional packages are available at an Early Bird price of $45 until Feb 10, 2012. Additional representative tickets can be purchase for $25 each, up to 6 additional representative tickets. After that date, these packages will be on available for $90 until the date of the conference.

Shark Tank Pitch Session Judges

Rob Coneybeer – Managing Director, Shasta Ventures

Rob Coneybeer
Rob Coneybeer is a veteran venture capitalist who approaches start-up investing from a deep product perspective. At Shasta Ventures, the Sand Hill Road firm he co-founded in 2004, Rob focuses on mobile and wireless startups. Rob started his career working in the Astro Space division of Martin Marietta, where he helped build the first EchoStar spacecraft. Later he moved into venture capital at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in Silicon Valley. There, he led 15 early-stage investments in companies spanning the semiconductor, software and networking industries. Some of Rob’s recent investments include Nest; Relay Rides; Arch Rock (acquired by Cisco); Mocana; Red Robot Labs; Eye-Fi; and SayNow (acquired by Google).

Rob earned a master of science in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.


Brett Topche – Principal, MentorTech Ventures

Brett Topche
Brett joined MentorTech Ventures in 2007 and serves as a Principal, focusing primarily on software and internet investments. MentorTech is a seed- and early-stage venture capital fund focused on companies with ties to the University of Pennsylvania – typically, this means companies where key founders or managers are students, faculty members or alumni of the university, or companies where the technology originated at Penn. MentorTech’s recent success stories include Diapers.com, Yodle, The Neat Co., ClickEquations. Previously Brett worked at Hamilton Lane Advisors and NJTC Venture Fund.

Prior to MentorTech, Brett was a member of the Fund Investments Team at Hamilton Lane Advisors, a fund-of-funds manager and private equity investment consultant. He also worked as an Associate with NJTC Venture Fund, where he focused on investments in early-stage companies in the software, Internet and communications sectors.

Brett is a magna cum laude graduate of the Wharton School, with a B.S. in Economics, with concentrations in Finance and Legal Studies and a Political Science minor from the College and Arts and Sciences.


Gil Beyda – Founder & Managing Partner, Genacast Ventures

Gil Beyda
Gil is a seasoned entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. Gil launched his first company, Mind Games, in 1982 to develop games for the original Apple II. Gil then started a software consulting firm with Fortune 100 clients in the U.S., Asia and Europe. In 1995, Gil helped pioneer Internet advertising by founding Real Media, the first online ad network and ad server company. After Real Media was acquired in 2001, Gil pioneered the next wave of online advertising as CTO of TACODA, the first behavioral targeting, ad network. Following AOL’s acquisition of TACODA in 2007, Gil founded Genacast Ventures as a partnership with Comcast Ventures. Since then Gil has made successful investments in B2B internet-tech startups (including companies such as Invite Media and Demdex).