Back in December, Richard Kane, President, Harvard Business School Club of New York, asked me if I’d like to chair the newly-formed Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York. I was honored to be asked, and we’ve now launched our organization and are accepting applications from early-stage companies seeking funding. You can read more about us at our website. We’re open to a wide range of industries and companies at many levels of development; more details on our deal criteria are on the site. Our members invest in companies regardless of their affiliation (or not) with Harvard.
The Committee received and continues to receive valuable feedback from the HBS Angels of Northern California via conference calls. Thank you to Ed Reitler and Brendan Davey of Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt and Guy Weltsch of Tigris Financial Group for generously hosting our meetings and providing dinner.
We are co-sponsoring two upcoming events with the HBSCNY:
Tuesday, 03/22/11 at 5:00pm:
HBS Alumni New Venture Contest: Regional Finals
Ian Sigalow, Greycroft LLC
Jim Robinson IV, RRE Ventures, HBS 92
Rick Heitzman, Firstmark Capital, HBS 99
Rachel Lam, Time Warner Investments, HBS 94
Chip Austin, i-Hatch Ventures, HBS 90
RSVP: http://www.hbscny.org/article.html?aid=557
Monday, 04/4/11 at 6:00pm:
Innovation in Private Company Liquidity: Online M&A, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO
David Weild, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market (moderator)
Barry Silbert, CEO, Secondmarket.
Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket
Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business)
Daniel L. Burstein, Managing Partner , Millennium Technology Value Partners
RSVP: http://www.hbscny.org/article.html?aid=564
For more information, contact the appropriate member of our great Steering Committee, listed below:
HBS Angels of NY Steering Committee
Deal Process Chairs: Christian Hensley MBA 01
Betsy Odita MBA 98
Marketing Chairs: Serge Kassardjian MBA 09
Shane Rahmani MBA 08
Membership Chairs: Kathy Murray AMP 93
Andrew Weber MBA 94
Screening Chairs: Mike Margolis MBA 93
Matt Salzberg MBA 10
Secretary: John Park OPM 10
Treasury Chair: Kristine Augenthaler Stoker MBA 98
Ex-Officio Member: Richard Kane MBA 68
Founder & Chairman: David Teten MBA 98
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