About this Event
In the first half of 2022, U.S. venture capital firms raised $121.5 billion. According to PitchBook, that’s a massive leap from the $74.1 billion raised in the same period last year. Unfortunately, this changed drastically during Q2 2022, with investments declining around 23%.
All things considered, 2022 will still rank as the second-highest investment year in history, even though it will be overshadowed by 2021.
This has led to VC firms holding on to their checkbooks as the investment market slows to a crawl.
Factors such as inflation, rising interest rates, and geopolitics will continue the uncertainty felt throughout 2022 and into the first half of 2023.
Join our expert panel Wednesday, October 19th, 2022, at The Collective in Seattle from 4:30-7:30 PM to learn more about the current state of the industry. We’ll be discussing topics such as market updates, seed funding, the different sources of capital from the earliest stage of funding, Series Seed, and Regulation A+.
If you are thinking about raising money for your business, if you want to understand the evolution of early-stage fundraising, or if you want an opportunity to network with leaders in the startup community, you won't want to miss this!
This event is free to attend. Food and drinks will be provided.
AGENDA
Networking: 4:30-5:30
Panel: 5:30-6:30
Networking: 6:30-7:30
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Attorney
Kelly Lawton-Abbott is an attorney with Smith Shapourian Mignano PC, a women- and minority-owned law firm in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and Oakland. Kelly spearheads the Seattle office and represents clients in the tech industry and industry-adjacent service providers. Kelly focuses her practice on financing, intellectual property, tech transactions, and privacy compliance. Kelly works with a wide variety of clients from solo entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies.
Managing Director
John recently joined CIBC Innovation Banking as Managing Director for the Pacific Northwest region in April 2022. He focuses primarily on providing debt growth capital to scaling B-to-B software companies. Structures include term debt and revolvers for early and growth stage companies as well as buyout, re-cap, and re-finance transactions. He has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry – with 15 of those in the tech banking sector. Flemming was most recently Team Leader of Wells Fargo Bank’s Middle-Market Technology Banking Group, focusing primarily on client origination – providing debt financing, treasury solutions, and positioning opportunities for the bank’s Strategic Capital and Capital Markets teams.
General Partner
Cameron is a founding General Partner of FUSE where he focuses on early-stage investments in horizontal and vertical intelligent application software. Previously, Cameron was a key Principal at Ignition Partners, a leading enterprise software focused venture capital firm. At Ignition, Cameron played a key role in sourcing, identifying, and supporting new investments including Carbon Robotics. Cameron holds a BS degree in Business Administration-Finance from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. He grew up in the Pacific Northwest as the son of two immigrant parents.
Business Advisor
Mr. Carton is a former Microsoft Corp. veteran. From 1985 to 1995 he held
various executive marketing positions at Microsoft Redmond as well as Microsoft UK.
After his time at Microsoft, Mr. Carton worked with Walden Venture Capital, Tallwood Venture Capital, US Venture Partners, Bay Partners, Aeris Capital, among other VC’s. He helped raise capital for their respective funds and/or worked with the portfolio companies of each advising with M&A, financing, IPO, and go-to market initiatives both in the US and China.
Mr. Carton has held various CEO or executive management positions at Voise Inc. (CEO/board), TellX Inc. (CEO/board), iManage Inc. (VP), FrontOffice Inc. (VP), and Timeline Inc. (SVP), all computer software companies.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Collective Seattle, 400 Dexter Avenue North, Seattle, United States
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