About this Event
Ask A VC!
August 1, 4-5pm ET
About The Show
Venu Shamapant is a founding partner of LiveOak Ventures and has been investing in early-stage Texas-based companies and founders since 1999.
Prior to founding LiveOak, Venu was a General Partner at Austin Ventures, where he invested in companies producing more than $1.5B in enterprise value. Prior to joining Austin Ventures, he was with McKinsey & Co., serving clients in the enterprise systems and software markets. He started his professional career as a software developer and engineering lead at Mentor Graphics.
Venu received his MBA from Harvard Business School, MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Osmania University, India.
After over a decade of successful early stage investing in Texas, in 2012, Krishna Srinivasan and Venu Shamapant founded LiveOak based on a conviction that Texas had all the DNA for a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. They believed that a venture capital firm that was maniacally focused on Texas entrepreneurs could be the key catalyst to harness the full potential of this market and build category dominating companies of the future.
Today Texas is indeed a vibrant center for entrepreneurship, enabled by the combination of a strong and growing talent pool and an active early-stage investment ecosystem. LiveOak has continued to lead the way with over 60 investments just in the past decade and helped create numerous winners across many categories.
This success has convinced the founders to double down on their Texas entrepreneur-focused strategy and to establish the strong foundations that help develop the leaders of the future. The firm is All-In on Texas.
Bio: Rebecca A. Fannin, host, Ask A VC show
Rebecca is a CNBC contributor, author, and a media founder. She is well known for spotting global innovation and tech trends early on. Her forward-looking books - Silicon Heartland, Silicon Dragon, Startup Asia, and Tech Titans of China - have been translated in 10 languages and favorably reviewed and cited by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times and Time. A public speaker and commentator, she’s spoken at Brookings, Harvard and Oxford, among others, and appeared on CNBC, BBC, CNN, and Bloomberg.
Currently contributing to CNBC and the Disruptor 50 report, she also leads Silicon Dragon Ventures, covering innovation and startup investment with her Ask A VC show, newsletter and events in leading hubs. A Forbes columnist for 10 years and a writer for Harvard Business Review, CEO and Worth, she has profiled many global business leaders, including Jack Ma of Alibaba and John Chambers of Cisco. She also has contributed to several thought leadership reports on innovation trends.
During the dotcom boom, as an international editor at Red Herring in San Francisco and AVCJ in Hong Kong, she followed the venture capital trail from Silicon Valley to Asia's emerging markets and became one of the first American journalists covering China’s entrepreneurial boom, and later East Asia and India.
Originally from Ohio, she resides today in Silicon Valley and New York City. Her most recent book, Silicon Heartland, brings Rebecca to her homeland to explore the region’s transition from Rust Belt to Tech Belt.
About Silicon Global Online
We kicked off this online series in April 2020 with Bill Tai, a first investor in Zoom, and have since featured 60+ speakers including leading VCs and tech titans on the show. This series helps startups, strategists and investors connect and provides valuable insights into what makes them tick, and next innovation trends. Whether you're raising capital, perfecting your business model, scaling up, going for unicorn status, an IPO or M&A deal, or figuring out your Give Back strategy, don't miss this series.
Our thanks to InvestHK for their series support.
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Event Venue
Online
USD 0.00 to USD 131.42