Venture Capital Investment Competition
Santa Clara University

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VCIC 2008

ADVISORY BOARD
 
Gloria Guenther
 
Director
 


Jay Allardyce
MBA '07

 
 
Kevin Holmes
Director, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
 
PANEL OF JUDGES

Punit Chiniwalla   
Associate & Kauffman Fellow
 

Ben Choi   
Principal

Larry Getman
Managing Director
 

Kathleen Grave   
Member, Global M&A

B V Jagadeesh   
Venture Advisor

Jim Marshall   
Managing Director

Philip Mauritz
Analyst

Vasanth Mohanraj   
Associate

Josh Payne   
Manager of Business development

Craig Sirnio   
Managing Director

James F. Swallow   
Managing Director

Richard Yen   
Director       

 

 
Welcome to the 2009 Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) Silicon Valley Regional!

The Entrepreneurs' Connection at the Leavey School of Business of Santa Clara University will be hosting VCIC 12 on February 13th, 2009 for the third consecutive year. 
 
Founded by the University of North Carolina in 1998, the VCIC is the nations premier MBA competition that is complementary to the traditional business plan competition pitting top schools against one another in an all day VC investment environment.
 
The VCIC brings together Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists in an environment that since 1998 has funded new business opportunities in excess of $300M. If you are an Entrepreneur looking for funding or a VC looking for the next big business idea,  the VCIC competition is the place for you.
 
To partake in upcoming VCIC event located in the heart of Silicon Valley, please click on your respective area below.
 

 
 Checkout After event Party @ PlugAndPlay Details here


 


Participating MBA Schools
 
The Silicon Valley Event at Santa Clara University will bring together teams from the following business schools:
 

University of Southern California

Brigham Young University

University of San Francisco


Universtiry of Washington


University of California - Irvine


Santa Clara University

The winner of this wild card event will advance to the VCIC International Finals to be held at the UNC from April 16th - 18th 2009.


Event Day Information

Information about competition day:

Directions

Event Agenda (coming soon)



Registration
 

 

Students

Alumni
General Public
VCIC Event $20 $25
$40

Register at http://www.register123.com/event/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x70493915a7

After-Event Party at PlugAndPlay Tech Center

After a long day at the event, the after-event party provides an opportunity to wind-down and network with valley's VCs, Entrepreneurs, participating teams and Santa Clara Students. It will be a very informal event with great food and drinks. It is free for all the participants in the event.

We are happy have PlugAndPlay Tech Center as sponsor and host for the event.

Plug and Play Tech Center is a strategic partner to technology start-up companies in Silicon Valley. Based in Sunnyvale, we are home to a vibrant community of more than 90 start-ups offering a full range of services from full service office space to strategic advice to direct investments (via our investment arm Amidzad Ventures).

 

 


 

SPONSORS
 
Platinum
 
  
Gold
 

B V Jagadeesh   
          President & CEO             3Leaf Systems, Inc.

 

Silver

 

 

Alex Mendez   
          Managing Director            Storm Ventures

 

 
In-Kind Partners

 

Mike Denzel   
General Partner

Tim Johnson
Partner

Sand Hill Finance

Paul Rochester