ANGEL INVESTORS PANEL

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Connect With Top Angel Investors

We are bringing together leading angel investors to offer practical and valuable insight for tech founders raising early stage capital and fellow angels. The panel will cover investment strategies, what angels seek in a startup, deal structures, opportunities, and more.

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Panelists

Panelists

Philip Veber
Nexus Associate
LinkedIn

Gaingels  is the world’s most active venture syndicate with the mission purpose of promoting access, visibility, and support in venture for underrepresented communities. It was ranked the 9th most active VC firm by Pitchbook in 2022. As a Nexus Associate, Philip conducts the operations of all of Gaingels’ investments vehicles on AngelList: Flight.VC Syndicate, 2022 Top Tier Early-Stage Syndicate, 10x Capital / Gaingels Early-Stage Diversity Fund, 10X Capital / Gaingels Demo Day Fund, and more. That's inclusive of SPV & fund management, investor & founder relations, communications, sourcing, and more. Since starting at Gaingels in June 2021, the 'Nexus' team (3 FTEs) has accounted for a majority of the firm's dollars invested through 2,000+ transactions totalling $458M+.

Brian Ellenberger
Associate
LinkedIn

Brian Ellenberger is an Associate at Blu Ventures and focuses on investing in early-stage cybersecurity companies. He helps to run the Cyber Seed Fund and invests in cybersecurity companies in the US, Canada, Australia, and Western Europe. Prior to working at Blu Ventures, Brian spent almost a decade providing investment banking services to middle-market venture-backed SaaS companies and was the CFO for Neve Apparel. He earned his BA in Finance with a minor in Economics from James Madison University.

Ike syed
Senior Vice President
LinkedIn

(Panel Moderator)

Ike Syed, works at KiwiTech as Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, where he leads the Enterprise and SaaS engagements within the startup community. Before KiwiTech, Ike served at the U.S. Department of State, where he advised the senior leadership on economic impacts of foreign investments, digital economy and emerging technologies. In that role, Ike liaised closely with other government/international entities (such as the National Security Council, the Departments of Defense and Commerce, other Executive Branch departments, etc.) and the private sector.

Prior to entering public service, Ike worked as a Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Connectloud, a next-generation Cloud Computing company. Previously, he was a management consultant at Oliver Wyman and a finance executive at Fidelity Investments, where he advised corporate leaders globally on critical strategic and business issues. As an experienced veteran of the ICT industry, Ike has led product development and technical research initiatives at Cisco Systems in Silicon Valley and Lucent Technologies/Bell Laboratories in the past.

In 2012, Ike was selected to be part of Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Future Leaders program. From 2005 to 2007, he served on the executive committee of the MIT-Stanford Venture Lab, a Silicon Valley non-profit organization dedicated to connecting entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and private investors. Ike received his BASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada and a MS in Computer Science from Boston University. A licensed Professional Engineer, he obtained his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Presenters

Presenters

Lina Abdelhadi
Lina Abdelhadi
Founder
Jorge Natividad Maqueda
Jorge Natividad Maqueda
CEO
Taras Kravtchouk
Taras Kravtchouk
CEO & Founder
Sean Jordan
Sean Jordan
CEO & Founder
Uppaji Kothapalli
Uppaji Kothapalli
Founder
Derek Gorthy
Derek Gorthy
CEO
Agenda

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