Interested in learning more about Sustainable Investing? Columbia Venture Partners is hosting a panel Monday, September 9th, to explore the transformative power of sustainable investing and its role in shaping the future of finance. Join us to gain insights from industry leaders on how investment strategies can drive environmental, social, and economic change.

September 9th
8-9 PM EST
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Interested in finance but don't know where to start? Don’t worry—CVP and CAP are here for you. Join us on August 21st for an intro to finance lesson! We will cover the various entry-level careers in the financial sector, pre-professional recruitment processes, and share perspectives from recent alums and upperclassmen.

AIC is an entrepreneurs-led, entrepreneurs-invested VC fund that deploys capital globally and across maturity stages, focusing on companies with deep AI/ML at their nexus.

Columbia Women’s Business Society and Columbia Venture Partners are proudly hosting Shaping Private Investment this spring! Join our panel highlighting women in private equity and venture capital as our speakers share their experiences in finance, demystify their industry, and offer insights on impact investing, deal sourcing in the current macro environment, and more! There will be a networking session afterwards. We welcome all students to join us!

Join us for a panel and networking session centered around investing in the Web3 space. Hear from professionals such as Ash Egan (founder of Archetype), Daniel Niklas (investor at Picus Capital), Harsehaj Singh (investor at Pantera Capital), and more. The event will be held Thursday 3/23 in Uris 333 at 7 pm.

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is the leading early-stage tech startups accelerator program and seed investment fund located in New York. ERA has NYC’s deepest and strongest mentor network with 500+ expert investors, technologists, and more, across all major industries. They work with companies from anywhere in the world that are able to take full advantage of the NYC opportunity to successfully enter the market for their product, service, or application. Since 2011, ERA has invested in and worked with over 300 startups.

Insight Partners is a leading NYC-based venture capital firm/private equity firm investing in growth-stage technology, software, and internet businesses. The firm has over $90 billion AUM and has invested in more than 600 companies worldwide, seeing over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. 

CVP will be hosting Insight Partners for a panel event with Columbia alumni to share their career path to VC, recruiting tips, and a brief networking session afterwards. Join us in hosting Insight Partners for a panel discussion as Summer Analyst and FT apps are open.

The event will be hosted via Zoom (link here) at 8pm today!

This event will feature a networking session where you can connect and converse with investment banking professionals from JP Morgan.

Location: Chandler 402 (enter through the Havemeyer building)

Luke has over 12 years of financial services experience in a variety of capacities, including venture capital, private equity, and investment banking. He first met Sergei in 2015 and they both quickly realized that they had a similar thesis on the future of financial services, in addition to mutual personal interests. Luke has held board director positions for 8 Fintech Ventures Fund portfolio companies, including publicly-traded IOU Financial.

Before launching Fintech Ventures, Luke was part of the investment team with Antarctica Capital, a $2.5 billion AUM private equity firm that specialized in infrastructure, financial services, and real estate investments. His tenure at Antarctica included executing and managing 5 successful operating company acquisitions, which resulted in the formation of the largest parking management company in the United States. Assets from these companies were eventually sold to REEF, a cloud-kitchen startup that has raised over $1.5 billion in equity from Softbank and other leading venture/growth investors.

Luke began his career in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was an integral part of over $2 billion in advisory and capital markets transactions for public/private clients in the Northeast. He holds a BA in economics and political science from Columbia College of Columbia University and is based in New York City.

Graham is a Columbia alum and has been with GGV Cap since 2020. Notable investments include Airtable, Slack, TikTok, and more! GGV is a $9.2B global investing fund with capital across a variety of verticals.

Moonshot Brands is a YC-incubated e-commerce aggregator that has raised $170m+ to acquire and operate high-growth, profitable CPG brands.

Justin is a GTM focused investor with a particular interest in enterprise software companies. He is currently partnering with companies ranging from Airtable to Webflow.

Join us for a talk with Justus Kilian and Tom Ingersoll, partners at Space Capital—a seed stage vc focused on unlocking the astronomical potential of space tech stacks like GPS, geospatial intelligence, and comms.

Location: Lerner 569 or online @ tinyurl.com/spacecapitalcvp

Join us for this round robin style event where attendees get the opportunity to network with panelists in small groups.

Attendees: Conor Mack | SoftEq, Julian Fainzaig | Soma Capital, Kolja Heck | Picus Capital

Location: Jed D Satow Conference Room (Lerner)

Join us for a conversation with Robert Bibow from Parkway VC!

Join us for a fireside chat with investors from Sutton Capital, Harlem Capital, AMEX Ventures, B Capital Group, Distributed VC, and more!

Join us for a fireside chat with Bradley Miles, CEO of Roll, author of the best-selling book #BreakIntoVC, and co-founder of CVP! We’ll discuss blockchain, venture capital, startups, and the transition from Columbia to a career.

Join Columbia Venture Partners and CORE for a chat with Andrew Walsh, the Co-Founder, President, and Chief Growth Officer at Peachscore, a company solving the lack of universal protocol for startup evaluation. Andrew will discuss his journey from a large corporate environment to a high growth startup, Peachscore’s potential impact in VC, and more!

Join Columbia Venture Partners for a panel with CBS alums in VC. They will discuss their path to VC, past experiences, favorite portfolio companies, startup trends, and more!

Join us for a panel with CVP upperclassmen to hear their advice on finance careers + gaining experience in undergrad, and learn more about their experiences in the VC world!

Interested in venture capital? Want to learn more about start-ups? Join Columbia Venture Partners for an info session to learn more about our analyst/associate program.

CVP is thrilled to welcome Stripes, a leading growth equity firm that invests in branded consumer and software businesses. Stripes will be presenting an overview of the firm followed by a Q&A session - come by to meet some members of the Stripes team and to learn more about the firm and the recruiting process!

Join Columbia Venture Partners for a fireside chat with Chris Ho, Associate Director at Vickers Venture Partners—the largest international fund based out of Singapore. Chris is a fellow Columbia alum who has attended CC for his B.A. in Political Science, and Columbia’s graduate school for his MS in Electrical Engineering. We’ll discuss his career path, Vickers’ investment rationale, and more.

Join Columbia Venture Partners for a conversation with Augustus Ilag, an investor at Sequoia Capital. Augustus is based in Singapore, and focuses on investments in the Southeast Asia region. Augustus attended Stanford for his undergraduate and graduate degrees and started his career in consulting with Mckinsey. We’ll discuss his path into venture capital, the SEA investment landscape, Sequoia’s accelerator program, Surge, and much more!

Vinay Iyengar joined Two Sigma Ventures in 2020 and is currently based in San Francisco. Previously, he was an investor at the NYC office of Bessemer Venture Partners. After studying CS and economics at Harvard University, he worked as a quantitative trader at GS, an ML engineer at Intel, and co-founded a startup while at the Harvard Innovation Lab in 2015. At Bessemer, he focused on enterprise software, machine learning, marketplaces, and developer tools while also launching a diversity initiative called the Bessemer Fellowship program. In 2020, he left Bessemer to help co-found the West Coast Two Sigma Ventures office, continuing to focus on investments in enterprise software, machine learning, marketplaces, and infrastructure software, where he is working now.

Some of his portfolio companies he's invested in during his time at Bessemer include the following—Astorian, Dashlane, Discord, Habana Lanes (acquired by Intel for $2B), PagerDuty (NYSE: PD), Pipedrive (acquired by Vista for $1.5B), etc.

CVP is thrilled to welcome Insight Partners to campus! Insight will be doing a 45-minute overview of the firm, followed by a 45-minute networking session in breakout rooms. This session is geared towards current sophomores and juniors interested in Insight's Summer 2022 internship or Full-time positions.

Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies. Insight's investments include growth equity, capital for M&A, buyouts, take-privates, pre-IPO rounds and recapitalizations. The firm engages in majority and minority investments. Investments include, but not limited to, HelloFresh, Ministry Brands, Qualtrics, Shopify, Shutterstock, SonarSource,SpotHero, Twitter,Tumblr and Workforce.

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Join Columbia Venture Partners for a conversation with Too Good To Go, a startup best known for its app, which is the world's largest B2C marketplace for surplus food. The app offers users cheap leftovers from restaurants, aiming to cut down on food waste. Originally from Europe, Too Good is currently expanding in the US. They recently raised a $31.1 million round, with Blisce Ventures leading the round and investing $15.4 million. We will discuss business sustainability practices, capitalizing on food waste, and Too Good's expansion efforts during the COVID pandemic and beyond. (Check out the app!)

Eventbrite Signup (not required, encouraged):
https://www.eventbrite.com/.../too-good-to-go-turning...

Zoom Link:
https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/99555869681

Some background on Too Good To Go:
https://techcrunch.com/.../too-good-to-go-raises-31.../...

https://ny.eater.com/.../food-waste-nyc-too-good-to-go...

Columbia Venture Partners will be hosting a Columbia University Alumni Pitch Event in collaboration with Plug & Play Ventures on February 3rd from 1:30pm - 3:30pm EST. There will be a special introduction by Alireza Masrour, General Partner at Plug & Play Ventures, followed by around 20 alumni-founded startups presenting for 3 minutes each to top-tier venture capital funds. All attendees will have a chance to connect with and provide feedback for all the founders presenting during the event, followed by an optional networking session.

Agenda
1:15-1:30pm: Webinar Opens/Login
1:30-1:40pm: Introduction by Alireza Masrour, General Partner at Plug & Play Ventures
1:40-3:15pm: Startup Presentations
3:15-3:30pm: Networking session via Zoom breakout rooms

https://www.facebook.com/events/2527069064263121/