European Venture Capital Network

Mai 2011: Speaker Event with Dr. Hellmut Kirchner

The Munich Team — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:23:56 +0000

This time the VC-boutique BambooVentures invited a well-known expert to talk about the German Angel- and VC-Market: Dr. Hellmut Kirchner shared his experiences with us on his direct investments in emerging businesses. Dr. Kirchner has been working in the Venture business for more than 30 years and is considered as one of the most influential German Business Angels.

Throughout the two hours of highly interesting discussion he revealed educating as well as astonishing and entertaining highlights of his career.

March 2011: Speaker Event with Stefan Kalteis

The Munich Team — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:27:44 +0000

We invited an expert to discuss about incubators. Stefan Kalteis shared with us his experiences in building up the successful incubator i5invest.

# from VC to Incubator: highlighting differences based on Stefan’s on the job experience
# from Incubator to successful companies: learnings from successful and unsuccessful attempts at i5invest
# from Incubator to VC: How VCs should work with incubators

Resume: During our regular dinner discussions after the speaker events all of us agreed this had been a very valuable talk!

Febuary 2011: EVCN goes Skiing for the Weekend

The Munich Team — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:23:23 +0000

A good group of 15 Germany and Abroad based VCs went for a 3 day skiing outing to Kitzbühel in the Austrian Alps. It has been a perfect mix: hitting down the slopes as a crowd of surprisingly good skiers, interesting discussions on hot venture capital topics during dinner events and having fun crashing the bars and clubs of the village. As the final agenda point for this event on a Sunday afternoon the EVCN organizers had arranged an extra enjoyable show by our landlord lady;-) Anyone who attended the event will agree, it has been an unforgettable weekend.

2010 Final Speaker Event: Both Sides of the Table!

The Munich Team — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:13:29 +0000

EVCN Munich program finished up with another highlight of the year 2010: “Company building – Different perspectives of founders vs. VCs”

Kurt Mueller (Managing Partner at Target Partners) knows both sides. He founded his company Dataware Technologies in 1986, raised VC capital, brought his firm public (NASDAQ) and continued to be CEO for 6 years after the IPO. Since 10 years Kurt sits at the other side of the table as a Partner in Venture Capital. For the EVCN Speaker Event in December 2010 Kurt talked about his experiences regarding the two sides of the table. It has been a lively discussion!

September 2010: First Speaker Event in Munich

The Munich Team — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:57:56 +0000

On September 15^th the Munich EVCN chapter organized its first speaker event. Rolf Dienst from Wellington Partners who has been playing a key role in shaping the German VC landscape shared some of his war stories and gave us a close insight into his lessons learned of his 30 years venture capital experience. We had a very open and engaged discussion and I am sure all attendants agree that our first speaker event couldn’t have been more fun.

Oktoberfest EVCN GeTogether 2010

The Munich Team — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:53:41 +0000

Thanks to Robert we made it happen! -The more or less impossible thing once a year during Oktoberfest in Munich. We catched a table for the EVCN crowd at the Hippodrom tent on Friday afternoon (24.11.10). The table was limited to the first 10 EVCN members who signed up. A couple of members from London and other cities joined the Munich group and we had most certainly a fun time, good conversations and not to forget Bavarian beer and fantastic food. Overall, we should try to repeat this type of event next year! Watch out and sign up early!

May 2010: EVCN Munich Chapter

The Munich Team — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:50:20 +0000

The EVCN Munich chapter has recently been set up by a small team of Munich based VC’s. The brand new Munich chapter is quickly catching up with other European chapters. The first event took place one week after the initiative was born on Tuesday, 11th May 2010 @ 6pm.

In Munich’s “Brenner” a Grill-Pasta-Bar 12 VC’s met, discussed and had fun over a beer and some pasta dishes. We all considered the event as a great start and regarding further events which are not in such short notice we think the group will be even bigger. We look forward to future events and new members!

EVCN – Gillamor Stephens GS-insight – Issue 19

Carlos Espinal — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:40:01 +0000

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Virtualisation and Software as a Service

Page 1 – Defining Moment – Interview with Darron Antill (CEO of Appsense)
Page 2 – Route to the Top – Interview with Steve Garnett (European Business Operations of salesforce.com)
Page 4 – Executive View – Interview with Steve Garnett (European Business Operations of salesforce.com)
Page 5 – VC Economy – Interview with Michael Linse (Partner at Kleiner Perkins)
Page 6 – International Insight – Interview with Darron Antill (CEO of Appsense)
Page 7 – International Insight – Interview with Julian Quinn (VP Asia Pacific of Adobe)
Page 8 – Industry Insight – Interview with Paul Nahi (CEO of Enphase Energy)
Page 10 – Soundbyte – Interview with Matt Piercy (VP Northern EMEA at VMware)
Page 11 – Leadership – Interview with Stonewood Group (Leading Executive Search Firm in Canada)
Page 12 – US Perspective – Interview with Andy Price (Managing Partner of Schweichler Price Mullarkey & Barry, Silicon Valley Executive Search firm)
Page 12 – US Perspective – Interview with Charley Polachi (Partner of Polachi, Boston based Executive Search firm)

Link to GS-insight issue 19 on Gillamor Stephens website:
http://www.gillamorstephens.com/uploads/GS-insight%20Issue%2019.pdf

Our 3rd Annual Fireside Chat – IP Topics from Content to Widgets!

Carlos Espinal — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:15:44 +0000

Join us for our upcoming (Feb 22) 3rd Annual Fireside Chat dealing with IP Topics from Contents to Widgets!

Gillamor Stephens GS – Insight Issue 18

Carlos Espinal — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:09:33 +0000

Welcome to the eighteenth edition of GS-insight, the quarterly magazine from international executive search firm Gillamor Stephens.

This issue’s topic is:

Cloud Computing and Green IT

Page 1 – Cloud Forecast – Introduction by Steve Morrison (Partner, Gillamor Stephens)

Page 2 – Sound Byte – Interview with Tony O’Donnell (co-founder of Cambium)

Page 3 – Executive View – Interview with Jon Temple (President and CEO of nlyte Software)

Page 4 – Route to the Top – Interview with Colin Tenwick (recent CEO of StepStone)

Page 6 – VC Economy – Interview with Matt Mead (MD of Investment for Nesta)

Page 8 – PE Economy – Interview with Tom Wrenn (ECI, Private Equity Firm)

Page 10 – Ten Minute Interview – Interview with James McDougall (CEO of Revolt)

Page 11 – Industry Insight – Interview with Ricky Hudson (CEO of Star)

Page 12 – Community – Interview with David Darsch (co-founder of CEO-Collaborative Forum)

Page 12 – Best Practice – Interview with Keith Cornell (Career Board Director)

Link to GS-insight issue 18 on Gillamor Stephens website:

http://www.gillamorstephens.com/uploads/GS-Insight%20Issue%2018%20email.pdf

Gillamor Stephens Executive Search (www.gillamorstephens.com) has seen an increase in VC investment and executive recruitment across Europe with both early and later stage technology companies. We have also seen a marked increase in both US and Asian companies looking to expand or build a presence in Europe. We are presently working on a number of CXO, NxD and SVP roles across the online, solar, software, broadcast, semiconductor and electronics markets. Our international executive search alliance, Access Search Partners (www.accesssearchpartners.com) continues to expand with the opening of new offices in Korea, India and Japan, and already has excellent coverage across the rest of Asia Pacific and North America.
How can we support your portfolio companies? Contact: Paul Gillespie, Partner