TechVentures 2007, co-sponsored by Bartholdi Partners, LLC, ECA and Corporate Finance, Inc., brings together area entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, showcasing 14 emerging technology companies.
Bethesda, MD (PRWEB) April 21, 2007 -- Leading emerging technology companies got a chance to showcase their wares at TechVentures 2007, held on February 21, 2007 at the Hilton Bethesda. Notable was the fact that over half of the presenting companies were involved in Life Sciences while the next largest group represented wireless applications.
"This was a very useful event for us." Said John Bell, CEO of Adept Response, one of the presenting companies, "We were able to deliver our pitch to many interested venture capital firms at the same time. It would have taken us several months to get in front of this many viable potential investors otherwise."
"The difference with TechVentures 2007 is that the venture capital firms committed to sitting on an evaluation panel and giving us written feedback when we were done." Commented Marc Josephson, CEO of J&F Technologies, "The feedback included not only comments on go-to-market strategy, viability of value proposition, but also whether the venture firms were interested in a next-step meeting with us. That's the first time I've seen that done in one of these events."
Rounding out the day were several visible keynote speakers. Among them were, George Newstrom, the former Secretary of Technology under Governor Warner and Aris Melissaratos, past Secretary of Business and Economic Development for Maryland under Governor Robert L. Ehrlich.
"TechVentures 2007 was modeled after the TIA Ventures series that I had developed for the Telecommunications Industry Association to showcase emerging technologies in their market space. It was a great way to get a large constituency of venture capital firms to come together to evaluate potentials for their investment portfolios." According to Walter Wilowaty, Partner at Bartholdi Partners, co-sponsor and co-architect of TechVentures 2007, "When the Corporate Finance, Inc. folks asked if I would be interested in working with them to develop a dynamic venture capital forum, I was thrilled. I had good exposure to them in the past, working with both Tom Trexler, CEO and Anthony Solazzo, VP. Anthony made an excellent event MC."
About Bartholdi Partners, LLC
Bartholdi Partners, LLC, established in 1974, is one of America's premier management strategy and retained executive search firms. Bartholdi specializes in recruiting senior executives and boards of directors and working with emerging technology companies in positioning them for success with their venture capital endeavors. Walter Wilowaty is a Partner with Bartholdi, located in Reston, Virginia. He can be reached at 703-754-3755.
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