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New England 2002 Venture Capital Forum
About New England: 2002
Co-hosted by the Center for Women & Enterprise and Springboard Enterprises, Springboard: New England 2002 took place November 22, 2002 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. New England 2002 featured the next generation of high-growth women entrepreneurs in technology and life sciences from the New England and New York areas. The Forum showcased 20 of the strongest women entrepreneurs to an audience of the area's top corporate, angel, and venture investors.
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Venture-catalyst Springboard Enterprises is the platform where entrepreneurs, investors, corporate officials, sector experts and service providers meet to build great women-led businesses together. Springboard sources, qualifies, coaches, showcases and supports high growth potential companies seeking equity capital for product development and expansion.
Center for Women & Enterprises
Established in 1995, the Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women start and grow their own businesses. CWE is a national leader among women's business development agencies. CWE's mission is to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship. CWE offers education, training, technical assistance, women's business enterprise certification and access to both debt and equity capital to entrepreneurs at every stage of business development.
Partner Sponsors:
- Boston Business Journal
- Deloitte & Touche
- FleetBoston Financial
- Goodwin Procter LLP
- Grant Thornton
- MIT Entrepreneurship Center
- MIDIOR Consulting
- Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP
Supporter Sponsors:
- Babson College
- Choate, Hall & Stewart
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Foley Hoag
- Highland Capital Partners
- Weston Presidio Capital
Contributor Sponsors:
- Bingham McCutchen LLP
- Edwards & Angell LLP
- Genzyme Corporation
- Goldman Sachs & Company
- Hale and Dorr LLP
- Hill & Barlow
- ipCapital Group Inc
- MA Department of Economic Development
- MA Trade Office
- Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton PC
- Peabody & Arnold LLP
- Posternak, Blankstein & Lund LLP
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- RESOURCES
- The Selig/Kaye Group
- TriNet
Stakeholders' Briefing & Launch Sponsor:
- Boston Entrepreneurs' Network
- The Commonwealth Institute
- Evelexa
- Harvard Business School Women Alumae
- MA Biotechnology Council
- MA eComm
- MA Interactive Media Council
- MA Internet & Software Council
- MA Telecommunications Council
- MA Women in Technology
- MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
- MIT Sloan Women in Management
- MIT Technology Capital Network
- New England Women Business Owners
- Simmons Graduate School of Management
- Tie-Boston
- Women Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology
- Women in Technology International
- Women's Bar of Massachusetts
- Women Presidents' Organization
- 8 Wings Venture
- Advanced Technology Ventures
- Advent International
- Angel Healthcare Investors
- Atlas Venture
- Bain Capital Ventures
- BancBoston Capital
- Battery Ventures
- BioVenture Investors
- BU Community Technology Fund
- CEI Venture, Inc.
- Charles River Ventures
- Commons Capital
- Commonwealth Capital
- FA Technology Ventures
- First Light Capital
- Flagship Ventures
- Fleet Development Ventures
- Highland Capital Partners
- IDG Ventures
- Longworth Venture Partners
- MTDC
- Parthenon Capital
- Prism Venture Partners
- Telecommunication Development Fund
- Venrock Associates
- Weston Presidio Capital
- YankeeTek Ventures
- Zero Stage Capital
Recruiting Committee
Co-Chairs:
- Asa Ahlberg, IDG Ventures
- Alex Finkelstein, Grandbanks Capital
- Clark Waterfall, Boston Search Group
Sponsorship Committee
Chair:
- Mary Fitzpatrick, General Electric
Screening Committee
Co-Chairs:
- Karin Gregory, Dover Medical Ventures
- Jeremy Perisho, Deloitte & Touche
Coaching Committee
Chair:
- Joe Caruso, Bantam Group
Forum Committee
Co-Chairs:
- Ken Morse, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
- Pamela Lenehan, Ridge Hill Consulting
Forum Committee Members:
- Asa Ahlberg, IDG Ventures
- Elizabeth Ames
- Joseph Caruso, Bantam Group
- Joe Casey, Venrock Associates
- Thomas Claflin, Claflin Capital Management
- Dan Coleman, Fleet Development Ventures
- Susan Danish, Babson Center for Women's Leadership
- Linda DeRenzo, Testa, Hurwitz & Thiebault LLP
- Daphne Dufresne, Weston Presidio Capital
- Janet Dunlap, Goodwin Procter LLP
- Athena Edmonds, Zoe Capital
- Kathy Elliott, 8 Wings Ventures
- Alex Finkelstein, Grand Banks Capital
- Mary Fitzpatrick, General Electric
- Michael Greeley, IDG Ventures
- Karin Gregory, Dover Medical Ventures
- Myra Hart, Harvard Business School
- Maia Heymann, BancBoston Ventures
- Marcia Hooper, Castile Ventures
- Don Jeffrey, Grant Thornton
- Joanna Lau, Lau Technologies
- Lucinda Linde, First Light Capital
- Susan Loconto Penta, MIDIOR Consulting
- Lore Harp McGovern, LHM Ventures
- Amy Millman, Springboard Enterprises
- Michael Olivieri, Boston Business Journal
- Susan Loconto Penta, Midior
- Jeremy Perisho, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Jill Preotle
- Jasmin Rodriguez, Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
- Ellen Roy
- Andrea Silbert, Center for Women & Enterprise
- Susan Hunt Stevens, Boston Globe
- Clark Waterfall, Boston Search Group
- Sharon Whiteley, 8 Wings Ventures
