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New England 2005 Venture Capital Forum
About New England: 2005
Springboard and the Center for Women and Enterprise co-hosted the New England 2005 Venture Forum at Harvard Business School. This was the 6th New England Forum. Twenty-three companies presented their biotech, software, e-media and business and consumer product/service businesses.
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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.
- The Castle Group
- Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
- Flagship Ventures
- Foley Hoag LLP
- Goodwin Procter
- Harvard Business School
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Weston Presidio
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Program Sponsors
- Adams, Harkness & Hill
- Andrews Kurth LLP
- Bingham McCutchen
- Burns & Levinson
- Bowne of Boston
- The Center for Women's Leadership at Babson College
- Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
- Day, Berry & Howard LLP
- Ernst & Young
- Gesmer Updegrove LLP
- Goldman Sachs
- Goulston & Storrs
- Gustin Partners
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Ridgehill Consulting
- Sullivan & Worcester LLP
- Vitale, Caturano and Company
- 3i
- Advent International Corporation
- Ascend Venture Group
- Bain Capital Ventures
- BancBoston Ventures
- Battery Ventures
- Castanea Partners
- Common Angels
- Commons Capital
- Commonwealth Capital
- FA Technology Ventures
- Flagship Ventures
- Highland Capital Partners
- Hub Angels Investment
- Hudson Ventures
- IDG Ventures
- Key Venture Partners
- Kodiak Venture Partners
- Launchpad Venture Group
- Longworth Venture Partners
- Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation
- Mass. Capital Resource Company
- Needham & Company, LLC
- Oxford Bioscience Partners
- Polaris Venture Partners
- Revolution Partners
- TD Capital Ventures
- Weston Presidio
- Association of Women's Business Centers
- Economic Development Council
- Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization
- KC SourceLink
- Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center
- Minnesota High Tech Association
- Network of Women Entrepreneurs
- North American Women's Business Organization
- Rockford EDGE
- University of Missouri - Kansas City Henry W. Block School of Business
- Women Advancing Bioscience
- Women President's Organization
- Women's Business Development Center
- WorldWIT
Forum Co-Chairs
- Cynthia Fisher, BioMed20/20 Technologies
- Jim Matheson, Flagship Ventures
- Mike Roberts, Harvard Business School
Forum Committee Chair
- Candida Brush, Babson College
Forum Committee Members
- Geraldine Alias, Harvard Business School
- Elizabeth Ames
- Elizabeth Bailey, Commons Capital
- Woody Benson, Prism Ventures
- Ann Bilyew, Advent International
- Rodney Brooks, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Brad Hildt, Gustin Partners
- Joe Caruso, Bantam Group
- Hollis Chase, Chase & Associates
- Mary Damkot, Sherbrooke Capital
- Janet Dunlap, Goodwin Procter
- Donna Good, Center for Women and Enterprise
- Michael Greeley, IDG Ventures
- Carolyn Hallinan, Cross Atlantic Capital Partners
- Jean Hammond, Hub Angels
- Maia Heymann, BancBoston Ventures
- Krisztina Holly, MIT Deshpande Center
- Rob Jevon, Boston Millennia Partners
- Anita Karcz, Healthcare Opportunities
- Jill Kickul, Simmons School of Management
- Kay Koplovitz, Springboard Enterprises
- Pam Lenehan, Ridgehill Consulting
- Amy Millman, Springboard Enterprises
- Lucy McQuilken, Intel Capital
- Jill Preotle
- Peter Rothstein, Allegro Ventures
- Dina Routhier, Massachusetts Technology Development Center
- Bill Sheehan, Longworth Venture Partners
- Sim Simeonov, Polaris Ventures
- Jeff Stein, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP
- David Steinberg, Puretech Ventures
- Hemant Taneja, General Catalyst
- Alison Taunton-Rigby, Ribonovix
- Monica Vnuk, Oxford Bioscience Partners
- Clark Waterfall, Boston Search Group
Recruitment Committee Co-Chairs
- Ella Aglipay, Center for Women and Enterprise
- Carolyn Hallinan, Cross Atlantic Capital Partners
Screening Committee Co-Chairs
- Geraldine Alias, Harvard Business School
- Bill Sheehan, Longworth Venture Partners
Coaching Committee Co-Chairs
- Peter Rothstein, Allegro Ventures
- Clark Waterfall, Boston Search Group
