Silicon Valley 2004 Venture Capital Forum

About Silicon Valley: 2004

Co-hosted by the Women's Technology Cluster and Springboard Enterprises, Springboard: Silicon Valley 2004 took place June 24, 2004 at Stanford Law School. Silicon Valley 2004 featured the next generation of emerging-growth businesses and social ventures, primarily in the technology, software, Internet, telecommunications and life sciences industries, from the West Coast region. The Forum showcased 25 of the most talented women entrepreneurs to an audience of the area's top corporate, angel, and venture investors.

Quick Navigation

• Sponsors
• Supporting Organizations
• Participating Investors
• Forum Committee

Sponsors

Partner Sponsors:

• Comerica
• Grant Thornton LLP

Supporter Sponsors:

• Doll Capital Management
• Fenwick & West LLP
• Forum for Women Entrepreneurs
• Stanford Law School

Contributor Sponsors:

• Bay Benefits
• Building Blox
• Cooley Godward LLP
• DNA Bridges
• Folger Levin & Kahn LLP
• Gray Cary Ware and Freidenrich LLP
• Howard Rice
• Mitchell Kapor Foundation
• Opportunity Capital Partners
• Pillsbury Winthrop
• Reed Smith LLP
• Silicon Valley Bank
• Squire Sanders

Supporting Organizations

• BASES
• Center for Executive Development UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
• Emerging Venture Network
• Full Circle Fund
• Healthcare Businesswomen's Association, Bay Area Chapter
• Investors Circle
• Level Playing Field Institute
• Milken Institute
• NAWBO - SF
• Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum
• Social Venture Network
• Stanford Center for Professional Development
• The Enterprise Network of Silicon Valley
• The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
• UC Davis
• Women In Technology International
• Women's High Tech Coalition
• Women's Leadership Exchange

Participating Investors

• A. M. Pappas & Associates
• Allegis Capital
• Ascend Ventures
• Asset Management Company
• Battelle Ventures
• Bay City Capital
• Bear Stearns
• Boldcap Ventures
• Cardinal Partners
• Cargill Venture Partners
• Clarium Capital
• CMEA Ventures
• ComVentures
• DFJ Frontier
• Doll Capital Management
• Flagship Ventures
• Global Asset Capital
• Goldman Sachs
• Greylock
• Hot Fudge Venture Fund
• Hudson Ventures
• Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
• IDG Ventures
• Incubic
• Inglewood Ventures
• In-Q-Tel
• Intel Capital
• Keiretsu Forum
• Kleiner Perkins
• Larkspur Capital
• LightHouse Capital Partners
• Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Medstars
• MedVenture Associates
• Mohr Davidow
• Morgan Stanley Venture Partners
• Morgenthaler Ventures
• Nokia Innovent
• ONSET Ventures
• Opportunity Capital Partners
• Pacific Community Ventures
• Pacifica Fund
• Sand Hill Capital
• Science Futures
• Sequoia Capital
• Sofinnova Ventures, Inc.
• TechCoast Angels
• The Angels Forum
• Ventiva Ventures
• Venture Strategy Partners
• Voyager Capital
• WaldenVC
• Wasserstein Venture Capital
• Weston Presidio Capital

Forum Committee

• Dina Bitton, Founder & CTO, Xtegra Software
• Denise Brosseau, Co-Founder, Springboard Enterprises
• Susan Cheng, IDG Ventures
• Christine Cordaro, General Partner, CMEA Ventures
• Penelope Douglas, President, Pacific Community Ventures
• Gordon Earle, Stanford
• Gwen Edwards, Principle, GCE, Inc.
• Pierre Ferrari, President, Hot Fudge Social Venture Fund
• Kim Fisher, Executive Director, The Women's Technology Cluster
• Toby Freedman, Director, BioScience Forum
• Cori Gorman, Founder & Principle, DNA Bridges
• Leslee Guardino, Director, Government & Corporate Affairs Solectron, Women's High Tech Coalition
• Susan Hailey, CEO, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs
• Jeff Hamaoui, Founder & CEO, Origo, Inc.
• Ellen Hancock, CEO, RDM, former CEO and Chairman, Exodus Communications
• Pamela Hartigan, Managing Director, The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
• Whitney Hischier, Director, Executive Learning Solutions' Center, Haas School of Business
• Marianne Hudson, Entrepreneur Development, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• Mitch Kapor, Founder & CEO, Open Source Applications Foundation, MK Foundation
• Mitchell Kertzman, Partner, Hummer Windblad Venture Partners, former CEO Sybase
• Jackie Khor, Assoc Dir, Program Venture Investments, Rockefeller Foundation, ProVeNex
• Freada Kapor Klein, Founder, Level Playing Field Institute
• Kay Koplovitz, Chair, Springboard Enterprises
• Michelle Law, Greylock
• Debra Marshall, Howard Rice
• Susan Mason, General Partner, Onset Ventures
• Nola Masterson, Founder & CEO, Science Futures, Inc.
• Jennie Mather, CEO, Raven Biotechnologies
• Sarah McCue, UNDP/World Bank
• Jo Anne Miller, Collaboration Principle, Nokia Innovent
• Amy Millman, President, Springboard Enterprises
• Deborah Nelson, Co-Executive Director, Social Venture Network
• Judy O'Brien, Partner, Incubic
• Sunita Patel, First VP & Group Manager, Comerica Bank
• Humphrey Polanen, Co-founder, Internet Venture Partners
• Kim Polese, Chairman, Marimba, Inc
• Mike Rebholtz, Partner, Greater Bay Area Practice Leader, Grant Thornton LLP
• Wendye Robbins, CEO, NeurogesX
• Will Rosenzweig, Founder, Republic of Tea, Principle, Great Spirit Ventures, CEO, Ideagarden
• Carol Sands, Partner, The Angels Forum
• Nancy Schoendorf, General Partner, Mohr Davidow
• Heather Simonsen, CEO, Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (Bay Area Chapter)
• Anita Stephens, Partner, Opportunity Capital Partners
• Nandini Tandon, MDS International
• Woody Tasch, Chairman and CEO, Investor's Circle
• Tabreez Verjee, General Partner, Global Asset Capital, LLC
• Winnie Wan, CEO, Aria Biomedical Systems
• Matt Weisman, Healthcare Chair, Keiretsu Forum
• Howard Wolf, Stanford Alumni Association
• Jennifer Beckey, FWE Southern California
• Eve Kurtin, Pacific Venture Group
• Vivian Shimoyama, BreakThru Unlimited
• Luis Villalobos, Tech Coast Angels
• Fay Wood, SatisFusion
• Betsy Zeidman, Milken Institute