Venture Capital and how to find, approach and work with VC firms

Spencer Tall of Allegis Capital, LLC will be on the investor panel that will help evaluate the company pitches at the 23rd Annual Investors Choice® Venture Capital Conference in Salt Lake City.

Spencer Tall serves as a Managing Director with Allegis Capital. Prior to Allegis Capital, Mr. Tall was co-founder and General Partner with APV Technology Partners for three funds over 10 years. In addition, Mr. Tall is a co-founder of Asia Pacific Ventures, LLC, a consulting and advisory services firm where over a 13-year period he assisted more than 50 technology companies in their Asia expansion plans. This included technology licensing, fund raising, distribution arrangements, etc. Mr. Tall has acted as a strategic advisor to many large global companies including Motorola, Sony, Fujitsu, Samsung, Canon, TDK, and Dacom. Prior to founding APV, Mr. Tall oversaw US sales operations for Marubun Corporation, a Japan based billion dollar components trading company. He also worked as a sales manager for GRE America, a Japanese contract manufacturing company.

Mr. Tall currently serves on the boards of AvaLAN Wireless, Collinear Corporation and IMVU. Prior investments include E.piphany, Web TV (acquired by MSFT), One Touch Systems (acquired by Hughes Satellite), Netcell Corporation, Locality (acquired by e2Grow), and North Systems. Mr. Tall works very closely with Brigham Young University, sitting on several advisory committees, business plan competition boards, and serving as a student mentor for the past 10 years. He has a Bachelors of Science Degree in Political Science and Japanese from Brigham Young University.