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

Companies that submit their deal to Annual Investors Choice® Venture Capital Conference, will have their deal will be reviewed by an investor-led panel. The 2006 panel is listed below.  They are all actively involved in the angel and venture capital community.  If selected, that company's deal will also be mentored by members of this panel.

Bob Gottdener - Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown

Larry Griffin - Hunter Capital Group LLC

Debra Guerin - International Venture Fund/invencor, inc.

Heidi Huntsman- UV Partners

Elliot Parks - Hamilton BioVentures

Richard Shanaman - SunStar Associates Inc.

Todd Stevens - Wasatch Venture Fund

Spencer Tall - Allegis Capital, LLC

Devin Thorpe - Thorpe Capital Group, LLC

Kirk Westbrook - International Venture Fund/Invencor

Kevin Barber - Northwest Venture Associates

Corley Phillips - American River Ventures

Chris Traylor - Flywheel Ventures

Mark Solon - Highway 12

Mike Levinthal - Private Investor

UV Partners, established in 1986 with offices in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, is a leading early stage private equity investment group. UV Partners helps entrepreneurs develop early-stage concepts into tomorrow’s industry-leading Information Technology and Life Science companies. The partners possess diverse but highly complementary industry and investment backgrounds. They share a hands-on approach and work collaboratively on each portfolio company over the life of an investment thereby providing each company with a broad range of resources, experience, and knowledge.