fnMentoring with Lars Leckie, Managing Director of Hummer Winblad
Virtual · ZoomFree · Guests welcome
In the enterprise software sector? Come by The Vault to learn what investors in your space are looking for, followed by a lunch and Q&A. If you're not in SF, dial-in and submit your questions live.
Lars Leckie, Managing Director of Hummer Winblad, understands first-hand the complexities and opportunities of disrupting existing business processes and systems.
Agenda:
- Introduction by FN (5 min)
- Lars Introduction (25 mins)
- Member Q&A (30 mins)
- Lunch & Networking
About Lars:
Lars is a Managing Director at Hummer Winblad and has played a key role in the firm’s investments in SaaS, virtualization, cloud and mobile technologies.
Types of companies Lars is interested in investing in:
- Enterprise, SAAS, Billing, Cloud, Recurring, Subscription, Gaming, Sales Acceleration, CRM, Monetization, Apps, Brands, Software Defined Networking, Openstack, Virtualization, Analytics, Scale-Out
Companies in Lars' portfolio:
- Pancetera (virtual storage optimization acquired by Quantum)
- Strobe (mobile HTML5 platform acquired by Facebook)
Prior to joining Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in 2006, Lars was involved in founding and operational roles at start-up companies. He was a co-founder of AutoFarm (now Novariant), a company focused on GPS and robotics. Lars previously sat on the board of the SIIA (Software Information Industry Association) and Piston, and is a founding charter member and previous co-chair of the C100 (Canadians in the Silicon Valley). Lars currently sits on the board of Kiip, PLUMgrid, InsideSales.com, Innovative Leisure, and Aria Systems. He has played a key role in the firm’s investments in Karmasphere (Big Data Analytics) and NuoDB (Scalable SQL database).
About Hummer Winblad:
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through their history, they’ve had the opportunity to invest in the pioneers and leaders of several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods and business models. They’ve helped entrepreneurs build companies in desktop software, embedded systems, client-server, distributed network computing, internet, and software as a service.
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