Venture NY is New York’s premier event for angel investors, early-stage companies, and innovation ecosystem partners. The event features the NYBPC Grand Prize Finals. To learn more about the NYBPC, click here. Check back soon for registration information.
The event will take place at WCNY Broadcast and Education Center: 414 W. Fayette Street, Syracuse, NY.
Agenda
The New York Business Plan Grand Prize Finals
Conversation with Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride
Meet the authors of The New Builders: Face to Face with the TRUE Future of Business.
Seth Levine
Co-author of The New Builders: Face to Face with the True Future of Business.
A long-time venture capitalist Seth Levine works with venture funds and companies around the globe. His day job is as a partner at Foundry Group, a Boulder, CO based venture capital firm he co-founded in 2006 which as of the end of 2020 had almost $3 billion in assets under management. Easily distracted and a passionate advocate for entrepreneurship, Seth also spends time as an advisor to venture funds and companies around the world.
The intersection of community and business has always been a driving force for Seth. He co-founded Pledge 1%, a global network of companies who have pledged equity, time, and product back to their local communities. He is on the board of StartupColorado, which promotes entrepreneurship in areas of Colorado outside of the front range. He is also a Trustee of Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where he helped found their entrepreneurship program as well as a popular student hackathon (the “Macathon”). He also works with a number of funds and companies – especially in the Middle East and Africa – to help promote entrepreneurship and economic development.
A passionate cyclist, above-average skier, and general fan of all things outdoors, Seth and his wife live in Colorado their three children.
Co-Author of The New Builders + Founder at Times of Entrepreneurship
Elizabeth MacBride is an entrepreneur and an award-winning journalist with deep expertise in finance, technology and small business. She is the founder of Times of Entrepreneurship, and author, with venture capitalist Seth Levine, of The New Builders. The untold story of today’s entrepreneurs, The New Builders has been called the book “that will change everything you know about growing a business today.”
Elizabeth has talked her way into Gaza for a story, reported on business in refugee camps and written stories about entrepreneurs everywhere from Northern Idaho to Helena, Arkansas, to Cambodia. Times of Entrepreneurship is a weekly web publication covering entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, launched in Feb. 2020, with support from the Kauffman Foundation.
She has written or edited for Quartz, Forbes Magazine, Atlantic.com, Stanford GSB, CNBC, HBR.com, BBC Capital, Advertising Age, Newsweek and many others. Her stories have been viewed by millions of people worldwide and translated into languages including Arabic, Turkish and Armenian. She is the single mother of two daughters and a seventh-generation Washingtonian.
Over 250 entrepreneurs, CEOs, executives, investors and capital providers (angel, seed, venture, private equity), professional advisors (attorneys, accountants, investment bankers, consultants), and key stakeholders (local and regional press, local and state politicians)
Book Your Stay
Stay at the Hotel Syracuse: 100 East Onondaga Street Syracuse, New York 13202
We’ve secured a room block at $149 – the hotel is just a three minute drive to the WCNY Broadcast and Education Center (414 W. Fayette Street in Syracuse)
