EVCA Newsletter | April Edition - Tons of new VC Jobs and Our First Ever EVCA & SVB Summit
If you haven’t marked your calendars, it’s time to do so! We’re excited to see all of you at our inaugural EVCA & SVB Emerging VC Summit on Thursday, April 28, in San Francisco at the City View at the Metreon. As the EVCA community has blossomed to over 1,100 members since the founding of the group in 2017, this VC Summit will be the largest gathering of pre-partner and junior partner VCs in history. After over two years of working largely from our homes, this is certainly a momentous occasion to celebrate.
The event schedule of the upcoming VC Summit will be jam-packed with networking opportunities and industry panels where you will hear from the top partners and GPs at firms including A16Z, Altos Ventures, Battery Ventures, Bessemer VP, BGV, Chapter One Ventures, Compound VC, Costanoa Ventures, Coatue, Emergence Capital, First Round Capital, Initialized Capital, Lightspeed VP, Norwest VP, Redpoint Ventures, Scale VP, Sequoia Capital, SVB Capital, Tidemark, Threshold, Unusual Ventures, among many others. The event will last into night, culminating in an action-packed afterparty.
If you would like to attend, please register here. Registration is only open to EVCA members and this link is unique to you, so invites are non-transferable.
We’re excited to see you all in person at the first ever EVCA & SVB VC Summit at the end of the month. With that bit of introductory fanfare, welcome back to the April edition of the EVCA newsletter!
EVCA Spotlight: Meet Sam Smith-Eppsteiner, Partner at Innovation Endeavors
We had the chance to interview Sam Smith-Eppsteiner, who is a partner at Innovation Endeavors, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionary founders, transformation technologies, and emergent ecosystems for a new world. Sam shares with her origins story—from starting out as a management consultant at Bain, externing in Rwanda for a local mushroom producer, and, in her most recent role, investing as a partner at Innovation Endeavors. Through her story, Sam shares her origins story and thoughts about life and career.
Featured Investors
This month we highlight Nicole Friedman of Blue Collective and Cedric Char of Fifth Wall as our featured investors of the EVCA community.
Nicole Friedman is an investor at Blue Collective where she invests in early stage companies (pre-seed and seed) in all sectors. Prior to joining Blue, she was an early employee at a proptech startup. Nicole graduated from Williams College where she majored in Psychology and played on the varsity squash team. She currently lives in NYC.
Cedric Char is a Senior Associate at Fifth Wall's Climate Tech Fund, investing in all things in and around decarbonizing the Built World and increasing climate resiliency. Before joining Fifth Wall, Cedric was at BMW i Ventures, where he focused on transportation, industry 4.0, and climate tech investments. Outside of work, you can typically find him in the ocean trying to catch waves, getting lost in the outdoors, or hunting for new and delicious restaurants.
What We’re Reading
Here we share our favorite content produced from EVCA members across the world:
An Introduction to AI in Drug Discovery - Amee Kapadia of Cantos Ventures, suggests how the application of computational tools in the drug discovery and development process can speed up the time and capital it takes to see a drug move from research to clinical trials
4 Industries That Don’t Really Exist Today, but Will Be Massive in 20 Years - Caleb Naysmith of the US Army Reserve, shares some of the industry trends he has observed becoming increasingly a part of modern society
The card economy in FinTech - Manan Modi of Lendflow, explores the FinTech card economy and differentiation of the startups within the space
What Does Signal Mean For An Early-Stage Investor? - David Zhou of Cup of Zhou, shares his signal criteria for signals by plausibility and stage as well as his own simple litmus test for founders
Venture capital on TikTok - Cong Nguyen-Dinh of Included VC, shares 10 Venture capital TikTok accounts that you should follow
Utah: An Illustrious Tech Metropolis - Zain Rizavi, Investor at Pelion Ventures, examines why and how the state of Utah boomed during the Covid era and its roots within tech decades prior
Events
Wharton Future of Work Conference | April 7 | Hosted by Wharton People Analytics
The Future of Supply Chain Risk | April 7 | Hosted by Marquette University Center for Supply Chain
The Future of Aging | April 8 | Penn State Harrisburg Smart Home Research Initiative (SHRI)
NFTs, DeFi, & The Metaverse - Where are we and where are we going | April 13 | Hosted by Linqto Learn
2022 Tufts Nutrition Science and Food System Entrepreneurship Summit | April 14 | Hosted by The Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute
Could 3D printing revolutionize our healthcare system? | April 19 | Hosted by UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences
Investor Relations, Marketing & Communications Forum | April 19-20 | Hosted by Private Equity International
SPACs in 2022 | April 20 | Hosted by Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center
How to create a deep tech investment strategy | April 21 | Hosted by Level
Emerging trends in supply chain risk and the role of SMEs | April 21 | Hosted by Marquette University Center for Supply Chain
Precision Probiotic Therapies: Challenges and Opportunities | April 26-27 | Hosted by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
WuXi Healthcare Forum 2022 - Call to Action | April 26-28 | Hosted by WuXi AppTecWuXi AppTec
EVCA & SVB Emerging VC Summit | April 28 | Hosted by EVCA and SVB
Jobs
Associate Role (Consumer/Web3) in San Francisco, CA at CRV. If interested, reach out to Vivian Cheng at vivian@crv.com
Associate, Senior Associate, and Principal Role in Palo Alto, CA at Prosperity7. If interested, send your resume and a cover letter to staffing.services@aramcoamericas.com
Associate Role in San Francisco, CA at Infinity Ventures. If interested, send your resume and a cover letter to recruiting@infinityvc.capital
Analyst and Associate Role in New York, NY at American Family Ventures (AFV)
Associate Director Role in San Francisco, CA at Emerson Collective
Research Analyst and Principal Role in a remote area at Lightshift Capital. If interested, contact info@lightshift.capital
Analyst Role in Boston, MA at Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures
Associate and VP Role in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA at Smash Capital. If interested, send your resume to Adam Dawkins on the EVCA Slack
Associate/Senior Associate Role in San Francisco, CA at Telstra Ventures. If interested, send your resume to Joseph An at joe@telstraventures.com
Principal Role in Bay Area, CA in at AiiM Partners. If interested, send your resume and interest to shally@aiimpartners.com
Associate Role in Austin, TX at S3 Ventures. If interested, send your resume to patrick@s3vc.com
Senior Associate/Principal in New York, NY at Supernode Ventures
Associate/Senior Associate Role in New York, NY at Activant Capital. If interested, send an email to Juliette Bolea at juliette@activantcapital.com
Life Sciences Senior Associate/Principal Role in San Francisco, CA at General Catalyst. If interested, reach out to Aimee Raleigh
Associate Role at ClearSky Ventures in West Palm Beach, FL (Hybrid)
Connect with us: EVCA, Sam, Adam, and Isaac
Do you have something to share with the EVCA community? Submit your writings, announcements, events, and asks for future newsletter publications by clicking on the button below!