128 Innovation Capital Group

Event Calendar

Upcoming Events

August 12, 2010

Matt Fates, Partner at Ascent Venture Partners

Investment Outlook - Back to the Basics

Matt has worked with emerging technology companies since 1996. Prior to joining Ascent in 2002, Matt worked in business development at Gold Wire Technology, a network configuration management software company and at Norwest Venture Partners where he worked on venture investments such as Broadband Access Systems (acquired by ADC Telecom), Gold Wire Technology (acquired by Intelliden), and COSpace (acquired by InterNAP). Matt also worked in technology investment banking at Alex. Brown & Sons, where he helped execute both equity and M&A transactions, working with companies such as BBN, CIENA, DSET, RSA Security and SwitchBoard.com.

Current board seats include HubCast, StrikeIron, Terascala and The Corporate Marketplace.

Education: Double Major in Computer Science and Economics from Yale University. MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (Tuck Scholar).

Past Events

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Pitching Your Company to Investors with Speakers: Anita Brearton, Co-Leader of Boston Forum, Golden Seeds and Leonard Morrissey, Vice President, SBA Specialist, Eastern Bank

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Soaring Through the Cloud with Murat Bicer of Battery Ventures

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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Chris Mirabile, Race Point Capital

The 3 Most Important Things Angels Look For

Thursday, May 27, 2010

128 Venture North

What Kind of Funding is Best For Your Company

Jean Hammond, Co-Leader Golden Seeds, Boston

and

Margaret Somer, Regional Director, Small Business Development Center

Thursday, May 13, 2010
Ryan Moore, GrandBanks Capital

Plans That Work and Those That Don't

Thursday, April 8, 2010
Sean Marsh, CoFounder and General Partner, Point Judith Capital

Mobile Innovation in New England: Entrepreneurial Opportunities for the Future

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Thursday, March 11, 2010
David S. Miller, Ph.D., Clean Energy Venture Group
New Venture Commercialization of Clean Energy Technologies

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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Dana Callow, Boston Millennia Partners
2008 / 2009 - A Watershed Event - Where Do We Go From Here?.

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Friday, January 22 2010
128 Venture North
Growing the Great Idea into a Great Company - A Panel Discussion with David Ives, Gary Magnant and Doug Bates

Thursday, January 14, 2010
Eric Janszen, Itulip
The New Investment Rules for Technology Entrepreneurs ... and The Rest of Us.

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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Chris Hurley, Revolutionary Angels
A Unique Approach to Raising Early-Stage Money

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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Nick Pappas, MTDC

It's Never Too Early to Think About an Exit: A former Investment Banker's Perspective on Venture Capital Investing

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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Chris Sheehan
Managing Partner, Common Angels

Raising Money from Angel Investors

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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Mark A. Riser
Partner, Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners

If You Make Something, We May be Interested ...

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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Ankit Mahadevia of Atlas Ventures

The New VC Model:? Capital Efficiency and building companies in today's economic environment

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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Edward Melia, P3 Ventures Group

The Importance of Human Capital

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

128 Venture North

Where to Go and What to Do to Get Financing for Green Companies

A panel discussion with guest speakers Edward Melia, Senior Vice President/Human Capital Advisor at P3 Ventures Group; and John Warner, Founder of Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry.

Thursday, June 11, 2009
Luc Beaubien of Finowen, formerly with Zero Stage Capital and American Research & Development will discuss ...

Things I Thought I Knew as a Venture Capitalist, but Learned as an Entrepreneur

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Rouzbeh Yassini, YAS Broadband Ventures
The Role of New England in Broadband Evolution

Thursday, April 9, 2008

R. Gregg Stone, Kestrel Ventures LLC

Angel Investors Overview - Who Angels Are and How They Finance Startup Companies

Thursday, March 26 2009

Investing in Biotech

A panel discussion featuring

Luis Barros, Massachusetts Life Science Center and

Ania Knap, Cofounder and President of MaxTera

Fred Morris, Partner and Founder, Brook Venture Partners

Gary Paul Magnant, CEO Sage Science