VC Chat on Consciousness & Funding+Networking-Pitch Globally@Wework Transbay

What is  the biggest factor why qualified entrepreneurs don’t receive funding? When you pitch to investors and VCs, and they decline an investment in your company, they usually cite market size, traction, technology etc. as reasons for declining. Rarely do they reveal that a lack of confidence in you as a founder is the real reason. However, most early stage investors cite the strength of founding team as the key driver for their decision. As a startup founder, it is often difficult to assess yourself, and figure out how to enhance yourself –basically, you need to expand your consciousness so that you can prepare yourself for funding and this Chat will put you on the path.
 
 
Ankur Jain is a rare VC who brings together the world of investing and the world of consciousness and Inner Engineering. I have known him for eight years; he is a true change maker whose life revolves around yoga and meditation.
Ankur is Managing Partner at Emergent Ventures (www.emergent.vc), a seed stage venture capital firm. Previously, Ankur was a venture investor at Nexus Venture Partners investing in US and India. Prior to that, Ankur was venture investor at Blumberg Capital investing in US and Israel. Prior to that, Ankur did strategy consulting at Accenture across a range of verticals including healthcare, financial services and technology. Earlier, Ankur led product teams at Andiamo Systems and later Cisco which acquired Andiamo in 2004. Prior to that, Ankur held engineering roles at Softaware Networks and later at Digital Island, which acquired Softaware Networks in 2000. Ankur is also co-founder of Vama, an eco-technology company. Ankur holds a Bachelors in in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi, a Masters in Computer Science from UCLA, and an MBA in Management from the Wharton School where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. Ankur is also a co-inventor for five technology patents. Ankur is Chair for TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) San Francisco.
Agenda:
  
6.15- 6.30 pm: Registration
 
6.30- 7 pm: Networking Pitches. Everyone in the Audience gets a chance to give a 45 second elevator Pitch and say “who they are, what is their interested in the subjects “Consciousness& Funding”
 
7 – 7.45 pm: Fireside Chat where Ankur Jain is interviewed by Kaustav “KC” Chaudhuri, co-founder of Pitch Globally (www.pitchglobally.com)
 
7.45- 8 pm: Q&A
 
8-8.45 pm Networking
 
Kaustav “KC” Chaudhuri is the co-founder of Pitch Globally (along with John Ricci, Founder US Angels & Member Keiretsu Forum& HBS Angels) and is an Advisor to several other large tech events groups and Angel Funds. He has extensive experience as an Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur and Executive in Silicon Valley both in startups as well as for large companies like HCL Technologies. He co-founded Biztech, an outsourcing strategy and leadership company, which got acquired by TCG Software, outsourcing arm of private equity& VC funds affiliated to George Soros where he became part of the Management Team and helped leverage significant investments in companies like Perkin Elmer("PKI"), Sybase(acquired by SAP for $ 5b), Selectica(went IPO), Oblix(acquired by Oracle) etc. He is the author of Design Your Mind (soon to be launched) and was part of a team of Silicon Valley experts who wrote The First Mile (John Wiley), a book on entrepreneurship on behalf of The Indus Entrepreneurs(TIE). He is also a local Board member of the Leukemia& Lymphoma Society
 
 
“The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard” –Katha Upanishad from where W. Somerset Maughaum, adapted the name of his famous book on enlightenment, The Razor’s Edge, later made into major motion picture.