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Fund or Fold - How VCs Actually Decide

Hosted by G2C Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures and Polsky Center at Chicago Booth

When
4:00 – 7:00 PM
Where
South Beach
Format
Happy Hour and Networking
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5 seed startups. 3 metrics each. No decks. No pitches.

You vote: Fund or Fold. Then 2 VCs tell you what they’d actually do and what would make or break the deal in Investment Committee (IC).

Founders. Investors. A few buyers. Drinks + food.

Hosted by G2C Ventures, Great Point Ventures, Third Coast Foundry + Polsky Center, University of Chicago, Jones Day, and CIBC Innovation Banking.

Agenda: 4:00 Drinks and networking 5:00 Welcome from G2C, GPV and UChicago 5:15 Real Enterprise AI buyers 5:30 Fund or Fold 6:00 Back to networking 7:00 Event ends

This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com

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