EVCA Venture Capital Platform
Venture Capital Platform – Action PlanPeriod: November 07 – December 08 Member Services
Venture Platform Workshops based on LBS Research & Media in Munich, London, Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, Dublin, St. Petersburg Individual meetings with VC’s Corporate Venturing Workshop in Brussels Permanent Biotech Roundtable (3 meetings so far) Increase Market share by recruiting missing VC’s EVCA-EBAN Benelux event, Brussels To come Workshops: Slovenia, Zurich, Member-only VC Platform Website
EVCA VC Platform Action Plan
Update November 2008
Venture Capital Platform – Action PlanPeriod: November 07 – December 08 Support for Fundraising Case for European Venture (Update for 2008 ready) LP Workshops:
- Japanese LP’s Tokyo 12 September 2008 - Superannuation Schemes (Sydney, Melbourne 10 & 11 November 2008) - Sophisticated LP’s (Abu Dhabi 2008) - Family Offices (Abu Dhabi 2008) - to come: LP Workshops Mid-East, FOonly, SWF-only before the IF in Geneva
Venture Capital Platform – Action Plan- Period: November 07 – July 08
Support Exits (M&A and Public Markets)
M&A Connect (Paris, 15 October – Day before the VCF) Meetings with OMX (Stockholm), Deutsche Börse (Francfort), LSE (Madrid), NYSE-Euronext (Brussels) Meetings with Microsoft, Nokia, etc.
LP Visits Fundraising Conferences (Tokyo, London)
Venture Capital Platform – Action PlanPeriod: November 07 – December 08 Public Affairs
Support to EC Enterprise & Governments for
action plan to remove remaining impediments for cross-border fundraising & investments of VC funds
Venture Capital Platform – Action Plan- Period: November 07 – July 08
Venture Capital Forum
To further increase quality of content & speakers participation of European & international VC’s press coverage
Spill-over from buyout Lobby for Public Procurement (R&D) Lobby for YICS (with EuropaBio) VC Lunch at the EP Participation on all EU Finance Days by EC Participation at the ICT Event in Lyon Monitor & participate to development of professional standards Policy Meeting 8 October 2008 Meeting with EC Commissioner Viviane Reding
To create THE Annual Meeting for the VC community in Europe
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Venture Capital Platform – Action Plan- Period: November 07 – July 08
Speaking engagements (non-EVCA events)
3 December 2007, “The Case for European VC”, European Venture Capital Journal Fundraising Conference, London, UK 28 January 2008 How European Private Equity & Venture Capital Can Support The Growth of Medium Sized Pharmaceutical Companies? Europharm Annual Meeting, Brussels, Belgium 28 March 2008, “EU Finance Day – Sharing Experience and Challenges ahead”, Ljubljana, Slovenia 9 April 2008 “The European Private Equity & VC Market”, 9. Deutscher Eigenkapitaltag BVK, Munich, Germany 10 April 2008, “Investing in Innovation”, United Nations Economic and Social Council, Geneva, Switzerland 14 April 2008, “ Evolution of the Private Equity Markets”, EBAN Congress 2008, Arnhem, The Netherlands 2 May 2008, “Venture Capital”, Guest Lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics (Riga Campus), Riga, Latvia 11 June 2008, “Public Affairs challenges for the European VC Industry” Microsoft – Europe’s 4th Entrepreneurship Day, Brussels, Belgium 26 June 2008 “Creating the Cross-border Investment Environment” EASY - Early stage investors for high growth businesses Conference, London 27 June 2008, EU Finance Day - Sharing Experience and Challenges ahead”, Warsaw, Poland
Venture Platform – Selected Press Background Interviews
Venture Capital Magazin (D) L’Agefi (F) Real Deals (UK) Unquote + a few other trade press magazines (UK) Capital Finance (F) Private Equity News (UK) Wall Street Journal (USA) Alternative Assets (UK) Le Monde (F) Investment & Technology (Australia) Strategies – Projects (UK) Trends Tendances (B) Dow Jones (USA-UK) Forbes (USA-EUR) Indian Times (India)
Current Venture Platform representatives
1. Patrick Sheehan, Chairman (ETF – Environmental Technologies Fund – Cleantech - UK) 2. Joost Holleman (Alpinvest – LP - NL) 3. Francois Lainee (Auriga Partners – IT Early-Stage - F) 4. James McNaught-Davis (WHEB Ventures – Cleantech - UK) 5. Simon Cook (DFJ Esprit – ITC - UK) 6. Björn Odlander (HealthCap – LS - S) 7. Kaj-Erik Relander (Accel Partners – IT - UK) 8. Anne Glover – Amadeus Capital Partners (IT – UK) 9. Vincenzo Narciso - Union Bancaire Privee (LP – CH) 10. Hendrik Brandis – Earlybird (IT – D) 11. Chantal Parpex – CDC Innovation (LS – F) 12. Thierry Laugel – AGF Private Equity (LS – F) 13. Georges Noël, EVCA VC Platform Director (Europe) Jan Lundahl (Capman – LS - S) – on sabbatical in 2008
Venture Capital Platform Challenges
5 challenges: (Where do we stand today?) Succeed new VCP representation – succeeded! Get active members support for creating buoyant VC community and execution of the action plan - succeeded! Position VCP as THE European market-& meeting place for VC and the legitimate representation of European VC – good start – will take 3 years to succeed Develop a 5 year strategic plan for the VCP with VCP representatives – to be worked on during Semester2, 2008 Data coverage, quality & crosscuts for VC
Venture Capital Platform Members Workshop
Thank you!
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