Capital Connection - The Nation's Technology Innovation & Investment Conference
Visit on Capital Connection '10 Website at http://www.capitalconnection.org
This year's Capital Connection™ conference features expanded programming focused on global technology innovations and investment trends and serves as a forum for doing business with later-stage, high-growth and early-stage, high performance companies from throughout the United States. Located at the epicenter of business, finance and key federal policy-making, MAVA's Capital Connection '10 brings together business leaders across multiple sectors such as software/IT, alternative energy, education, health services, new media, and cybersecurity. This year's event will be held at a new time of year, two weeks before Memorial Day, on May 19-20 at the Baltimore Hilton Hotel in Baltimore, MD.
During this era of new business opportunities created by the ever-evolving commercial and government marketplaces, it is more important than ever that all those engaged in creating, building, financing, and advising companies come together within a forum designed to encourage collaboration and business opportunities for all. Business leaders from across the country are expected to attend Capital Connection, known as one of the nation's most successful venues for bringing private capital and high growth businesses together. While open to the public, Capital Connection draws M&A experts, investment bankers, and institutional, private equity, and angel investors in addition to industry analysts, corporate strategics and key advisors.
Unlike other investment conferences, Capital Connection and MAVA support companies and participants with year-round services and programming that are designed as a platform for them to stay connected and conduct business.
High-Growth Companies: Apply Now to Be on the Agenda
For company executives interested in formally presenting during the event, they are invited to complete an application at www.CapitalConnection.org to showcase their company technologies. The conference employs a rigorous approach in recruiting, selecting and vetting companies to ensure the most exciting field of enterprises and investment opportunities are showcased. Historically, 35-50 percent of earlier-stage companies at Capital Connection have attracted funding less than a year after presenting at the conference, a reflection of the caliber of companies chosen by a selection committee of investors.
The final deadline for applications is April 7. Companies are notified of acceptance by April 15, and are required to attend the FastTrack seminar of April 29.
The Place for Companies to Conduct Business
For more than 20 years, companies have enjoyed a platform to achieve a variety of goals beyond Capital Connection's traditional mission to help secure financing. The conference format is a high visibility venue for businesses seeking buyers, new customers, collaborators, and qualified advisors.
A sampling of companies that have participated as presenters or speakers at prior Capital Connection conferences include: Acuity Mobile, Advertising.com, athenahealth, Blackboard, Broadsoft, LogiXML, Motley Fool, NeuStar, N.E.W., Revolution Health, Rosetta Stone, SunEdison, Under Armour, uuNet, XM Satellite Radio and Vocus.
Capital Connection '10 keynote speakers and panels will focus on critical issues and business opportunities, including cybersecurity, health IT, wireless and telecom, digital media, cleantech, and education, as well as the impact of today's economy on business enterprises. Special peer-group roundtables for CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and CMOs that provide a forum for executives to share common challenges and operations issues are also on the agenda.
