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Over 500 attendees
made up of top VCs, angel investors, growth funds + leading financial, healthcare + insurance institutions
Pitches from top fintech, insurtech + healthtech startups from around the globe
Exclusive, closed-door
networking powered by AI-technology
Keynotes + panels led by some of the industries leaders + innovators, covering some of the most important topics today
A robust + strategic agenda, allowing you to tune into what's most relevant to you + making more room for the networking you want
Who Attends Venture 135?
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Over 30 Angel + Crowdfund Investors
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Over 100 Individual Venture Capital Investors
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Over 18 Growth/Private Equity Investors
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Over 50 National Fintech Programs + Partners
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With a 47% attendance growth rate since 2017
Venture Capital Firms That Attend
Aflac Ventures
Alerion Ventures
Alt Ridge Capital, LLC
Aqueduct Capital Group
Atlantic Avenues, LLC
Bank of America - Merrill Lynch
Banks Street Partners
Barings
BB&T Ventures
Blackbaud
Canapi Ventures
Candor
Cardinal Finance
CFV Ventures
CHTA Ventures
Citizens Bank
Clocktower Ventures
Co-Founders Capital
Connetic Ventures
Constellation
Cramer Mountain Growth Partners
Duke Angel Network
Eli Global
Engage Ventures
Fintech Ventures Fund
Fintop Capital
Fulcrum Equity Partners
Good Growth Capital
Grotech Ventures
IDEA Fund Partners
Information Venture Partners
Jurassic Capital
Kapor Capital
Kian Capital
Krückeberg Family Office
Lightbank
Lowes Ventures
Napier Park Financial Partners
Napier Park Global Capital
NC Venture Capital
Multiplier Fund
Neologix
Noro Moseley Partners
QED Investors
Real Ventures
Red Dog Ventures
Rev Up Fund
Revolution
Rise of the Rest
River Cities Capital Funds
Stacked Capital
TDF Ventures
Tenfore Holdings
TFX Capital
Triangle Angel Partners
TTV Capital
Valor VC
VentureSouth
Yates Ventures
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Who Pitches at Venture 135?
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64 companies - venture funding $225m
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1,324 employees
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29 cities, 32 states, 7 countries
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Fintech, Insurtech + Healthtech verticals






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Who Speaks at Venture 135?
2020 Keynote
Erik Qualman
Best Selling Author & World Renowned Speaker
2020 Panelists
Monique Villa - Mucker Labs - Investor
Eller Mallchock - Jumpstart Foundry - Managing Director
James Barlia - Rise of the Rest Seed Fund - Investor
Rodney Morris - Valor Ventures - Associate
Emily Hak - Insperity - District Manager
John DuBois - Insperity - Regional Vice President
John Espey - Defiance Ventures - CEO & Co-Founder
Sid Chambless - Nashville Capital Network - Executive Director & Managing Partner
Jordan Teel - Brighthouse Financial - Head of Life Strategy Enablement
Josh Levine - Cake & Arrow - Founder & CEO
Tate Ficker - UNUM - Vice President, Corporate Business Ventures
Dr. Seth Rachlin - Capgemini - Executive Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer
Jason Williamson - Oracle for Startups and Oracle for Research - Vice President
Eric Kirsch - Mito Station - CEO
Kathy Tune - Odonata Health - CFO & COO
Dr. Uli Chettipally - InnovatorMD - Founder & President
Ana Gupte - AG Health Adivsors - Principal
2019 Keynote
2019 Panelists
Joyce Shen - Tenfore Holdings - Investment Director
Gardiner Garrard - TTV Capital - Managing Director
Tyler Kruger - Frontier Capital - Vice President
David Jones - Bull City Ventures - General Partner
Ned Daoro - Clocktower Ventures - Principal
Angel Rutledge - SignUpGenius - Founder
Scott Harkey - Levvel - Chief Strategy Officer
Tim Sheehan
CEO & Co-Founder
Greenlight Financial
2018 Keynote
2018 Panelists
Johnson Cook - Greenlight Financial - President
K.C Brechnitz - EY - Senior Managing Director
David Hall - Rise of the Rest Seed Fund - Partner
Mac Lackey - Venture South - Partner
Richard Maclean - Frontier Capital - Partner
Matt Kennedy - Bank Street Partners - SVP
Chris Hart - Levvel - Founder/CEO
Paul Tyma
Chief Technology Officer
LendingTree
2017 Keynote
2017 Panelists
Rob Cummings - Deal Cloud - Co-Founder
Greg Brown - Cardinal Finance - Partner
Luke Timberlake - FV Fund -Partner
Gardiner Garrard - TTV Capital - Partner
Mike Praeger – AvidXchange - CEO/Co-Founder
Matt Potere - Sunlight Financial - CEO
Rob Frohwein
Cheif Executive Officer
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