Name: Finding our "silicon" - How to build a Trillion dollar startup & venture ecosystem
Start: 2024-10-22T10:45:00-0400
End: 2024-10-22T11:25:00-0400

We are so excited to share with you the DC Startup & Tech Week 2024 schedule! If you are early stage to growth stage founder, entrepreneur, investor, or looking to work with startups we have 14 tracks of content with over 150 sessions, 250 speakers that have been curated for you.

Ready to personalize your schedule and add sessions to your calendar? First register and purchase your ticket on Eventbrite, then you will receive an email to personalize your schedule. If you already registered, create your schedule today.

Tuesday October 22, 2024 10:45am - 11:25am EDT

National Landing (Arlington): National Landing Experience Center (JBG Smith)

Silicon Valley wasn’t always the epicenter of venture. It wasn’t born; it was made. Learn about the efforts over the past 20+ years to sow the seeds in our region: people, innovation, technology, capital.

Most importantly: where do we go from here???

Speakers

Katherine Hill Ritchie

Senior Director, Venture Funds, Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO)

Katherine Hill Ritchie has more than 19 years of finance and investment experience. She is a frequent speaker and content provider to investment conferences and publications world-wide. She founded Private Capital Investments, LLC while she was working in Geneva, Switzerland in 2009... Read More →

Tom Weithman

Managing Director, Virginia Venture Partners

Tom Weithman is Chief Investment Officer for the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation and Managing Director of Virginia Venture Partners (VVP), a strategic investment platform pursuing complementary direct and indirect investment strategies to further the economic development... Read More →

Frank Taylor

VC, Virginia Venture Partners

Frank Taylor is an early stage VC, angel investor, and syndicate lead focused on pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A investments in autonomous systems and dual-use technologies. Frank currently serves as an Investment Associate at Virginia Venture Partners and Entrepreneur in Residence at... Read More →

Paige Soya

Managing Partner, K Street Capital

Paige Soya is the Managing Director of K-Street-Capital, a DC-based venture syndicate investing ~$5M/year in seed-growth-late stage tech companies, where she leads due diligence and advises on multiple portfolio company boards. She is also the chair of Everest Capital Group, a consulting... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2024 10:45am - 11:25am EDT
National Landing (Arlington): National Landing Experience Center (JBG Smith) 241 18th St S, Arlington, VA 22202

Early-Stage Founder Track Growth-Stage Founder Track

DC Startup & Tech Week

Katherine Hill Ritchie

Tom Weithman

Frank Taylor

Paige Soya

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