The Second Annual Southeast Venture Conference to be Held February 27-28 in Tysons Corner, Virginia
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (August 27, 2007) – The Southeast Venture Conference (SEVC) today announced that the second annual Conference will be held February 27-28th, 2008 at the Ritz Carlton in Tyson's Corner, Virginia.
The SEVC agenda will feature approximately 40 of the region's top private technology firms, a number of high profile speakers and exclusive panels geared to a national audience of venture capitalists, private equity investors, and executive entrepreneurs.
The SEVC is the opportunity for private equity investors to network with the most promising emerging growth companies in the southeast region and for pioneering entrepreneurs to make the connections that empower their companies to become tomorrow's business leaders. Both early and later stage firms based in: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington DC will be presenting.
The southeast region, comprising the 5th largest economy in the world, continues to emerge as a driving force in technology development across a number of industries. The southeast has provided the highest venture backed return of any region in the US over the last 12 years.
"The SEVC will once again bring together top entrepreneurs in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic with leading investors," said Jason Caplain of Southern Capitol Ventures, Chair of the event. "We're excited that the conference will be in Northern Virginia next year. It ties the great technology community of the this region to the rest of the Southeast."
"We're excited that the conference will be in Northern Virginia this year, said Tom Wheeler, Managing Director at Core Capital. It ties the great technology community of this region to the rest of the Southeast."
The sold-out inaugural SEVC was held in Research Triangle Park, NC and featured over $56 billion in investment capital in attendance.
For more information on the conference, visit: www.seventure.org.
About SEVC
The mission of the SEVC is to help support the innovation and entrepreneurial activity of emerging high growth technology companies from the southeast region and the resulting economic growth in the Southeast. As part of that goal, the SEVC understands the importance of investment capital to this equation and provides a key forum to facilitate the infusion of growth to the southeast high growth technology community. The SEVC highlights both early stage and later stage investment opportunities from: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington DC. |
