Where Capital & Business Match in Minutes™

The Speed Venture Summit™ is the premier speed-dating-style event for fast-growth businesses and investors in New England, hosted by the New Hampshire High Technology Council and the New Hampshire Small Business Development Center, and brought to you by Gold Sponsor Comcast Business Class.

2009 Summit Scores Big!

Excitement filled the air and jazzed the crowd throughout the day as 47 companies pitched their growth stories in more than 250 private meetings with 24 investor groups at the 2009 Speed Venture Summit. Then more than 350 tech and business leaders swarmed the public Pitch-Off among the top five businesses chosen by the investors at the 2009 Speed Venture Summit™ held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua, NH on October 28, 2009.

During the Pitch-Off, Highest Wind LLC and EnerTrac , Inc. withstood strong challenges from Telling Stone Software, Boston Heart Labs, and ColdStor Data, Inc. to emerge as the two finalists. A surging crowd tapped EnerTrac as first runner-up and Highest Wind as the 2009 SVS Company of the Year.

Although 50 companies had originally been scheduled to participate in the Summit, three had to withdraw for pressing business reasons. Summit organizers were pleased to learn that one SVS company withdrew because it planned to close a capital round during Summit day with an SVS investor.

The Speed Venture Summit™: Where Capital & Business Match in Minutes!

RECENT NEWS

  • SVS Rings Tech Bell Again
    Monday, November 2, 2009 - 11:19

    Monday November 2, 2009 Boston, Massachusetts

    For the second straight year, the Speed Venture Summit™ captured top story of the week honors from New England's leading tech media outlet,

  • Highest Wind makes noise at Speed Venture Summit
    Friday, October 30, 2009 - 11:39

    Mass High Tech: Friday, October 30, 2009

    Renewable energy startup Highest Wind LLC, of Newmarket, N.H., took home the top prize Wednesday at the Speed Venture Summit, held in Nashua, N.H

  • Speed Venture Summit to focus on quick pitches
    Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 08:40

    Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

    By KATHLEEN CALLAHAN, Correspondent

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    What: Networking event to match investors with companies that need funding.

    Where:

  • It takes one for the money
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 17:53

    By JIM KOZUBEK
    Special to the Union Leader
    17 hours, 23 minutes ago

    NASHUA – The Speed Venture Summit is kind of a speed-dating event that brings together early stage companies

  • Commonwealth Capital Ventures at Speed Venture Summit(TM)
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 11:57

    Steve McCormack, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will participate as a judge at the Speed Venture Summit™, to be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua, New Hampshire on

  • Energy glider designer seeks $5M to take off
    Monday, October 19, 2009 - 10:25

    By JIM KOZUBEK
    Special to the Union Leader

    NEWMARKET – October 19, 2009--Dmitri Cherny, founder and CEO of the one-year-old Highest Wind LLC, said he is seeking $5 million at the

  • Investor summit is no blind date
    Monday, October 19, 2009 - 10:22

    By JIM KOZUBEK
    Special to the Union Leader

    NASHUA – October 19, 2009--The New Hampshire High Tech Council has grown its popular Speed Venture Summit, drawing in $20,000 in corporate

  • Venture Capital Journal Promotes Summit
    Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 19:05

    Speed-dating event for New England startups and investors. Hosted by New Hampshire High Technology Council and New Hampshire Small Business Development Center:http://www.speedventuresummit.org /

  • Borealis Ventures Backs Speed Venture Summit™
    Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 18:59

    Borealis Ventures, the leading early stage venture capital investor in New England, has signed on to support the Speed Venture Summit™ 2009, according to today’s announcement from the NH High

  • Michael Burgmaier: The Venture Capital Process - Pizza and Nanotech?
    Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 09:59

    Monday, Sep. 29, 2008

    Michael Burgmaier
    General Parnter / Co-Founder Clear Venture Partners; Topic: The Venture Capital Process
    The Venture Capital Process: Pizza and Nanotech

  • Finding Private Capital in a Down Economy
    Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 08:34

    Friday, September 5, 2008

    Nada, zero, zilch: that’s the number of IPOs launched by U.S. venture-backed companies in the second quarter of 2008, according to a Dow Jones VentureSource report

  • N.H. Angels Respond as Deals Slow

    Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 08:30

    Friday, September 12, 2008

    By Christopher Calnan

    Loudon, N.H., is well known for its speedway. But a group of organizers want speed to be a greater factor when it comes to investing

  • Speed Venture Summit is one of Top Ten Stories!
    Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 16:31

    The inaugural Speed Venture Summit 2008 was selected by Mass High Tech as one of the top ten stories of the week:

    October 30, 2008

TESTIMONIALS

  • Jesse Devitte, Borealis Ventures

    “Both the company and investor slots were sold out at the first-ever Speed Venture Summit™,so this economic craziness has not stopped the formation of new companies!”

  • First Ascent Ventures

    “Speed Venture Summit 2008 is an excellent opportunity for companies seeking capital to meet many potential investors over the course of one 5 hour event.”

  • Paul Schuepp, CEO of Animetrics

    "The Speed Venture Summit™ is a highlight for Animetrics and we enjoy having the opportunity to spread our message to the investment community, as well as the other impressive private companies in

  • Erik Schwartz, President of FoneShow

    “Yesterday I participated in the Speed Venture Summit™, it's like speed dating but it's companies and VCs. At the end of the event the 5 top ranked companies by the investors nominated as

  • Vendor City, Inc.

    “The event was very well run; it is a “speed dating” event for entrepreneurs and investors to sit down and see if a valuable connection could be made in a very short time.”