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
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,
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
“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!”
“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.”
"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
“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
“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.”