Archive for June, 2011

Top 25 Under 5 Awards

UVEF Presents: The Top 25 Under 5 Awards!

Thursday, July 14 at 11:45 for lunch at UVU .

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ANNOUNCEMENT: UVEF has tabulated the results and ordered the decorative awards!

Top 25 Under Five spotlights outstanding Utah entrepreneurs and emerging companies from across the state. Award recipients will be recognized at our Award Ceremony Luncheon on July 14th.

Our emcee for the even this year is John Pestana, co-founder of Omniture.

UVEF’s Top 25 Under Five Awards have recognized the development of more than 200 individuals and companies, including Utah success stories like ZAGG, Agel Enterprises, Interbank FX, Seastone, Altiris, Omniture, and Xango among many others.

Who can apply?

Companies throughout Utah, five years old or younger (no revenue prior to 2006).

Applicants are judged on several factors including revenue and job creation.

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The Funding Panel Pitch

The Funding Panel Pitch

Thursday, June 9 at 11:45 for lunch at Noah’s in Lindon.

Does your Utah business venture need money? (We thought so…)

Join us for The Funding Panel and learn what you need to know to successfully approach the angel community in Utah. —What they offer, what they look for in a pitch, and what to expect when they say ‘yes’.

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This year we are pulling out all the stops with a top-shelf lineup of leading Angels from around Utah. This special event will also feature a live pitch from a real company, and active participation from our audience with questions, comments and thoughts.

Moderator: John Richards

Company Pitch: Jeff Wells of Funium (-makers of Family Village for Facebook)

Angels:

NOTE: This special event takes place at Noah’s in Lindon.

Spicy Hawaiian Shark Money?

We are Spicing up The Funding Panel with a Hawaiian Luau and a SharkTank-esque live pitch for Funding – You won’t want to miss this one!

Each of our panelists will introduce themselves with an experience funding a company. We will then introduce Jeff Wells from Funium and give him ten minutes to pitch his company to the Angels, who will offer feedback and insight. The audience will be asked to participate with questions, input and thoughts throughout.

We hope to see you there.

June 9th at 11:45 a.m.

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Questions? Contact Michelle@cedo.org or 801.226.1521 ext.101
No cost for this event to current UVEF members. $25 for visitors.

We are expecting a large group for this event; please RSVP ASAP.

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Angel Spotlight: Paul Wozniak

Paul Wozniak of Park City Angels will be speaking to us on The Funding Panel next week. Here’s your chance to Meet The Angel before the event:

The Park City Angels are a newly formed group of accredited investors located in Park City, Utah. The Park City Angels are looking to invest in promising opportunities that can produce significant shareholder return.

The active lifestyle of Park City has attracted many dynamic and successful business leaders that have deep experience in building world class businesses. The Park City Angels facilitate unique, high-caliber networking and development forums for angel investors and mentors involved in early-stage investment. Our mission is to promote best practice in order to reduce risk in early-stage investments for the benefit of entrepreneurs, investors and the community.

Our members are drawn from private groups, including investors and mentors who are interested in supporting and/or financing early-stage ventures. Our members have in common a strong desire, willingness, and capability to support ventures where they can work with management in the local region. We invest in areas where we believe our group can be a true value-added investor.

Within our group is an environment where self help and comradery predominate and where angels can develop confidence in their early-stage investment skills.

Early-stage investing today is analogous to the early days of the stock market where railways and gold mining stocks attempted to attract scarce investment dollars. Clever people made their fortunes during these exciting times. The Park City Angels provide an environment where investors can develop a clever approach to early-stage investment.

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Angel Spotlight: Scott Frazier

Scott Frazier of Utah Angels will be speaking to us on The Funding Panel next week. Here’s your chance to Meet The Angel before the event:

Scott Frazier is an angel investor and co-founder of the Utah Angels.

Frazier’s major investments include TruVision, Omniture, MyFamily.com, Corda Technologies, iCentral, Thoughtstar, Infopia, and Cerberian. Frazier serves as president of TruVision, Inc., a rapidly growing company that operates nationwide, preferred-rate provider networks for Lasik, cosmetic surgery, and hearing aids.

From 1987 to 1995, he was co-owner and CEO of Achievement Rehab, a leading provider of contract therapy to nursing homes.

Frazier grew this company from 150 employees to 2,000 employees and $100 million in revenues, prior to selling in 1995.

Frazier earned a BA in economics from BYU in1975 and an MBA from Harvard in 1978. He and his wife, Miriam, have eight children.

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Angel Spotlight: Todd Dauphinais

Todd Dauphinais of Olympus Angels will be speaking to us on The Funding Panel next week. Here’s your chance to Meet The Angel before the event:

Prior to joining Aster Capital in September 2010, Todd held various positions in General Management, Corporate Development and Strategic Consulting; Most recently as the President and General Manager of EFI Electronics where he oversaw the firm’s record growth in revenues and profitability.

Prior to this role, Todd spent five years with the Corporate Development / M&A teams at both Schneider Electric and Rockwell Automation and seven years with the Strategy & M&A practice at Deloitte Consulting with a focus on providing advice to the firm’s Energy & Utility clients. Throughout his career, Todd has closed or advised on over 20 M&A transactions in North America and Asia.

Todd holds an Masters of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelors of Business Administration with a specialization in Finance from Texas A&M University.

Todd leads Aster Capital activities in the US and manages the investments in Agilence and SemiSouth.

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Angel Spotlight: Andrew Laver

Andrew Laver of Salt Lake Life Science Angels will be speaking to us on The Funding Panel next week. Here’s your chance to Meet The Angel before the event:

Andrew Laver is currently the Managing Director of APL Capital Advisors.

Prior to founding APL Capital, Andrew gained investment and transactional experience in the venture capital and private equity industries.

Andrew also has an operations and technical background having worked as an engineering project manager at the Abbott Laboratories Hospital Products Division and as a research assistant at the University of Utah. He holds Series 7, 63, & 79 securities licenses.

Andrew has a MBA (with distinction) from New York University, and a MS in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He also holds bachelor’s degrees (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering and Asian Studies from the University of Utah.

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Angel Spotlight: Craig Bott

Craig Bott of Northern Utah Angels will be speaking to us on The Funding Panel next week. Here’s your chance to Meet The Angel before the event:

Craig Bott has provided senior level management advice and council on strategy, marketing and management to hundreds of emerging and expanding businesses throughout the western United States. He directed Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneurial Management consulting services and owned and operated his own successful consulting business for many years.

He has served in a variety of senior operational positions at such companies as Franklin Covey, MarketStar as well as the Utah Governor’s Office. He has operated and led numerous companies in the areas of software technology, consumer electronics, services, and most recently wireless broadband.

He has helped numerous businesses raise investment capital, design product and operational strategies and implement successful marketing and sales campaigns.

He has advised and consulted with numerous civic and community leaders on how best to strengthen and grow their economic and business base and achieve job growth. He has directly advised the Utah Governor’s Office on strategies to strengthen and expand the Information Technology and Aerospace industries of the state.

He is a nationally published author, and as acted as an adjunct professor at Weber State and Brigham Young Universities. He has a degree from Weber State University and a Masters in Management from Brigham Young University.

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