The American Ismaili Chamber of Commerce (AICC) has scheduled a Member Conference call focused on learning about the venture capital (VC) landscape that has helped seed multi-billion dollar global companies, including Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and many others.
Dial in to discover:
How have companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Snap gone from idea stage to global success?
How are these companies founded? Who are the people who finance them?
How does the venture capital ecosystem work behind the scenes to seeds and support startups?
Fast Facts:
What: MCC: Understanding the Venture Capital ecosystem
Who: AICC members and stakeholders
When: Wednesday, Oct 18th, 2017
Time: 9:00 pm Central (7:00 pm PT/ 10:00 pm ET)
Speaker: Arif Janmohamed, at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Please register by clicking Here.
Following registration, you will be sent a confirmation email with bridge details for the conference call.
Presenter Bio:
Arif joined Lightspeed in 2008 and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of cloud and data center technologies, as well as enterprise mobile and SaaS solutions. Arif is currently working closely with the teams at Avi Networks, Blend Labs, Highfive, Mist Systems, Netskope, Nutanix, Qubole, Takipi, TripActions, and ThoughtSpot. He was also involved in several Lightspeed investments which have had successful exits including Edge spring (acquired by Salesforce.com), Pertino Networks (acquired by Cradle point), IO Turbine (acquired by Fusion-ion), RAPsphere (acquired by AppSense), Memoir Systems (acquired by Cisco), and StreamOnce (acquired by Jive Software).
Prior to joining Lightspeed, Arif worked in the Corporate Business Development group at Cisco Systems where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, strategy, and investments in the Unified Communications, Enterprise Collaboration, Mobile, and SaaS market segments. Before joining Cisco Systems, he was with Novitas Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm.
Earlier in his career, Arif worked in technical development and product management roles at WebTV (acquired by MSFT), Andes Networks (acquired by SUNW) and Sun Microsystems.
Arif is a Charter Member and member of the Organizing Committee for the C100, a non-profit, member-driven organization that supports Canadian technology entrepreneurship through mentorship, partnership, and investment. He also founded WVP Ventures, a student-run venture capital fund, while in business school.
Arif holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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