Our Programs
VentureOut Explore One-Week Market Exploration Programs
Meet decision makers in Enterprise Software
Meet 20 thought leaders, decision-makers and investors in Enterprise SaaS in NYC in 3 days. Whether innovation officers at top corporates, the most active venture investors or CEOs of the most innovative startups, this program will super charge your network in Enterprise Software.
Meet influential [SECTOR] investors
Meet over a dozen tier-1 venture capitalists and angel investors focused on Enterprise Software.Through VC office visits, one-to-one meetings and our pitch events, you will have the opportunity to learn from and pitch some of the world's leading Enterprise SaaS investors.
Develop your advisor and mentor network
Through one-to-one mentoring and advisory sessions with serial entrepreneurs, investors and industry thought leaders, you will have an opportunity to gain insights and feedback to enable a transformation in your strategy, pitch and messaging. Build an actionable network of mentors and advisors that you can leverage for years to come.
Accelerate your sales and marketing machine
For those of us that have not been a VP of Sales or Marketing, we are currently running the largest company we have ever run. The knowledge required to build scalable and replicable sales and marketing operations is something we need to learn: what are the right roles to hire for, processes that allow scalable repetition, tools to support these efforts? Come join us and learn!
Testimonials
Maximilian Lanaro
Competitoor
"I come from a tech background and needed to develop a firmer understanding of sales procedures, for me, this has been the most important takeaway from VentureOut. Additionally, the caliber of contacts in this program is one of the highest of any program I've participated in."
Roger Kiger
Smart RIA
"I could have spent a month meeting the best people in Knoxville and it wouldn't have compared to 3 days with VentureOut in New York City. The most valuable part of the program was the feedback I received at pitch night, I think that experience will help immensely as we approach other VCs in the future."
Barak Oksayan
Tatjack
"VentureOut completely changed how I communicate with my customers so that I can be more effective through my interactions with them. I also learned which unit economics to focus on and that significantly improved my company's pitch."
Miko Goldstein
Waveum
"VentureOut helped me understand how to transition from a product-focused startup to a customer-focused business. My eyes were opened so that I could see problems from the customer's perspective. Although I had heard this before, I truly lived it during the program."
Enterprise Tech Partners
ChalkRow Ventures
ChalkRow is a growth marketing firm bridging US (NY) based companies with European tech small & medium sized businesses. Based in Berlin, Europe’s hottest innovation hub, they enable large to small companies explore, connect and or expand. They provide firms such as venture capital, fast growing SMBs and enterprises with due diligence and matching services that are necessary to tap the European market. Whether the route of entry is through an investment opportunity or technology integration, they are on the ground with tactical ecosystem experience and partnerships and can help you meet your needs.
www.chalkrow.comSalesHacker Conference
Sales Hacker Inc. is an organization dedicated to helping B2B companies and sales reps build modern, efficient, and high tech sales processes that generate more revenue using less resources. Hence the term, Sales Stack, which they coined last year. These companies range from the hottest early stage startups, to rapid growth stage companies, and up to the Fortune 500."
http://www.saleshacker.comEnterprise Tech Mentors
Vijay Nagappan
Principal
MHS Capital
Vijay joined MHS Capital in 2010 to work with entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies. In 2002, Vijay joined his first startup, Wired Gamez, where he was responsible for customer sourcing business development and new market expansion. After Wired Gamez, he developed a web-based CRM and job management system for a recruiting services company, built a data-driven forecasting model as part of AND1’s retail strategy, and developed data scraping/cleaning algorithms to track what TV broadcast content was being illegally downloaded across the web.
http://www.mhscapital.com/aboutAlexander Niehenke
Principal
Scale Venture Partners
Alex has over a decade of experience in advising and investing in early and growth stage software startups. At ScaleAlex focuses on opportunities in business software (marketingsalesHRfinance) and vertical software (financial servicescommerceetc). He has been involved with the firm's investments in Bill.comDemandbasePeopleMatterand Sailthru.
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http://www.scalevp.com/team/alex-niehenkeCarlos Baradello
Managing Partner
Sausalito Ventures
Dr. Carlos Baradello is an investoradvisor and public speaker. A leading innovation and entrepreneurship practitionerCarlos draws his understanding from his broad global business and academic experiencedeep technical knowledge and understanding of the realities innovators encounter in organizations both large and small. His experience working with hundreds of entrepreneurs around the world has enabled him to gain key lessons for high-growth ventures to scale globally.
http://sausalitoventures.comRobert Neivert
Venture Partner
500 Startups
I am presently a Venture Partner at 500 Startups specializing in B2B seed investments. Previously I was an executive for startups having founded or worked at eight companies with four exits and four companies still operating. I was CEO for last two venture funded start-ups. I also maintain a broad domain of expertise, having held leadership positions in products, marketing, and operations. Academic credentials include a BA, BS, MS, and MBA degree from Stanford, Wesleyan, and Santa Clara. I am a 500 startups Venture Partner, a mentor/advisor for Cardinal Ventures, Stanford iFarm, and Stanford's Treehacks program as well as an executive advisor for over 15 funded startups, and previously held the position of Executive in Residence at Quest Venture Partners.
http://500.co/team/robert-neivertMatt Bruno
Engagement Manager
Fahrenheit 212
We are an innovation consultancy creating new products, services and experiences that deliver sustainable, profitable growth for the world’s most ambitious companies.
www.fahrenheit-212.comChris DeMayo
Partner
Withum
Chris is a partner at Withum and serves as the firm’s Practice leader for the Technology and Emerging Growth Services Group. With over 15 years of experience, he has dedicated his time to servicing this industry and tech community and has had the privilege of working and building relationships with some of the most well-known and successful technology and emerging growth companies in the space. In addition to servicing his clients, his responsibilities include representing the firm in the marketplace, developing marketplace strategies, leading the growth and success of the firm’s technology and emerging growth practice.
www.withum.comElliott Levine
Distinguished Technologist and Director of Education
HP
Elliott has experience working inside of academia in K-12 and Higher Education, as well as a wealth of startup experience and background as an executive in a Fortune 50 company (the first HP Distinguished Technologist in Education). His skill set crosses sales, marketing, partnerships, alliances, strategic planning, channel/reseller execution, STEM education, columnist and customer/media facing speeches and keynotes.
At HP, his vision is to create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere — every person, every organization, and every community around the globe. This motivates them — inspires them — to do what they do. To make what they make. To invent, and to reinvent. To engineer experiences that amaze.
Sam Jacobs
Consultant
Aqueduct Revenue Advisors
Aqueduct is a strategic CRO consulting practice helping early and mid stage companies scale more effectively.
We provide a full diagnostic assessment of your current revenue organization and offer full deployment capabilities to scale.
Elizabeth Young
SVP of Sales & Marketing
Reonomy
Navigating CRE markets can be a painfully slow process that is difficult to manage. Assorted processes and tools—some digital, some manual—produce heaps of data. Relevant, up-to-date property specs are buried into the mix, or they're nowhere to be found.
We set out to change all that.
Emily Matorin
VP of Global Sales & Account Management
Pond5
Pond5 is a global media marketplace providing artists around the world with an opportunity to license their work to an international community of media producers and brands. We work with more than 60,000 contributors in 150 countries, with over 10,000 video clips uploaded to our site every day.
www.pond5.comDave Govan
Vice President of Sales
Hitachi
e are on the threshold of the IoT era, where all things are connected to one another through digital technology, transforming the way we do business, the shape of industry, and people's lifestyles.
Anticipating these changes, Hitachi is advancing its 2018 Mid-term Management Plan to become an Innovation Partner for the IoT Era. In fiscal 2016—the first year of its three-year plan with a target date set for fiscal 2018—Hitachi transitioned from a product-out organizational structure to a market-driven one, and worked vigorously to launch the Lumada IoT platform to enable new value creation.
Today, we are engaged in helping resolve a wide range of social issues through the global implementation of our Social Innovation Business—which combines the operational technologies that have been our strength since our founding with the expertise in IT we have amassed over more than half a century, including such new digital technologies as big data analysis and AI.
The needs of our customers and the issues confronting society today are constantly changing. Responding quickly and effectively to those changes requires collaborative creation with customers and partners. We will work with all of you to address shared issues, exchange ideas, and create new value for society by contributing to the enhancement of people's quality of life and the building of a sustainable society.
Wendy Xiao Schadeck
Investment Manager
Northzone
Northzone is a technology investment partnership. Since 1996, we have been chosen by exceptional entrepreneurs as a long-term partner for growth. So far, we have invested in over 100 companies, injecting some 200 years of collective operational and investment experience into businesses that truly make a difference.
northzone.comVanessa Liu
VP, SAP.io Foundry
SAP Foundry
Growing a generation of revolutionary software businesses in the SAP ecosystem.
We help innovators inside and outside of SAP build products, find customers, and change industries.
Enterprise Tech Alumni
continuousphp
Continuous PHP is a platform as a service to build, test and deliver PHP applications. Customers like the European Commission, mypetcredential.com, bookmylimo.com, PowerLab and many others have chosen them to decrease their time-to-market of their web applications development, to lower their maintenance costs, save money and increase their developers productivity with their Lean Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution which is based on a fast and scalable cloud infrastructure.
continuousphp.comMayvin
Mayvin is a PR analytics platform powered by proprietary data. They're replacing biased polls and useless social media analytics with reliable insight. Tap into millions of conversations about important issues. Mayvin built the world’s largest source of PR data because they own the fastest growing outreach tools for grassroots leaders.
http://www.mayv.inRally Bus
By specializing in peak travel to large events, Rally Bus has created a crowdsourced, on-demand, pop-up mass transit solution to mobilize communities across the US and Canada. Their innovative logistics, technology and mobile solutions offer like-minded event-goers the best ridesharing option. Riders can create their own events and routes or join one of the many offered. Efficiently communicating with a vast network of service providers – the charter bus companies themselves – Rally Bus uses the excess capacity of these vendor partners. Special on-board amenities (bathroom; permitting of alcohol consumption; audio/visual) offer our riders a new kind of experience and make people rethink travel time as part of the day’s excitement and fun. With tens of thousands riders already using Rally Bus, they look to expand with further investment.
http://rallybus.netLoot!
Loot! is helping brands engage with customers at scale. Our mobile platform allows brands to run incentivized word-of-mouth campaigns to amplify social awareness, create user generated content and engage customers with fun experiential events easier than ever.
http://loot-app.comDataCulture
DataCulture is building world's first predictive decision engine for logistics and supply chain SaaS. With this technology, companies can now automate analytically critical tasks. DataCulture's proprietary machine learning allows for pattern recognition with decision end points that make the software driven supply chain ecosystem a lot more efficient. "
http://dataculture.inRentalsForce
Simple, web-based management software for all of your rental needs. RentalsForce is a property management platform, serving brokers and agents as a CRM helping them manage dozens of properties and hundreds prospects, as well as a tool for property managers to manage all properties and tenants in one place, even syncing listing updates across multiple home rental websites, including AirBnB, HomeAway and RentGetaways.
http://www.rentalsforce.comTatJack
TatJack works with both tattoo artists and tattoo seekers to provide a national directory of body art specialists. We solicit submissions from permanent tattoo artists who are currently seeking new clients. Prospective clients can browse our directory or search by location, then reach out to artists to book an appointment directly through our mobile apps.
tatjack.comCompetitoor
Competitoor is an advanced, data platform that provides global information on pricing and competitive insight far beyond any solution in the market. Competitoor is the most innovative online solution for price tracking and retail competitive intelligence. If a retailer applies to your item a price which is far beyond the average or the price changes frequengly, Competitoor is going to inform you immediately.
competitoor.comSmart RIA
Smart RIA is a fast-growing SaaS company well-positioned in the hot RegTech market. Our software automates and significantly simplifies the management of regulatory compliance for investment advisors.
www.smart-ria.comWaveum
Waveum is the first-ever collaborative network with complete end-to-end encryption. We call it a "compliant Dark Web". It all started the day we resolved to tackle the challenge of creating the first end-to-end encryption framework for the Cloud. Growing problems around cyberattacks, privacy and surveillance made us realized that it was of paramount importance to organizations that we create a “dark” interactive network that reaches across the entire infrastructure of their online community, from coworkers to partners to clients. That dream has come to fruition with Waveum. Our mission is to federate organizations of all sizes inside the first end-to-end encrypted network where they can exchange information in real time and collaborate in total privacy and security.
www.waveum.com