Text Box: ESE News Text Box: Text Box: Early Stage East would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our sponsors, participants and attendees for making the Early Stage East 2008 Venture Capital Conference such an overwhelming success! This year we held our conference on June 18, 2008 at the historic Hotel DuPont in downtown Wilmington, Delaware with a sellout crowd of attendees. ESE 2008 provided an excellent opportunity for early stage companies to showcase their business ideas to venture capitalists, private investors and investment bankers. The VIP Golf tournament held at the DuPont Country Club and the Private Invitation Only VIP Reception hosted at the Brantwyn Estate on June 17 provided the perfect ice-breaker for the ‘Networking Event of the Year’. Attending entrepreneurs were appreciative of the uniqueness of the event and of the opportunity to network with investors and witness novel business ideas, all under one roof! Text Box: The investors, on the other hand, were able to interact with preselected companies to explore potential business possibilities for the future.

Celebrating the Success of ESE 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© 2008 Early Stage East

Text Box: Thanking our Sponsors of Early Stage East 2008

VIP SEGMENT SPONSORS

ESE shoots a “Hole in One”! by David J. Freschman,

President and Founder , Early Stage East

Early Stage East

Three Mill Road, Suite 201A, Wilmington, DE 19806

Tel: 302 777 2460

Email: info@earlystageeast.org
Text Box: “On behalf of my team and our investors, I want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to pitch at the conference. You guys put on an outstanding show all around and we made a lot of valuable contacts.” Mark DeSantis, President Mobile Fusion, Inc. Text Box: This year’s ESE 2008 event can be referred to as a ‘Hole in One’ on many fronts.  First, our heartiest congratulations go out to Ed Sager of Mentor Capital Partners who hit a hole in one on the 5th hole, par 3 at the DuPont Country Club where the ESE Golf Tournament was being held! This was the first time in the history of our event that a hole in one was ever shot. Ed unfortunately did not hit the hole in one on the 17th Hole where a 2008 Jaguar XKF waited to be driven away. However, being the consummate negotiator that he always is, Ed feverishly tried to trade his accomplishment from Hole 5 to Hole 17, but in the end had to be satisfied with a cash prize. Ed has vowed a repeat performance next year when another Jaguar will stand glinting in the sun to tempt the golfers. Our thanks to Union Park Jaguar for their gracious contribution of the ‘XKF Hole in One Prize’!   Needless to say, the ‘Hole in One’ did not end with the Golf Tournament. The next day, the presenting companies did an outstanding job that has been featured on the Forbes.com. Several of the presenting companies are now in review and in negotiations with various investors throughout the region. It appears that this year’s “ESE Class of 2008” may be the most actively funded ever. Our congratulations to all! We are happy to be able to bring the two parties together. ESE also scored a ‘Hole in One’ with its maiden venue – the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware. We received rave reviews from the attendees and participants throughout the event about our choice of venue, so much so, that next year’s ESE will be hosted again at the Hotel DuPont. Please don’t forget to join us at this magnificent locale and help us shoot another ‘Hole in One’ in 2009! Text Box: “I wanted to thank your team for organizing the Early Stage East Venture Fair. As someone new to the fund raising process, I was very impressed with the level of support and feedback that you get from the event.” Ravi Ganesan, Core Solutions, Inc.

An attentive audience at the ESE 2008 presentations; and below, Investors visiting the presenting companies’ booths, Hotel DuPont, Wilmington DE

Listen to what some of our participants had to say about  ESE 2008:

Announcing the renaming of the “Bio-Life-Tech Founders’ Award” to the “Robert  A. Spar Memorial Founders’ Award”.

 

BIO-LIFE-TECH 2008 coming this fall!

July 2008

 

 

Walter “Buck” Buckley, President & CEO Internet Capital Group

Doug Alexander, Managing Director, Internet Capital Group

Early Stage East 2008 Award Winners

Early Stage East was proud to present the 2008 Sal Buccieri Memorial Venture Impact Award  to Walter “Buck” Buckley, President and CEO and Doug Alexander, Managing Director, Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ: ICGE) for encouraging early stage entrepreneurial opportunities to succeed and flourish.

 

Early Stage East honored RoseAnn Rosenthal, President and CEO of Ben Franklin Technology Partners with the 2008 Early Stage East Founders’ Award for showing outstanding leadership of and commitment and support to the venture capital community as a whole.

RoseAnn Rosenthal, President and CEO, Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Text Box: Congratulations to the Companies winning the following Awards: Company Most Likely to Receive Funding: Magnify.net Best Exhibiting Company: Dirty Dog Franchising Group, LLC People’s Choice Award: SonoMedix Inc. Text Box: Congratulations to our Presenting Companies at the Early Stage East 2008 Venture Capital Conference: Advanced Mobile Solutions Agilence Inc Change Dynamics CORE SOLUTIONS, INC. Dirty Dog Franchising Group, LLC Text Box: Element ID, Inc. Goozex, Inc. Healthy Humans Information Assurance Corporation k Technology Corporation LMC Software Solutions, LLC Magnify.net Maverick Network Solutions M-Dot Text Box: MobileFusion, Inc. mVisum, Inc. NAYATEK QuickWaters Software, LLC Sivox Skill Survey SOMS Technologies SonoMedix Inc.

ESE Shoots a “Hole In One”!