News (4/7/09): 20th Annual Venture Capital Investing Conference

20th Annual Venture Capital Investing Conference

 *     June 3-5, 2009      *       The Palace Hotel     *      San Francisco, CA     *

For 20 years, the Venture Capital Investing Conference has served as the premier industry
gathering for over 400 venture capitalists and limited partners.

In a market squeezed by fewer
opportunities for exits, the financial strength and growth pattern of
today’s start-ups will be severely affected. Maneuvering through these
troubled times is the primary concern for the VC community, as a
highly unsettled market offers limited options for future exit
strategies. Having survived a tumultuous 2008 with Wall Street’s
failures and the lack of consumers investing, these conditions further
dampens the return of a strong IPO market, leaving many VCs to ponder
how best to serve the entrepreneurial partner.

Throughout each cycle, the VC community as a whole requires a forum to
share insight and comment on the U.S. economy, market drivers, and
industry trends.   For the past two decades, the IBF Venture Capital
Investing Conference continues to provide an atmosphere where industry
veterans and GP fund managers in the trenches can regroup and
collectively identify strategies and business models to ensure
continued success.

Founded by some of the most prominent VCs including Richard Kramlich,
Co-Founder & General Partner, New Enterprise Associates; Jim Swartz,
General Partner, Accel; Brook Byers, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers; Irwin Federman, General Partner, U.S. Venture
Partners; and Sandy Robertson, General Partner, Francisco Partners,
this conference offers a forum to reconnect with your peers and
understand how each investor group is reacting to these market
conditions.

“Congratulations IBF on your 20th Annual VC conference! NVCA has
consistently supported IBF’s venture conferences because IBF
understands the venture community: we want thought provoking sessions
which are efficiently run and moderated combined with networking
opportunities with our peers in a quality location. Many groups have
tried, and none have succeeded, in emulating IBF’s strategy for
engaging the venture capital community. NVCA is happy to have been,
and will continue to be, a major supporter of IBF.” -Mark Heesen,
President, National Venture Capital Association*NVCA

About the IBF Venture Capital Investing Conference

IBF organized the first Venture Capital Investing Conference back in
1989, which has continued to unite venture capitalists and limited
partners. Set in San Francisco, this event is consistently regarded as
the most important gathering of its kind, uniting hundreds of venture
firms which paved the way for the expanded path of the industry.   IBF
is privileged to celebrate the 20th year for the community as a whole,
as now more than ever, VC investors and limited partners need to
address the changed landscape for investing due to global economic
conditions and tackle pressing issues impacting VC asset class.

Audience Profile: Venture capitalists, institutional investors,
corporate investors, limited partners, pension funds, endowments and
foundations, fund of funds, family offices, investment bankers, and
other private equity investors.

2009 Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation

This honor is extended by IBF to investors who, during their lifetime
and career, have made creative contributions of outstanding
significance to venture capital industry. Others who have been honored
by this award include the following distinguished venture capitalists:
David Morgenthaler, Irwin Federman, John Mumford, and Reid Dennis.

Award Recipient: William H. Draper, III, General Partner, Draper Richards

Special presentation by Timothy Draper, Founder & Managing Director of
Draper Fisher Jurvetson

With over forty years of experience, William H. Draper III is one of
the West Coast’s first venture capitalists. He is General Partner of
Draper Richards L.P., a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage
technology companies in the U.S., and Draper International, a venture
capital fund investing in private companies with operations in the
U.S. and India. Mr. Draper was founder of Sutter Hill Ventures in Palo
Alto, California. During his twenty years as the senior partner of
Sutter Hill, he helped to organize and finance several hundred high
technology manufacturing companies. Mr. Draper served from 1981 to
1986 as President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United
States. In 1986, he became the head of the world’s largest source of
multilateral development grant assistance, the United Nations
Development Program. In addition to serving on many corporate boards
of directors, Mr. Draper has served on the boards of the Atlantic
Council, Draper Richards Foundation, Hoover Institution, Institute of
International Studies at Stanford University, World Affairs Council of
Northern California and the United Nations Association-USA. Mr. Draper
formerly served as the Chairman of the World Affairs Council of
Northern California, Chairman of the Institute of International
Education, as a Trustee of Yale University and as Chairman of the
Board of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco; he was a
former Board member of Population Action International, George Bush
Library Foundation, the Advisory Council of the Stanford Graduate
School of Business, and the World Rehabilitation Fund in New York. He
is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the President’s
Council on International Activities at Yale University. In 2005, he
received the Vision Award from SD Forum and was inducted into the Dow
Jones Venture Capital Hall of Fame. In 2006, he received the Silicon
Valley Fast 50 Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Distinguished
Service Award from the Institute of International Education. Mr.
Draper has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, and a
Master of Business degree, with distinction, from the Harvard Graduate
School of Business.

Visit the IBF website: www.ibfconferences.com for more information or
to register for the conference. You can also register by contacting
IBF Registrar (Cathy Fenn) at (516) 765-9005, Ext. 210 or e-mail:
cathy@ibfconferences.com
Mention discount code E-PED to receive a $300 discount off the general
registration fee of $1,995.  This offer expires April, 30, 2009. This
discount is not valid on any other rates or for any other conferences
and cannot be combined with any other offers.