ISA - North America: Events (2008)

Read about this year's event (2009).

"Swedish High Tech Comes to Silicon Valley"

Meet Technology Startups Seeking Funding

(Click here to read about the exhibiting Swedish companies.)

 

Event Date: 11 November 2008

Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA

Venue

Quadrus Conference Center, QCC Room, 2400 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025    [map]

Theme

CEOs of cutting edge Swedish wireless, IT, electronics, and internet startups, and leading Swedish VC and corporate venture investors will come from Sweden to give brief presentations about their companies and financing interests to an audience of US venture investors and corporate development executives. The focus will be on early stage companies in the IT and Telecommunications (ICT) markets.

To see some of our press coverage, click here:
Google; Morningstar; Forbes; MarketWatch; EuroInvestor; Yahoo Finance

 

Program

Click here to download our program featuring these keynote speakers

  • Henry Gooss, President & CEO, Investor Growth Capital [ bio, links]
  • Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures [bio, links]
  • Don Wood, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson [bio, links]

To see a video of Vinod Khosla's talk, click here.

Who’s Coming?

These organizations are invited:

  • Active US investors and Corporate Development executives, who are focused on Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
  • Swedish startups and venture capital firms working in ICT

Click here to read about the exhibiting Swedish companies.

Attending US companies:

  • Agilent Technologies
  • Atrium Capital
  • Burrill & Company
  • CrossBridge Ventures
  • Draper Fisher Jurvetson
  • Google
  • Harris & Harris Group
  • Investor Growth Capital
  • Khosla Ventures
  • Micron Technology Inc.
  • Newbury Ventures
  • Quan Management
  • Rockport Capital Partners
  • Samsung Ventures
  • Sierra Ventures
  • Vision Capital

Registration and information

To register for this invitation-only event, or to send questions or comments please contact Maja Svensson, +1 212 702 8780, usa@isa.se.

Did you know…?

  • Sweden's private equity investments as a percentage of GDP exceeded the United States in 2005.
  • Some 80% the total capital in Swedish PE funds is from other countries.
  • There are 80 Swedish VC firms with 800 portfolio companies
  • The turnover of these companies accounts for 10% of the Swedish GDP
  • Since 2006, nine Swedish companies have been among Red Herring’s Top Private Firms (Rebtel, Packetfront, Nanoradio, Polar Rose, Cypak, Hotsip, MySQL, Operax, and Transmode)
  • Since 2000, Sweden’s investors have had 196 successful exits, including 38 IPOs
  • In the last three years there have been 81 exits with 17 IPOs

Would you like to know…?

  • How Sweden, a nation of only nine million people, does it?
  • How they think about innovation?
  • What is their secret sauce?
  • What’s a triple-helix?
  • Why Sweden has more cell phones than people?
  • If individual reindeer on the tundra really have GPS?
  • What startup companies are now emerging from Sweden’s innovation pipeline?

You can click below to download literature about Venture Capital and the ICT industry in Sweden.

Lodging and transportation

Click here for information about nearby hotels

Local transportation links:

Information links

The ICT Industry in Sweden

Slide Presentation: Swedish ICT Market Overview
Slide Presentation: Swedish ICT Opportunities
Publication: ICT in Fact
Publication: Wireless Sweden
Publication: Broadband Sweden
Publication: Game Development
Publication: Telematics

Capital Investment in Sweden

Publication: Venture Capital
Publication: Business and Investment Opportunities 2008-09
Slide Presentation: Business and Investment Opportunities 2008
Slide Presentation: Sweden as an Investment Location 2008
Slide Presentation: Opportunities in the Baltic Sea region 2007
Fact Sheet: Taxes in Sweden
Slide Presentation: Attractive tax climate for holding companies
Swedish Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA)

 

This by-invitation-only event is hosted by Invest in Sweden Agency    http://www.isa-northamerica.org/


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Our last investment event was held on 13 March 2008 at House of Sweden in Washington DC.  This event attracted investors representing over USD 20 billion in funds under management.

Core Capital Partners
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
HealthCap
Karolinska Development
NGN Capital
Nordberg Capital
OrbiMed Advisors, LLC
Perseus L.L.C.
Polaris Ventures
Swedish American Life Science Summit
US Department of State

Click here for more info, or download the executive presentation.

 

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