Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM, PDT
As a founder, you may feel like strategic partnerships could be a huge help OR a huge distraction. Join us for a conversation on building relationships with strategics, moderated by Liz Wessel, CEO of WayUp. WayUp has entered strategic partnerships with relevant or even competitive companies that have helped their business tremendously, led to an investment, led to more channel partnerships, led to inbound M&A interest, been an utter waste of time, and more. They even heard of companies having their work/ideas stolen as a result. Often, it can be hard to evaluate whether to enter into a strategic partnership, what the best way to think about the time commitment should be, and so on. For this discussion, we will focus on strategic partnerships from a BD/Corp Dev sense rather than a sales sense. As such, we thought we would bring together Founders and CEOs to share stories/advice on how they’ve gone about strategic partnerships, what has or hasn’t worked, and so on.
Stifel is a diversified global wealth management, investment bank, and commercial banking company. Our Venture Banking group provides commercial banking and debt capital financing solutions to venture capital-backed technology companies and their investors. Committed to supporting the innovation community, our entrepreneurial culture and long-term vision make Stifel Bank the right banking partner for Founders and Companies.
Crosslink Capital is a leading early-stage investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area investing in emerging growth companies since 1989. They are a proven team of early stage business builders investing out of their ninth fund ($350M). Crosslink partners with ambitious entrepreneurs who are reshaping massive markets with disruptive technology.
Fenwick provides comprehensive legal services to leading technology and life sciences companies — at every stage of their lifecycle — and the investors that partner with them. For more than four decades, Fenwick has helped some of the world's most recognized companies become and remain market leaders. For more information, please visit fenwick.com
Burkland provides strategic financial services for venture-back startups to help them scale. They offer Fractional CFO, Startup Accounting & Bookkeeping, Tax Services, People Ops, and Financial Due Diligence.
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We’re a network of firms in 152 countries with over 327,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services.