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David Gerhardt

 
Founder - Capnet Ventures
 
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Company Name : Capnet Ventures
 
Company Website : www.capnetventures.com
 
Company Address : PO Box 26363
, Austin, TX,
United States,
 
David Gerhardt Profile :
Founder - Capnet Ventures
 
David Gerhardt Biography :

David Gerhardt is the founder of Capnet Ventures which provides a range of services to help growth companies build their business. Services include Strategy and Business Plan Development, Customer Development, Capital Raising Advisory, Strategic Alliance Assistance, Board and Advisory Board building. David has over 20 years of experience as a founder, principal, investor and advisor to companies, helping them develop and implement their business strategies and business plans, get customers, identify advisors and management, find strategic partners and raise capital. He has strong relationships in the entrepreneurial and investor communities and maintains an extensive network of seasoned business advisors including successful entrepreneurs, experienced executives, angel investors and institutional investors. He has worked with growth companies in a variety of industries including software, business services, communications, retail, e-commerce, video games, semiconductors, materials technology and health-care. David organized and managed some of the largest venture capital and angel conferences in the US. He has been a Finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award and recently was named one of the Heavy Hitters in Finance and Venture Capital by the Austin Business Journal. He was co-founder and Managing Director of CN Group (now Westlake Group), which provided venture development, corporate finance, business management assistance, and other services to entrepreneurial companies. Previously David helped organize and served as President of The Capital Network, which created and ran some of the largest venture conferences in the US. The Capital Network brought together investors, growth companies and related service professionals with participating companies raising more than $300 million. Flagship events included the annual Texas Equity Capital Conference, the Southwest Equity Capital Summit and Southwest Bio Venture Conference and the quarterly Texas Angel Investors meetings. He also organized and managed the MentorFoundry, which helped entrepreneurs build their Boards and Advisory Boards and define and refine their strategies to position them for growth. David worked for the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas, a business think tank, where he was involved in the development of The Capital Network and the Austin Technology Incubator, one of the nation's premier business incubators. While at IC2 he also worked with the Center for Technology Development and Transfer where he assisted in the commercialization of University research. David previously served as Chief Information Officer of BEI, Inc, a financial services systems startup, where he was responsible for software systems development and deployment. BEI achieved the INC 500 ranking for fast growth during his time there. David holds Computer Science and MBA degrees from the University of Texas. He helped organize the Venture Fellows Program, an MBA course at UT-Austin, which teaches students about the venture industry and places them as interns in venture funds. David is an active supporter of a many charitable, community and educational organizations and has served on a number of for-profit and non-profit Boards and Advisory Boards.

 
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