DCWEEK 2011

Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson) is a Senior Associate at kbs+p Ventures (@kbspvc), the thematic early-stage venture investment arm of the NYC advertising agency kbs+p. He is an advisor to a range of early-stage ventures and a mentor with Launch Pad Ignition, a New Orleans-based TechStars... Read More →

Dubbed "The Coach" by Marie Claire, Natalia (aka Ms. Oberti Noguera) is Founder and CEO of Pipeline Fellowship, an angel investing bootcamp for women that's changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women social entrepreneurs. Natalia holds a BA in Comparative Literature & Economics from Yale. She has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, Mashable, Reuters Money... Read More →

PartnerBrooklyn Bridge VenturesBrooklyn based VC interested in NYC area startups, and awesome people anywhere.

Don Rainey joined Grotech Ventures as a general partner in September 2007. With over $1B US under management, Grotech focuses on early stage information technology companies. Don currently serves on the boards of Grotech portfolio companies ARPU, Clarabridge, LivingSocial and Zenoss... Read More →

Paul is an entrepreneur, angel investor and business consultant based in San Francisco and Washington, DC. He has mastered the art of the hustle and has the extraordinary ability to extract a business model from a rock. Also from startups. Prior to 500, he was the founder of a handful... Read More →

iStrategy Labs and Tech Cocktail are both DC based companies that are passionate about action. Whether it's building a new product, organizing large groups of people, or hosting a 10K person event - the teams at both companies understand what it takes to take action, motivate others and make things happen. Both... Read More →