Spinning Out: Founders Equity & Raising Your First Capital
Event Details:
Location
Stanford University
The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building
Y2E2, Room 299 (The Bechtel Conference Room)
473 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94305
United States
This event is open to:
Spinning Out: Founders Equity & Raising Your First Capital
STANFORD HIT FUND - LAB TO MARKET SEMINAR SERIES
Date and Time
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
4:00 - 5:00PM (PST) followed by informal conversation with the speaker during a 5-6pm happy hour for in-person attendees
Location
The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building, Y2E2, Room 299 (The Bechtel Conference Room), 473 Via Ortega, Stanford University
Also on Zoom (link distributed to Stanford registrants)
Presentation Summary
Universities are a hub of innovation and spinning out a company based on your research is the beginning of an entirely new journey. This seminar will be a discussion of best practices for:
- Starting a company with your peers
- Splitting up the early equity pie
- Bringing on your first investment dollars
Event open to Stanford University faculty, postdocs, students, and staff. Space is limited, registration is required. A zoom link will be sent to all Stanford registrants prior to the event.
Speaker
Manny Stockman - Partner, Osage University Partners (OUP)
About the speaker
Manny joined Osage University Partners in 2015 and is responsible for leading and overseeing OUP’s deep tech investment strategy. The fund invests exclusively in startups that have spun out of university research. Manny has invested in core technology areas across software, computing, and hardware. He has held Director or Observer roles at Quintessent, NuMat, SiFive and IonQ.Prior to joining Osage, Manny was at Lockheed Martin ATL and Skunkworks. As an engineer executing on the transition of early-stage technologies into the defense industry, he often joined university researchers with his industry team to develop unique technology solutions across the materials, applied physics and photonics domains.Manny holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Aerospace Engineering and Applied Physics and a B.S.E in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University.
About the Stanford High Impact Technology (HIT) Fund
The High Impact Technology (HIT) Fund aims to accelerate the commercialization of Stanford-based innovations. We provide seed funding along with strategic and advisory support to faculty, students, postdocs, and staff to help transform innovative, advantaged, and scalable Stanford technologies into new products, services, or companies.To learn more about the HIT Fund, visit our webpage.