SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: BA Venture Partners: Focus On Hardware, Software, Biotech And Medical Devices' May 18, 2006

SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: BA Venture Partners: Focus On Hardware, Software, Biotech And Medical Devices'

Event: 'VC Breakfast: BA Venture Partners: Focus On Hardware, Software, Biotech And Medical Devices'

Date: Thursday, May 18, 2006 At 08:00
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Contact Info:
VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693 Email: jai@vigyana.com
URL: www.svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=364

The featured VC will be Sharon Wienbar, Managing Director, BA Venture Partners. www.baventurepartners.com/

EVENT LOCATION: Law Offices of O'Melveny & Myers, 2765 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025

This event is co-sponsored by O'Melveny & Myers LLP www.omm.com.

BA Venture Partners
BA Venture Partners is uniquely positioned in the venture industry to provide development capital to accelerate market traction for technology and healthcare companies.

BAVP strives to help create future market leaders. Building market traction is a key value add of BAVP?s and one that differentiates us from other venture capitalists. We add value by developing management teams, identifying optimal markets or business models and assisting with manufacturing, sales and distribution. Because we know how to navigate regulatory and capital efficiency considerations, we also add significant value in organizing clinical development strategies in healthcare.

At BAVP, we use our team to work closely with entrepreneurs to solve their business challenges and gain momentum in the marketplace so they are more successful. Since our founding in 1995 we have helped a myriad of companies obtain impressive results including Ageia Technologies, Alimera, Cardiac Pathways, Frontbridge, Glu Mobile, Monolithic Power Systems, Omniture, Placeware, Spinal Kinetics and Wayport.

With initial investments ranging from $2 - 15 million, we focus on promising opportunities in hardware, software, biotech and medical devices.BAVP has a legacy of success. In 2005, we had five liquidity events, including three acquisitions, one IPO and one IPO filing. We invested $140 million in 28 companies; 10 were new BAVP investments, the remaining were follow-on BAVP investments.

Sharon Wienbar
Venture capital allows Sharon Wienbar to combine her many talents and interests: an engineer's excitement about the possibilities of new technology, a consultant's disciplined, analytical vision of markets, and an entrepreneur's passion to make new products come alive.

Sharon brings these qualities together to build traction for business and consumer software and services companies at BA Venture Partners, which she joined in 2001. She helped Bellamax and Teros identify and target cost-efficient, leadership market segments for their technologies. With her counsel, FaceTime expanded its strategy and technology development and acquired international operations. She supported Biz360's transition from an analytic tools company to a market information services model. Sharon is famous for nabbing her investment in Sorrent by pushing the CEO to gain market share more aggressively, and she has worked closely with the company to drive international success. Sharon sits on the boards of Bellamax, Biz360, Facetime Communications, Glu Mobile, Merchant Circle, Myelin Repair Foundation, and Reply.com. ?

Prior to BAVP, Sharon spent 15 years at Critical Path, Amplitude Software, Adobe Systems and Bain & Company. Among her varied responsibilities, she directed marketing strategies and operations, integrated product and service businesses following acquisitions, managed the application of technology to Pacific Rim and European markets, and negotiated complex intellectual property licenses.

With a BA and MA in Engineering from Harvard University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Sharon has the expertise and background to ensure her companies get traction in their markets.

COST: $25 SVASE Members; $39 Affiliates; $49 Non-members. This event is for ENTREPRENEURS ONLY, BY PREREGISTRATION ONLY.

This event is co-sponsored by O'Melveny & Myers LLP www.omm.com.

CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693
LOCATION:Law Offices of O'Melveny & Myers, 2765 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025