2025 Women in CVC Summit presented by Counterpart Ventures

Hosted by Abbie Wolf, Tanvi Narain & Nandini Agarwal

San Francisco, California

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About Event

**We are at capacity for the full-day event, please register to join the waitlist. We still have spots for founders during the evening/ social portion.

Counterpart Ventures welcomes you to our third annual Women in CVC Summit. Last year we brought over 50 female corporate investors from across the country for a day full of networking and discussion. We are excited to build off of this momentum and gather in the Presidio for our third annual summit, the only all-day summit exclusively for women in corporate venture.

Where: The Presidio is an SF gem filled with expansive trails and lush greenery. It is just miles from downtown San Francisco and steps away from the iconic Golden Gate Bridge.

Founders and Friends: While the all-day event is geared towards active female corporate investors, we're opening the keynote and evening reception to female founders and other allies.

Schedule of Events

Thursday, May 8th

Key Times to be Aware of:

9:00AM - Doors open for registration & networking
10:00AM - Opening Welcome
12:15PM - Lunch
4:00PM - Founder Portion Begins
4:30PM - Eve Burton Keynote Address
5:15 PM-late: Evening Reception with Founders and Allies (Colibri Mexican Grill, next Door to Officer's Club)

Morning Sessions

10:15-10:45 AM: From the Inside Out: Building Funds, Boards, and Legacies
Amy Banse, Fmr. Head of Comcast Ventures, now Board member @ Adobe Inc., The Clorox Company, On Holding AG and Lennar Corp. and Venture Partner at Mosaic
Renata Quintini, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Renegade Partners

11:00-11:30 AM: Aduro Fund Performance Report + Fireside with First Close Partners
Belle Raab, Head of Client Experience, Aduro Advisors
Carolina Huaranca Mendoza, Co-Founder & General Partner, First Close Partners

11:30-11:45 AM Coffee Break

11:45 AM-12:15 PM: From the Frontlines: Bellwether Funds Decode the Changing CVC Landscape
Radhika Malik, Partner, Dell Tech Capital
Stephanie Cherrin, Partner, JP Morgan Technology Ventures
Renuka Kumar, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

12:15-1:15 PM: Lunch

Afternoon Sessions

1:30-2:00 PM: Winning through Startups in the Age of AI. Best Practices from AWS Venture Innovation
Kate Niedermeyer, Principal, Corporate Venture Capital and Innovation, AWS Startups
Jelena Joffe Weil, Worldwide Venture Innovation Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2:00-2:30 PM: Behind the Scenes of Building the World's Largest CVC: Softbank Vision Fund
Angela Du, Partner, SoftBank Vision Fund
Sally Shin, Venture Partner at Comcast Ventures, Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum

2:30-3:00 PM: Building & Backing in Healthcare: GTM Lessons from Both Sides of the Table
Kristin Baker Spohn, Co-founder & Managing Partner, BAM Corner Point
Brandon Li, Co-Founder, Power

3:00-3:30: Small Group Networking (Roundtables)

3:30-4:00: Breakout Sessions

Breakout Option #1: Deal Execution: Talking about Tactics
Tamara Steffens, Managing Director, TR Ventures (Thomson Reuters), fmr. M12

Breakout Option #2: Compensation Structure for Long-Term Success
Rachel Resek, Vice President, Head of US Investments, Ki Tua Fund

Closing Keynote + Evening Founder Reception

4:00-4:30 PM: Founder Arrival + Networking

4:30-5:15 PM: The Creation and Establishment of HearstLab
Eve Burton, EVP & Chief Legal Officer, Co-founder of HearstLab, Board Member Intuit & AETN
Bonnie Rosen, General Manager, Disney Accelerator, The Walt Disney Company

5:15 PM-late: Closing Reception next door at Colibri Mexican Grill

Friday, May 9th

9:00 AM: Morning Hike, Meet at the Lands End Lookout Visitor Center

Cancellation Policy (Charity Contribution)

In the event you do not notify us 48 hours in advance of your cancellation, we kindly ask that you contribute $100 to one of these local and/or women-focused charities:

Women’s Building of San Francisco: The Women’s Building is a safe place that addresses two of San Francisco’s most pressing issues: Services and advocacy for the well-being of women and girls and affordable space for nonprofits and community members, Donation Link
WAKE (Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange) International: Uses volunteers to teach women around the world tech and career skills to improve their lives. Donation Link.
- Abbie can connect you to the WAKE founder if interested in volunteering around the Tech2Empower Rwanda, Oct 2025 program).
MLT (Management Leadership for Tomorrow): MLT provides enterprising young people with a proven playbook for economic mobility. Donation Link.
SMASH Academy: Exposing, inspiring and preparing students of color to pursue CS degrees and careers and understand the social, ethical, and political impacts of technology to contribute to a more equitable tech sector. Donation Link.

More about Counterpart Ventures and Counter Club

We are an SF and LA-based VC fund investing in B2B SaaS startups at Seed & Series A. We help build companies by providing meaningful access to real customers and strategic partnerships via our corporate venture capital community called the Counter Club. We are able to create this community as our founding General Partners bring 20+ years of CVC experience to Counterpart Ventures.

The Counter Club Community represents the most active and engaged network of CVCs among any traditional VC firm with over 750+ corporate VCs activated from all around the world. If you are corporate investor, we request that you create an account (https://counterclub.vc/signup) to access all events, content, and networking opportunities with others in the ecosystem.

Thank you to our partners Aduro Advisors, DLA Piper and Silicon Valley Bank who have helped the summit come to life as annual partners.