SWITE: VC Behind The Scenes Workshop

​SWITE (Stanford Women in Tech Entrepreneurship)

​Lauri is a Stanford MBA alumna with extensive experience as a product manager at Apture, Vast, LinkedIn, and more. She was a Co-Founder of Aplomb (acquired by LinkedIn) and is currently a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

​Please welcome Lauri as she hosts a workshop on the day-to-day VC job, covering the following topics and questions:

• ​The deal sourcing, due diligence, and finance assessment processes. How to identify the qualities of a good startup, the founding team, the product-market fit, etc?

• ​What is a day like as a partner at BVP? How do you get to know the founders?

• ​To which investors should I pitch my idea? After being in both the tech and VC industry for several years, what are the things you wish you'd known when you were a founder?

• ​How does BVP establish its strategies? How do you choose your area of focus?

• ​Different routes into VC (Founder to VC route, finance to VC route, product manager to VC route, etc.) and advice for aspiring female VCs.