From Dorm Rooms to the Moon: An Aerospace Event #LATechWeek
Event Details 🤩
Southern California is home to the world's biggest aerospace hub; From SpaceX to NASA JPL and Relativity Space, there truly is no better place to gather the innovators driving humanity to the stars and beyond. Join us for an evening of stories and insights from some of the best aerospace founders and investors on October 16th evening. Priority given to founders, researchers and engineers in aerospace or deeptech.
Schedule:
Open Networking at 5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Panel #1 at 6:05 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.: "To Investors and Beyond" (Moderator: Delian Asparouhov, Partner @ Founders Fund)
Connor Love: Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners; Former Active Duty Captain in the US Army.
Shawn Xu: Partner at Lowercarbon Capital; Former Investor at Floodgate, Partner at OnDeck, and led International Expansion at Square.
Brittany Walker: General Partner at CRV; Former Investing Intern at Crosscut Ventures, Partner at Dorm Room Fund; Co-lead for Apex Space's Series B
Panel #2 at 7:00 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.: "Houston, We Have Founders" (Moderator: Harrison Berger, MP @ Crater Ventures)
Jordan Noone: Co-Founder and General Partner at Embedded Ventures; Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Zoo; Co-Founder and Former CTO of Relativity Space.
Delian Asparouhov: Co-Founder and President of Varda Space Industries; Partner at Founders Fund; Former Principal Khosla Ventures and Chief of Staff for Keith Rabois.
Ian Cinnamon: Co-Founder and CEO of Apex Space; Co-Founder of Synapse Technology Corporation (acquired by Palantir), and Founding Partner of Superlabs (acquired by Zynga).
Open Networking at 7:50 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Presented by Crater Ventures 🌙
Crater Ventures is a student run angel syndicate built to back student/alumni founders from SoCal universities at the earliest stages. Our team spans 10+ universities across Southern California. If there is a startup on our campus or beyond, we'll know about it.
For more information, visit crater.vc 🌙
Sponsored by USC's Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies 💡
The Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies is USC’s hub for entrepreneurship programming, education and thought leadership. Open to students of all majors and at any stage in their entrepreneurial journeys, the Greif Center’s focus is on serving as catalysts for founders and innovators.
For more information, visit https://www.marshall.usc.edu/departments/lloyd-greif-center-entrepreneurial-studies 💡
Sponsored by Ramp 💸
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For more information, visit ramp.com 💸
Tech Week 🚨
This event is a part of #TechWeek, a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to celebrate the growing LA ecosystem.