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The featured VC will be Shanda Bhales, General Partner, El Dorado Ventures, http://www.eldoradoventures.com.
This event is co-sponsored by Frank Rimerman & Co., http://www.frankrimerman.com.
El Dorado Ventures
Founded in 1986, El Dorado Ventures (EDV) is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests across the technology sector and focuses primarily on semiconductors and systems, communications, software and services.
El Dorado has a 19-year track record of successful early-stage technology investing, including early investments in Cyras Systems, EarthLink, Efficient Networks, Novellus and NuSpeed Internet Systems. Numerous EDV portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired by major technology companies, including Ciena, Cisco Systems, nVidia, Siemens and Texas Instruments.
With more than $750 million in capital under management, EDV has a stable group of institutional investors, most of whom have invested with EDV for more than a decade. EDV’s limited partners also include a select group of successful entrepreneurs and other technology luminaries, known as EDV’s Technology Partner Network, who play an active role as strategic consultants to EDV and its portfolio companies.
Shanda Bhales
Shanda Bahles is an experienced technology investor and veteran of several successful technology start-ups.
Shanda has been with El Dorado Ventures since 1987, focusing on early-stage investments in software, service and communications companies. Her investments inclue DataSage (acquired by Vignette (VIGN)), Sagent Technology (SGNT), Pilot Network Services (PILT), and Women.com (acquired by iVillage (IVIL)). She is a member of the board on Fusion One, InsideTrack, Nextance, PhotoTLC, Skytide, StoneFly Networks, Voxify, and WireCache. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such those sponsored by Venturewire and IBD Network. In 2002, she was named to Forbes’ annual “Midas List” of top-performing venture capitalists.
Prior to joining El Dorado, Shanda was a co-founder and/or early employee at several key start-ups, including Fortune Systems, Infotek, Magnuson Computer Systems and Millennium Systems. With a background in electrical engineering, Shanda began her career as a design engineer, but soon moved into executive positions in product marketing, including overall management of product marketing at Fortune Systems.
Shanda received both a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.
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