🚀 You're invited to celebrate with us at Rocky™ Founders Choice Awards™ and holiday charity event benefitting The Eli Home hosted by TCVN and Founders Flow. 📆 Date: December 12th, from 5:00pm-9:00pm 🗺 Location: OneDigital, home of TCVN 🥂 Food & Drinks: All tickets include complimentary food and beverages (21+) 🎵 Music: Enjoy live music and entertainment by DJ Zures 👕 Attire: Wear what makes you feel confident 🎁 Bring a toy for the kids: Bring an unwrapped toy to support children in need and get a discount on your ticket Note: This is a NO PITCH event, We have all done enough pitching this year, now it’s time us to relax and have some fun with each other! Get Your Ticket --> lu.ma/rockys Cast Your Vote --> https://lnkd.in/g4qRaEbd Get Your Sponsor Table --> lu.ma/rockys Become a Lifetime Member --> https://lnkd.in/gcavJpQV Happy Holidays and #growthOC 🚀 Thank you to our event sponsors and community partners: Savvyy, Orange County OC Startup Council, UCI Beall Applied Innovation @ the Cove, UCI ANTrepreneur Center, Startup Steroid - Deal Flow | SPVs | Demo Day Platform, Persuasive Business Plans, Master Key IP, LLP, SoCal Startup Day, CRISPx | brand marketing agency
Tech Coast Venture Network
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Irvine, CA 1,323 followers
We Help First-Time Founders Become Fundable. Join our Lifetime Membership for $1/month.
About us
Tech Coast Venture Network™ (TCVN™) is celebrating it’s 40th year anniversary as a non-profit community support organization on a mission to help create economic and social impact by helping first-time founders become fundable. We are positioned in the ecosystem “between the i’s": idea and investment.” To help Founders in our community become Pitch-Polished™ and Investor-Ready™, we host three annual signature events, Survivor™ fast-pitch competition, Wingz™ angel investor speed dating, and Rocky™ founders choice award holiday celebration for charity. Our Philosophy 1) Provide an open and safe place for entrepreneurs 2) Promote a marketplace of ideas and products that aid entrepreneurs 3) Provide information and connections freely and willingly 4) Discourage predatory activities (ie: hard selling entrepreneurs) 5) Maintain a majority business owner -vs- service provider membership and attendance 6) Create involvement in the community and promote volunteerism 7) Provide affordable and easy access to benefits Our History Founded in 1984, the Tech Coast Venture Network is a non-profit organization (501c6) and one of Southern California’s premier technology business networks. Either directly or through one our members or sponsors, TCVN has delivered resources addressing numerous business challenges in areas as diverse as: education, accounting, legal services, banking services, intellectual property protection, funding, marketing, sales, publishing, strategic planning, administration, professional information, government-related guidance, and more.
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http://tcvn.com
External link for Tech Coast Venture Network
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- 201-500 employees
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- Irvine, CA
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- Nonprofit
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- 1984
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P.O. Box 6050
Irvine, CA 92616, US
Employees at Tech Coast Venture Network
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Tony Crisp 🚀
Building brands that mean business | co-founder/CEO of CRISPx brand agency | fractional CMO | Learning how to evoke emotions with science in customer…
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Steven C. Meyer
Seeking the next waypoint in disruptive technology
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Michael Sawitz
Chief Enthusiasm Officer at FastStart.studio A mixed use business incubator.
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Virginia Lorimor
CEO, The WIN Companies
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Tech Coast Venture Network reposted this
The Tech Coast Venture Network annual holiday celebration is coming up fast (December 12, 2024 at 5:00pm at OneDigital in Irvine)! This year, in addition to supporting The Eli Home through our toy donation drive, we are excited to launch our inaugural Rocky™ Founders Choice Awards - a celebration of the people in our community who have helped advance TCVN’s mission of helping first-time founders become fundable. We’re asking everyone in the community to vote for who they feel deserves recognition and has earned a Rocky™ award! Please take a minute to cast your votes here (vote for up to 3): https://lnkd.in/ghmCVwpv We also hope that you will be able to join us, so click here to purchase a ticket while they last, bring an unwrapped toy, and help support children in need: http://lu.ma/rockys All tickets include complimentary food and beverages (21+), along with live music and entertainment by DJ Zures. Tony Crisp 🚀, John Russo, A. Cathleen Greiner PHD, Aaron Klein, Laurel Tolliver, Tom Miller, Steve Brown, Bryan Ruef, Maryam Edah-Tally, Michel Haddad, Brandon Carl, Philip Topham, Michael Sterner, Michael Sawitz, Cynthia West, Ph.D., Cynthia Kirkeby, John Bradley Jackson, David Ochi, Scott Fox 🦊, Tristen Tucker, Kristen Del Dosso, Jeff Greenberg, Anshuman Sinha, David Friedman
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Business workshop & Networking event on Nov 6 Join us for a Guest Speaker event with Craig Cooke, Founder & CEO of C-Squared Professional Consulting who will talk about Executive Success Strategies. Craig will share his business wisdom, experience, and expertise in three key areas: executive leadership, brand development, and marketing communications. OneDigital who has generously sponsored their venue will be providing a Bourbon and BBQ tasting. There will be a lot of opportunities for networking. Wednesday, Nov 6 at 5 pm in Irvine Sign up here: https://lu.ma/y10ihif5
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I pitched to Jason Calacanis in front of 70 founders at the Founder University Cohort 9 Kickoff in Redwood City. I was fully prepared to be torn apart, but I was honestly stunned by his positivity and encouragement—for me and for The Event Community. What a win🌟 It took everything I had to step up and pitch. I knew I couldn’t let the opportunity slip, so I just counted down—3, 2, 1—closed my eyes, and raised my hand for the mic. 🎤 We’re only in Week 1 of 12 at Founder University, Here’s what’s I've accomplished so far: 1. Kickoff Event at the Goodwin Redwood City Office - I pitched to Jason and met some incredible founders from Cohort 9 including Mari Soonsoo Bae Jay Makarov Babatunde Fashola Paolo Shamoon Anderson Whittle Zach Castaneda Steven White Alejandro Sandoval Rachael Nelson Al Jairazbhoy Alicia Waldner Yung Spielburg Ricardo Argüello 🇨🇷 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 and Vinay C. an alumni from Cohort 7. Thank you to Kelly Schricker and Lukas Durand for hosting the event and providing pastries (probably the best I've ever had yum) 🥐 2. Joined 350 Founders for Session 1 - Seeing my application video unexpectedly play in the Founder Intros Video was surreal. Out of over 2,000+ applicants, only 10% were accepted for Cohort 9, so I couldn’t help but smile seeing myself up there with the best. 3. Met Twice with LAUNCH Investment Team - Big thanks to Lukas Durand and Kabir Dhillon for taking time to connect with me and learn about The Event Community. As one of the few solo founders in the Cohort, your feedback on my team’s speed, progress, and ideas means a lot. I’m taking it as fuel for the fire. 🔥 4. Connected with Cohort 9 Founders - Had a great call with Alicia Waldner and we’re already collaborating on ways to support each other’s businesses. Looking forward to connecting with Ari Michaelides and to meeting more Los Angeles founders this Friday, November 1, at Founder Fridays—a global series of founder-led meetups powered by This Week in Startups 5. Started Building in Public - I’m pushing myself to share more of the founder journey on socials. My Founder University acceptance post on Instagram & LinkedIn has already hit 3,284 impressions. For those who can relate to the emotional and very personal journey that happens behind the scenes of being a founder, I am currently feeling: Proud... Which is rare. I am in absolute shock with myself, my team's progress, the attention on me and The Event Community, and the crazy amount of connections I've made these last 2 months. There are so many more wins that I haven't been great at keeping up with on LinkedIn, but in the past 2 months I feel like my life, my confidence, and my hunger for success has dramatically changed. I feel proud, and I guess I'll share more about those wins in another post, because this is already getting too long... and I need to get back to building 🔨 Cheers to the start of Founder University Cohort 9 🥂
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🎉 Celebrate the holidays with us at #tcvnROCKY. Early bird tickets available now at lu.ma/ROCKYS
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We had a great first round of the IVC Idea Pitch competition with some incredible pitches by all of our student entrepreneurs. Our three industry mentors of David Ochi, Jeff Greenberg, and Michael Sawitz battled to pick their team of three entrepreneurs to mentor them for the final round. Below are the entrepreneurs and their company names who have made it to the final round and will pitch live at IVC on November 19th to industry judges to win cash and prizes. Come watch the competition and register here. bit.ly/idea-pitch-final Neika Daftari- Hearing Helper Rebecca Lee - Nutriment Ammar Soliman- Technogon Tiffany Yang - Yomechi Leo Maffey - Comfy Cuff Carina Furumoto - ECHO Gobind Singh - CaddyCam Gavin Brennen - Correlation Chloe Dalmacio- CauseConnect
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I don’t even remember when my first Tech Coast Venture Network event was, back when Bart Greenberg was running them mostly, probably around 2008. But that’s where I learned to do 60 second #pitches and eventually even won the $100 prize for one of their pitch competitions! It’s so great to see this organization continue with leaders like Tony Crisp 🚀, Tom Miller, Brandon Carl, and Aaron Klein, with a plan to help first time #founders get #funded! Let’s go! 👏👏👏
#tcvnWINGZ highlights are officially here! https://lnkd.in/g5fyP7Rd Swipe through the album for moments that captured the spirit, collaboration, and fun that made the event so memorable. 🌟 Huge thanks to all who attended, contributed, and helped make this day a success! TCA Venture Group Orange County OC Startup Council Brandon Carl Tom Miller 1st Century Bank The Eli Home Dean Talley
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#tcvnWINGZ highlights are officially here! https://lnkd.in/g5fyP7Rd Swipe through the album for moments that captured the spirit, collaboration, and fun that made the event so memorable. 🌟 Huge thanks to all who attended, contributed, and helped make this day a success! TCA Venture Group Orange County OC Startup Council Brandon Carl Tom Miller 1st Century Bank The Eli Home Dean Talley
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Tech Coast Venture Network reposted this
WINGZ™ by Tech Coast Venture Network, connected OC founders and angel investors in a "Speed Dating" event! Congrats to Dean Talley for winning the “most fundable Founder” award. Special thanks to Pat Hwang, David Friedman, Scott Fox 🦊, Ed Prado, Andrey Chabanov, Elchin Bayramov, David Ochi, Tony Crisp 🚀, and Aaron Klein for their contributions. https://lnkd.in/dsueQVuy #TCVN #WINGZEvent #AngelInvestors #Founders #StartupCommunity #OCStartups #Innovation #OCSC #GowthOC #OrangeCounty #California Scott Fox 🦊