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When
11.6.2024 at 8:00AM - 11.7.2024 at 5:00PM
Where
,The Premier Event for Innovators and Investors
Featuring leading venture fund managers, corporate executives, strategic investors, and founders speaking about topics like; Buildings, Infrastructure, and Construction Tech including; planning and design, pre-construction services, construction, modularization, building products and materials, advanced tools, equipment and robotics, logistics and supply chain, and building and infrastructure operations, and management. Join us as we take the pulse of the industry's startup ecosystem this year.
Featured Events at Venture East
Aside from a slate of amazing paneslists and keynote speakers, Venture East offers attendees unique experiences throughout the event. Facilitated networking for both startups and investors, an awards program, a demo day competition, and small forum meetings have pushed this event beyond a typical conference.
Dealmaker's Alley Investor Participants
Dealmaker’s Alley, which was first conceptualized at the 2023 Venture West Conference, is a unique opportunity for solution providers to schedule one-on-one meetings in a quiet space with some of the leading investors in the sector.
Venture East Pre-Event & General Sessions
Day 1 Schedule
Construction Tech Forum and Venture Forum Joint Meeting
This session is restricted to members of BuiltWorlds' Venture & Investment and Construction Tech Research Tracks.
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Meeting
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Facility Tours
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM: Lunch
Suffolk Technologies BOOST 5 Demo Day
Open to all Venture East ticketholders.
Additional Sign Up Required - this will be communicated by BuiltWorlds via email.
Suffolk Technologies BOOST 5 Reception
Open to all Venture East ticketholders.
Additional Sign Up Required - this will be communicated by BuiltWorlds via email.
Day 2 Schedule
Breakfast & Networking
Welcome Address
John Fish (Chairman and CEO, Suffolk Construction) and Matt Gray (Executive Director, BuiltWorlds) kick off Venture East with opening remarks.
Keynote Speech
Jesse Devitte, Co-Founder & General Partner, Building Ventures
Panel Discussion: 2024's Major Themes of Early-Stage Built-World Investing
Early-stage startups and investors discuss the driving forces behind the built world’s 2024 fundraising environment. This year experienced a notable shift in venture dollars towards grid transition, infrastructure, future workforce, logistics and high-performance materials. This panel seeks to explore what it's been like to raise capital in these spaces and what the future looks like with the progression of these technologies.
Speakers:
Nils Wagner, CEO, REHAU Group
Jeremy Suard, CEO, Exodigo
Omar Smith, Investor, Blackhorn Ventures
Maggie Kenefake, Founding Partner, Iron Prairie Ventures
Networking Break
Panel Discussion: Aligning the Stakeholders of a Venture Investment
This panel will balance perspectives of CVCs, specialist institutional VCs, and entrepreneurs to discuss the different motives in a built world venture investment. Experts will discuss how to manage the push and pull of various stakeholders supporting the built world innovation economy. This panel is beneficial for the startup seeking its next venture round as much as it is for the investor (CVC or VC) looking to better understand its counterparts on the cap table.
Speakers:
Adam Goodson, Managing Director, UFP Industries
Dina Routhier, President, Stanley Ventures
Austin Yount, Principal, Brick & Mortar Ventures
Donald Henrich, Principal, Henrich Advisory
Breakout Session: Private Equity Activity in the Built Environment
Interactive breakout session on the state of built world exit markets and the increasing role of private equity acquirers.
Speakers:
Jeff Herriman, Managing Director, Ascentage Group
Nate Ellis, VP, M33 Growth
David Morczinek, CEO, Airworks
Stephen Chunias, Consulting CFO
Early Stage Demo Day
Five early stage startups will pitch their business models to a panel of active investor judges.
Presenting Companies:
Greenvibe
Boxlock
Leaf Solar
Calmfloor
BLDX
Zepth
Demo Day Judges:
Allen Preger, Building Ventures
Ross Bosn, UFP Ventures
Jorge Tubella, Haskell
Aidan Halter, Bouygues Group,
Diana Swenton, Suffolk Technologies
Lunch & Networking
Breakout Session: Spotlight on Suffolk BOOST
BOOST is Suffolk Technologies' flagship accelerator program designed to drive growth and equip innovative built environment startups with the resources, mentorship, and industry connections they need to transform the sector.
This breakout session will highlight the five startups from this year's cohort: Genia, Kroo, Novl, Tangible, and Trunk. We’ll explore the challenges they are tackling and dig into how they’re collaborating with industry leaders to push the boundaries and pave the way for widespread adoption of these new technologies in the built environment.
Speakers:
Parker Mundt, Vice President of Platform, Suffolk Technologies
Zhihao Zhao, Co-founder and CEO, Genia
Barry Chiu, Co-founder and CEO, Kroo
Anneli Tostar, Co-founder and CEO, Tangible
Panel Discussion: The Growing Growth-Stage of Built World Investing
An increasing number of build world startups are maturing to the growth-stage, capturing interest from both industry agnostic investors and built-world specialists alike. This panel seeks to explore the intricacies of a growing capital pool and the needs of built world startups at this formative stage in the startup lifecycle. This panel will also uncover the opportunity that exists for investors in the growth stage and how to effectively partner with startups as they scale for a meaningful exit.
Speakers:
Matthew Kleiman, CEO, Cumulus
Dave Pimiskern, Senior Director of Strategy, Product & Partnerships, Bridgit
Cameron Spek, Venture & Growth Stage Investor, CRH
Anuj Varma, VC Investor, B Capital
Breakout Session: The State of Residential Construction Technology
Leading corporate and institutional VCs host a roundtable discussion on the state of ConTech in the residential sector. This session will address one of the world's greatest challenges facing the built environment.
Speakers:
Tyler Ashby, Principal, Groundbreak Ventures
Erik Von Glan, Manager, Corp Dev & Ventures Plus; Andersen Corporation
Santhosh Chandrablan, VP & GM, Business Development & Ventures; Cornerstone Building Brands
Panel Discussion: Crafting the Optimal Capital Structure
Venture dollars tend to be the most expensive for startups. Oftentimes, built world startups have capital intensive business models that require alternative sources of funding. With a myriad of financing options available, this panel taps into the perspectives of leading startups and financiers for best practices on crafting the optimal capital structure.
Speakers:
Grant Shaeffer, Territory Director, Camber Road Partners
Chris Cameron, Director, Frontier Technology; Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank
Cameron Harris, Co-Founder, CoFi
Networking Break
BuiltWorlds Venture & Investments: State of the Built World Research Presentation
BuiltWorlds Venture & Investments Analyst Cameron Mabley will deliver a research presentation on the state of built world venture markets.
Built World Technology Showcase
Are you a scale-up rather than startup? Are you a tech company looking for potential pilots, use cases or clients?
Are you a corporate innovation team, CTO or business unit leader looking for emerging tech to pilot or use?
Instead of the five-minute investor pitches characteristic of our Demo Days, this session will highlight more mature companies ready for early commercial adoption. Startups and tech companies who are not actively fundraising will pitch their businesses from a more technical perspective to appeal directly to the tech users in the crowd.
Presenting Companies:
Lattice
Earlytrade
Fyld
Enlaye
Panel Discussion: Meet the Buyers - How Do Acquirers View Built World Startups?
As a built world startup, how do you prepare yourself for the exit? What is the profile of the major buyers and what qualities are they looking for in targets? This panel will weigh different perspectives from active acquirers across the built-world value chain.
Speakers:
Bryan Kuhn, Co-founder & Partner, Vestra Advisros
Mike LaCrosse, CEO, Medford Wellington
Erik Swennumson, Director - Corporate Development, Autodesk
Sureet Pabbi, AVP - M&A, reAlpha
Closing Remarks & Reception
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