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SVOD2019 Press Release

­Mountain View, CA, May 18, 2019. Silicon Valley Open Doors Technology Investment Conference (SVOD) made it home this week for a variety of ventures in the areas of Machine Learning, BigData, VR, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Consumer...

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SVOD2019 Startup Competition Finalists

Mountain View, CA, May 4, 2019. Silicon Valley Open Doors Technology Investment Conference (SVOD) is excited to welcome 26 start-up finalists. Our shrewd panel of judges carefully reviewed more than 1000 applications in the areas of...

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SVOD2018 Overview

Mountain View, CA, May 31, 2018. Silicon Valley Open Doors Technology Investment Conference (SVOD) made it home this week for a variety of ventures in the areas of Machine Learning, BigData, VR, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Consumer...

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SVOD2018 Agenda and Video

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 Changing the World Order: 1 Bitcoin at a Time (VIDEO) Speaker: Tim Draper, Founding Partner, Draper Associates and DFJ ($5B under management); #7 Forbes Midas List; Founder, Draper University, early investor in...

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Press-Release on SVOD18 Finalists

Mountain View, CA, May 21, 2018. Silicon Valley Open Doors Technology Investment Conference (SVOD) is excited to welcome 32 start-up finalists. Our shrewd panel of judges carefully reviewed more than 1000 applications in the areas of...

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SVOD2018 Press Release

Press Release SVOD 2018 May 30-31, 2018, Mountain View, CA, USA www.svod.org SVOD 2018 is a leading boutique startup investment conference that takes place on May 30-31, 2018 in Mountain View, CA. It brings together more...

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Start-up PITCH Rules

SVOD PITCH is a great opportunity for startups to pitch their ideas to the best angels and venture capitalists of the Silicon Valley and around the world. Who shall apply? –    Seed+ stage start-ups –    Series...

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SVOD2017 International SVOD Party

SVOD is happy to announce a special networking event to welcome early arriving international SVOD attendees to mingle before the main Conference days – SVOD2017 International SVOD Party We kindly invite all our friends and partners to...

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Top Tips for a “Quick” Pitch

You might be called up on stage to pitch… You might be at a networking event… You might even strike up a convo waiting line for a coffee and realize – hey – I need to pitch! Bottom...

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SVOD 2017 Investors One-On-One Meeting

Do you want to meet with investors face-to-face? As of today, over 100 of the world’s leading funds confirmed their participation at SVOD’17. SVOD offers the Investors One-On-One Meeting to facilitate interaction between investors and startups, allowing you to make valuable connections....

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5 Steps To Raising Your First Million

Congratulations! You’ve established a product, marshalled a team and, perhaps even secured your first clients. Now, after emerging from Hours of creative strategizing and brainstorming sessions, late-night phone calls and product tweaks… how do you carry...

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Highlights from SVOD 2016

Where have you been on May 25th? If not at the Computer History Museum, you’ve missed a lot – the most important tech industry event took place right there. Over 600 startup founders, 50+ gurus of...

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SVOD 2016 – Pitching Startups

SVOD has always attracted startups from a variety of industries and helped them connect with top angels and investors. In the Conference’s 12 years history more than 300 startups presented on SVOD stage and received over $700M of...

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Who invented computer cryptography?

This year SVOD will host a speech by a very special guest – “The Father of Computer Cryptography” Bailey Whitfield ‘Whit’ Diffie. Whit is a truly impactful leader who developed the fundamental ideas of the public-key...

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SVOD 2015 – 11th anniversary

This year marks the 11th anniversary for SVOD’15. It was the largest conference to date, culminating twice the number of attendees in the past. Attendees were flying in from all over the world to experience a...

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SVOD CONFERENCE IS LAUNCHING ON JUNE 10-11!

SVOD Conference invitation http://svod2015.eventbrite.com   SVOD CONFERENCE IS LAUNCHING ON JUNE 10-11! Don’t miss one of the best startup investment conferences of the year – Silicon Valley Open Doors (SVOD). Join us and get a $50 discount off the Early Bird...

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Catch Mood Rowghani (Uber, Twitter, Square) at SVOD15

 REGISTER NOW: http://svod2015.eventbrite.com. SVOD is proud to announce its next speakers! HOW TO RIDE AN UNICORN? Mood Rowghani, Partner, KPCB. Moderator: Alexandra Suich, US Technology Editor, The Economist. Mood Rowghani, Partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, led firm’s...

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Empowering your company’s human capital

SVOD15 is proud to announce amazing speakers – Jim Barnett, serial CEO, Founder, Investor and Jeff Crowe, Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Jim Barnett, serial CEO, Founder, Investor. Jim is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Glint Inc. He is an...

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What is in common between SVOD and Tesla Motors?

We live in the times when Energy, one of the largest industries in the world, is experiencing an innovation renaissance. After a century of lagging behind the innovation that defines Silicon Valley: generation, efficiency, storage, transportation, and so many...

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Silicon Valley Speaks with the Future

The Silicon Valley Open Doors Conference (SVOD) was a gathering of different sects of the same religion: technological innovation. Unleashing a pool of creativity, SVOD hosted more than 650 talents from all over the world, including Russia, Ukraine, New...

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SVOD’13 begins today

Hello everyone, we are happy to announce that SVOD’13 has now officially began! At 8am on a beautiful Bay Area morning we kicked it off with a breakfast in the spacious Computer History Museum in Mountain...

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SVOD Winter’13 Conference – Dec.3-4, 2013

This year’s SVOD Conference theme is Nutcraker and Christmas! SVOD’13 Christmas Party: December’s SVOD is all about Nutcrakers turned into Princes and Princesses – entrepreneurs and their innovative companies. Meet successful start-up founders who will share their...

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