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Bernard Slede

Bernard Slede

Bernard Slede

Partner at Sapien Ventures:

Bernard Slede is the Partner at Sapien Ventures and a Global Venture Partner at BootstrapLabs .
A multifaceted entrepreneur, intrapreneur and executive, he was on the founding team of HP Corporate Ventures and launched HP Startup Central. He also finished #1 Champion in California in the Startup America scoreboard.
He has architected and delivered business deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars globally.
Bernard also advises large corporations and startups on monetizing innovation and setting up effective business development programs.

5 startups he was an Adviser to exited in 2015: iText Software (acquired by Hancom), GNS3 (acquired by SolarWinds), CogniVue (acquired by NXP), XTV (IPO) and Tribe Studios (acquihired by Palringo).

Testimonials

Thank you for the opportunity to present Driveway at SVOD. It gave us much needed exposure to the wide investor community. Combining the pitch preparation classes with the presentation content guidance, we came out strong and confident from the podium. During the conference we had a chance to speak to many investors and industry leaders resulting in a very valuable feedback.

Jake Diner

Driveway Software

The founders of the conference are very authentic and these are people that want to change the world and make things better for entrepreneurs and help people and I think that’s a great thing.

George Zachary

Partner, Charles River Ventures, (Midas List, 1st investor in twitter & Yammer, $1.4B under management)

I love coming to the Silicon Valley Open Doors! I discover entrepreneurs here every single year, and I think I’ve been to all of them.

Carol Sands

Founder, The Angels’ Forum

This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded keynote speakers’ line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur.

Richard Guha

President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

Great conference, interesting presentations and most important, relevant participants with concrete ideas and tremendous willingness to mentor and help startups.

Adi Bittan

Founder & CEO, OwnerListens & Stanford MBA

Excellent! Great conference! Lots of People! Lot of energy! Enthusiastic! Everything is just going so good.

Vish Mishra

Venture Director, Clearstone Venture Partners ($600M under management)

It’s a great conference and it brings together great content from really terrific speakers like we just had and then a network of really interesting entrepreneurs.

Andy Tsao

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

A lot of energy, lot of very dedicated entrepreneurs here, very passionate, very committed to what they’re doing.

Mitchell (Mitch) Kapor

Partner, Kapor Capital