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Niall McSheffrey

Niall McSheffrey

Niall McSheffrey

Managing Partner, Elementz Ventures

Niall McSheffrey as Managing Partner at Elementz Ventures, focuses in his key strengths of investment fundraising, startup vetting and leadership. His particular investment focus is in technology assessment, business innovation as well as USA start-ups. He strives to connect USA to startups in Asia.

Previous to Elementz Ventures, Niall has been a successful entrepreneur for over 25-years in fundraising, product management, software technologies, application development, as well as creating digital product strategies and solutions. For the last 10 years he has also served as President of Elementz Interactive where he has led the company as well as product strategy, design and development – from concept to growth stage for over 50 projects for different startups and SMEs.

He graduated from the Thunderbird School of Management with a global MBA. He brings his global expertise and experience by engaging with different audiences regarding SaaS, mobile app technologies, product design & development, and team building.

In his spare time Niall hikes any spectacular mountain wherever he goes, is an avid reader of historical or biographical books and is a closet rock guitarist.

Testimonials

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

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 organizers here are doing an amazing job with selecting the people who attend, selecting the speakers, coming up with ideas for panels and discussions. The truly amazing side is that the audience gets bigger, more involved, active and more thoughtful. It’s just a fun place to be!

Daniil Stolyarov

Investment Director, Almaz Capital Partners (102M under management)

The quality of entrepreneurs and the international flavor: it’s always fun to see where innovation is happening around the world. It was fun for us to see not only the quality of thought but also pace of execution and the teams here are becoming ready to play.

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners ($4B under management)

I am delighted to participate in and sponsor SVOD. It is particularly gratifying at this stage of my professional career to be able to support this unique organization and give back to the high-tech community. Looking back, I regret not having the benefits of SVOD network early on, when I really needed it! It is wonderful to see the new startups taking advantage of this very special forum.

Mike Sandler

CEO of Epiphan

The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries. I felt very comfortable at SVOD and recognized its participants as having the same type of DNA that made Silicon Valley what it is today.

Ron Conway

SV Angel

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

Cleary one of the very best conferences we attended and sponsored in Silicon Valley this year. To us the conference truly captured what we see in our daily practice, the substantial opportunities and also the challenges with cross-border business arrangements. We made many new meaningful connections.

Lars Johansson

Partner, K&L Gates

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