Join us for cocktails/snacks, community and a fireside chat with Derek Ball.
Startup Grind Calgary is focused on presenting one high-value speaker a month to help inspire, educate and support the entrepreneur community in Calgary.
September's premier event will feature an exclusive one-on-one fireside chat with Derek Ball of AtVenu. Derek will be coming from his home in Silicon Valley for this event and some work.
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CEO
Derek is a serial successful entrepreneur. Living in Silicon Valley but with his main development team in Calgary, he has co-founded multiple companies which he has taken to IPO or successful M&A exits. This includes raising over $20 million in angel, seed and venture capital in both Canada and the U.S. He is currently the CEO of AtVenu.
Derek is a serial successful entrepreneur. Living in Silicon Valley but with his main development team in Calgary, he has co-founded multiple companies which he has taken to IPO or successful M&A exits. This includes raising over $20 million in angel, seed and venture capital in both Canada and the U.S.
Derek specializes in early stage tech, concept to commercialization, venture capital and financing.
He is currently the CEO and Co-founder of AtVenu, which has become the industry standard platform for maximizing live event merchandise revenue for touring musicians, record labels and venue/festival operators. Prior to co-founding atVenu, he was the co-founder and CEO of Tynt which was acquired by 33Across in January of 2012. During Derek’s tenure Tynt grew to be one of the 10 largest data aggregators in the world, working with over 600,000 publishers world wide and seeing over 1.1 billion unique users.
When not founding and running start ups, he works with other entrepreneurs via mentoring through organizations like the C100.
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