Jun 18, 3:00 – 5:00 PM (UTC)
Workinton Alfardan Centre, Bank Street, Doha, 00000
An Evening with Vinnie Lauria is a perfect opportunity to hear from a Silicon Valley Startup turned VC, about his journey, what he learned and what we can learn from him.
🚀 Don’t Miss the Chance to Learn from a Silicon Valley Veteran! 🚀
Join us next week for an exclusive event featuring Vinnie Lauria, Founding Partner of Golden Gate Ventures and a renowned venture capitalist with over 14 years of experience. Vinnie has invested in unicorns like Carro and Carousell, and helped take startups like Lomotif public. With a proven track record of shaping successful ventures, this is an incredible opportunity for founders and entrepreneurs to gain insights from one of the top 1% “Fund Returners” in the industry!
🔑 Register now to secure your spot and learn how to scale your startup from one of the best in the business!
Vinnie Lauria is a two-time Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He is the Founding Partner of Golden Gate Ventures, a global early-stage VC firm launched in 2011 with US$300M in AUM and 100+ investments. He is a Kauffman Fellow and has been recognized as a Top 1% “Fund Returner” by the Kauffman Fellowship. Over the past 14 years, Vinnie has served on more than a dozen startup boards, including unicorns like Carro and Carousell. He was an early investor in Stripe and AngelList, and helped take startups like Lomotif public on the NYSE.
Before founding Golden Gate Ventures, Vinnie built two startups in Silicon Valley: Meetro, a pioneering location-based chat app (shut down with many lessons learned in 2007); and Lefora, a social network platform acquired by a public media company in 2010. He also founded Silicon Valley NewTech, one of the Bay Area’s largest startup demo events at the time.
Vinnie has been a guest lecturer at Stanford, Berkeley, and the National University of Singapore. Earlier in his career, he spent four years at IBM, helping shape the company’s strategy around social software for the enterprise. A lifelong technologist, Vinnie joined his first startup as a developer while still in high school and remains deeply passionate about building startup ecosystems worldwide.
Golden Gate Ventures
Founding Partner
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (UTC)
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