Esther Dyson (EDventure Holdings)

July 18, 2013 at 10:00 PM UTC – July 19, 2013 at 1:00 AM UTC

In-person event

About this event

Esther Dyson of EDventure Holdings is a former journalist and Wall Street technology analyst who is a leading angel investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and commentator focused on breakthrough innovation in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space. Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include 23andMe, Airship Ventures, Boxbe, Voxiva, Eventful, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup, Midentity (UK), NewspaperDirect, Yandex (Russia)…and WPP Group (not a start-up). Some of her other direct IT investments include Flickr and Del.icio.us (sold to Yahoo!), BrightMail (sold to Symantec), Orbitz (sold to Cendant), Medstory and Powerset (both sold to Microsoft), Plazes (sold to Nokia), Tacit (sold to Oracle), BlogAds, BrightHouse, ChoiceStream, Dopplr, Dotomi, Linkstorm, Mashery, Organized Wisdom, Ovusoft, PatientsLikeMe, Resilient,Technorati, ThingD, Vizu.com and Zedo. Indirectly, she is an investor in Amee.cc and Wesabe. Hear her speak of innovation in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space. She's considered to be one of the most influential female investors in the startup world today.  You don't want to miss this fireside chat! Twitter @edyson

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Speaker

  • Esther Dyson

    EDventure Holdings

When

When

July 18 – 19, 2013
10:00 PM – 1:00 AM UTC

Agenda

10:00 PMNetworking and Food
11:00 PMFireside Chat
12:00 AMNetworking

Organizers

  • Joshua Ness

    IEEE

    Director, Startup Grind NYC

  • Mariam Ragovskaia

    Event Producer

  • Felex Chen

    Events Team

  • Jacqueline Tran

    Events Team / Strategy Consultant

  • Theon Freeman

    OG Events Team