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Join Us For The Next Investor 360 Roundtable Interview With Galen Shaffer of EOS Venture Partners

Join Stubbs Alderton & Markiles on May 13, 2024, for our next Investor 360 roundtable interview with Galen Shaffer of EOS Venture Partners! There will be ample opportunity for questions at the end of the interview!

To register, click here.

About Galen Shaffer

Galen Shaffer is a Principal at Eos Venture Partners, an InsurTech specialist VC fund. Prior to joining Eos, Galen worked in McKinsey’s Insurance Practice across its Boston and Los Angeles offices. She led teams focused on digital transformation and new business innovation strategy for leading Fortune 500 firms across life, personal, and commercial lines. She holds a BA from Wellesley and an MBA from MIT Sloan.

About EOS Venture Partners

Eos Venture Partners is a Strategic Venture Capital Fund, focused exclusively on InsurTech. Eos was founded to bridge the “digital chasm” between InsurTech start-ups and traditional (re)insurance companies. Eos invests in world-class InsurTech founders who are building solutions across the insurance value chain and adjacent verticals (wealth, cyber security, employee benefits) and prefers to lead at the Series A. Recent investments include: Bamboo (exit: White Mountains Insurance Group, NYSE: WTM), Fenix24, Mulberri, Cygnvs.

May 13th, 2024
12:00-1:30 PM PDT

In-Person Event:
1316 3rd Street Promenade, Suite 107
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Preccelerator U™: Term Sheets 101

Join us for a free live webinar with SA&M attorneys Kelly Siobhan Laffey and Durdana Karim!

The “Term Sheets 101” webinar will cover:
–Types of Financing: Convertible Notes vs. SAFEs vs. Priced Equity Rounds
–Convertible Notes and SAFEs: Caps, Discounts, and Other Key Terms
–Priced Equity Rounds: Economic Provisions, Voting Rights, and Other Key Terms

Plus, an opportunity to ask questions during our live Q&A!

Speaker Bios:

Kelly Siobhan Laffey

Kelly Siobhan Laffey is a Partner of the firm and the Director of Business Affairs at the Preccelerator.

Kelly’s practice focuses on advising emerging growth and middle market companies on issues related to corporate governance and formation, venture capital and other financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, employee compensation, complex stockholder and operating agreements, and other general corporate matters. Kelly’s clients are representative of the vibrant startup and middle market eco-system and include companies in the technology, digital and entertainment, clean energy, healthcare, e-commerce, and manufacturing industries. Kelly also advises investors and funds in connection with venture capital and other financings. Kelly also has particular expertise in working with talent and brand partners to structure branding and licensing deals.

Durdana Karim

Ms. Karim’s practice focuses on corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private placement deals, corporate securities, venture capital and private equity financing, commercial agreements, and other general corporate and business matters.

Before joining the firm, Durdana worked at a boutique transactional law firm, where she advised private companies and startups in technology, entertainment and media, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing and distribution, e-sport/video gaming, fin-tech, and professional services industries.

Preccelerator U™ Workshop
April 23rd, 2024
12:00 – 1:30 pm PDT (Zoom)

To register for the Zoom event, click here.