Virtual Roundtable: Managing Corporate Venture Capital with David Horowitz, Co-Founder & CEO at Touchdown Ventures

- Online Zoom Conference

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Speaker
David Horowitz
Co-founder & CEO at Touchdown Ventures

David Horowitz is the co-founder and CEO of Touchdown Ventures and is based in the firm’s Philadelphia area office. He co-founded Touchdown Ventures in 2014 after spending 14 years in corporate venture capital with Comcast Ventures. David joined Comcast Ventures in 2000 as one of the first employees of the venture capital group. At Comcast Ventures, he led investments in digital media, advertising technology, digital home, education, and financial technology. David also was a founder and partner at Genacast Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund backed by Comcast Ventures. His career began as an investment banker at Bear Stearns.

David graduated from the University of Michigan with highest honors with a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in both accounting and finance.

David started the South Jersey Tech Collective (a networking group comprising of local tech entrepreneurs and investors), and currently serves as an advisor to the Philadelphia Greenlight Fund, the Internet of Things Consortium, and Venture University.

David lives in the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia with his wife and 2 boys.

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Moderator
Fabián Ronisky
Venture Associate at Mana Ventures

Fabián is a Venture Associate at Mana Ventures, focused on sourcing, evaluating, and investing in early-stage companies. He is also a Venture Associate at Republic's investor ecosystem program and an angel investor.

While doing his MBA at NYU Stern, Fabián worked as Summer Associate at Humana's VC team and was a Venture Fellow in AlleyCorp's $100M healthcare fund, focusing on launching a LatAm digital health startup. Earlier in his career, he was a startup/VC attorney at law firms Gunderson Dettmer and Strategic Law Partners (SLP), having represented startups and VC firms such as HELIX (Google X) and Science Inc (Dollar Shave Club). While at SLP, he helped run the firm's affiliated VC investment arm and began angel investing.

Fabián holds a BA from UC Berkeley, a JD from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

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YJP is excited to host David Horowitz, Co-Founder & CEO at Touchdown Ventures. Touchdown partners with leading corporations to manage their venture capital programs.

This will be a moderated Zoom roundtable, featuring insights from David, and an opportunity for Q&A.

For questions about the event or membership please reach out to: brooke.steinman@yjpnewyork.com

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