Testimonials:
What People are saying about youngStartup Ventures

“Over the course of nearly a decade I have participated in numerous youngStartup conferences and meetings and always found them to be a highly interactive, multidimensional way to think out loud, to learn, to understand emerging trends, and to network with the entrepreneurial community. Especially now that New York City is once again becoming a major hub of venture investment and entrepreneurship, Joe Benjamin and his youngStartup forums deserve the attention of those who seek to  understand the early stage venture ecosystem in our area."

Dan Burstein | Managing Partner | Millennium Technology Value Partners

“The New England and New York Venture Summits showcase exciting emerging companies. When I saw uTest present at the New York Venture Summit, I knew it was an investment Scale Venture Partners would want to make. I’m very glad to have attended.”

Sharon Wienbar | Managing Director | Scale Venture Partners

“We first used Young StartUp when we were just that - a three month old company with three founders at the kitchen table. We presented, and youngStartup Ventures led us directly to investors that participated in both our Series A and Series B rounds. It works.”

Dave Gwozdz | CEO | Mojiva, Inc.

“This is a great event, I think the quality of companies were outstanding. I think presentations were strong. I’m actually looking forward to following up with a number of companies that I listened to in terms of presentation as well as entrepreneurs that I spoke to on the sidelines in the hallway and in the presentation room.”

Daniel J. Schultz | Co-Founder & Managing Director | DFJ Gotham Ventures

“I thought today’s summit was fantastic, coming from the west coast we have a different group of people that we meet and it’s always good to meet people on the east coast to build relationships. Knowing fellow investors is very critical and I’ve been able to meet some very very good investors. Also meeting entrepreneurs is very important and that kind of dynamic is something I saw here. I was very impressed and would love to continue to participate in the future.”

Patrick Chung | SK telecom Ventures

“The event is fabulous. I’m amazed by the large crowd and great enthusiasm in the room.  Joe’s done it once again!” “Guess what; even though it’s terrible economic times, there is still a great opportunity as an entrepreneur. If you have a terrific company there is opportunity to get our wallets out of our pockets.”

Jeanne Sullivan | Partner | Starvest Partners

“youngStartup's conference was a well-structured and organized event with a very high bar for qualifying ventures selected to present. This is the major issue for VC's to consider when selected events to attend as many are diluted with too many companies, many of which have not vetted their concepts.”

Konstantine A. Drakonakis | PE // Director | LaunchCapital, LLC

"There are very few venues for emerging companies to receive critical and constructive feedback as well as an opportunity to present to the venture capital community. In both design and execution, the youngStartup Summits do just that, effectively and repeatedly. I highly recommend their forum for both investors and emerging companies."

T. Forcht Dagi | M.D., Partner | HLM Venture Partners

"From an investor’s perspective, your Venture Summits are very valuable – I had the chance to get to know several very interesting companies, including one with which we’re currently in due diligence for a potential investment to be led by our firm”.

Rami Elkhatib | General Partner | Acero Capital

"I’d like to thank you and the whole Young Startup Ventures team for a great event.
Everything from the high level of investors and entrepreneurs to the last operational detail of the event was down-right excellent.
The event gave me a real doorway to the world of venture capital and was a meaningful steppingstone in Buzzilla’s journey towards realizing its vision."

Yoav Pridor | CEO & Co Founder | Buzzilla

"You did an outstanding job of organizing the venture summit!  I appreciated the opportunity meeting fellow VC investors and quality startups of which I’m following up with 3 companies this week."

Roman Kikta | Managing Partner | Mobility Ventures

“The most critical thing is the connection between entrepreneurs and investors and the work that YSV does bringing entrepreneurs together to present to interested venture capitalists…is very critical to the global economy” 

John Egan | Partner | Goodwin Procter

“YSV pulls together the ecosystem, you have the entrepreneurs on one hand and the capital on the other and it really as this event today shows puts the two together in the same room. You’re literally looking at the same topic from 2 different sides and it’s such a powerful combination.”

“So I get to the conference first to learn, having the experts in the room; second having the contact network. But the real tangible goal at this stage of my company’s life is seed financing  and so to have those folks in the room was a really powerful motivator for me to be here.”

“So today’s conference brought together a real approach to how you do things … and it was a lot more practical and less theoretical because the people that are doing it were actually in the room explaining these are the challenges you are going to face and these are the things that you need to do differently to really get your startup going. So it was tremendously helpful for me as a startup.”

“The great thing about today is that I already sent out emails and I just got back the first response from one of the speakers. It’s real, it’s live…it’s a dynamic ecosystem that’s moving forward.  I walked out already making the contracts and already getting the feedback…”

Peter Gallagher | Partner | Rider Revenge