Please join us to hear Robert M. Rough, Managing Director of Pillar Capital Management, L.L.C. discuss "The Opportunity in Venture Capital in Texas".

This is a CE Credit Event

Non-Members: $25

 

At the peak of the internet and technology boom in 2000, Texas had become a premier venture capital destination.  After the ensuing collapse in the technology sector, venture capital firms began a steady retreat frm the state that led to a serious erosion in both the relative and absolute amount of venture capital for Texas companies.  In 2005, Governor Perry and the State Legislature created the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) to simultaneously spur innovation in ground breaking technologies a Texas Universities and provide seed capital to companies commercializing the intellectual property emanating from those universities.  Robert Rough, Managing Director and CIO of Pillar Capital Management, will detail how the confluence of these factors has materially altered venture capital's cost of capital in Texas.