Sean Peterson & Richard Irving | Bootcamp 2020 | The Mistakes Founders Make When Fundraising

"The Mistakes Founders Make When Fundraising" with Sean Peterson, Co-Founder of AI Fund and Richard Irving, Founder and Managing Partner of Pond Venture Partners, and Venture Advisor to Samsung.

Sean Peterson, Co-Founder, AI Fund
Sean has 15+ years of venture investing experience, including most recently eight years partner-level at International Finance Corporation responsible for direct venture investments with an emerging market focus on EdTech, e-logistics, consumer internet, health tech, and climate tech. Sean also led limited partner investments in select venture funds. At IFC, Sean’s portfolio included deals in China, India, Africa, Latin America, and as well as USA based companies with a global mandate. Earlier in his career, Sean was Director at Good Energies Ventures, where he led numerous investments in the cleantech sector. Before direct venture investing, Sean launched two fintech start-ups, both led to exits, including one trade sale and one IPO. Sean began his career at Merrill Lynch. Sean has an MBA from Wharton, where he was a Joseph Wharton Fellow and a B.S. degree in Chemical/Environmental Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Richard Irving, Founder and Managing Partner, Pond Venture Partners, and Venture Advisor to Samsung
Based in Silicon Valley, Richard Irving co-founded Pond Venture Partners in 1997 and bring over 30 years' experience in venture capital, corporate management, marketing and engineering with start-ups in US, Israel, UK, Australia, France, Ireland, Spain, & China. I have driven over $3B of value creation mainly from initial startup & have 15 years tech operating experience including full P&L responsibility.

His expertise includes hardware, software, semiconductors, water, AgTech, sustainability, wireless, and digital health.