Here are the companies who were selected for the pitch 

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The CICC is teaming up with the known corporate Storyteller and Pitch Alchemist Donna Griffit for a Special Webinar session to make sure you have the RIGHT story needed to close your funding round. Share your pitch and Donna will work her magic to tweak your story on the spot!

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• The foundation and crucial content of a winning pitch deck
• Crafting an intro and follow email that gets attention
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April 23, 2020

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Eran Tagor	Eran Tagor is a partner with Newport LLC, a unique national advisory firm, advising CEOs, board directors and investment funds on issues related to growth, special situations and challenges as well as the creation of paths to monetization events. Previously, Mr. Tagor was the Chairman of the Board and CEO of PowerSines Ltd., an international energy efficiency company. Prior, Mr. Tagor worked with Goldin Associates, one of the top U.S. turnaround and restructuring firms, involved in the restructuring related to some of the U.S. largest bankruptcies, including Enron Corp. and MCI/WorldCom, other turnarounds and special situations transactions, and served as an expert witness in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Earlier in his career, Mr. Tagor was a managing director with a Wall Street investment bank, where he was responsible for public and private financings, mergers and acquisitions, and involved in the firm’s principal investment activities. Mr. Tagor earned his MBA (finance) from the Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, in New York. He obtained his LL.B. (Law) Degree from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
	Matthew Garratt is the Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures and a Vice President of Salesforce, where he lead Salesforce Ventures, the corporate investing arm of Salesforce. Salesforce VC is one of the most active Corporate VC’s with the mandate of building out our ecosystem of partners through equity investments. Previously, he was a Sr. Associate at Battery Ventures, where he is part of their cleantech group. Prior to Battery, he was Vice President of Plymouth Ventures, a venture fund in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he led efforts to establish a cleantech initiative. Salesforce Ventures operates as a venture capital firm. The Company invests in enterprise cloud and start-ups creating application primarily for mobile phones. Salesforce Ventures serves customers worldwide.
	Amit Sridharan is the Director of US venture investments and partnerships at Mahindra Partners Ventures. He joined the firm in September 2018 and his primary role is to establish the venture efforts of the Mahindra Group in the San Francisco Bay area and in the US at large. Before joining Mahindra Partners Ventures, Sridharan had 15 years of experience in both traditional venture and corporate venture realms, including US-based early-stage VC firm Pear Venture Capital, and as an India-based senior corporate venturer at diversified conglomerate Tata Group. Established in 2010, Mahindra Partners is the private equity & corporate venture capital arm of the Mahindra Group. With assets under management of over USD 1 BN, their current investments span logistics, healthcare and renewables among other sectors. The portfolio and team is placed across India and Silicon Valley in the US. Partners USA invests into early stage, venture backed technology startups and their current US portfolio includes Avaamo and Cloudleaf.
	Anil Achyuta is an Investment Director at TDK Ventures. He is one of the founding members of TDK Ventures and has reviewed over 360 start-ups in the last year. Anil has made two investments so far: 1) AutoflightX – an eVTOL start-up, and 2) in a cardiac imaging diagnostics company, where Anil serves as a Board Observer (to be announced soon). Prior to TDK Ventures, Anil was the Director of External Innovation Arm of L’Oréal in Boston, where he led multiple R&D and M&A opportunities in materials science, medical aesthetics, and digital health. Prior to L’Oréal, Anil ran several research programs (NIH, DARPA-funded), joint ventures, and open innovation initiatives at multinational companies including Draper, GSK, and Johnson & Johnson. He has a Ph.D. from Northeastern University in Chemical Engineering. TDK Ventures Inc. is a $50M corporate venture capital arm of TDK, a Japanese multinational electronics company. TDK Ventures began in June 2019 and focuses on funding hard-tech entrepreneurs in areas such as Mobility, Industry 4.0, Health and Wellness, Robotics, IoT, and Energy.

Join Jason Susser, Attorney at Siskind Susser PC,

an expert on Immigration Law

and learn how COVID-19 travel restrictions impacts you

To protect the American people from exposure to Coronavirus (COVID-19) the US government issued a set of restrictions on travel in and out of the USA.

• How does it effect Foreign Students?
• Does it include Green Card holders? 
• How does it effect your Visa Process?
• and more…

Download our FAQ document to find answers to these and other questions. For more Siskind Susser COVID-19 Immigration FAQ information, please do not hesitate to contact Jason Susser (jsusser@visalaw.com) or the CICC office.

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There is growing apprehension about the impact that the spread of COVID-19 could have on businesses around the world. Join Fox Rothschild Labor & Employment attorney Jeffrey Polsky and Sharon Vanek of CICC for a discussion of appropriate response strategies regarding travel restrictions, government recommendations and compliance with US employment laws at both the state and federal levels.

Topics:

• What can employers do now to prepare for a coronavirus outbreak?
• What questions can you ask – or not ask – employees?
• What duties do employers have to keep employees safe?
• What obligations do employers have to employees who become sick?

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