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Evolving E:

How Innovation is Changing the Commerce Ecosystem

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Evolving E: How Innovation has Changed the Commerce Ecosystem kicks off on May 11th, and you're invited. Lowenstein Sandler is our meeting spot for a day of high impact discussions.

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

GGV Capital and Basset Investment Group are co-hosting “Evolving E: How Innovation is Changing the Commerce Ecosystem” in NYC.


Evolving E is a series of events that are focused on the evolution of commerce.  We are bringing together industry leaders from entrepreneurs, seasoned operators, ecosystem partners, industry experts, and investors to come for a day of high-impact panels and discussions.   The topics are tailored and highly specific to those in the industry.  


Topics Covered:

(1) Brand Matters. Insights into how the top ecommerce players are building brand in today's global ecosystem.


(2) Your Customer is Multi-Channel. Understanding today's online consumer and how/why/where she is spending her money.

 

(3) The VC Perspective. The inside scoop on where the top VCs in ecommerce are placing their bets and why.


(4) The Tech Stack. The tools and technology the top players in ecommerce are using to win.


ABOUT US:


Basset Investment Group is an early-stage VC firm that is based in the Soho neighborhood of New York City. The firm has a strong consumer tech focus with investments in rapidly growing commerce companies in New York City, San Francisco, and LA. The Partners have over a decade of experience investing across four continents. Basset's investment focus includes commerce / marketplaces, consumer mobile, hardware, consumer fintech, digital health, and drone tech.


GGV Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and China that has been successfully partnering with leading technology entrepreneurs for the last 15 years. Operating in the two largest economies in the world, the U.S. and China, ensures an “ outside the bubble” global perspective.  GGV has 14 privately held unicorns in its portfolio and 28 of its portfolio companies have gone public since 2000.   With $3.8 billion under management across 8 funds, GGV invests in globally minded entrepreneurs in the Social/Commerce, Internet of Things/Robotics, and Cloud/SaaS sectors.

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Who's Who?

We scoured the U.S. to curate a best-in-class roster of speakers representing innovative companies, ecosystem partners, and disciplines in commerce.

The program for this year’s Evolving E: event is our best yet, if we do say so ourselves.

For one day only, you’ll have a front-row seat to unscripted fireside chats, interactive panels, and engaging keynotes from fearless industry experts who are pushing boundaries and setting new standards.

PEOPLE TO SEE

Beth Ferreira

Beth is currently a managing partner at WME. She was previously the COO of Fab.com and the VP of Operations and Finance of Etsy before that.

Managing Partner

WME Venture Partners

Chieh Huang

Boxed is a mobile commerce company focused on delivering the big box club experience to mobile devices.  Founded in 2013, Boxed has raised over $130M to date.  

CO-FOUNDER & CEO

Boxed 

Dominik Pantelides

Bringhub is the shopping experience for the connected generation. Now, every piece of the web’s best content holds the potential to become a point of purchase. Quickly. Easily. Unobtrusively. Bringhub empowers readers to shop their favorite stores directly in their favorite content.

FOUNDER & CEO

Bringhub

Guimar Vaca Sittic

 Guimar is Head of Investments at FJ Labs and focuses heavily on marketplaces. He's been involved with over 150 investments in various companies including Beepi, Boxed Wholesale, and Managed by Q.

Head of Investments

FJ Labs

Hans Tung

Hans Tung joined GGV Capital in 2013 as a managing partner to focus on consumer mobile internet, cross-border ecommerce, IoT, and online education investments in both China and the US. Hans led GGV’s investment and serves on the boards of Wish, Xiaohongshu, GrubMarket, Totspot, FlightCar, and others. He has invested in mobile social communication companies such as musical.ly, a popular user-generated music video-sharing app, and Curse, a social communication platform for gamers. He is also actively involved with GGV portfolio companies Airbnb, Flipboard, DraftKings, and Yodo1.

Managing Partner

GGV Capital

Hayley Bay Barna

Hayley recently joined First Round Capital as a venture partner. She is also the Co-Founder and Board Member at Birchbox where she spent the last 6.5 years.

Venture Partner

First Round Capital

Jason Tan

Sift Science fights fraud with machine learning. We'll monitor your online traffic and alert you to fraudulent activity in real time - chargebacks, spam, account takeovers, referral fraud, you name it, . Our customers include Zillow, Twitter, Airbnb, Match.com, Wayfair, OpenTable, Indeed.com, Catch of the Day, and other leading retailers, financial services, marketplaces, and content sites.

CEO

Sift Science

Jeff Richards

Jeff joined GGV in 2008 after spending 13 years as an entrepreneur and operating executive in the US and Asia. He focuses on the Internet, Software and Mobile sectors, and currently sits on the boards of Appirio, Boxed, Percolate, Reebonz and Tile. Jeff led GGV’s investments in BlueKai, Buddy Media, Citrus Lane, Evolv, Flipboard, Quixey, HotelTonight and Spreecast, and is actively involved in GGV’s investments in 21ViaNet, DOMO, MediaV, Qunar, SocialTouch, Square and Wish. Prior to joining GGV, Jeff founded two software companies (R4, acquired by VeriSign, and QuantumShift) and spent three years as an executive at VeriSign.  

Managing Partner

GGV Capital

Jesse Derris

Derris & Company is a full-service brand strategy and communications agency headquartered in New York City. We believe in thinking before we act, and that a brand’s story is just as important as tactics and execution.  We are defined by our dual-pronged approach: First, we help clients shape their message, and then we help them communicate to both consumer and business press. We are industry and stage agnostic, and only work with people, companies and causes we believe in.

FOUNDER & CEO

Derris & Co

Mark Pols

Mark Pols is a principal in GGV Capital's Silicon Valley office where he focuses on the e-commerce, online travel, digital content, alternative finance and enterprise software spaces. Prior to GGV, Mark worked in Amazon’s corporate development group where he looked after partnerships, acquisitions and investments in China. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker for 15 years of which he spent 8 years in China executing financing and strategic transactions for many of China’s leading technology companies. 

Principal

GGV Capital

Mark Walker

JackThreads brings style, quality, and value under one digital roof. The company was founded in 2008 as a flash sale site for the streetwear community. Since then, we’ve evolved into a men’s style destination providing a curated selection of our favorite brands, alongside our new namesake collection.

CEO

Jackthreads

Matthew Davis

Matt is the Senior Director of Operations at Blue Apron.  He leads strategic initiatives to develop and support our nationwide fulfillment operation that ships more than 5 million meals per month.  Prior to Blue Apron, he was at Bain & Company.

Director of Operations

Blue Apron

Matthew Zeiler

Clarifai uses machine learning and our expertise in deep neural networks to develop the world’s best published object recognition system. Using GPUs to train large neural networks, we build practical systems for targeting ads to images, organizing user photo collections, and searching large untagged image collections.

CEO

Clarifai

Meghan Muntean

Meghan is the VP of Business Development of Bustle, a venture-backed website that reaches over 40 million women each month. It is the largest website in the United States that aims to reach Millennial women.

VP of Business Development

bustle

MIchael Jaconi

Mike is the CEO and Co-Founder of Button.  Button helps mobile app developers and marketers create better user experiences. We allow apps to extend functionality beyond the single app silo into a network of complementary apps.

Co-Founder & CeO

Button

Nicholas ling

Ideas, Art & Technology™.  Over the last half-decade, we have dedicated our time to methodically learning how to create the best consumer experiences in the world.  By practicing a seamless weave of technology, design, and strategy, we build brands and products that are simple and human. We invest our talent and time, to form deep partnerships with the best thinkers in the business to collaboratively create a more 'frictionless world'. We’re excited about this journey.

CEO & Partner

Gin Lane Media

Noah Brier

Noah Brier is the CEO of Percolate, a software company building The System of Record for Marketing. Percolate works with top global brands including Unilever, GE, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and MasterCard. Prior to founding Percolate, Noah ran the strategy department at The Barbarian Group, a digital advertising agency based in NYC. He has been named to Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, a "social media innovator" by BusinessWeek, and sits on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on social media.

co-FOUNDER & CEO

percolate

Rebecca Kaden

Rebecca is an early stage consumer tech investor, enthusiast, supporter, brainstormer, dreamer, and student with Maveron, where they partner with great entrepreneurs to create big, lasting consumer brands. Her interests range from consumer finance and mobile health to ecommerce and marketplaces to connected devices and mobile apps.

PARTNER

MAVERON

Robin Li

Robin is an associate in GGV Capital’s Silicon Valley office focusing on investments in ecommerce, social, travel, and IoT. Prior to joining GGV, Robin worked at Flextronics' Venture Arm covering hardware and technology investments.  Before venture capital, she spent three years at Teach For America as a teacher and administrator.

Associate

GGV Capital

Ryan Darnell

Ryan is a Principal at Basset Investment Group and has over a decade of operating and investing experience. His early-stage investments incldue Zoomcar India, Boxed Wholesale, Button, Drone Racing League, Le Tote, Eloquii, Alphadraft, GrubMarket, and over a dozen other investments. 

Principal

Basset Investment Group

Tracy Sun

Tracy is the Co-Founder and VP of Merchandising of Poshmark, the largest community marketplace for fashion where anyone can buy, sell and share their style. With millions of shoppers and over 1.5 million sellers Poshmark brings together a vibrant community everyday to express themselves and share their love of fashion.

Co-Founder and VP of Merchandising

Poshmark

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

THURSDAY

MARCH

19

2:00pm -2:15pm

Meet & Greet

Registration 

FRIDAY

MARCH

20

2:15pm - 3:15pm

Brand Matters. Insights into how the top ecommerce players are building brand in today's global ecosystem.

 


 

SATURDAY

MARCH

21

3:20pm - 3:55Pm

Your Customer is Multi-Channel.  Understanding today's online consumer and how/why/where she is spending her money.

SUNDAY

MARCH

22

4:00pm - 4:10pm

Break


SUNDAY

MARCH

22

4:15pm - 5:00pm

The VC Perspective. The inside scoop on where the top VCs in ecommerce are placing their bets and why.


SUNDAY

MARCH

22

5:00pm - 5:45pm

MIchael Jaconi

The Tech Stack. The tools and technology the top players in ecommerce are using to win.


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