Tech Venture Capital Guru Speaks at Innovate Pasadena Friday Morning Coffee Meet-Up

March Capital founding partner Jim Armstrong will be presenting a lecture on “Patterns of Fundraising from the Perspective of an Investor” this Friday, July 15, during Innovate Pasadena’s Friday Morning Coffee Meet-Up, from 8:15 to 9:30 a.m.

Armstrong will discuss how scaling and growing a company is about recognizing patterns, especially  when it comes to fundraising, whether you are seeking early stage venture or growth capital to scale and win your market. As an active career investor, he can provide valuable insight for any entrepreneur into the frameworks they are using to gauge their success.

After 20 years in venture capital through terrific successful investments and wipeouts, Armstrong has gathered enough experience and made important decisions about the frameworks and the patterns that affect decisions on tough issues. Whether it is thoughts on a great fundraising pitch, how to think about product and team, or how to hack the all expensive go to market, the questions entrepreneurs ask is the most important function. It all comes together when a company is raising money, and that is where Armstrong will focus his thoughts on the patterns of success.

Currently Jim is a managing Director with March Capital, a $240 million tech-focused venture fund that is headquartered in Santa Monica, but that invests globally. He focuses early stage but does growth investing as well. Practice areas include B2B marketplaces, consumer internet and Enterprise Software.

Armstrong is a successful and experienced early stage venture investor in enterprise and consumer technology, and has established himself as a leading investor based in Southern California. He has over 20 years of technology investment experience, and has generated multiple large exits through IPOs or mergers and acquisitions from companies he either incubated or participated as the first institutional investor.

In each of 2004, 2005, and 2006, Forbes Magazine recognized him as one of the top 50 Venture Capitalists in the United States in its annual Midas list. He has 19 years of technology investment experience and has generated multiple large exits through IPO’s or mergers and acquisitions from companies he either incubated participated as the first institutional investor.

Armstrong holds an M.B.A. from the McCombs School at the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.

For Friday’s Coffee Meet-up, Innovate Pasadena members can check the Meet-up website to get the location: www.meetup.com/Innovate-Pasadena-Friday-Morning-Coffee/events/232163674.