Venture Capital Fund Dynamics -- Structure and Process (Innovators Workshop Part III)

The Innovators Workshop is designed to help potential entrepreneurs understand entrepreneurship, raising capital, and intellectual property as part of the start-up process. The workshop provides the tools and advice necessary to assess the commercial viability and feasibility of their idea and it helps equip them with the knowledge necessary to make the decision of whether to pursue a new venture.   

VC Firms: Structure and Process

Presented by: Katrin Burt, Intersouth Partners 

Katrin Burt, Intersouth Partners 

Katrin joined Intersouth Partners in 2004, serving as an analyst for two years before joining the information technology investment team.  As an analyst, she worked across the firm to aid in both the analysis of potential new investments as well as the growth of Intersouth’s existing portfolio companies. Katrin joined Intersouth from London-based HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world.  At HSBC she moved through a series of roles, starting as a foreign exchange trader in London, managing portfolios of treasury products and equities in Tokyo and eventually moving to a business development role managing the annual operating plan for the bank’s billion-dollar Global Markets Europe Division.  Katrin has served on the selection committees for CED’s Venture and Tech conferences and lectures at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.  She holds a B.A. from Oxford University and an M.B.A. from Duke University and is currently pursuing an M.S. in in Microsystems and Nanotechnology from Cranfield University.