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August 2026

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Be Involved Fair

CU Boulder’s Fall Welcome signature event. New and returning students connect with involvement opportunities across campus and the wider Boulder community, with hundreds of student organizations, campus departments, and local nonprofits all in one place. A great first stop for figuring out what to get involved with this year. Come find the Boulder Venture Club and say hello.

Wed, Aug 26 · 2:00 to 6:00 PMFarrand Field

Past meetings

WorkshopFinancial ModelingVC

Financial Modeling Workshop

Taylor Hurst, Partner at Konvoy Ventures

Taylor Hurst is a Partner at Konvoy Ventures, where he invests in early-stage gaming, esports, and interactive technology companies. He has also been a co-founder and advisor, which gives him a well-rounded view on scaling technology companies.

A hands-on workshop where Taylor walked the room through the financial model Konvoy actually uses, and showed how the firm puts a value on companies that have no revenue yet.

Speaker SeriesEntrepreneurshipFinance

Speaker Series: Strategy, Finance, and Entrepreneurship

Scott Livengood, PhD

Scott Livengood, PhD, is a Professor of Strategic Management, Finance, and Entrepreneurship at CU Boulder.

Scott connected the academic side of strategy and finance to how companies are actually built and funded, drawing on his background across all three fields.

Speaker SeriesVC

Speaker Series: Scaling Impactful Companies

Kirsten Suddath, Partner at Next Frontier Capital

Kirsten Suddath is a Partner at Next Frontier Capital, where she helps accelerate growth and scale impactful companies alongside founders. As a former Senior Associate at Blackhorn Ventures and a Techstars entrepreneur, she brings deep experience across investing, financial modeling, and hands-on startup operations.

Kirsten shared what it looks like to back founders and help them scale, drawing on a career that spans investing, financial modeling, and operating inside startups.

Speaker SeriesVCEntrepreneurship

Speaker Series: A Serial Founder Turned Investor

Ari Newman, Massive VC

Ari Newman is a serial founder with two successful exits, Filtrbox to Jive Software (which IPO’d in 2011) and JustOn.com to Novell. He has since invested in more than 100 companies across security, enterprise, and internet, and is a former Partner at Techstars Ventures.

Ari talked through building and selling two companies and then moving to the other side of the table as an investor, with lessons from backing 100-plus startups.

Speaker SeriesVCEntrepreneurship

Speaker Series: From Idea to Exit

Nicole Glaros, Matchstick Ventures

Nicole Glaros is a Venture Partner at Matchstick Ventures and a former Chief Investment Strategist at Techstars. She is a startup investor who has helped launch and scale early-stage companies from idea to exit, and has built thriving entrepreneurial communities along the way.

Nicole shared how she evaluates and supports early-stage founders, and what separates the companies that break out from the ones that stall. She also left the club with a list of the books that shaped her, now on our reading list.

Fireside ChatEntrepreneurship

Fireside Chat: Leadership and Building for Others

Vijay Khatri and Natalie Levy

Vijay Khatri is the Dean of the Leeds School of Business. Natalie Levy is the founder of She’s Independent, and went from Wall Street trader to private equity to leading a women-first investment movement.

A candid two-person conversation on leadership, career pivots, and building something for other people, from the head of Leeds and a founder reshaping who gets to invest.

Speaker SeriesBusiness

Speaker Series: Leading Inside a Mission-Driven Company

Charlie New, Whole Foods

Charlie New is an enterprise strategy and commercial leader with 15 years of experience across food CPG and retail. He has owned national portfolios worth 600 million dollars and more, with deep expertise in portfolio economics, capital allocation, pricing strategy, and governance.

Charlie broke down what it takes to lead inside one of the most mission-driven companies on the planet, and how big-company strategy and capital allocation actually work day to day.

Speaker SeriesEntrepreneurship

Speaker Series: Operating and Founding at Scale

Scott Ford, Co-Founder of SparkRockets

Scott Ford is the former COO of Techstars and a co-founder of SparkRockets, giving him a rare view from both running a global startup accelerator and building companies himself.

Scott shared lessons from operating one of the best-known accelerators in the world and then going back to founding, and what he looks for in the teams he backs.

WorkshopVC

Venture Capital Workshop

Boulder Venture Club

An interactive, member-run session built around PitchBookGPT.

We ran a live investment workshop on PitchBookGPT and taught the exact frameworks VCs use to make million-dollar decisions, with the room working the deals in real time.