Investor Liaison Intern

As an Investor Liaison Intern, you will be part of a team responsible for evaluating startups that apply to our program, interviewing company CEOs, and making recommendations on program fit within our judging criteria. You will also assist in managing our mentor teams as we prepare our startup CEOs for our pitch event.

Investors Choice Conference 2023

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Kinect Capital (VCO) touches 60+ companies per year, and these companies go on to achieve big results. Our alumni companies include MyFamily.com (now Ancestry.com), Liingo (acquired by 1-800-CONTACTS), Omniture (acquired by Adobe), High West Distillery (acquired by Constellation Brands), & Recursion Pharmaceuticals among others.

One Utah Summit

The 2023 One Utah Summit includes a Startup Pitch networking event. This event features Utah’s best and brightest entrepreneurs with a networking session, an exhibit hall featuring vendors and young professionals, a mainstage speaker, comments from Gov. Cox. and a speed pitch competition.

Matt Warnock

Matt-Warnock

Matt Warnock is a recovering attorney from Silicon Valley. After graduating from BYU School of Law in 1985, he was admitted to practice in both Utah and California, where he […]

Mentorship

Kinect Capital opens our arms to those who want to give their time and expertise to tomorrow’s titans through mentoring. Mentors will undergo a training program, be guided by a team leader, and be given the chance to deeply connect to the CEOs and other mentors assigned to the team.

Education

Raising capital is notoriously difficult to complete because the process has intricacies that are not well understood before founders pursue fundraising.
Kinect Capital’s Raising Capital education series provides tools, resources, expert connections, and training materials to founders who seek to understand the path to fundraising, select which path is best for their business, and learn how to prepare and pursue the right capital term.

Pitch Program

Finding money to fund your venture is hard, really hard. Pitching to investors is an art and a skill. It takes practice and coaching, even if you are a pro. Kinect Capital can match you with a expert mentor team that will work with you for 4-8 weeks to assist you in getting ready to pitch to investors, because that is what we have being doing for 36+ years.

Matt McKinlay

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Matt McKinlay is a partner at Amplēo, responsible for the turnaround and restructuring services of the company, and the Idaho market. He has 20 years’ experience working with a wide […]

Paul Judge

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Mr. Judge’s career includes more than 25 years of venture development experience including leadership roles in two public offerings. Significant career engagements include co-founding a national retailer of liquefied natural […]