Win A Meeting With Sean Parker, NEA, Bessemer & More In An Auction To Benefit Cancer Research on Astini News

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 25, 2012

Motion To Dismiss Cancer, a team formed to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Societys, presents round two of the 2012 Venture Capital Masters Lunch Series, an auction that gives anyone and everyone an opportunity to win private meetings with some of Silicon Valleys top venture capitalists and startup founders, with all proceeds going towards LLS and cancer research. http://telecomadvisors.biz/myworld.ebay.com/celebrityexperienceforlls

Round Two: Starting April 25th investors from New Enterprise Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Bessemer Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, will make themselves available for private meetings.

Lunch with a Partner and two VPs from Bessemer Venture Partners, the investors behind Pinterest, Cornerstone, OnDemand, Yelp, LinkedIn, Playdom, Eloqua, Skype. Meet privately with General Partners from New Enterprise Associates, the investors behind Bloom Energy, Box, Data Domain, Fusion-io and Salesforce. Or, meet with Managing Directors from both NEA and North Bridge Ventures and have them start a bidding war for you. Entrepreneurs can have representatives from these teams all to themselves to get feedback on their ideas, plead with them to fund their ventures, or maybe even get them to help create a pitch deck. Combined, these VCs represent every major area of investment, including energy technology, information technology enterprise, infrastructure and services, electronics, consumer technology, healthcare, cloud computing, financial services and everything in between.

Motion To Dismiss Cancer is also auctioning off lunches with the founders of Lytro, co-founder and CEO Ren Ng, and Pulse, co-founders Akshay Kothari & Ankit Gupta.

Bidding is now open: http://telecomadvisors.biz/myworld.ebay.com/celebrityexperienceforlls

Bidding for this years auction opened last Tuesday with round one, which included the entire SV Angel team and four Managing Directors from Menlo Ventures. The first round, which ran for ten days on eBay, raised an unprecedented amount of money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The VC/Founders Auction has become an annual event, said Campaign Manager, Christina Resasco. This years auction has raised more money in round one, than the past two years combined. Weve had bids come in from all over the world, including Australia, Poland and Cambodia. We are deeply grateful to all the Venture Capitalists and Founders who have donated their time to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

The Annual VC/Founders Auction is a high-demand item listed on eBay. Every seven days, another round of Venture Capitalists and Founders auctions will be announced and hosted on eBay. The next round of auctions will include Sean Parker, Greylock, Walden Venture Partners, NEA, Y-combinator 23andMe (Chief Business Officer Ashley Dombkowski), Rock Health (CEO Halle Tecco), BandPage (Founder & CEO J Sider), Loopt (Founder Sam Altman), Votizen (Co-founder Jason Putorti) and many more.

For more information about the 2012 Venture Capital Masters Lunch Series, please contact Christina Resasco at (415) 724-7882, @CResasco or at christina(at)causevault(dot)com. For more information about our efforts to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, please visit http://telecomadvisors.biz/www.M2DCancer.org.

About Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
An estimated 148,040 people will be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma in 2012. Approximately 54,380 deaths will occur from leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma in 2012. Since its inception, LLS has invested more than $814 million in research to find the cause and cure for hematologic (blood) cancers. This research has led to groundbreaking treatments which are vital to treating blood cancers and many other forms of cancer. We are leveraging the Man & Woman of The Year Campaign as a way to raise funds that will make a difference in cancer therapy research. http://telecomadvisors.biz/www.lls.org/ /aboutlls/chapters/sf/

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