JD Montgomery, managing director at Canterbury Consulting, spoke on a panel at the Silicon Valley Bank International Venture Capital General Partners (SVB IVCGP) Summit on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 in San Francisco, California. During the panel, Making Waves: The Innovation Economy and the Essential Role of Family Offices, speakers focused on exploring how family offices are no longer just limited partners and are instead becoming very valuable and collaborative with funds and underlying companies.
SVB partnered with the International Finance Corporation Emerging Markets Forum to host the SVB IVCGP Summit, an invitation-only event for general partners at venture capital firms investing outside of the United States, including emerging markets. The topics of discussion included working effectively with corporate venture capital and corporate development teams, strategies for engaging with family offices, and an update on the U.S. venture capital industry and trends.