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216. Entrepreneur Alert: It’s Time to Prepare for Technology Summit

In January, 2012, TVC will select up to 20 entrepreneurs with the most commercially marketable ideas and help them prepare business plans to pitch in April to funders at TVC’s Deal Stream Summit, formerly called the Equity Capital Symposium. TVC must receive plans by Jan. 6, and entrepreneurs should contact TVC (www.techventures.org) right away at 505-246-2891.

176. Venture Acceleration Fund Now Accepting Proposals

The Venture Acceleration Fund, administered through Los Alamos National Laboratory, awards up to $100,000 to qualifying ventures. This year, the VAF is changing some of its rules: calls for ideas will be accepted year-round, and companies no longer must have a direct technology-transfer association with the lab — though some preference is given to those ventures.

135. Nineteen Startup Tech Companies to Pitch Ideas to Investors

Technology Ventures Corporation’s Equity Capital Symposium, held annually in May, gives startup companies a chance to present their business plans to investors. Presenters, who apply in December of the preceeding year, spend several months working with TVC experts to refine their plan. Since 1993, one in three presenters have received funding.