Virtual: Venture Trends & 2026 Outlook
Join the 3rd annual iteration of this high demand event: Venture Trends & 2026 Outlook! Start off the new year with a review of key developments in 2025 and predictions for 2026 from leading legal and banking minds in venture capital from coast-to-coast. Hear from Sale Kwon, Partner in the Venture Capital practice of Cooley LLP and Hunter Nadler, Head of East Coast Startup Banking at JP Morgan. Sheila Proeve, former President and Co-founder of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs United, will moderate the panel for the third year in a row.
**Note the event is scheduled for 7pm Eastern, 6pm Central, 5pm Mountain and 4pm Pacific time.
The event is free for both Stanford Alumni and Students. Alumni please login on the top right and click the red button "Register for this event" on this event page (bit.ly/venture2026).
SPEAKERS
Sale Kwon, '04, MA '05, JD ’08, is a partner in the emerging companies & venture capital practice group of Cooley LLP, a leading global law firm in the technology and life sciences space. Sale works with a number of high-growth emerging companies and venture capital and corporate investors, helping them with corporate formations, venture financings, corporate governance, M&A and other strategic transactions. Sale has served as a captain in the Republic of Korea Army Judge Advocate's General Corps and represented South Korea in various defense procurement deals. While in law school, he completed an externship with US District Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the Northern District of California. Sale is fluent in Korean.
Hunter Nadler, is the Head of East Coast Startup Banking at JP Morgan. Previously, he served as Head of Emerging Technology and Disruptive Commerce at JP Morgan and as VP for Silicon Valley Bank. He brings over 15 years of expert banking insights into the innovation economy.
Sheila Proeve, MS '03 is Managing Director at Prime Row Ventures, a deep tech investing platform. She has raised and deployed capital for VC funds with over $500M in Assets Under Management, and supported multi-billion dollar M&A deals in financial services. Moreover, she pioneered the enterprise line at a venture capital-backed cybersecurity startup with successful exit. Sheila is former President and Co-founder of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs United, a community of now over 1,600 alumni that has supported more than 150 founders with early-stage fundraising. She holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford, an MBA from University of Chicago and BS from Northwestern.
