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Commercializing Innovation: Startup Formation, with Peter Wagner (Wing VC)

November 9th, 2021 ~ 12:00pm - 01:00pm

Zoom; please register for details

Join us for this virtual fireside chat, where Peter Wagner, a prominent Bay Area venture capitalist, will share his thoughts on how to launch a startup based on academic research and how to tap into the community of investors and Harvard alumni on the West Coast.

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About the speaker

Peter Wagner is Founding Partner of Wing VC, a Bay Area venture firm focused on seed and series A investments in tech companies. His fund has extensive experience launching companies that are based upon academic research. Peter was a physics concentrator as an undergraduate at Harvard College and earned his MBA at Harvard Business School.

Peter will be joined by Sam Liss, Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships, from the Harvard Office of Technology Development (OTD).

Hosted by Harvard OTD and the FAS Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.

The Commercializing Innovation series is primarily aimed at Harvard University faculty, researchers, postdocs, and graduate students. However, the event is open to all.

Press Contact: Kirsten Mabry | (617) 495-4157


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