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Morrison Foerster is proud to sponsor Venture Summit West, taking place April 2–3 in Mountain View, CA. This premier event connects top investors, startups, and industry leaders for two days of networking, insights, and innovation. Partners Jim Ryan and Stephanie Sharron will each moderate a panel, “Unlocking Corporate Venture Capital: Strategies for Smart Funding” and “FinTech Future: Trends That Will Dominate the Next 5 Years,” respectively. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights, build connections, and explore the future of venture capital and entrepreneurship. To learn more and register to attend, visit <a href="https://youngstartup.com/events/vsw25" target="_blank">Venture Summit West| Silicon Valley, April 2025</a>.<hr>

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Jim Ryan is a partner in Morrison Foerster's Transactions Department. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border corporate and securities matters, including venture capital and private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, securities compliance, and corporate governance.Jim represents entrepreneurs, startups and emerging companies as outside general counsel, venture capital and private equity investors, and financial and strategic acquirers across the technology, media, telecommunications, and life sciences industries. His clients operate in a variety of sectors including machine learning and artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, cybersecurity, data analytics, fintech, e-commerce, gaming, life sciences, and medical devices.Jim earned his J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law, where he was a comments editor for the Santa Clara Law Review and was published on the topic of cloud computing regulation. He received his B.A. in Economics with a minor in Information Systems and Technology Management from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Stephanie is a trusted advisor to companies with respect to technology and life sciences transactions, related IP counseling, and responsible tech and AI governance practices.Stephanie represents both private and public companies, from emerging growth through the Fortune 50. For over 25 years, her practice has focused on helping companies that leverage data through technology.Stephanie serves on the Responsible AI Venture Council, part of the recently launched Lucas Institute for Venture Ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and currently serves as an advisor to certain research projects of the Institute. Stephanie is also a member of the firm’s global Sustainability + Corporate Responsibility and FinTech steering committees.In addition to publishing on a variety of legal topics related to AI, since 2016, Stephanie has taught as a guest lecturer on data licensing and other IP-related topics in Cornell Law School’s Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM program at CornellTech and has served as a guest lecturer at Cornell Law School.

Venture Summit West 2025

02 Apr 2025 - 03 Apr 2025