The Midcontinent Venture Capital Summit, hosted by Oklahoma-based venture capital firm Cortado Ventures, highlights all facets of the burgeoning startup technology industry outside of coastal bubbles.

Talent is spread evenly, yet venture funds congregate in coastal markets. There is a gold rush of opportunity for limited partners, venture capital firms, and entrepreneurs to pioneer technology innovations of legacy industries that dominate central US regions.

This gathering will celebrate the achievements, challenges, and opportunities from each stakeholder’s perspective of our domestic emerging market for technology innovation.

Anticipated speakers include VC general partners, institutional investors, family office managers, founders, government officials, and startup ecosystem builders.

​Agenda includes:

• ​General Partner Panel

• ​Founder Panel

• ​Institutional Investor Panel

• Family Office Panel

• ​Ecosystem Panel

• Keynote Fireside Chat

• ​Networking Reception for Investors and Founders

Key speakers include David Epstein, Journalist and New York Times Best-selling author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. He will be joined in a fireside chat by James Rogers, who started a $2 billion ag-tech company, Apeel Sciences, that uses plant-based materials to keep moisture inside the produce and oxygen out, dramatically slowing the rate that produce spoils.

Other speakers include Aaron Pierce (Partner at Perot Jain), Charu Thomas (CEO/Founder of Ox), Mike Gorton (CEO/Founder of Recuro Health), Dan Kerr (Partner at Flyover Capital, Elizabeth Pollard (President at Oklahoma State University Research Foundation/Cowboy Technologies), Scott Mueller (Managing Director at Goldman Sachs), Chase Rankin (Executive Director at Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System), Sarah Chen-Spellings (Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Beyond the Billion), and many more investment and entrepreneurial leaders!