AlwaysOn and Advanced Equities Join Together to Host 2010 Venture Summit Silicon Valley

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- AlwaysOn, the leading producer of world-class conferences for venture capitalists and emerging technology companies, and Advanced Equities, a leading provider of investment management, securities brokerage, and venture capital investment banking services, today announced a partnership to present the 2010 Venture Summit Silicon Valley. Now in its fourth year, this two-and-a-half day conference, to be held December 13-15, at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, gathers key influencers from Silicon Valley to identify the overarching trends and investment opportunities in the technology industry, and showcase the most promising venture-backed companies to watch.

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In the fast paced technology industry, where change and adaptation are the only constant, it can be difficult to keep pace with the latest innovations and to identify which trends have sustainability. Venture Summit Silicon Valley provides a forum for investors, from Sand Hill Road to San Francisco, to evaluate the potential of today's entrepreneurial pursuits and emerging technologies.

The 2010 Venture Summit East event marks the release of the second annual AlwaysOn VC Top 100 list. The list recognizes value creation by venture capitalists in America with the best mergers and acquisitions and initial public offering track records over the past four years.

In addition to co-presenting the event, the Advanced Equities senior leadership team will participate in several keynotes and speaking panels. Advanced Equities will also host a private, half-day investors' track at Venture Summit Silicon Valley on December 13.

"Venture Summit Silicon Valley will provide Advanced Equities with an important opportunity to bring our investors together under one roof, to discuss the most significant trends in technology, investment opportunities, and companies reshaping both the lives of consumers and businesses, over the next 36 months," said Dwight Badger, CEO of Advanced Equities Financial Corp.

"Advanced Equities and AlwaysOn look forward to hosting one of the most important gatherings of the year in Silicon Valley," added Keith Daubenspeck, Chairman, Advanced Equities Financial Corp.

AlwaysOn was founded by Silicon Valley thought leader Tony Perkins, who has had his finger on the pulse of the biggest technology trends over the last quarter century, evangelizing the risks and lessons learned from the internet bubble in his book of the same title. Further testament to Perkins' foresight is the success stories that follow the winners of the AlwaysOn Top 100 lists -- from Skype to Twitter -- highlighting the "Breakout" companies to watch.  

"We continue to receive overwhelming responses from our events relaying that this is where the deals get done," said Perkins. "When we are able to connect the biggest names in the industry with the up-and-coming names, important alliances are struck and real conversations begin to happen about what will shape the future of the technology industry.  We are thrilled to be collaborating with Advanced Equities, one of the venture capital industry's most prestigious investment banks, to make Venture Summit Silicon Valley a must attend event for investors and private companies from all over America."

Venture Summit Silicon Valley is part of an on-going series presented by AlwaysOn. Its sister event, Venture Summit East, was held June 21-23 at Harvard Business School.

About Venture Summit

The Venture Summit conference series highlights the significant economic, cultural and technology trends impacting the global venture investor. The goal of Venture Summit Silicon Valley is to match growth-company buyers and sellers and identify the most promising innovation-driven, growth investment opportunities. Venture Summit events feature the most influential institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and research analysts in the U.S. in keynote presentations and panel debates. Venture Summit Silicon Valley will also honor the AlwaysOn VC 100 list and play host to CEO Showcases from qualified companies seeking later-stage capital or potential acquirers.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn's preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, OnDC, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen, GoingGreen East, and GoingGreen Europe. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.

About Advanced Equities

Advanced Equities Financial Corp. is a leading provider of investment management, securities brokerage, and venture capital investment banking services through its subsidiaries: Advanced Equities, Inc.; First Allied Securities, Inc.; Advanced Equities Asset Management and Advanced Equities Wealth Management (Greenbook Financial Services, Inc.). Combined, AEFC represents one of the nation's top independent brokerage forces in the nation with approximately 900 financial advisors administering more than $30 billion in client assets. These advisors have been ranked as the industry's most productive and have access to an array of products, services and in-house expertise within the wealth management sectors that few firms can rival. These complementary business units make AEFC unique in the financial service/investment banking industry. Advanced Equities is positioned to meet the current and future needs of its expanding client and financial advisor base.

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