About the Atlanta Venture Forum
Founded in 1984 to foster closer professional relationships among the members of the Southeast venture community through the exchange of information and ideas, the Atlanta Venture Forum has grown into the largest trade association for private equity investors in the Southeast.
The organization's objectives include:
- Providing a forum for exchanging experiences and opinions through discussions and study of all the aspects of venture capital and its management.
- Developing and encouraging high standards of service and conduct by venture capitalists.
- Promoting the arts and sciences of venture capital and educating members and the public in the advancement, improvement and use of venture capital.
- Cooperating with other local and regional groups of venture capitalists and maintaining close liaison with them.
- Advancing the usefulness of the organization to its members, to the business of venture capital and to the general public.
The Atlanta Venture Forum conducts monthly member-only breakfast meetings where invited speakers address issues of interest to private equity investors and hosts the annual Spring Venture Conference, a weekend educational event hosted in different locations each year with the SBIC, the Southern RASBIC and the Midwestern RASBIC as co-sponsors. Meetings typically feature speakers on topics of interest to the venture capital community and give members an opportunity to network with one another. The Atlanta Venture Forum also sponsors enterprise scholarships at local universities for the purpose of encouraging enterprise education.
Membership in the Atlanta Venture Forum is limited to venture capital investors and groups that provide products or services to venture capital investors and to others that have a special interest in venture capital