January 19, 2022
3:00-5:00pm
Virtual: Register to Receive Virtual Attendance Link
In this seminar, we'll learn how to adjust the language we use to describe our business ventures based on audience, and we'll take an in-depth look at giving a business pitch and writing a grant.
Charla Triplett, Senior Venture Partner for Expert Dojo and President of Catalyze, will help us find our investor mindset. We'll learn from Charla, who is an active seed investor, what funders are looking for in your pitch, and we'll share tips on how to tell a startup story that can attract the right funding partners.
Kate Petcosky-Kulkarni, Director of Strategic Research Initiatives at the University of Oregon, will offer an overview of grant writing and development with a specific focus on grants for research business development and innovation. We'll learn from Kate how to approach grant writing, understanding persuasive writing, and writing for reviewers. Attendees will come away with knowledge of grantspersonship, effective grant writing practices, and how to best work productively with funding agencies.
This Women's Innovation Network seminar is co-sponsored by Onward Eugene.
Charla Triplett has over twenty years of experience bridging the gaps between academia, business, startups, non-profit, and venture capital. Charla is trained as a bioengineer with a breadth of experience in digital health, biosensors, medtech, and life sciences.
She has been a sought out mentor, advisor, and connector in the industry for decades, most recently as the President of Catalyze, a consulting group. She is a Senior Venture Partner at Expert Dojo Healthcare Ventures and CEO of Spine by Design, a software as a medical device spin-out from OSU.
Kate Petcosky-Kulkarni is the Director of Strategic Research Initiatives at the University of Oregon. In this role, she oversees Research Development Services (RDS), which supports faculty in increasing their externally funded research activity by identifying funding opportunities and providing writing and editing support to help researchers craft competitive grant proposals. In addition, RDS offers training to researchers, coordinates internal seed funding programs, and assists faculty in managing proposal development for complex, multi-project proposals.
Currently, Kate also serves at the interim Chief of Staff to the Vice President for Research and Innovation at the University of Oregon. Prior to joining UO, Kate served as the Director of the Office of Proposal Development at Boston University School of Medicine.
Kate received her B.S. from Boston University and obtained an MA in food studies from New York University and an MPH, with an emphasis on global health, from Boston University. In 2016, she was selected as a Global Health Storytelling Fellow with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to travel to India to explore and report on experiences of individuals living with disabilities, the intersection between poverty and disability, and cultural attitudes toward disability. Her work was published by NPR and Johns Hopkins.