Venture Cafe organizers always say that it’s what happens OUTSIDE of Venture Cafe, from people who meet AT Venture Cafe, that is the real take-away… and last night that played out.

A small group of ‘cool kids’ closed the official event down, then meandered over to the Grove. On the surface, it looked like a group of friends enjoying the atmosphere at a couple bars… but the conversation covered all kinds of startup business topics, from Arch Grant judge considerations to early stage talent and capital acquisition.  Like Vegas, what happens outside Venture Cafe stays there… but here are pictures of people who were at this week’s official Venture Cafe event.

Caught Schmoozing:

  1. Anatolij Gelimson, FastDemocracy; Samantha Menezes, Daugherty Business Solutions
  2. Aaron Zheng, EDURain; Jonathan Allen, Entrepreneur Quarterly
  3. Erica Cole, No Limbits; Erik Lutenegger, Tenacity and Bourbon Friday
  4. Robbie Beyer, Wash-U; Shannon Tsai, biologist
  5. Blaine McDonnel, HiveID; Molly Olson, Intact Genomics
  6. Hunter Maret, Viterbo Vision; Stephen Andrew, Viterbo Vision

On the 4thEst8:

FastDemocracy dives into city and local government

EDURain in revenue

Caught Schmoozing at Bourbon Friday