California Coast Venture Forum Call for Business Plans; Venture Forum Offers Venture Capital...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- The California Coast Venture Forum (CCVF) today issued a call for business plans for emerging-growth start-ups and later stage companies seeking venture capital funding. Later stage companies are defined by fifth-year projected revenues exceeding $20 million.

CCVF's 100-member Advisory Board has assisted more than 300 emerging companies with business plans, resulting in $110 million in capital investment over the past nine years. Now in its tenth year, the CCVF has expanded to all companies seeking growth across the nation and has expanded to the institutional investors, the venture capitalists, and the angel investors in the United States.

Companies selected to present will participate in several coaching sessions designed to help refine their business plans and prepare their presentations. Companies who are selected to exhibit, but not present, will have the opportunity to meet potential accredited investors to demonstrate or describe their products in the "Marketplace" at the Venture Forum. Past CCVF Forums have had more than 350 industry professionals in attendance.

The event will be held Thursday, June 1, 2006 in Santa Barbara, California at the Four Season's Biltmore Hotel. For further details regarding this event and instructions on registration and submitting Business Plans, please go to www.ccvf.org.

ABOUT CCVF

CCVF is a non-profit organization whose mission is to invite qualified companies to participate in forums with leading investors and sponsors in Santa Barbara, California. CCVF was founded in 1996 by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton (formerly, Nida & Maloney), Southern California Edison, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Westmont College and Paine Weber, as the non-profit California Coast Venture Forum (formerly, the Central Coast Venture Forum).