How to Break Into Venture Capital with Seth Winterroth ’12

A CMC ’12 alumni, Seth Winterroth is a partner at Eclipse Ventures where he invests in full-stack technology companies that improve the physical world. He is fascinated by the notion that connected compute, in a number of different form factors, embedded in the physical world will change every industry and dramatically shift how humans live their lives. He focuses his time on building businesses that use: automation technologies to improve the movement of people and goods, next generation manufacturing technologies, and consumer hardware to facilitate state of the art in computer vision. Seth has also recently joined the Advisory Board for CMC’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

During this session, Seth will share his story of how he went from recent CMC graduate to a partner at a top Venture Capital firm in only three years. He’ll also share suggestions on the actions students with an interest in pursuing a career in VC should take while they’re still on campus, and the types of internships and initial roles post-graduation that can help towards the goal.