Tracy Kwiker

Cove Fund is a family of seed-stage venture capital funds that provides startup funding for promising new Southern California ventures. The funds are headquartered in “The Cove” at UC Irvine Applied Innovation, a centrally located and vibrant gathering place for entrepreneurs, innovators and investors in the Southern California startup ecosystem. Cove Fund I, a $6M fund, opened in 2015 and is fully invested. Cove Fund II, a $14M fund, launched in early 2018 and is actively investing. The funds invest in early stage technology and life science companies that demonstrate the potential to address large markets with highly differentiated products and services, and that can achieve significant value-creating inflection points with their seed funding.

Cove Fund is a family of seed-stage venture capital funds that provides startup funding for promising new Southern California ventures. The funds are headquartered in “The Cove” at UC Irvine Applied Innovation, a centrally located and vibrant gathering place for entrepreneurs, innovators and investors in the Southern California startup ecosystem. Cove Fund I, a $6M fund, opened in 2015 and is fully invested. Cove Fund II, a $14M fund, launched in early 2018 and is actively investing. The funds invest in early stage technology and life science companies that demonstrate the potential to address large markets with highly differentiated products and services, and that can achieve significant value-creating inflection points with their seed funding.

The Entrepreneur’s Path, Illuminated Are you an established or an aspiring entrepreneur looking to attract customers, forge strategic relationships, or secure investor funding? Whatever your situation may be, it does not matter how compelling your business or business idea is if you cannot successfully communicate it to others. At Illumitiv, we collaborate with you to clarify and refine your company’s core strategic value proposition and craft comprehensive, precise, concise, and compelling pitch materials. You’ve likely had moments when you wished for the insight to make the path ahead clear. We work side by side with you, the entrepreneur, to illuminate clear thinking, clear speech, and clear action. We welcome hearing from you if you’d like to learn more.

Pivotal Events is a full-service event management company partnering with corporations, professional service firms, associations, and charities to produce educational conferences, sales meetings, seminars, executive retreats, exclusive encounters, networking events, galas, golf tournaments, tradeshows, and e-learning programs that deliver a return on our clients’ event investment. Pivotal Events has the in-house expertise to offer clients a turn-key event solution, from venue and vendor logistics to resource procurement, large-scale speaker coordination, marketing collateral creation, website development, sponsorship development and coordination, marketing promotion, insurance procurement, legal compliance, accounting services, and event registration.