DV FLAGSHIP2019 – 2025

DV Founder Community

Summits, salons, and the rooms that kept founders close.

DV's founder-experience platform. Flagship events, summits, and invitation-only salons. The reason founders wanted DV in their corner before they pitched.

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THE THESIS

The most underrated brand asset a fund has is the room it holds.

A lot of the best brand work a fund does never gets published. It happens in a room. A summit. A salon. A dinner. A pre-briefing the week before a public event.

Founders who came to DV's community programming didn't always go on to pitch. The ones who did came warm. The ones who didn't referred friends. That's brand working the long way round.

THE PROGRAMMING

Flagship summits, intimate salons, and the invite list that signals taste.

Flagship industry events for reach. Founder summits for signal. Invitation-only salons for taste. Each format had a different job. Together they gave DV a steady stream of founder conversations that didn't feel like sourcing.

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