We held our 8th Annual Portfolio Day yesterday, September 15th, and heard from 16 Band portfolio companies. A big thank you to our member Mario Rosati for hosting us at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto. This year’s lineup included:

Aperia Technologies, Bell Biosystems, Bioxiness, Cargo Chief, Crop One Holdings (formerly AquaHarvest), DecisionNext, GATE, Materna, Navera (formerly Trustnode), NG1 Technologies, NGX Bio (formerly Uberseq), Peloton Technology, Practice Fusion, Savvy, TinyKicks, and TranscribeMe!

For our educational session Andy Scott from RPX Corporation (NASDAQ: RPXC) gave a great overview followed by lively Q&A on how to “Protect Your Portfolio Investment from Patent Litigation” and Suresh Pai, CEO of CogENT Therapeutics shared the highlights of the Entellus Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENTL) acquisition of Band company CogENT (January 2014 Dinner).