Fireside Chat — Corporate Partnerships and Strategic M&A
An inside perspective on how long-term alignment, operational clarity, and steady visibility influence strategic interest—and what makes a company attractive well before any deal takes shape.
Cy Megnin
Vice President of Software
Cy has been an entrepreneur, founder and advisor for over two decades. Past companies include Intel Capital portfolio company PrepFlash, an EdTech company that uses NLP to automatically create flashcards from any content, and CloudCoreo, a configuration management company that garnered investment from Microsoft and ultimately sold to VMware. Cy was in the 2014 class of “Forty Under 40” for Professional Remodeler Magazine at the helm of the long-running real estate investment firm OCPS and was twice featured on TLC’s hit TV show “Flip That House”.
He is currently back in his hometown of Bloomington, Ind. with his wife Andrea and son Jack working for Elevate Ventures as Vice President of Software after spending the last 15 years in Austin, Seattle and the Bay area. He has a degree in Economics from Indiana University and an MBA from Baylor University, where he is an executive judge for their annual MBA Ethics competition.
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