Why you need to attend Vator Splash: Get your discounted tickets here

In one week, Vator will be holding Vator Splash, an evening event that will be held on February 3rd, at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco. As always, the event will feature 10 promising young high-tech startups to present onstage in front of prominent investors, fellow entrepreneurs and high-tech influencers.

There’s still time to get tickets using the VentureBeat discount. Click here and use your VentureBeat discount code “VB25″ to get 25% off the ticket price.

Attendees will also get a chance to hear two amazing entrepreneurs, who will share their nuggets of wisdom about entrepreneurship. Pandora founder and CSO, Tim Westergren, will talk about how he started Pandora a decade ago, and built it to be the leading personalized radio station in the country that’s poised to go public in 2011. Neil Young will share his lessons and advice about building up a gaming company, ngmoco, and then selling it to DeNA for $400 million.

Given the changing dynamics in early-stage investing, there will be a new twist to the event.

This time, a panel early-stage investors from top-notch firms – John O’Farrell of Andreessen Horowitz, Joe Krause of Google Ventures, Tod Francis of Shasta Ventures and David Hornik of August Capital – will take a look at how early-stage funding is evolving, and how the emergence of super angels are helping to change it. The super angels are emerging not only as startup creation is transforming, particularly for consumer Internet companies, but as the number of VC firms is shrinking. Our moderator will be Duncan Davidson, former VC at VantagePoint Venture Partners and now co-founder of Bullpen, a newly-launched VC fund focused primarily on second rounds of super angel funds.

Also joining our lineup of panelists to provide insight and feedback to the presenting companies are Jed Katz of Javelin Venture Partners, Thomas Korte of AngelPad, David Thacker of Greylock, Saad Khan of CMEA, Jay Jamison of BlueRun Ventures, Dara Bazzano of KPMG, Raj Kapoor of Mayfield and Tim Chang of Norwest.

Finally, you won’t want to miss the afterparty performance by Cover Flow, starring Mayfield’s Raj Kapoor, Norwest’s Tim Chang, Blippy’s Phil Kaplan and Facebook’s Prashant Fuloria and Ethan Beard. Check out their promo video here.

Once again, the best deal comes in the demo table packages, which are still available. Click here and use your VentureBeat discount code “VB25″ to get 25% off.

Vator Splash events have become the must-attend gatherings for early-stage startups. At Splash, entrepreneurs learn from leading founders, such as Zynga’s Mark Pincus, Zappos’ Tony Hsieh, Peter Thiel, Twitter’s Dick Costolo — all of whom have keynoted past Splash events. Investors from top VC firms, such as Andreessen Horowitz, August Capital, AngelPad, Alsop Louie, Bessemer, Blue Run Ventrues, Bullpen, Canaan, Claremont, CMEA, Crosslink Capital, DFJ, FirstMark, First Round, Founders Fund, Granite VC, Greycroft, Greylock, Google Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Industry Ventures, Intel Capital, IVP, Jafco Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Madrona Venture Group, Mayfield, NEA, North Bridge, Norwest, NYC Seed, Oak Investment Partners, OpenView Partners, Polaris, Redpoint Ventures, RRE, Scale, Shasta, SoftTech VC, SV Angels, TechStars, VantagePoint, Venrock and 500 Startups, and more are attending or have attended the Splash events.