Brightspark has established itself as Canada's leading early-stage software venture fund. Brightspark works closely with entrepreneurs to develop and build market-leading software companies. Our innovative investment approach allows us to capitalize on our many years of entrepreneurial, investment and operational experience, in order to actively help early-stage companies through their development and growth phase. Our investments in startups range from the "product concept" stage where we work with domain experts looking to commercialize an idea or technology, to working with experienced entrepreneurs looking to scale their existing business. Brightspark's team brings years of investment and technology expertise in creating and operating software companies in the areas of application and infrastructure software, enterprise software and communications software. Our experience allows us to work closely with entrepreneurs to identify emerging technologies and solutions that address large market opportunities. Our goal is to proactively engage young companies to help them accelerate growth and market leadership. Brightspark plays an active role in its portfolio companies. Our involvement includes fundraising, strategic involvement through board participation and guidance on operational planning including product development, sales, business development, and recruitment. Entrepreneurs choose Brightspark because of our proven and structured approach to transforming ideas into successful ventures. With offices in Toronto and Montreal, Canada, Brightspark is backed by leading institutional investors who share our proven approach to early-stage software investing.
ITU Ventures is a premier investment firm serving the unique needs of technology businesses emerging from the nation's leading universities, research institutions and corporations. Our trailblazing practices provide the insight required to identify exceptional investment opportunities and ability to develop companies to successful culmination. We maintain our leadership position by challenging industry conventions in ways that benefit out portfolio companies and investors.
KB Partners is a Chicago-based venture capital firm established in 1996 to make investments in early-stage technology companies in the Midwest. KB's objective is to build dominant new enterprises by working in partnership with talented entrepreneurs and experienced managers. KB Partners manages two venture funds totaling in excess of $95 million. The firm's investors include high net worth individuals, investment companies and institutions with which KB has established relationships.
The Skypoint team is a cohesive group with a history of working together for more than 15 years. We bring a range of experience in the following areas: Telecommunications and IT industry operations Product design - hardware and/or software Technology analysis Finance and intellectual property strategy Deal structuring and negotiations Through working with more than 80 telecom technology start-ups, our team has the collective expertise required to add significant value in making critical links between technology, application, production, support services and end customers. We also bring significant transaction experience, including 19 acquisitions and 18 IPOs with a combined value of approximately $3 billion.
http://www.forwardventures.com
Forward Ventures, founded in 1993, is a leading life-science venture capital firm located in San Diego. Forward has a team of investment professionals with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, venture capital and operations. Our firm has invested in over 50 companies since it was founded in 1993 and currently has more than $500 million in capital under management. The most recent fund, Forward V, continues Forward Ventures' program of life sciences and health care venture investing in companies of all stages of development. Forward invests throughout the United States and will consider select European opportunities.
Novacap is one of Canada's leading private equity firms. Since 1981, our partnership approach has helped companies accelerate their growth and maximize their value. At Novacap, it's about more than just an investment; it's about building world-class companies. Our highly-experienced, multifunctional team understands the operational and financial challenges faced by today's organizations. We provide active support, deep operational expertise and growth capital to help companies with strategic competitive advantages realize their full potential.
With more than a combined 100+ years of operational, industry and technology investing experience, Redpoint Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that funds innovative companies with the potential to lead and change industries. Currently, the firm is focused on investments in enterprise software, communications infrastructure, mobile and wireless, and storage and data center infrastructure and management. Redpoint has a total of $1.45 billion under management, with investments in more than 60 companies to date. The firm was founded in 1999 by partners from Brentwood Venture Capital and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), two of the nation's leading venture firms. Redpoint ( www.redpoint.com ) has offices in Menlo Park, CA and West Los Angeles.
BDC makes a unique contribution to the success of dynamic and innovative Canadian entrepreneurs for the benefit of all Canadians. Each year, we assist thousands of small and medium-sized businesses implement new ideas, realize their vision and develop their full potential. And we do the same for our people.
DFJ Frontier is a venture capital firm that invests in seed and early stage companies on the west coast. DFJ Frontier backs passionate entrepreneurs in a broad array of industries, including information technology, life sciences, clean technology, and other emerging businesses. The firm typically leads the first round of investment, taking a significant stake in the company and an active role on the Board of Directors. DFJ Frontier is an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson and has offices in Sacramento and Santa Barbara, California.
CapMan Oyj (CapMan Abp or CapMan Plc) is a Finland-based private equity investment company that is active in the Nordic countries. The Company is primarily engaged in the management of private equity and the provision of advisory services. It manages a number of equity funds, mezzanine funds and real estate funds. CapMan Oyj provides management and advisory services in two main business areas: CapMan Private Equity (funds making investments in portfolio companies) and CapMan Real Estate (private equity real estate funds making investments in real estate assets and real estate consulting). Its subsidiaries include CapMan Capital Management Ltd, CapMan Real Estate Ltd, CapMan AB, CapMan Invest A/S, CapMan Norway AS, CapMan (Guernsey) Ltd, CapMan Mezzanine (Guernsey) Ltd, CapMan (Guernsey) Buyout VIII GP Ltd, CapMan (Guernsey) Life Science IV GP Ltd and Realprojekti Oy. The Company is operational in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, as well as the Channel Islands, the United Kingdom and Finland.
EDF Ventures is a leading venture capital firm investing in early-stage healthcare and information technologies. We focus on young companies that are developing breakthrough technologies to address large, well recognized problems or transform existing markets. We understand that the individuals pioneering these kinds of solutions require far more than just capital. They need venture investors who are committed for the long haul,true partners who can help entrepreneurs and founders transform their vision into strong, profitable companies. For us, there's nothing more rewarding than partnering with these exceptional people to bring important new technologies to market.
VantagePoint operates on a number of key principles and we want to partner with entrepreneurs who share these values in building world-scale companies. We pursue big ideas. And we invest in companies that can transform global markets through the power of their ideas. We have the financial resources and intellectual capital to tackle dynamic projects and the commitment to see them through. We often invest as the sole partner with portfolio company management and have the capacity to invest in excess of $100 million in support of a single company. Most often, we are a lead investor, with typical pre-IPO funding in the $15-50 million range. We are creative thinkers. We don't go by the book. In fact, we don't have a book. We understand that companies with great promise often have to address unusual challenges or quickly act on new opportunities to realize their full potential. To build successful companies to scale requires creative capital , moving beyond the funding to accelerate strategic growth. The depth of our relationships and resources enable us to introduce and help structure key corporate partnering and business development opportunities, use our substantial contact network to identify key hires, lend our in-house legal, transactional, recruiting, financial, and marketing experts during pivotal moments, and drive and fund strategic acquisitions to assist our portfolio companies. We strive for ambitious results. For us, this can only be achieved when interests are aligned through a collaborative team effort with our portfolio companies. Since we are, first and foremost, interested in companies with the potential to transform their industries and undergo significant growth, we invest across multiple technologies, important geographies and at any stage in a company's development. We are also willing to tackle complex financial, structural or technological issues as is sometimes required. Our goal is to work with highly motivated innovators with a shared vision of leadership in their field.
http://www.blueprintventures.com
Blueprint Ventures is a technology investment firm that focuses on start-ups delivering disruptive products to market. Blueprint provides initial financing to capital-efficient companies in the software, systems, and components spaces, with a specialized practice investing in Corporate IP Spinouts. Our team brings a unique combination of corporate, entrepreneurial, and investing experience. We have an average of 15 years of operating experience as both entrepreneurs and as executives in leading high-tech companies. We have leveraged this experience to invest in over 50 technology venture-backed start-ups, creating a network of hundreds of entrepreneurs who we have advised and guided to successful outcomes. Blueprint Ventures adheres firmly to several important principles: Sector Expertise We invest exclusively in technology start-ups, leveraging the know-how and relationships we have built over the past 20 years. We believe technology will continue to bring tremendous growth and innovation in the coming decade. From silicon and components to systems and software, we seek to identify disruptive technologies that will increase productivity and efficiency by solving tangible problems.
Chrysalix Energy is the General Partner of Chrysalix Energy Limited Partnership, formed in 2001, and Chrysalix Energy II U.S. Limited Partnership, formed in 2005. Chrysalix Energy invests in early-stage, technology-based clean energy companies and actively supports them with management and board assistance, technological resources, organized networking with industrial and financial partners and the management of intellectual property. Investors in the Chrysalix Energy Partnerships include Ballard Power Systems, BASF Venture Capital, BOC, The Boeing Company, Mitsubishi Corporation, Shell Hydrogen, Robeco, WestAM and Teachers' Private Capital.
Kodiak Venture Partners pursues a disciplined investment strategy that is focused on building seed and early stage technology companies into high-growth industry market leaders. Kodiak partners have deep expertise in building and investing in market leaders. The team invests in markets where they have had proven success over the years. Founded in 1999, Kodiak manages three funds totaling $676M and targets companies in eastern North America. Kodiak forges deep relationships with entrepreneurs at the earliest stages and works with a hands-on approach to formulate business strategies, build management teams, and develop critical alliances and customer relationships.
At vSpring CapitalÔ, we are proud of our portfolio companies and the entrepreneurs who founded them. Our portfolio companies have experienced teams, sound value propositions, and unfair advantages that will allow them to win. Consistent with our commitment to building and taking advantage of the resources and opportunities in the Intermountain West region, the majority of our investments are in Utah, along with promising opportunities on the West Coast. We believe in the potential of four industries: Software, Communications, Internet, and Life Sciences. Our investments reflect this conviction. Additionally, our geographic and market-based investment focus allows us to leverage our extensive operational experience across the portfolio. The end result: Favorable returns to our investors and industry leadership in our region. 3Point5 (www.3point5.com) would like to improve the conversation between a retailer and a consumer at the point of sale. Currently the company is the leader in online sales force education for the outdoor sports market. The have patented a unique training methodology using incentives and innovative online "edu-games" that communicates new product information from manufacturers to retailers. The company helps its clients increase sales, build customer loyalty, and deal with challenges like high turnover by better training their sales force. For the first time, a consistent message is being delivered on behalf of the manufacturers, and each sales person's progress is tracked in real time within the system. Unlike traditional training systems, 3point5 scales with the organization and provides data…resulting data is made available to managers online. Use of the service requires no additional IT time and almost no user training. Aeroprise (www.aeroprise.com) is a leader in the mobile enterprise space with a focus on Mobile Service Management. Many of the most-respected IT organizations in the world including Safeway, the US Air Force, Ticketmaster, Lockheed Martin, and Harvard University have selected Aeroprise to improve productivity, reduce customer support costs, and leverage existing investments in IT infrastructure at the point of service delivery when front-line employees are untethered from PCs. The company is growing quickly as a result of partnerships with BlackBerry and wireless carriers like Cingular and Sprint Nextel. Aeroprise products have received numerous awards including first prize from among 25 leading mobile and wireless vendors at Mobile Showcase 2005. Aeroprise's core technology was developed by pioneers in the mobile enterprise space from Stanford and MIT. Alianza (www.alianza.com) provides the first hosted, fully-integrated IP-based platform for delivering Unified Communications Applications via SaaS for Broadband Service Providers. Value-added applications include VoIP, hosted PBX, IVR, integrated messaging, conferencing, and much more. Alianza's proprietary PowerPlatform enables Broadband Service Providers to launch private-labeled solutions in less than 30 days, with no capital expenditures. Alianza's technology includes a robust combination of all key components required to offer advanced Unified Communications services to residential and SMB end-users including Soft Switch, Session Border Controller, Carrier Interface, Virtual PBX, Billing System and Hardware Provisioning Interface. In addition, the PowerPlatform includes two valuable web-based management portals; one for the Service Provider to manage their offering and one for the End-User to manage their account. In addition, Alianza's technology is completely customizable to meet even the most unique requirements. Alpha Bay Corporation (www.alphabay.com) was founded in 2004 by a serial entrepreneur along with retail and enterprise software veterans. The company has offices and development centers in Salt Lake City, Utah and Denver, Colorado. The Adaptive Integrated Retail System-AIRS-incorporates all the key modules and applications (POS, Merchandising, Inventory Management, Business Intelligence, Warehouse Management…) needed to allow enterprise retailers to plan, manage and sell merchandise with the same IT-leveraged competitive advantages Wal-Mart used to become the world's largest retailer. AIRS is a completely SOA customizable solution that adapts to the business processes of each specific retailer. AIRS has a fifth-generation architecture offering performance, scalability, manageability, accessibility and high availability to any retailer. AlphaBay's knowledge, talent, and state-of-the-art technology components provide a comprehensive, integrated, real-time solution for tier 1 and tier 2 retailers. Altea Therapeutics (www.alteatherapeutics.com) develops pharmaceutical products using a non-invasive skin patch to deliver therapeutic proteins, conventional drugs and vaccines through the skin. The Company's patented PassPortÔ patch uses short bursts of focused thermal energy to create hundreds of tiny channels in the surface of the skin. These channels permit the rapid and sustained flow of proteins, peptides, carbohydrates, and small molecules into the body without the use of needles. Phase 1 clinical trials of both insulin and hydromorphone patch products are well underway. Additional pilot human studies have demonstrated the delivery of several protein drugs and vaccines via the skin including interferon-alpha, hepatitis B antigen, and parathyroid hormone. The Company's intellectual property includes 36 issued patents (16 U.S.), with numerous additional applications pending. Co-investors in Altea Therapeutics include Domain Associates, Venrock Associates. In May 2002, Altiris ( NASDAQ : ATRS) completed a successful initial public offering, underwritten by Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown and UBS Warburg. Aspen Avionics is in the business of designing, developing and distributing technically innovative low cost avionics to meet the economic and operational needs of the piston-engine aircraft market. The company, headquartered in Albuquerque NM, was founded in 2004 by a team of highly experienced avionics professionals and general aviation enthusiasts. The company can be found on the web at www.aspenavionics.com, or may be reached at (505) 856-5034. Avinti Inc. (www.avinti.com) enables businesses to safely use e-mail as a critical communications tool without fear of emerging crimeware, keyloggers and Trojans for which no signature pattern exists. Avinti's iSolation Server® stops new e-mail crimeware, keyloggers and other attacks at the first-instance of any threat without waiting hours or days for suitable pattern updates. By testing and observing the actual behavior of attachments in a secure and isolated virtual machine environment, iSolation Server prevents first-instance threats when no known pattern exists, and prevents them before they compromise sensitive data. iSolation Server's virtual e-mail testing delivers security beyond "day-zero" solutions, which typically detect only spam malware and are prone to false positives. iSolation Server also delivers instant ROI with reporting metrics on the number and names of unknown threats blocked before pattern file availability. Avinti's customers include government, healthcare, technology, educational and financial institutions, among others. Founded in 2002 by a group of internationally recognized spine surgeons and geneticists, Axial Biotech, Inc. is focused on the use of genetics and the development of minimally invasive fusionless devices to advance the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and deformities of the human spine. Axial is the first company to pursue DNA-based pre-symptomatic and prognostic tests for common spinal conditions which will augment current clinical and surgical practices. In its initial genetic product development initiative, Axial has made significant progress towards the discovery of a location in the human genome that is associated with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. In addition, Axial's founders have developed five motion preserving, fusionless surgical devices (including the only such device currently being implanted in humans) that have the promise of expanding the current treatable scoliosis patient population by a factor of ten. Axial intends to use its proprietary genetic intellectual property in the development of bio-mechanical devices, and to apply its gene discovery/product development methodology to other spinal diseases. Axial (www.axialbiotech.com) is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. BioMicro Systems (www.biomicro.com) was founded in 2000 to develop and improve microfluidic microarray sample processing. Microarrays are tools used by major pharmaceutical companies and research laboratories to sift through and analyze information contained within a genome. A microarray consists of different nucleic acid probes that are chemically attached to a substrate, which can be a microchip, a glass slide or microsphere-sized beads. In 2003 BioMicro Systems launched the MAUI Hybridization System, a cutting-edge microarray instrument, designed to target the processing bottleneck encountered during the critical hybridization step in gene expression studies. To date, BioMicro Systems has sold over 100 MAUI Systems worldwide. Founded in 2002, Cemaphore Systems (www.cemaphore.com) with offices in Provo, UT and Palo Alto, CA develops software that ensures availability, integrity and reliability of electronic messaging services. Over the past several years, the use of electronic messaging has gone through explosive growth and is now considered mission critical for corporate communications. Since many of these messaging systems are not based on "high availability" architectures, it is difficult for IT organizations to meet service level agreements (SLAs) with their end-user customers. In addition, corporate e-mail is now considered a business record and is subject to compliance regulations. Cemaphore was founded to address these issues. Cemaphore has defined the specifications and is developing the prototypes for its two main products, MailShadow, which replicates mailbox data, and NocMon, a management console that extends en
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