Sternhill Partners, a newly formed venture capital partnership with about $100 million under management, provides venture financing to seed and early-stage technology start-ups. Our investors include prominent members of the high-tech, energy, and banking communities, as well as a number of well-known institutional investors. As highly-capitalized venture capital firms seek to focus on more and larger later-stage investments, we address the growing need to support early-stage entrepreneurs. And that's where Sternhill makes a difference.
We take our approach from the original tenets of venture capital, where the entrepreneur comes first and building healthy companies is the number one priority. Low-key and accessible, we make it a point to work closely with each of our portfolio companies, limiting the size of our fund to about $100 million and the number of investments we make to fewer than 15. We take the time to help each portfolio company grow into a successful, world-class operation.
The Sternhill team has the experience that can make a decisive difference. Our management comes with unmatched experience in product development, strategy, marketing, sales and finance at companies like Compaq Computer, McKinsey & Co., Motorola, BellSouth, and Coopers & Lybrand. We also bring strong relationships with key players in the computer, communications, and Internet fields,relationships that will enable our portfolio companies to get a fast start, and permit us to syndicate later rounds with larger, well-known venture capital firms.
Our experience puts us in good stead to pick out the winners.
