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Baltimore - Maryland, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Woman Focused
Seed Investor at Inner Loop Capital
Seed Investor in the Washington, D.C. region
Maryland, U.S.A.
BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Consumer
Idris Mokhtarzada is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Truebill. Prior to that he was the Co-Founder of Webs. Idris spent over a decade cofounding and growing Webs.com, leading to it's eventual acquisition by Vistaprint in 2011. He holds several patents around graphical user interfaces.
San Francisco Bay Area - Baltimore - Maryland, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Venture Partner at Preface Ventures
FinTech Entrepreneur, Lawyer @syracuse-university, wanted to play in the NBA but wound up with an MBA @babson-college. Yogi @bikram, Father. How can I help
; Baltimore Maryland ; Annapolis Maryland - U.S.A. - New York - Los Angeles - Manchester - Walnut - CA - Santa Monica - Nampa - NY - San Diego, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Food & Beverage • Human Resources • Healthcare (& Wellness) • LegalTech • Mobility • Online Social • Restaurants • Industrials • Semiconductors
Adam Sharp is an Angel Investor at Adam Sharp. Adam Sharp is a Co-Founder at Early Investing. He is an active investor in more than 20 startups, including Navdy, Upcounsel, Cabify, Faraday Bikes, Addy and Respondly. A former financial advisor, he also has extensive experience with Internet marketing and financial writing. Adam has worked as a marketing consultant for sites including chess.com and catalogs.com. He has built three profitable web businesses.
New York City (NY) - Bethesda Maryland - Houston Texas - Texas, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness)
On January 3, 2012, Stellus Capital Management was established in connection with the spin out of the Direct Capital Unit of the D. E. Shaw group. Stellus focuses on the middle market, providing private credit financing to businesses in a wide range of industries, and private equity capital to energy-focused companies in North America. The Stellus team deployed more than $5 billion during their years investing together at the D. E. Shaw group. Stellus currently provides investment advice in respect of approximately $740 million in private credit and energy private equity investments generated while at the D. E. Shaw group. In Private Credit, Stellus focuses on the direct origination of debt for middle market companies, typically with modest corresponding equity co-investment. For Private equity and equity-linked debt investments, the firm targets small and middle market energy businesses (making investments of $10 million to $50 million). Stellus Capital Investment Corporation (NYSE: SCM) is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. Stellus Capital Investment Corporation's investment objective is to maximize the total return to its stockholders in the form of current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in private middle-market companies (typically those with $5.0 million to $50.0 million of EBITDA through first lien, second lien, unitranche and mezzanine debt financing, often with a corresponding equity investment. Stellus is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and also maintains offices in the New York City area, and the Washington, D.C. area.
New York - Maryland, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy)
Managing Director and General Counsel at Emerald Development Managers
Stephen Case serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Revolution; Founder and Partner, Revolution Growth at Revolution. Steve Case is one of America's best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs, and a pioneer in making the Internet part of everyday life. For the past 15 years, Steve's focus has been on starting and scaling Revolution, the Washington DC-based investment firm that now backs entrepreneurs at every stage of their development. Revolution Growth has invested nearly $1 billion in growth-stage companies including Sweetgreen, Tempus, Tala, DraftKings, and Clear. Revolution Ventures has backed more than two dozen venture-stage companies, including Framebridge, Policygenius, and Bloomscape. The Rise of the Rest Seed Fund has invested in more than 130 startups in over 70 U.S. cities, in partnership with many of America's most successful entrepreneurs and investors. Steve's entrepreneurial career began in 1985 when he co-founded America Online (AOL). Under Steve's leadership, AOL became the world's largest and most valuable Internet company, helping to drive the worldwide adoption of a medium that has transformed business and society. AOL was the first Internet company to go public, and the best performing stocks of the 1990s, delivering a 11,616% return to shareholders. At its peak, nearly half of Internet users in the United States used AOL. In 2000, Steve negotiated the largest merger in business history, bringing together AOL and Time Warner in a transaction that gave AOL shareholders a majority stake in the combined company. To facilitate the merger, Steve agreed to step down as CEO when the merger closed. Steve's passion for helping entrepreneurs remains his driving force. He was the founding chair of the Startup America Partnership-an effort launched at the White House in 2011 to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation. Steve also was the founding co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and a member of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, where he chaired the subcommittee on entrepreneurship. Steve has been a leading voice in shaping government policy on issues related to entrepreneurship, working across the aisle to advance public policies that expand access to capital and talent. He was instrumental in passing the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act and the Investing in Opportunities Act, and is active in advocating on behalf of immigration reform and legislation that supports and accelerates the emergence of startup ecosystems in rising cities. Steve also serves as the Chair of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex. In this role, Steve leads the Board of Regents' efforts to increase the Institution's reach, impact and relevance. Steve is also Chairman of the Case Foundation, which he established with his wife Jean in 1997. Together the Cases have invested in hundreds of organizations, initiatives and partnerships with a focus on leveraging the Internet and entrepreneurial approaches to strengthen the social sector. In 2010, Steve and Jean joined The Giving Pledge, and publicly reaffirmed their commitment to give away the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. Steve is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future. In it, Case recounted many of the lessons he learned from building businesses, and outlined the growing importance of place, policy and partnerships.
New York City (NY) - Chicago Illinois - Annapolis Maryland - Stevenson Washington - Illinois, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • CleanTech
Trilantic Capital Partners was formed in 2009 by the former principals of Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking (LBMB). Since 1989, funds managed by LBMB have invested approximately $5.6 billion of equity in over 60 companies. In April 2009, Trilantic Capital Partners senior management completed the acquisition of LBMB from the estate of Lehman Brothers. The acquisition was executed in partnership with Reinet Investments S.C.A., a listed investment trust controlled by the Rupert family, who made a strategic, minority investment in connection with the transaction. The firm targets investments of $75 to $200 million in firms with Enterprise Values of $100 million to $1 billion. The primary industry focus is on business services, consumer, energy, and financial services located in North America and Western Europe. Fund IV (2007) closed at $2.6 billion. The firm announced the closing of Trilantic Capital Partners V (North America) L.P. (December of 2013), a $2.2 billion private equity fund investing in the business services, consumer, energy and financial services sectors. Fund V North America exceeded its initial target of $2.0 billion and the size of its previous fund of $1.9 billion. Trilantic V North America is Trilantic's first stand-alone fund following its emergence from Lehman Brothers.
Beverly Hills California - London - New York City (NY) - Chicago Illinois - Bethesda Maryland - Indianapolis Indiana - Annapolis Maryland - Bellevue Washington - Houston Texas - Washington D.C - Indiana - Virginia - Texas - Illinois, U.S.A. - U.K. - India
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cannabis • Logistics (& Distribution)
Perseus is a merchant bank and private equity fund management company headquartered in Washington, D.C., with an office in New York and an associated advisory firm in Munich. Perseus has invested in numerous growth equity, turnaround, and buyout transactions in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Perseus manages seven private equity funds and makes control equity investments in middle market companies that offer opportunities for value creation and enhancement. Since its inception in 1995, Perseus has made investments in more than 60 portfolio companies in a wide variety of industries in which Perseus and its principals have expertise, including energy, environmental, and engineering technologies; healthcare; and branded consumer products. Perseus has raised more than $1.6 billion in capital commitments. Perseus Partners VII, L.P., which was established in 2006, is a $602 million fund focused on control investments in middle market growth equity transactions principally in the energy, environmental, and engineering technology, healthcare, and branded consumer products sectors. This fund has been fully committed or reserved. Perseus also co-manages a $449 million fund that invests exclusively in life sciences companies. Growth equity and turnaround investing have been core investment focuses of Perseus since inception, supplemented by occasional opportunistic leveraged buyouts when supported by appropriate market conditions.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Consumer
Founded in 2012, Enlightenment Capital is a Washington, DC area based private investment firm that provides senior debt, mezzanine debt, and minority equity to small and mid-sized companies in the Aerospace, Defense & Government (ADG) sector. The firm partners with management teams, equity sponsors, and those businesses that provide vital services, protect critical infrastructure, innovate aerospace solutions, and safeguard national security. Enlightenment Capital seeks to invest between $1 million and $10 million per deal. February 2014, Enlightenment Capital announced the final closing of its first fundraising process with $80 million in assets under management.
Washington District of Columbia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Mobile • Productivity
Phil Bronner is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Ardent Venture Partners, an early-stage venture fund investing in B2B fintech, marketplaces, and vertical saas+. He is currently on the boards of Verituity, ExecOnline, and OneMain Financial (OMF). He is also an investor in Givebutter, Financepeer, Method Financial, Collective, LendFlow, andPickleheads. Before co-founding Ardent Venture Partners, Phil was the Founder/Managing Member of Summer League Ventures (SLV). Active SLV deals include Morning Consult, Ordway Labs, Gather.ai, and Anno.ai.Before SLV, Phil was a General Partner with Novak Biddle Venture Partners. Throughout his 15-year career, he led 16 investments totaling over $100 million. Investments include 2U (Nasdaq: TWOU), Infoblox (Acquired by Vista Equity Partners), SolidFire (Acquired by NetApp), AddThis (acquired by Oracle), Webs (Acquired by Vistaprint), Approva (Acquired by Infor), LifeShield Security (acquired by DirectTV), ClearStandards (Acquired by SAP), Social Gaming Network, and Logic Library (Acquired by SOA Software). Following his time at Novak Biddle, Phil founded Quad Learning, a venture-backed startup acquired by Wellspring Higher Education. He also served as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. and worked as a Software Engineer at IBM. Phil earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Law, and an MBA from the Wharton School.
Washington District of Columbia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Investment Management • Mobile
Roger Novak brings over 25 years of experience as a venture capitalist, "angel" investor, and operating principal. Novak Biddle Venture Partners is a premier early stage venture capital firm backed by some of the countrys most prestigious investors. Each of NBVPs first three funds are ranked in the top quartile of all venture funds forreturns.Prior to co-founding NBVP, Roger was a private investor. In 1984, he was co-founder and three-fund general partner of Grotech Partners, where he was principally focused on information technology, with two of his investments, Verity and Secure Computing, among the top 10 performing IPOs of 1995. Earlier in his career Roger led the investment banking effort at Baker, Watts & Co., where he served on the firm’s executive committee.During his career, Roger has served on many public, private and civic boards. Currently, he serves on the boards of Blackboard, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) where he is lead director, SpectrumK12, Trusted Computer Solutions, Digital Signal Corporation, StackSafe, Cdigix, Intelliworks and Centrifuge Systems. He also serves on the advisory boards of several venture funds, the Department of Homeland Securitys PREDICT (Protected Repository for the Defense of Infrastructure Against Cyber Threats) advisory board, and is a member of the OSDs (Office of Secretary of Defense) DeVenCI program. He is currently a trustee of The Walters Art Museum and serves on the board of the National Venture Capital Association where he is Treasurer and a member of the Executive committee.Previous NBVP boards include LifeMinders.com, Entevo, Simplexity and N.E.W. Customer Service CompaniesOver the years Roger has served on the State of Virginias Joint Commission on Science and Technology, where he served on an advisory committee to examine the digital divide, as well as telecommunications, workforce shortages, and education issues. He also served as a member of Harvards John F. Kennedy School of Governments project to examine the funding gap between innovation and commercialization.In addition, Roger participated in President Bushs High Technology Summit at the White House. The summit was a forum of the nations top business and technology executives, who discussed strategies for a national technology agenda.A frequent speaker on venture capital, risk and innovation issues, Roger has spoken before the National Institute of Science and Technology, the World Bank/IFC, DARPA, and many other institutions. He has also advised members of Congress and government agencies, about ways the public and private sector can work together to improve the nations high-tech economy. A frequent contributor to the local and national media on technology and investment issues, Roger has appeared on The McNeil Lehrer Newshour, CNN, CNNfN, Wall Street Week and other programs.Recently, Roger was named the winner of the 2007 Early Stage East Sal Buccieri Memorial Venture Impact Award. The honor recognizes an individual who has clearly impacted early stage technology and fast growth opportunities.