Private Equity specializes in helping emerging and middle market private companies raise strategic capital. To do this we listen intently to the specific needs of the business founders, their unique personalities, the time and place they are in their market stage. We customize investor groups that can not only invest capital but add strategic value and relationships to help get that business to the next level.

Private Equity also assists in creating effective boards, identifying effective management personnel, opening doors in strategic markets that can impact sales.  

Clients we are currently advising.

Apixio:

Big data analytics software in healthcare data management. Apixio organizes the world's patient information making it universally accessible and actionable.

www.apixio.com

Livescribe. Maker of the Pulse Smart Pen for the college, professional and enterprise market. The Pulse is a mobile computing platform with software apps a multitude of functions that allow people to capture, access and share information, connecting the paper world to the digital world. Founded by Jim Marggraff, the inventor of paper based computing, (including Leap Pad and Fly Pentop.

www.livescribe.com

Avalanche Technology

Founded in 2006, Avalanche sets out to fundamentally change the 53 billion dollar memory industry with a disruptive low power, non-volatile magnetic memory enabling radical leaps in memory and storage system architecture.

www.avalanche-technology.com

Fandor:  VOD online film service for independent films, using the social graph of Facebook to connect great producers of independent film with hundreds of millions of independent film lovers all over the world.Fandor.com

Live Matrix

An online interactive central guide which allows people to know when live online scheduled events are happening when on the web. A U2 concert on Youtube, Live Premiere of Twilight, Live Auctions, Sales, virtual worlds, online gaming events, sports, music, performances.

www.livematrix.com

Bullpen Capital

A Micro Venture Capital Fund focusing on investing in follow on rounds between the seed and A rounds. Bullpen Capital has strong relationships with other well known micro-vc's and strong deal flow.  Focus areas are consumer internet, game mechanics, big data/real time analytics. Founders are Duncan Davidson formerly of Vantage Point Partners and founder of Covad, Paul Martino, founder of Adregate Knowledge, early investor in Zynga, Richard Melmon, former founder of Electronic Arts.

www.bullpencap.com

The Entrepreneurs Fund.

Founded by Jeff Webber, an early investor in Sybase and Commerce One. The Entrepreneurs Fund focuses on seed and early stage software companies in next generation of enterprise software.

www.tef3.com

DBL INVESTORS;

DBL Stands for Double Bottom Line: commitment to achieving top tier venture capital returns and a approach to assisting companies in delivering social, environmental and economic benefits to our region. Investment focus in clean tech, health care, biotech, health and wellness, IT and Digital Media, Sustainability Oriented Products and Services. Early investors in Tesla, Solar City and Bright Source.

WWW.DBLINVESTORS.COM