Private Equity

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.

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

The Content Factory: founded by Jimmy de Casto taking content brands like Dan Patrick from ESPN, building and distributing that brand and content distributing it across multiple distribution platforms like online, mobile, radio, TV, social networking, blogs, games publishing and special events.  thecontentfactory.com

Conveneer:   from the father of Bluetooth, enables cellphones to become servers thus allowing the cellphone to be not only social networking tools, but also a server approach to access mobile content, providing for seamless phone to PC integration and a web API supporting social networks.  

www.mikz.com

Innotas.

SF based SaaS Software company provides an integrated on demand software solutions that helps CIO's manage the business of IT, helping assess and manage the cost of IT across corporate infrastructure managing acquisition, integration and servicing of IT.

www.innotas.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

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 Enterprise. 2.0 Software, cloud computing and SaaS.

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