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Event Registration:
Private Equity 2010: National Venture and Growth Capital Forum, NYC
Thursday, June 17, 2010
New York, NY
http://events.starlightinvestments.com/htmls/message.html
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| EVENT DESCRIPTION |
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Starlight Investments, LLC and MJSegalAssociates present their 29th early and later-stage capital conference on June 17th.
Principals from 150+ leading investment partnerships, private equity funds and venture capital firms are expected to attend this event to be held at the Yale Club New York. The upcoming event can provide a highly effective and prestigious venue for management to deliver its vision to a captive audience of receptive investors and direct funding sources.
Our forums are among the nation's best attended events with a focus on showcasing fundable companies to an audience of active and highly-qualified investment professionals. These forums are truly unique because of the high concentration of partners and senior level decision makers.
For information about presenting, please visit http://events.starlightinvestments.com/htmls/message.html To register by credit card, please contact Bryan Emerson at 1 713 225 3028 (emersonb@starlightinvestments.com).
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| EVENT PRESENTERS |
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Alternative Motors (EG) [ http://www.alternativemotors.com ]
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Arbor Plastic Technologies (EG) [ http://www.arborplastic.com/ ]
The company produces proprietary cycle enhancing additives, purge agents, foaming agents and fire retardants for the plastics industry. Their portfolio of additives can be custom tailored to specification and are designed for point of use, resulting in greater process efficiency, improved product quality, reduced energy costs and increased profits with no capital investment from the customer. APT is engaged with leading manufacturers, has completed extensive trials and received pre-production orders for multiple applications. Management believes that is an explosive revenue growth opportunity that requires growth capital.
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BeBevCo (EG) [ http://www.bebevco.com/ ]
This is an innovative beverage company dedicated to making products aimed towards significantly important target markets within the United States, as well as, Latin America and abroad. We are committed to increasing our company’s size and scope through unique marketing and most importantly customer satisfaction through cutting edge new products. This growing functional beverage company has developed KOMA UNWIND relaxation drink which is a serious contender for category leader over the next 36 months, which has recently signed distribution contracts in the USA and Israel.
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Covenant Orthopaedic Solutions (Presenter) [ http://www.covenantortho.com/ ]
The company is a manufacturer and distributor of high quality FDA approved “Generic” orthopaedic implants for the US medical device market with a specific focus on Reconstructive (hip and knee) and Trauma product categories where product designs are very mature and intellectual property protection for substantive design features are non-existent. The Covenant business model will reduce health care costs by providing value priced “Generic” product alternatives through a redefined and more efficient distribution channel.
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eC Research (EG) [ http://www.ec-amews.com/ ]
eC Research provides governments and pharmaceutical companies with real-time bio-surveillance and sentinel monitoring products. The company is poised to address the government’s growing need for HIPAA-compliant Electronic Health Records (EHR) data to counter growing pandemic and bioterrorism threats. The company’s proprietary system known as “AMEWS”, or “Adverse Medical Early Warning System” is the only system in the world that can provide millions of real time clinical data transactions per day across the entire United States of America. The company is seeking a second round of equity for growth.
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eChina MD (EG) [ ]
The company is the first comprehensive Mandarin-language health information network in China. The health network includes an internet portal, daily national television program, magazines, and mobile content. Revenue and profits are generated through the sale of advertising on its television program and internet portal and from fees from its mobile telecom and membership programs. The Company has the potential to reach over 1.2 billion Chinese consumers daily through one form of media or another.
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Endomondo (Presenter) [ http://www.endomondo.com ]
The company is an online sports community based on a mobile application service that makes it much more fun to be active. This is done by integrating a mobile GPS application with a community based internet service. The user can download the ”Endomondo Sports Tracker"-application to the GPS mobile phone and use the phone for real time tracking when doing any distance based sport. The details of the training session will then be available on the user's personal site profile. The Endomondo Sports Tracker has been downloaded over half a million times and of this, more than 200,000 are signed up members of the community.
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Enhanced Oil Resources (Presenter) [ http://www.enhancedoilres.com/ ]
Enhanced Oil Resources Inc. (TSX-V Exchange Symbol EOR.V) is a Houston based oil company that owns, operates and produces oil from 3 legacy oilfields in the Permian Basin of eastern New Mexico. The Company’s vision is to become a leading energy producer in the Permian Basin through development of its oil reserves by utilizing technology improvements such as well down-spacing, fracture stimulation methods and, longer term, through CO2-EOR enhanced oil recovery. Enhanced Oil Resources is a profitable company, producing an average of 520 barrels of oil per day at the end of Q1 2010. The Company has assembled an asset base of legacy oilfields for less than 10 cents a barrel, which have considerable potential for reserves and production growth through redevelopment of these assets by well down-spacing and enhanced oil recovery processes.
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G2B Pharma (EG) [ http://www.g2bpharma.com ]
The company’s nasal spray represents a breakthrough in the treatment of Anaphylaxis. Addressing a $2 billion dollar market opportunity, this patient friendly product is projected to rapidly achieve US sales of over $100 million and will be an extremely attractive acquisition or licensing target for a number of large pharma companies having a respiratory product focus. Millions of adults and children live every day with the risk of having an acute allergic reaction to foods, insect stings and other triggers. Anaphylactic shock is treated in non-clinical settings by self injection of epinephrine (adrenaline). Needle fear and inability to use the EpiPenTM device have limited use of this therapy. G2B’s product will give patients new control over their allergies and greater freedom to go about their lives.
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GroundLink (EG) [ http://www.groundlink.com ]
The company is a travel technology start-up that aggregates, manages and executes limousine, taxi, shuttle, car-rental & public transportation services worldwide. Through retail websites, mobile apps and APIs, GroundLink provides corporations, consumers and OTA's with a single, global booking and reservation system for all forms of transportation. With over 45,000 affiliates, millions of transactions per year, and partnerships with major airlines and OTA's, GroundLink is the only true marketplace to seamlessly connect supply and demand for the ground travel industry worldwide. GroundLink’s customers include JetBlue, Delta Air and Royal Caribbean, among many others.
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iGuide Robotics (Presenter) [ http://i-guiderobotics.com/ ]
The company has the only GPS based robotic system for lawn mowers on the market. Using a proprietary Autonomous Robotic Navigation System, we teach a vehicle a path to follow by driving it along the path one time. It then repeats the path as taught each successive time. We are introducing this system on Zero Turning Radius (ZTR) lawn mowers for commercial use. iGuide has developed four distinct technologies to make this work, including an obstacle detection and collision avoidance system using a laser. Our market is commercial landscape contractors, golf courses, municipalities, school districts, airports, industrial complexes Highway departments, cemeteries or other places with large volume of grass to maintain.
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Innovation Logistics (EG) [ ]
The company’s goal is to become the global marketplace for innovation by turning R&D into a product that can be bought and sold. Specifically, its mission is to become ‘the’ global outsource marketplace for R&D by allowing companies to list competitions, with a minimum value of $1 million, on our website. Innovation Logistics will handle all the logistics of running the competition, from prize valuation to marketing. Rather than viewing research as a fixed cost whereby companies must pay even for unsuccessful research, Innovation Logistics will allow a company to outsource research, turning research into a variable cost based on a ‘pay for success’ formula. Revenues would be obtained through a 1% listing fee and a 20% fee of the prize value, the latter only payable if the competition is successful.
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IrishCentral (EG) [ http://www.irishcentral.com ]
IrishCentral was officially launched on St Patrick’s Day in 2009 with a kickoff by Ireland’s Prime Minister, Brian Cowen. Their mission statement is to keep the 70 million Irish Diaspora around the world connected to their Irish roots. The company’s website covers “everything Irish” across a wide range of content including entertainment, news, sport, business and travel. In its first year of operation, the company has grown to be the leading Irish Diaspora website with over 1.5 million monthly page views and 500,000 unique visitors. The site has quickly become a source of reliable breaking news with content articles republished by The New York Times, Yahoo News, Good Morning America, Google News and the Huffington Post.
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Jabbersmack (EG) [ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jabbersmackcom/287903520091?_fb_noscript=1 ]
Egencie® is the first company to market a customizable, secure, parent-involved social media platform that unlocks a global multi-billion dollar social media internet market currently under-served (boys and girls under 13). The platform allows Entertainment (TV, Movies, Licensing, Music & Books), Toys/Games, Video Games, Electronics, Sporting Goods, Apparel/Shoes, Food/Beverage, Retail and Educational brands to secure a place on the network and reach millions of kids, and ultimately, their parents. Jabbersmack™ will be the first brand to launch in the Network and will be used to give an identity to the Network (e.g., The Jabbersmack™ Social Media Network or JSMN).
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Joey Medical (EG) [ http://www.joeymedical.com ]
The Joey Spray Guard™ is an “all in one” medical device that protects healthcare providers from blood spray while clamping and cutting the umbilical cord at birth. The Joey is the only cord cutting device that is compliant with OSHA and the CDC. The Utopia Group LLC is the manufacturer and exclusive worldwide licensee of the Joey. The U.S. Air Force recently initiated a study of the Joey that is expected to validate earlier studies and generate at least 125,000 units in annual military sales. Utopia breaks even at 60,000 units. To date, over $6.7 million has gone into the Joey’s development.
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New World Laboratories (Presenter) [ http://www.nwl.net/ ]
The company (NWL) is a unique Biotech corporation that develops innovative breakthrough & platform therapeutics and technologies for the upcoming Regenerative Medicine industry. The therapeutics & technologies being developed at NWL are designed to either prevent tissue degeneration and/or promote tissue regeneration. Products are to be either sold by NWL (in potential partnership with other companies) or out-licensed after successful Phase I/II Clinical Trials. Regenerative Medicine is a new, but rapidly evolving industry with no current major players. Future Markets include Prevention of Tissue Loss and Degeneration ($2B), Tissue Regeneration, including Wound Healing ($2B) and Tissue Replacement ($1B).
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Orb Media Group (Presenter) [ http://www.orbmediagroup.com/ ]
The company is an entertainment content producer and marketer of film and games with operations in Hollywood and Beijing that connects existing internatioanl markets to the emerbing Chinese market in a way that creates a new global footprint and platform for transmedia content. The company has exected an LOI with a strategic Chonese investment partner with a minimum of $50 million toward identified Orb projects and other partnerships. By leveraging elemants of Chinese culture in othewise global stories, the company expects to have strong traction with Chinese audiences.
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PakSense (Presenter) [ http://www.paksense.com ]
The company designs, markets, and sells intelligent sensing labels that monitor the condition of perishable goods through the supply chain. The labels help determine the quality and safety of food, pharmaceutical, and other environmentally sensitive products and include trace forward/trace back capabilities. PakSense helps retailers, suppliers and distributors make better quality and safety decisions. PakSense has developed a new class of temperature monitoring device that is fundamentally different from other products on the market. PakSense has been steadily gaining a presence in the food industry since entering the market in 2006. With over 750 customers, its direct sales and channel partnering has resulted in increasing revenues and expanding run-rate business. PakSense’s revenue for 2009 was $2.931 million, up 48% from 2008.
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Photon8, Inc. (Presenter) [ http://www.photon8.com/Home.shtml ]
The Promise of Oil From Algae: Sustainability, Carbon-consuming, 20X the energy return ratio of ethanol, 100X the oil production rate of oilseed crops, Energy Independence.
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Primum Entertainment Group (EG) [ http://www.primumlive.com/ ]
Primum is an innovative new media company dedicated to the production and distribution of filmed entertainment and live event properties in Latin America. The core operation manages a portfolio of filmed entertainment and live event assets, streamlining administrative processes and marketing strategies to efficiently and creatively deliver content to a global audience. Combining filmed entertainment with live events reduces overhead costs, capitalizes on synergies in marketing, and leverages economies of scale. Positioned as a diversified media company in an emerging market region, Primum can assume long-term output-style relationships with content providers. Primumʼs international network serves a robust line-up of co-production opportunities for Brazilian and non-Brazilian projects.
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Prism Corporation (EG) [ http://www.prismenergycorp.com ]
Prism Corporation is active in the Oil, Gas and Energy business in several states of the Western U S. Now over 20 years old, the company seeks new oil and gas reserves using in-field, enhanced recovery drilling and completion technology. Currently working in the State of Montana, Prism has owned, drilled or operated over 500 active wells over the past twenty plus years, and continues to drill and seek new oil and gas in the NW US. Their business model is mostly buying old fields with known remainder pressures and reserves; and drilling new horizontal wells while keeping old production bringing monthly cash flow. Prism also has several Leasehold Funds where we invite investors to buy into funds much like real estate investment deals.
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Protein Genomics (EG) [ http://www.proteingenomics.com ]
The company designs and manufactures biomaterials for regenerative medical and engineered tissue applications. They have assembled proprietary DNA sequences and uses proprietary expression systems to produce commercial quantities of tropoelastin (TE), and keratin. These proteins can be cross-linked into polymers with the functionality and performance of human tissue. The company’s biomaterials are platform technologies that have a variety of medical, esthetic, and personal care applications, including, cardiovascular structures, wound healing, periodontal care, dermal fillers and skin preparations. PGen's subsidiary Dermaplus uses TE and Keratin monomers in its topical anti-aging, anti-scar and hair care products and has generated over $5.0MM.
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Remington Oil and Gas (EG) [ http://www.remingtonoilandgas.com/ ]
Remington is a private, production based company that is preparing to transition to a public AMEX listed company by 2010 year-end. The company has primarily concentrated its efforts in the areas of re-entry and re-working of existing oil and gas wells and recently acquired four oil well leases in Upshur County, Texas in a field that has a proven record of exceeding 12 billion barrels of oil since discovery. Remington will employ enhanced equipment and state-of-the-art drilling techniques by re-entering these wells, drilling to a depth of 2500 feet through multiple pay zones to maximize production.
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Remote Harbor (EG) [ ]
The company develops technology-based solutions for the Health Care, Government and Education markets that leverage the security of biometrics and the mobility and accessibility of wireless connectivity. These high growth markets require significant improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of their systems to securely capture, store, retrieve and use data about their populations’ characteristics, the outcomes of programs designed to improve services to, or conditions within, these populations. Remote Harbor’s patent-pending solution, RemoteID ℠, eliminates the fungible value of the captured data, the Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and replaces it with biometric data, which yield no PII. RemoteID integrates biometric and secure wireless technologies and proprietary software.
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Santo Spirits (Presenter) [ http://www.santospirits.com/ ]
The company is the parent of Tequila Ambhar™, an entrant into the super-premium segment of the global tequila market. Santo Spirits is now delivering a 100% ultra-premium, luxury tequila at a ‘super-premium’ price point in the US Southwest. Tequila Ambhar is an exciting opportunity that provides the right product at the right time. Stage 1 product launch during Q2 2009 focused on capturing a portion of the second largest spirits category in the US and the number one spirits category in Mexico - tequila. In the US alone, there were over $1.6 billion in revenues for 2009. And the category continues to grow.
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Solid-Look (Presenter) [ http://www.solid-look.com ]
The company offers superior, modular, proprietary, 3D, real-time, stereoscopic vision and recording systems - SLC 3D EndoStereoVisionTM - used in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). Its goal to become the market leader in high definition stereoscopic 3D vision systems for MIS and other medical applications. Commercial prospects are private and public hospitals, university hospitals and surgery ambulatories reached via direct and indirect sales. The company has a very strong value proposition, a clear proprietary advantage and a large addressable market. Open Surgery uses a large body incision that enables the surgeon’s direct vision - while MIS procedures are less invasive, less painful, thus require shorter recovery periods.
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STaSIS Engineering (EG) [ http://www.stasisengineering.com ]
The company empowers the automotive dealership channel with the ability to provide distinction to the mainstream automobile. We design, engineer, fabricate and resell performance-enhancing brake, suspension, driveline, and engine products leveraging racing technologies from in-house motorsports experience and top-tier race manufacturers. Our goal is to bring the performance and distinction of exotic car ownership in line with the cost and convenience of a mainstream automobile. As the premier brand in the Audi performance channel, STaSIS leads the industry in product design and engineering. We have strong, established relationships with Audi franchise dealers and Audi of America.
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Supreme Architecture (Presenter) [ http://www.supremearchitecture.com/ ]
The company is involved in the development and marketing key components and subsystems required for the emerging Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) market, particularly for Visible Light Communication (VLC). This is an Israeli start-up with a branch in the US. The market for Supreme Architecture Visible Light Communication (VLC) products is driven by a seemingly insatiable demand for wireless communication at ever increasing speed, efficiency and mobility. Supreme Architecture plans to combine its key enabling and proprietary VLC optical receiver chip (“Ommatidia”) with the emerging energy efficient and environmentally friendly (“green”) Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), that have started to penetrate the market as a major comon lighting source.
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Svelte Medical Systems (Presenter) [ http://www.sveltemedical.com ]
The company is focused on delivering novel products in the $6 billion cardiovascular market. Svelte was founded in 2007 with a mission to improve stent deliverability, reduce procedural costs and improve procedural and long term safety. To achieve these significant benefits to the physician, patient and healthcare system, Svelte has developed the lowest profile and most deliverable balloon expandable stent in the market, along with technology to create a non-thrombogenic, non-inflammatory Drug Eluting Stent (DES).
The company has developed three technology platforms that will allow Svelte to provide unique products that create a significant value proposition in the stent marketplace.
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The Music Producer (Presenter) [ http://www.themusicproducer.com/ ]
The Music Producer 2.0 (TMP) is a music production software application enabling ANYBODY to write and create their own music and ring tones from their home PCs. TMP is a fun, affordable, and most of all, easy to use music creation software with mass market appeal. You don’t have to be musical or technology savvy to use The Music Producer 2.0. TMP has multiple revenue sources but currently makes money selling software for only $39.95. With virtually no marketing, individual customers from 50 countries have already purchased the software from the website. TMP is now focused on bulk license, channel and distribution partners.
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Ultimate Brands (EG) [ ]
The company has been operating the 18/8 Fine Men’s salons since 2002. Within 5 years Ultimate Brands expects to have 280 franchises salons on its way to 600 stores. This opportunity is being built on two proven concepts. 1) A unique business model that offers an upscale mens-only environment for haircare and grooming services and 2) A model that can be taught to franchisees which is likely to provide them with a return well above the industry average.
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Vanity Events (America’s Cleaning Company) (EG) [ http://www.americascleaningcompany.com ]
America’s Cleaning Company’s is revolutionizing cleaning services franchising with its web-based management platform and proprietary "green" products. The company is creating a 21st century “green” cleaning franchise model working from a single web-based management platform. Franchisees use Vanity's proprietary "green" cleaning solutions, while the platform reduces the staff and overheard costs, allowing them to be versatile and mobile. From the franchisor side, Vanity can compare live every franchisee, allowing it to incorporate best practices from one franchise to another.
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Warren Street Partners (EG) [ ]
This project is designed to serve Virginia Tech alumni and has already had substantial pre-sales. The investment has been structured with a Preferred 13.5% cummulative, non-compouned annual return having a projected internal rate of 17.27%. Sale of all units is expected to take place within 39 months from the start of construction. Details on the transaction are available through the authorized offering documents.
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WorkProducts (Presenter) [ http://www.workproducts.com ]
The company, with its MatterSpace® ELM (“MatterSpace”) solution, is an innovator and leader in the growing market for Information Governance and Evidence Lifecycle Management (ELM™) software platform. The ELM platform is used across corporate IT, records managers, legal departments and their outside counsel to manage litigation and comply with governance, risk, and compliance requirements imposed by the legal process and mandated by government. MatterSpace also provides support for decision-making around legal and risk strategies. It is the first and only enterprise e-discovery and information governance product to integrate all aspects of evidence management into a centralized platform with a process-oriented interface.
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| REGISTERED GUESTS |
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Adroit Capital Group, LLC
AlpInvest Partners, Inc.
AWT Private Investments
Axiom Venture Partners, L.P.
Baker Capital
Bernstein Global Wealth Management
Blackhawk Partners, Inc.
Boston Financial & Equity Corporation
Brooks, Houghton & Company, Inc.
Cambridge Capital Corporation
Carter Stone & Company
Centripetal Capital Partners
Chatsworth Securities
Columbia Partners Private Capital
Columbus Holding Group
Conversus Group New York
Core Resources
CP Capital Securities, Inc.
CRG Capital
Criterion Capital
Delaware Innovation Fund
Endeavor Capital Management
Family Equity Partners
Favonius
Florida Venture Forum
Florida Venture Forum
Fusion Ventures
GBP Capital
Global Enterprises
Greenwich Biomedical Capital
Grégoire de Rothschild
Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners
ICP Capital
IDM Partners
Infusion Capital LLC
Israel Opportunity Fund
JDP Financial Group
LFC Capital Inc.
Lightship Partners
Liquidity Works
Liquidity Works, Inc.
Metamorphic Ventures
Mission Point Capital Partners
Newbridge Securities Corporation
NJIT Enterprise Development Center
NJIT Enterprise Development Center
Paragon Capital LP
Penny Black
Prize Capital, LLC
Quint, Miller & Co., Inc.
Sparticus Capital
Spencer Trask & Co., Inc.
Spencer Trask Ventures, Inc.
Stanmore Capital
Synchrony Venture Management
Technology Crossover Ventures
Terrapin Partners, LLC
The Beachhead Group
The Network of Business Angels and Investors
Westchester Business Accelerator
Westminster Securities
Winner Communications
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