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Event Registration:
Private Equity 2010: National Venture Capital and Growth Investment Forum
Thursday, March 04, 2010
New York, NY
http://events.starlightinvestments.com/events_register.asp
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| EVENT DESCRIPTION |
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Starlight Investments, LLC presents its 28th early and later-stage capital conference on March 4th.
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 more information or to register by credit card over the telephone, please call Bryan Emerson at 1 713 225 3028 (emersonb@starlightinvestments.com).
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| EVENT PRESENTERS |
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Clarus Acuity Group (EG) [ ]
Clarus Acuity Group is a highly differentiated healthcare research services company that specializes in obtaining valuable and timely medical insights on behalf of its institutional and corporate clients. The company operates an industry-leading network of over 500 highly specialized medical experts that consists of physicians, surgeons, market researchers, and key opinion leaders who practice across a broad range of industries and subspecialties. Financial institutions, private capital firms, pharmaceutical developers, management consultants, and medical device companies will turn to Clarus Acuity’s network to fulfill their need for high quality medical experts that can consistently and reliably help mitigate risk, identify unrecognized applications for new and existing products and technology, and assist in making superior business decisions. At its core, Clarus Acuity provides a platform for collaboration between its clients and the experts in the network it manages.
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CommonKindness (EG) [ ]
This is a for-profit company that, through its website, CommonKindness.com, intends to capture a significant portion of the $364 billion US coupon market. The company has created an innovative business model whereby consumers save money and businesses increase traffic and sales while generating sustainable funds for non-profit organizations. CommonKindness is how friends and neighbors, non-profit organizations and companies can join together to create a powerful solution to help each other. Their website launched in September 2009 provides thousands of free, moneysaving coupons, discount codes, magazine subscriptions, and event tickets. Businesses can upload coupons for their products and services on CommonKindness to increase outreach and sales. Each time a coupon is clipped, funds are generated for the non-profits selected by the coupon clipper from more than a million American non-profit organizations already included on CommonKindness.
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Cybersettle (EG) [ ]
Now in use by New York City, the company facilitates one of the most basic forms of human interaction: settling monetary disputes between two or more parties. Its patented technology-enabled process is applicable anywhere parties need an unbiased approach for finding common ground in negotiations and where other resolution methods prove time consuming, labor intensive and expensive. Cybersettle has built a compelling solution to a very real client problem that helps parties to a dispute, such as a claim against an insurance company, reach agreement much faster and at a much lower cost compared to traditional settlement methods such as arbitration, mediation, or litigation. Their patented process features double-blind submission of demands and offers, providing an optimal environment to achieve a meeting of the minds.
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Dream Boats (Presenter) [ ]
Billions of dollars worth of boats sit while their owners wait on high tide. Much of the coastal areas and the intracoastal waterways have difficulties with shallow water and it is almost impossible to dredge harbor entrances and channels due to environmental issues. Dream Boats has developed a new hull design that operates in “3” inches of water, yet is safe on the high seas providing a solution to the problem. Dream Boats is opening a chain of Factory Direct Sales Centers. The direct sales model will save almost 40% of the cost of distributing, and selling boats. These savings will allow the company to provide the market with an easily recognizable brand highlighting better value allowing Dream Boats to become the Superstore of the boating industry. Some of the most successful companies in the world are Wal-Mart, Dell, and McDonalds. They are well oiled machines that provide direct sales and an inexpensive buying experience that is consistent and efficient.
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Elite Value Solutions (EG) [ ]
Elite Value Solutions is revolutionizing the rapidly growing business process management (BPM) space, ensuring that our clients are able to achieve efficiency and positive return on investment with BPM solutions. With our new service offering, BPMCloud.net, we deliver BPM solutions in the “cloud” in minutes. It is the first of its kind, introducing the most advanced BPM solution available. Our new solution complements our proprietary BPM software, EliteBPM, the first 100% pure Web 2.0 BPM software product on the market. Elite has several years experience delivering successful process management solutions to our clients producing significant value and ROI. Leveraging this experience we have developed advanced products and services that satisfy rigorous demands of our growing client base and market. Elite’s solutions surpass competition on features and accessiblity through our cloud platform and promote ease of use, thus creating a differentiated competitive advantage.
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eLOT (Presenter) [ ]
The mission of eLOT, Inc. is to develop market and operate e-commerce sales platforms for state and governmental lotteries. In fall 2009, we executed our first technology and marketing agreement with New York State Lottery which is one of the largest in the world. Based on this agreement, we plan on deploying eLOT’s e-commerce platform statewide in January 2011. We will execute an integration agreement with GTECH , the operator of the New York Lottery land based system in April. The primary opportunity for this e-commerce market is through our intellectual property and technology development. eLOT, Inc. holds the only patents that provide for the sale of state and governmental lottery tickets on the internet in the U.S., Australia, Canada and China (pending in the EEC, India and Mexico). The company believes its patent portfolio will be an effective barrier to entry for competitors.
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Emerging America (Presenter) [ ]
Founded in 2005, Emerging America is a Private Equity firm with $100 million in assets under management. A sample investment is Red Universalia, which provides trade school degrees to 30,000 students throughout Mexico and has a compounded annual growth rate over 54% since 2007.
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Faith and Family Values Network (EG) [ ]
The company provides charitable and faith-based organizations with the opportunity for their constituents and congregations to turn their everyday purchases into financial support. FFVN developed software which is embedded into a charity or faith based organization’s website or by encouraging constituents to visit a portal before shopping. The company has two shopping portals: Christian Values Network (www.CVN.org) and The Jewish Giving Network (www.TJGN.org). The company also intends to launch the Charity Give Back Network (www.CGBN.org). Online retail vendors include such firms as Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Apple, Macy’s, and WalMart. Online retailers typically pay portal commissions of 2% - 7% of purchases made by shoppers entering the retail site via the shopping portal. FFVN will give 50% of those commissions to the faith-based or charitable organizations designated by their constituents.
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Hartland Realty Opportunity Fund (EG) [ ]
This is a closed end fund invested in a diversified pool of Commercial Mortgage Back Securities (CMBS). The planned $200 million fund will be investing in publicly traded, well diversified, deeply discounted bonds, which were originally rated investment grade (AAA to BBB) when first issued, but now may have been significantly downgraded. The investment strategy is to nvest in CMBS bonds in which the market price has been severely discounted. The investment strategy relies on identifying bonds which have unusually attractive risk adjusted returns. Hartland, in conjunction with its parent company, McCary Stevens Associates, Inc. (“MSA”), has developed a proprietary “bottom-up” loan by loan underwriting and due diligence review process to assess the underlying loan collateral of a CMBS bond. This enables Hartland to distinguish between CMBS bonds and identify bonds with extraordinary risk/return characteristics.
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Hongze Investment Management Ltd (Presenter) [ ]
Beijing Hongze Investment Management Ltd. is a professional investment company with a major focus on real estate development in China. As Hongze controls a large group of companies within the real estate market, it can more effectively manage development costs as a core competence than other competitors. The Changchun Suncity Resort Project being built by the company is a unique community with a different and full range of facilities for various target residents, such as business professionals, successful businessman, and wealthy retirees. The facilities include residential housing, a hospital, a library, shopping center, a club with a modern gym center, a hotel, and an 18-hole golf course. The company has strong support from the Chinese Government which has assisted Hongze’s development in supporting its land acquisition policies and discharging relevant infatuation costs.
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M-Dot Network (Presenter) [ ]
Since the inception of the Internet, marketers have wanted to track promotions, incentives and coupons from point of issuance to point of redemption, in real-time. M-Dot Network has built a secure, real-time, transaction network connecting Mobile and Internet based applications to retail Point of Sale (POS) systems. This is known as “the final mile” in closing the loop for Mobile and Internet-based promotions, providing a complete pathway from promotion issuance to redemption, audit and fulfillment. M-Dot monetizes its network based on a number of revenue events, including transaction volume, cost per action, licensing and subscription fees. It is used in conjunction with product Manufacturers, traditional, online and mobile marketing services companies, and Retailers. The company passed a 3rd party scalability test which certified that the M-Dot Network can scale to 200,000 discreet store locations with transaction times of one-tenth of a second.
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Marteleron USA (EG) [ ]
This is an early stage company that has developed an innovative, patent-pending technology that enables the efficient routing of Internet Protocol (IP) calls among carrier gateways. IPJunction™ is a centralized gateway addressing service that acts as a director between disparate networks by providing route information to their terminating gateways. IPJunction™ is the premier centralized gateway addressing service uniquely positioned to appeal to peering federations and carriers. Marteleron USA was formed in 2005 and is headquartered in New York City. The Company's leadership team includes seasoned professionals with backgrounds in software design, telecommunications, business and systems analysis.
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Merel Technologies (Presenter) [ ]
This is a provider of interactive multi touch tables. Using an innovative and cutting edge technology, Merel Technologies’ table, called the mTouch, allows multiple users to interact with the screen at the same time, using their fingers to manipulate virtual objects. In addition to finger movements and gesture recognition, mTouch supprts object recognition, recognizing objects placed on the table and interacting with them. mTouch is a self-contained unit that combines hardware and software, including a multi touch monitor and computer. Going beyond the old single touch screen and standard multi touch deployment, mTouch provides an infinite number of solutions for businesses of all sizes, and in many different industries. Using this cutting-edge technology, the company focuses on innovation, customer satisfaction, and quality. Merel Technologies serves as both the hardware and software developers for mTouch, giving us a competitive edge in the marketplace.
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Minnow Medical (Presenter) [ ]
The company’s ZCath™ System combines a balloon angioplasty catheter with non-ablative radio frequency energy to shrink artery disease, thereby increasing blood flow. The treatment is highly effective, overcoming the limitations of balloon angioplasty (primarily dissection and recoil). It has broad applications throughout body lumens. Clinical studies have demonstrated performance in leg arteries, regulatory approvals are being obtained, and the product is beginning Key Opinion Leader sales. Minnow takes a well known, proven treatment method, the balloon catheter, and adds the delivery of targeted radio-frequency energy through electrical contacts mounted on the balloon. The clinical result is: 1) permanent shrinkage of the plaque 2) and inhibition of vessel recoil, dramatically improving treatment effectiveness.
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MyIdeaShare (Presenter) [ ]
MyIdeaShare taps the power of social networking to dramatically improve the ideation and innovation process within organizations. It is designed to both replace the suggestion box, still in use today, and to optimize the process of creating, embellishing and managing ideas and innovation across an organization. Its focus is beyond the capability of the major collaboration platforms, like Microsoft’s Share Point, where the ideation is not a focus. It also serves as another entry point in the collaboration market. MyIdeaShare is a SaaS-based software solution that is applicable to a wide variety of customers from medium and large corporations to government agencies and even the general population. The software employs sophisticated predictive algorithms, "Wisdom of the Crowds" collaboration and state-of-the-art analytics in a stock market environment where participants IPO their ideas as stocks on a real-time stock exchange.
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Phenomenome Discoveries (Presenter) [ ]
Human health research company focusing on discovery and development of novel serum biomarkers and related therapeutic approaches in the company’s key products are at near-commercial or commercial stage: colorectal cancer (CRC) serum screening test; Alzheimer’s disease (AD) serum test and first in class AD therapeutic approach. CRC and AD screening markets in North America both mulit-million dollar markets with significant unmet needs; AD therapeutic market of ultra-blockbuster size. Opportunities for development partner on AD therapeutic strategy, and for commercialization partners on serum biomarker programs in both CRC and AD. Phenomenome’s patented discovery technology platform enables detection of previously uncharacterized compounds in biological samples. The strength of the discovery platform is the amount of biochemical information gained quickly on newly discovered markers, which can be reliably and quickly translated into low cost clinically useful tests.
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Rosa’s Horchata (EG) [ ]
Rosa’s Horchata is a premium, specialty beverage that will target the fastest growing consumer group in the United States - Hispanic Americans. Numerous additional line extension opportunities also exist. Horchata is a traditional beverage of the Mexican and Hispanic community. It combines the unique flavors of cinnamon and rice flour, with a sweet, cool and smooth texture. In its native Mexico, Horchata is often consumed to cool down from the hot weather, or to alleviate the spicy burn of many traditional Mexican dishes. Convenience and time-savings of its premium ready-to-drink format will be important selling points as Rosa’s develops consumer awareness and product trial. Rosa’s brings the highly desired taste and tradition of premium Horchata to attractive, ready-to-drink, offerings. Bringing additional convenience to both the consumer and the retailer, Rosa’s uses a highly sophisticated “retort” manufacturing process to make this milk-based product shelf stable.
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SCJ , Inc. (EG) [ ]
SCJ, Inc. provides international commercial debt collection services to exporter clients in China. SCJ assists clients in China by collecting delinquent accounts receivable owed to them by their customers overseas, primarily in the US, Europe and Latin America. SCJ has established a fully staffed sales office operated by SCJ personnel who are Peoples Republic of China (PRC) natives in Beijing. Much is written about China’s export juggernaut, but little is said about the staggering accounts receivable due its exporters from overseas customers. Over the past few years, there has been a significant paradigm shift by exporters away from using Letters of Credit to obtain payment from overseas customers. More exporters in China are now selling on open credit terms rather than the traditional Letters of Credit. SCJ is bringing a proven, scalable business model with an expert management team to the largest untapped market in the world in which little internal expertise and competition exists.
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SeatQuest (EG) [ ]
SeatQuest is a visual search engine for event tickets. This is the only ticket search engine w/ seat-level granularity in venue map, which is a huge barrier of entry for anyone else looking to have this level of detail. Our business model is to license technology to companies who can use event tickets (music sites, travel websites, entertainment, etc) as a way to monetize their site traffic and capture affiliate revenues. Very flexible in integration methods—API or White label (customer chooses colors, size, display mode, etc) 3.5 years spent building the technology; now ready to be fully-deployed and scaled. We have several current customers licensing the technology and a handful of other good deals on the table. Our proprietary ticket feed is where the company can make a lot of money by capitalizing on high-margin industry; with little effort into it, SeatQuest already has 200,000 tickets and $21 million of inventory in feed direct from brokers.
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Shaman Financial Group, LLC (EG) [ ]
Shaman Financial Group, LLC is a West Orange, NJ hedge fund launched in September 2008. The firm invests in non-performing residential mortgage loans, purchased at a deep discount, in carefully selected geographies nationwide. The management has 20+ years experience investing in real estate related assets.
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Sheer Bravado Productions (EG) [ ]
Sheer Bravado Productions is dedicated to producing highly-entertaining, quality feature films. The company, based in Santa Monica, California, was founded in 2009 by Les Goldman, Sean King and Ray Starmann. Their first film, NIGHT OF THE MANNEQUINS is currently in pre-production and is set to begin filming in May of 2010. Also, in development are: SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY, a slick art heist film, 91ST AND BROADWAY, a coming of age holiday story, CITIZEN SOLDIERS, a World War II film set during the Battle of the Bulge, and CHECKMATE, a global action-adventure.
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SignaBlok (EG) [ ]
SignaBlok, Inc. is a life sciences and biotechnology company that develops low‐cost, oral, peptide and small molecule therapies that affect the membrane receptor signaling ability without influencing its ligand‐binding capacity. This therapeutic approach is competitively advantageous compared to the commonly pursued strategy of inhibiting receptor‐ligand binding which requires expensive, intravenous, large protein‐based medicines. SignaBlok's innovative platform technology enables development of multiple next generation therapeutics to treat a variety of large market diseases with unmet needs: thrombosis, sepsis, dermatitis, arthritis, Crohn's disease, lupus, multiple sclerosis, organ transplantation, etc. Our commitment to high quality innovation, science and management expertise, encouraging results, our impressive IP portfolio, our growing international efforts to address unmet medical needs place us on a fast‐track to success.
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Siren Capital Management, LLC (EG) [ ]
Siren Capital Management is creating a real estate investment fund focused on the development of new free-standing single-tenant retail projects. Siren’s focus on the retail segment of the commercial real estate industry, specifically in the west and southwest US, stems from the management team’s 20 combined years of experience in commercial real estate, including a history helping top retailers expand into west and southwest markets.
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Skaps Industries (EG) [ ]
With approximately $100 million in annual sales, Skaps Industries is the world leader in the fabrication of geosynthetic and non-woven drainage products for use in the civil and environmental markets in the US and abroad. In business for over 15 years, SKAPS continues to provide high quality products that meet or exceed our customer expectations. SKAPS has three state of the art manufacturing plants each located in Athens, Commerce and Pendergrass. Through our exclusive manufacturing processes SKAPS is able to meet the supply demands of even the largest orders and most rigorous schedules. When it comes to geonets, geo-composites and non-woven materials, SKAPS is the answer for environmental drainage control. Our focus and commitment is to supply quality geosynthetic products with site-specific performance that satisfies the most demanding civil and environmental applications. The company has positive EBITDA and 4 year compound growth rate of 19.3%.
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Social Wish (Presenter) [ ]
Social Wish makes wish lists both universal and collaborative. Make a wish for yourself or someone else, share it with others on Social Wish and help make it happen. Wish for that new bike for you, camera for your friend or donation for your favorite charity. Contribute any amount toward a wish, and make your donations publicly or privately. Crowd-source your dreams. If you can wish it, Social Wish can help it come true. Making a wish is a service that enables users to create a wish and share it with friends using both traditional tools such as email and social networking tools such as Twitter and Facebook. Social Wish makes money on every transaction processed through our Web. Wish lists are well established on the Internet. Over 66 million wishlists alone have been created on Amazon the past 10 years. We plan to target these retail Internet consumers in addition to the charity sponsors, hobbyists, people with extended global families and individuals seeking self-improvement.
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Sonoma Cool (Presenter) [ ]
Sonoma Cool is a product development firm that specializes in improving the energy efficiency and overall effectiveness of fluid-related industrial equipment. The company’s highly efficient technologies reduce friction and drag, which results in several competitive market advantages, including energy efficiency, reduced noise, and improved management of turbulence. The initial focus includes HVAC and refrigeration, and power generation. Our business analysts and product development managers continually assess other potential application channels to determine future initiatives. The overarching mission of the company is "to apply nature's core design principles to engineer energy efficient products that enhance and sustain life on Earth.” Sonoma Cool was spun off from PAX Scientific early in 2008 with lead funding from Khosla Ventures. Founded by influential venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures' resources come entirely from its own partners.
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The Hilb Group (Presenter) [ ]
The Hilb Group, LLC is an insurance brokerage which will be the premier provider of risk management products and services to the middle market and intends to capitalize on favorable market dynamics in acquiring smaller commercial insurance agencies. The Company will grow through accretive acquisitions of existing insurance agencies/brokerages and books of business, initially on the East Coast. We will take advantage of acquisition opportunities within the $1MM - $5MM revenue band which, when aggregated, present significant operational synergies and multiple arbitrage in a liquidity event. The Hilb Group believes in the power of leveraging program specialties and applying best practices that are not normally provided by mid-market agencies. The Company will also make use of state of the art management systems which will be the catalyst for surfacing and marketing specialty programs and lines of business.
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TruTouch Technologies (Presenter) [ ]
TruTouch Technologies develops, manufactures and markets versatile noninvasive alcohol testing systems for both existing and emerging markets. TruTouch’s patented, revolutionary technology is the fruit of a ten-year, $60-million investment in developing noninvasive, spectroscopy-based systems for biomedical applications. TruTouch’s products are unique both in that they require no bodily fluids to accurately measure alcohol levels, and in that test supervision is unnecessary due to the technology’s inherent biometric identity verification. Our devices can be configured to automatically generate and transmit standard and customized reports. They are as fast, easy and innocuous to use as ATM machines. By simply having employees clock-in on a TruTouch, however, organizations can effectively insure themselves. Daily employee alcohol screening is finally a practical option.
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Tutorial Channel.com (Presenter) [ ]
The Tutorial Channel was formed during 2006 by Math Made Easy creator, Multimedia Tutorial Services. With an initial focus on K-12 students who are struggling with mathematics, the Tutorial Channel’s web-based live tutoring and skill assessment platform has already achieved market traction and proof-of-concept w/ more than 1000 paid subscribers and a high level of customer satisfaction. Nearly 90% of failing students go on to get passing grades. The Channel provides quality live professional tutoring online in the convenience of the student's home or at school for an affordable price - taking remedial education to a new level in the delivery of personalized tutoring. Unlike most other tutoring sites, the Channel’s intuitive diagnostics automatically creates tests for students based upon their prior results, providing instant skill assessment. In regard to the competition, the Channel is a much more robust and effective alternative to other tutoring sites.
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ZetrOZ (EG) [ ]
ZetrOZ™ controls platform technology which removes much of the size, cost, and power requirements from traditional ultrasound devices. Ultrasound technology has expanded into multiple fields including surgery, physical therapy, and drug delivery. Our business strategy is to find successful ultrasound applications where portability adds significant value and then use our patent pending technology to design smaller, more portable versions. We are currently building the smallest wearable pain therapy system which uses ultrasound to lower pain, increase mobility, and heal injuries without the use of drugs. Our initial target market is physical therapy, where ultrasound has been a common presence for over 50 years and is FDA approved for both heat and pain therapy. The system is called TheraSonX™. Over 50 Million Americans suffer from chronic pain, which doesn’t include those suffering from temporary injuries or strains.
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| REGISTERED GUESTS |
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88 Capital
Ainsfield Investments, Ltd.
Alerion Partners
Alo Networks
Alo Networks
Asset Development Corporation
AXL Partners, LLC
Bernstein Global Wealth Management
Bernstein Global Wealth Management
Blue Wolf Capital Fund
Boston Financial & Equity Corporation
Bridges Community Ventures Ltd.
Brooks, Houghton & Company, Inc.
CapX Partners
Chart Venture Partners
Chatsworth Securities
Chiron Capital LLC
Cloudleap Partners, LLC
Core Resources
CP Capital Securities, Inc.
Cross Border Enterprises
CVI Capital Holdings, LLC
Dace Ventures
Delaware Innovation Fund
DWH VC
Edelson Technology Partners
EEA Fund Management Ltd
Elevation Partners
Endeavor Capital Management
Global Enterprises
Gray Ghost Ventures
Green Power Funding Group
GroundWork Equity, LLC
Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners
Heron Capital Management
Hudson Ventures Partners, L.P.
Infusion Capital LLC
Internet Capital Group
Jumpstart New Jersey
Kodiak Capital
Landmark Capital Corporation
Leeds Equity Partners LLC
Lightship Partners
Lincoln Park Capital
Liquidity Works, Inc.
Maryland Technology Development Corp.
Mercury Capital Partners
Metamorphic Ventures
MIDDLEBURY SECURITIES
New Enterprise Associates
New York Economic Development Corp.
NewWorld Capital, LLC
Olympus Capital Investments, LLC
Pangea Ventures
Paul Capital Partners
Peak Blue Ventures
Quantum Corporate Funding, Ltd.
Quint, Miller & Co., Inc.
Rewrap Ventures
Sonenshine Partners
Space Center Ventures
Spencer Trask & Co., Inc.
Spencer Trask Ventures
Spencer Trask Ventures, Inc.
SPM LLC
Stepping Stone Capital Partners, LLC
StevensGouldPincus
Tancho Innovation Capital
Techsis Investors
Terrapin Partners, LLC
The Network of Business Angels and Investors
Tondu Corporation
Tortugas Capital
Trident Capital
Tzar Investments
VantagePoint Venture Partners
Venture Performance Partners
Warbros Venture Partners
Westbrook Capital, LLC
Westchester Business Accelerator
Westrock Partners
Winner Communications
Xnergy Financial LLC
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