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Offices: Salt Lake City, Utah; Mesa,
Arizona & Albuquerque, New Mexico
Wasatch Venture Fund is an affiliate of
Draper Fisher Jurvetson. DFJ is an experienced
Silicon Valley venture capital firm with
over $1.5 billion under management. The
DFJ affiliate network is comprised of 12
separately managed venture funds with one
international fund, ePlanets. Over the past
eight years, via Funds III, and I, Wasatch
has invested in 71 companies and has seen
13 successful exits, including three IPO's
and 10 acquisitions. Although their regional
focus is primarily within the Rocky Mountains
and Southwest, they do invest opportunistically
outside the region.
Offices: Los Angeles, California & New
York, New York
Wasserstein & Co is currently investing
Wasserstein Ventures II, with $160 million
of committed capital targeted at expansion
and later-stage growth investments in US-based
companies. Wasserstein Ventures II typically
makes an initial investment of between $4-7
million in a portfolio company, although
in certain investments (including control
investments) this range may expand. The
firm often invests as part of a syndicate
of established financial and strategic investors
and works closely with a number of leading
professional venture capital investment
firms.
Offices: Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Birmingham,
Alabama; Denver, Colorado & Austin,
Texas
Founded in 2001, Waveland Ventures provides
investment capital to both early and later
stage companies with quality management
teams via internally managed venture capital.
Waveland believes that significant secular
trends have converged to create a compelling
investment opportunity in what are commonly
referred to as Emerging Domestic Markets
(EDMs). Waveland has successfully established
investment funds and relationships that
address the lack of investment capital available
to these rapidly expanding EDMs.
Offices: San Francisco, California
Weber Capital is a long-term equity investor
in information technology, communications
and healthcare. Since 1994, they have invested
over $150 million and currently hold positions
in about 40 companies, half of which are
private. In both their public and private
portfolios, their software investments have
included Customer Relationship Management
(CRM), Digital Rights Management (DRM),
Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP), search, and storage
software. Their hardware investments have
focused on sectors such as digital broadcasting,
semiconductors, Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP), wire line and wireless communications.
Offices: Hauppauge, New York
Westbury Partners manages several private
equity funds and is currently deploying
Westbury Equity Partners SBIC, a $150 million
private equity fund licensed as a Small
Business Investment Company (SBIC). Typically,
Westbury invests $3 to $9 million per transaction
as lead investor or participant, partnering
with experienced, like-minded firms. Westbury's
investment philosophy and approach are functions
of both the general macro-economic environment
as well as recent global uncertainty.
Offices: Boston, Massachusetts & Menlo
Park-San Francisco, California
Weston Presidio provides growth capital
to companies in a wide range of industries,
geographic locations and stages of development.
Since 1991, they have invested in over 70
companies. Their investments range from
financings of young high growth businesses
to buyouts of mature profitable companies.
They focus on companies in the following
sectors and have significant industry knowledge
within these sectors: Consumer/Retail, Manufacturing
& Industrial, Service, Media & Publishing
and Technology.
Offices: Great Neck, New York
Wheatley Partners focuses primarily on technology-related
companies. They work closely with entrepreneurs
to build successful businesses and typically
support their portfolio companies at all
stages of development. Wheatley's target
sectors include Software, Business Services,
Information Technology Services, Life Sciences,
Medical Devices, Communications, Networking
and Education.
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