As an investor and partner to its portfolio companies, our Members strive to provide valuable industry, strategic and corporate development expertise, as well as capital resources, to help companies grow and succeed.

What do we provide?

Understanding the Entrepreneur

Several of our Members have been entrepreneurs themselves, creating and managing businesses which range from start-ups to multi-million million dollar companies. They share the experience and an understanding that the entrepreneur has at the beginning, and throughout the venture creation process. As a result, our Members have long term relationships with successful, “serial” entrepreneurs and management teams – and we regularly seek each other’s advice, contribution, and capital when launching and building a new venture.

Operational Experience

We know how to work with entrepreneurs. Our Members use their expertise to develop additional value-building opportunities for businesses, to assist management in establishing financial and operating objectives, to assist in the definition of business and product strategies, to recruit and mentor senior management team members.

Business, Academic and Research Relationships

Our Members have cultivated relationships with C-level executives and technology professionals at large multi-national companies; plus they have established ties to technology research centers, research universities and institutions such as University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Rutgers University, Princeton University, New York University, Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Johns Hopkins University and the David Sarnoff Research Center and others.

Long term Investment Expertise

Our Members have 25-30 years of experience in the capital markets. Continued active participation in the capital markets generates unique insights that influence our investment objectives, our investments, our operating plans, and portfolio exit activities, which can yield positive results for both the entrepreneurs in our portfolio companies and our investors.