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Venture Capital Firms and
Investment Banks A-C
| Accel
Partners |
| One Palmer Square |
| Princeton, NJ 08542 |
| Phone: (609) 683-4500 |
| Fax: (609) 683-0384 |
| Web Site: http://www.accel.com |
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| Venture capital firm with
current focus exclusively on two sectors: communications and
Internet/Intranet> Founded 1983, capital exceeds $350 million>
General partners include James Swartz, founding partner of Adler &
Co., NYC venture firm and past chair, National Venture Capital
Association, and vice president of Citicorp Venture Capital; Arthur
Patterson, also former Adler & Co. partner and vice president of
Citicorp Venture Capital; James Breyer, former management consultant at
McKinsey & Co. and computer software and communications specialist;
Jim Flach, formerly chairman of Agile Networks, Netlink (Cabletron),
Sentient Networks, Teleos Communications (Madge Networks), and Vivo
Software and current acting CEO of Bandwidth9, previously vice president
of Intel; Mitch Kapor, founder and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation
and designer of Lotus 1-2-3, also co-founder and emeritus director of The
Electonic Frontier Foundation; Peter Wagner, focuses on communications
sector, including networking, telecommunications and wireless technology,
communications components and equipment, previously line manager at
Silicon Graphics, Inc., worked on development, manufacturing and marketing
of high performance systems and managed Silicon Graphics' digital video,
audio and compression products. |
| American
Acquisition Partners |
| 175 South Street |
| Morristown, NJ
07960 |
| Phone: (973)
267-7800 |
| Fax: (973)
267-7695 |
Ted Bustany,
Ph.D.
Partner |
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| Equity
investment fund specializing in acquisition of medium-sized firms or
corporate divisions with $10-200 million in annual revenues and pre-tax
earnings of $1.5 to $15 million where management will remain> Industry
preferences computer related, consumer related, electronics, food
services/products, industrial products, manufacturing and processing,
medical/health> Investments include R Tape Corp., South Plainfield,
(manufacturers of pressure-sensitive tapes for graphic arts industry);
ALMO Corp., South Plainfield, (specialty chemicals for hospitality
industries); Epic Industries, South Plainfield, (specialty chemical
products for commercial food, restaurant kitchens> Partner Dr. Ted
Bustany former director of planning and acquisitions at Gulf Oil, also
with GENERAL ELECTRIC and Allied-Signal (now HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL). |
| BCI
Advisors |
| Building 500 |
| Glenpointe Centre West |
| Teaneck, NJ 07666 |
| Phone: (201) 836-3900 |
| Fax: (201) 836-6368 |
| e-mail: info@bcipartners.com |
| Web Site: http://www.bciadvisors.com |
Donald P. Remey
General Partner |
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| Venture capitral firm
founded 1983, managed over $800 million in capital commitments, assisting
over 100 individual companies, current partnership capitalized at $360
million, typical investment range $5 million to $50 million> Target
industries include media and entertainment, communications, business
services, software and Internet> Provides growth capital to successful
entrepreneurial companies where product development or service model
substantially complete> One of top 100 US venture firms in total
investment, limited partners include major corporations, pension funds,
insurance companies including GENERAL ELECTRIC, Eastman Kodak, New York
Life, AETNA> Office also in Hartford, CT> Managing director and
co-founder Donald P. Remey former investment banker at Kidder Peabody,
Citicorp, and Rothschild, M.B.A. Harvard Business School, B.A. Colgate>
Other principals formerly with Kidder Peabody, Aetna, Dillon Read, Home
Life> Recent investments in AmStar Entertainment (developer of multi-plex
movie theatres in small Southeastern US markets); Cableworks
Communications (cable television operator in Canada); Catamount
Broadcasting (consolidator of small market television stations throughout
US); Grapevine Communications (consolidator of small market television
stations throughout US); Muvico Theatres (developer of multi-plex movie
theatres in major cities in Southeast. |
| Biotechnology
Financial Corporation |
| One Palmer Square |
| Princeton, NJ 08542 |
| Phone: (609) 683-1318 |
Jennifer H. Lobo
President |
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| Established 1990 by JENNIFER
LOBO, former partner in DOMAIN ASSOCIATES venture capital firm, to provide
investment banking, merger acquisition services for firms involved in
biotechnology> Assists in raising capital, mergers and acquisitions,
divestitures of biotechnology firms and assets> Represents large
corporations seeking biotechnology licenses, products, acquisitions, and
smaller firms seeking capital. |
| Bishop
Capital, L.P. |
| 500 Morris Avenue |
| Springfield, NJ 07081 |
| Phone: (973) 376-0345 |
Charles J. Irish
President |
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| Founded 1987, $6 million
capital under management> Federally licensed small business investment
company> Invests $300,000 to $1 million in firms with annual revenues
$500,000 and over in later-stage financing and leveraged buyouts,
primarily in Northeast and Midwest> Industries include communications,
computers, industrial products. |
| Blue
Rock Capital |
| 230 Lackawanna Drive |
| Andover, NJ 07821 |
| Phone: (973) 426-1767 |
| Fax: (973) 426-0224 |
| e-mail: virginia@bluerockcapital.com |
| Web Site: http://www.bluerockcapital.com |
Virginia G. Bonker
Partner |
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| Formed in 1995, venture
capital fund investing in early-stage private companies with high growth
potential in Mid-Atlantic region, also offices in DE and VA>
Approximately $50 million of assets under management, particularly
interested in backing strong management teams in high growth markets
creating value over three to five year time period> Balanced portfolio
focused on early-stage companies as well as seed-stage and mid-stage
companies> Investments focused on information technology,
software, Internet, telecommunications and semiconductors and service
businesses, does not invest in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, real
estate, and consumer products and certain other sectors> Initially
invests between $250,000 and $2 million, also licensed to operate as
Small Business Investment Company (SBIC)> Portfolio companies include
TELLIUM, (Oceanport, spin-out of Bellcore, now TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES
acquired exclusive rights to unique Wavelength Division Multiplexed
technologies used by telecommunications network operators to upgrade
existing fiber infrastructure); NextWave Communications (formerly
Sarnoff Digital Communications, fabless chip company spun out of Sarnoff
Corporation designs and markets semiconductors used in broadband
communications markets); JUSTBALLS (Princeton, e-tailer of wide
variety of balls including sports balls, specialty balls, toy balls,
fitness balls, promotional balls, and related equipment to individual and
institutional customers)> Partner and co-founder Virginia G. Bonker
previously served as Vice President of Sprout Group, venture capital
affiliate of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, earlier DLJ's Investment
Banking Group and, prior positions at Hewlett-Packard, B.A. Harvard-Radcliffe
College, M.B.A. Columbia University; Partner Terry Collison, prior
experience as venture advisor to private investors and venture funds, to
Ben Franklin Partnership in PA, previously part of new venture teams at
GENERAL ELECTRIC and FORD, past president of Entrepreneurs' Forums
in Philadelphia and DE, B.A. Williams College, M.B.A. University of
Pennsylvania. |
Bradford
Investment
Group, Ltd. |
| 22 Chambers
Street |
| Princeton, NJ
08540 |
| Phone: (609)
921-3880 |
| Fax: (609)
921-9577 |
Bradford Mills
Managing Partner |
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| Private
investment, merchant banking firm with affiliated venture capital firm
Bradford Ventures Ltd., based in NYC> Primary interest in established
firms with purchase price range $5-100 million, with three years of
profitable operations and after-tax earnings over $1 million, where
management will stay or assist in recruiting new management> Invests
primarily in behalf of Bessemer Securities Corporation> NJ investments
include Spex Group, Edison (spectrometers, chemical reagents); Bangor
America, Wallington (apparel)> Partners include CHERYL MILLS, board
member, HOLOPAK TECHNOLOGIES, appointed by Governor CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN
to NJ STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, also director, MCCARTER THEATRE; Bradford
Mills, former President of Overseas Private Investment Corp., founder and
partner of NY Securities Corp., partner F. Eberstadt & Co. |
| Capital
Express |
| 205 Chubb Avenue |
| Lyndhurst, NJ
07071 |
| Phone: (201)
507-8998 |
| Fax: (201)
583-3634 |
| Niles Cohen
Managing Director |
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| Provides seed
and early stage equity capital for consumer products companies, direct
marketers including catalogues> Principals include Niles Cohen,
twelve years experience in transactional based finance, experience
includes acquisition, financing, management and marketing of diverse real
estate portfolio, later functioned in combined sales, banking and trading
capacity in securitizing consumer and trade receivables; Miles Spencer,
also co-owns allied firm Cove Associates, Ltd., CT-based investment
banking firm specializing as agent in sourcing small dollar, high growth
financings, completed over twenty transactions; Teddy Struhl founder of
Global Paper Company in 1981, became a leading paper merchant in NY metro
area, co-founded PaperDirect in 1989, market leader in direct mail
of office paper and presentation products sold 1993 to Deluxe Check
Printing, also Vice President of Carewell Industries, maker of DENTAX
brand toothbrushes; Warren Struhl, Corporate Vice President and Regional
Marketing Director for Chicago based JMB Realty until 1989, then
co-founded with brother Teddy PaperDirect, now President of Genesis
Direct, acquirer and investor in business to business and consumer
catalogs> About $5 million in capital. |
| Cardinal
Health Partners |
| 221 Nassau Street |
| Princeton, NJ 08542 |
| Phone: (609) 924-6420 |
| Fax: (609) 683-0174 |
| http://cardinalhealthpartners.com |
John K. Clarke
General Partner |
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| Venture capital firm created
1997 by principals of former Princeton-based venture firm, DSV Partners,
also includes DOMAIN ASSOCIATES venture firm as special limited
partner> Other investors include FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK Pension
Fund; SUMMIT BANCORP; Nassau Capital Funds, L.P. (for PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY); Northwestern University; ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION>
Pursues high growth investment opportunities in electronic and Internet
health and information technology, health care services, and life
sciences> Typically invests between $2 and $5 million per company>
Investments include Athenahealth.com (Internet application service
provider for specialty physician practices); Cancerfacts.com (vertical
disease management tools portal); IC-USA (remote e-care of intensive care
unit); Molecular Mining (software tools and database services for
molecular data mining and bioinformatics); Parkstone Medical Group
(handheld personal data assistant for formulary, referral, and charge
capture compliance)> Managing Partner John K. Clarke, while at DSV
Partners founder and interim CEO of number of companies including:
Alkermes, Arris Pharmaceuticals, DNX CORPORATION, and Cubist
Pharmaceuticals, member of Board of Directors of National Venture Capital
Association and Chairman of its Membership Committee, also trustee of The
Jackson Laboratory, country's largest non-profit genetics research
institution, formerly with GENERAL ELECTRIC, M.B.A. Wharton School, B.A.
Harvard University; Special Limited Partner MORTON COLLINS, founder
of DSV Partners in 1968 and former chairman, National Venture
Capital Association, responsible for DSV's investments in companies such
as Tempo Computers, Datapoint, General Automation, Tandem Computers,
Cambex, Pertec, MSI Data Corporation, and Datacom Systems, B.S. in
Engineering from University of Delaware and M.A. and Ph.D. in Engineering
from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. |
| Care
Capital LLC |
| 100 Overlook
Center |
| Suite 102 |
| Princeton NJ
08540 |
| Phone: (609)
520-1973 |
| Fax: (609)
520-9299 |
Jan Leschly
Chairman and CEO |
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| New life
sciences venture capital firm founded October 2000> $100 million in
capital, primary investors Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Rhone
Capital> CEO Jan Leschly former CEO of SmithKline Beecham and president
and chief operating officer, BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB> John Parker former
chief information officer of SmithKline Beecham, also previously senior
vice president at Sea Land Service of CSX CORP. and information technology
executive at Baxter Healthcare and Corning> Prefers late stage
investments between $5 million and $50 million, particularly R&D
productivity tools, biotech, innovative technology, avoids seed-capital
proposals> Active role in management of portfolio firms. |
| Carpediem
Capital |
| 116 Village Boulevard |
| Suite 200 |
| Princeton Forrestal Village |
| Princeton, NJ 08540-5799 |
| Phone: (609)951-2233 |
| Fax: (609) 497-300 |
| e-mail: cci@carpediemcapital.com |
| Web Site: http://www.carpediemcapital.com |
Wayne J. Nixon
Managing Principal |
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| Investment banking firm
established 1990 by Wharton Business School alumni> Generally works in
investment banking capacity for clients seeking $2 to $50 million, but
also assisted multinational corporations in divestments approaching $1
billion> Services include valuations, raising expansion capital,
mergers and acquisitions, sale of business, bankruptcy, and divestment of
operational units, divisions, or product lines, raising capital>
Consulting in butouts, public offerings> Experience include firms in
telecommunications; broadcasting; computer Services; medical software;
educational software interactive multimedia; auto parts retailing;
specialty products retailing; medical distribution; banking; hotels and
real estate> Principals include Wayne J. Nixon, previously
in mergers & acquisitions department at Kidder, Peabody &
Co., before joining Kidder, in Corporate Finance Division at
Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette Securities Corporation, performed financial
analyses for leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and placement of
debt and equity transactions, also member, Board of Advisors to Business
School of RIDER UNIVERSITY, M.B.A. in Finance from Wharton School,
B.S. in Engineering from United States Military Academy at West
Point> Lawrence Young previously Senior Manager at DELOITTE &
TOUCHE, specialized in mergers and acquisitions and turnarounds of
financially troubled companies., prior experience at Chrysler Corporation
as financial analyst, attended Wharton School of Business. |
| The CIT
Group/Venture Capital |
| 650 CIT Drive |
| Livingston, NJ 07039 |
| Phone: (973) 740-5181 |
| Fax: (973) 740-5555 |
| Web Site: http://www.citgroup.com/ |
| Colby W. Collier
Manager |
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| One of nation's largest
commercial and consumer lending organizations with over $20 billion under
management, majority-owned subsidiary of The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank,
Limited, one of largest banks in world based In Tokyo> Provides broad
range of financing, including asset-based lending and venture equity
investment> Equity investments preferred in management buy-outs and
acquisition financing with total transaction value at least $15 million
with a minimum equity requirement of $2 million; expansion and growth
financing of companies generating annual sales of at least $10 million
with minimum equity requirement of $2 million; later stage venture capital
financing of firms with minimum $2 million in annual revenues and
requiring at least $1 million of equity; turnarounds of companies
generating at least $50 million in sales> Invests either in control
positions or significant minority positions.; investment horizon typically
three to five years, with liquidity provided through an initial public
offering, a put back to company, a releveraging of business, or sale
to a financial or strategic purchaser> Industry interests include
automotive parts; aviation and aerospace; chemicals; entertainment
and leisure; environmental; food products; health care; information
technology; media and communications; medical products; packaging; paper
manufacturing; retail. |
JOSHUA
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Communications, Inc.
- Telephone
- 609-924-6310
- FAX
- 609-924-6380
- Postal address
- PO Box 7183, Princeton, NJ 08543
- Electronic mail
- General Information: info@njinsider.com
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