Venture Fund Member Profile
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Milestone is an early stage venture capital fund with $42 million under management. Milestone focuses on Technology-enhanced service businesses, especially those that offer software-as-a-service, content with web services and/or businesses process outsourcing solutions, with emphasis on Media and Marketing Services, Healthcare IT and Financial Services IT. Companies that we find attractive possess the nucleus of an exceptional management team, an attractive business model, and a compelling market opportunity. Milestone invests approximately $2 million over the life of each investment, and invests in companies primarily in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Eastern Pennsylvania, and, to lesser extent, the Northeast and Mid Atlantic as a whole.
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Edwin Goodman
Co-Founder
Milestone Venture Partners |
Mr. Goodman co-founded Milestone Venture Partners in 1999, as he was energized by the opportunities he saw being created by the Internet in the New York metropolitan area. He currently sits on the board of Medidata Solutions, Inc., SkillSurvey, Inc., and supervises MVP II’s investment in RichFX, Ltd. Prior to founding Milestone, Mr. Goodman was with the U.S. office of Hambros, a London-based merchant bank. He joined the firm in 1981 and supervised the growth of the business from $5 million of paid-in-capital to $150 million. Prior to Hambros, Mr. Goodman worked at Patricof & Co. (now Apax Partners), which he joined in 1974 as its third employee. During his seven years with the organization, he participated in all aspects of the business. The most prominent of its investments was a $250,000 commitment to the final private financing round raised by Apple Computer in the summer of 1977. From 1970 through 1973, Mr. Goodman managed WBAI FM, an educationally licensed, listener-sponsored FM radio station in NYC. Before managing WBAI, Mr. Goodman joined the Bedford Stuyvesant Development & Services Corporation in Brooklyn, NY in 1967 and became its co-chief executive. The group made SBA-guaranteed loans to dozens of small businesses to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation.
Representative Investments
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SkillSurvey (metro Philadelphia, PA) provides an online reference checking tool that increases quality of hire and eliminates time wasted in the recruiting process. The Company’s web-based solution enables reference sources to efficiently provide complete, confidential and candid feedback regarding a job candidate’s skills. SkillSurvey aggregates and analyzes the information regarding the applicant’s performance history and provides detailed reports to hiring managers and recruiters. The result is a significant increase in the quantity and quality of information regarding past performance and a significant reduction in time and money spent on reference checking. This approach to reference assessment is based on over 25 years of research in job competency modeling. www.skillsurvey.com |
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RichFX (New York, NY) is the market leader in online visual merchandising solutions, enabling online and multi-channel retailers to leverage existing visual assets and turn them into powerful and cost-effective marketing tools. RichFX combines its online merchandising expertise, patented technology and consumer research to offer solutions that increase conversion rates and total e-commerce sales by boosting comfort levels and buying confidence online. Retailers experience many other benefits, including: multi-channel branding strategies consistent across offline and online channels; enhanced online shopping experience with animated page turn and e-commerce integration; and increased catalog exposure by emailing online catalogs at virtually no cost. www.richfx.com |
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Knovel Corporation (Norwich, NY) is a provider, via the Internet, of scientific and engineering reference information in electronic form integrated with software tools. Content is gathered from a wide range of publishers of scientific and engineering books and put into Knovel’s unique electronic presentation format and database. By aggregating the reference data, Knovel enables its customers to do higher quality searches faster. By offering software tools to manipulate structured data, Knovel saves its customers time and effort. The Company has domestic and international customers among the global 5000 and academic and government institutions. www.knovel.com |
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Medidata Solutions, Inc. (New York, NY) is a global provider of electronic clinical data capture, management and reporting solutions to the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies. Medidata’s robust clinical data management platform streamlines clinical trials by providing early visibility to clinical data for faster decision-making, optimized resources and lower execution risk. Medidata possesses deep clinical expertise in more than 20 therapeutic areas, all clinical trial phases (I-IV), and studies with thousands of investigators and tens-of thousands of subjects. www.mdsol.com |
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