Venture Fund Member Profile
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The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest organization still dedicated exclusively to funding and advising seed stage startups. The Band is a formal group of more than 100 former and current high tech executives who are interested in investing their time and money into new, cutting edge, startup companies. Band members have founded companies such as Symantec, Logitech, and National Semiconductor and been senior executives at the likes of Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, and Intuit. The Band meets monthly to formally consider three startups selected from among the more than 50 that are screened each month by the Band Deal Selection Process. Entrepreneurs can expect a thorough examination and, occasionally, an investment from some of Silicon Valley's most accomplished entrepreneurs. The Band of Angels Venture Fund, L.P. is a $50M venture fund comprised exclusively of institutional partners including three corporations, two university endowments, and a large pension fund. The fund currently has a single general partner and coinvests in deals that are subscribed by members of the Band of Angels. The Fund focuses on seed/early stage high technology deals but is generally category agnostic. In fact, a goal of the fund is to maintain a diverse balance among the categories of semiconductor, biotechnology, software, telecommunications, and industrial. Initial investment sizes are typically $300,000 with total commitments for successful companies reaching $2.5M. Generally, either a member of the Band of Angels or one of the Fund's partners will take a board seat as part of an investment.
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Nicola Corzine
Deal Manager
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Nicola Corzine is deal manger for the Band of Angels; she is also the founder and executive director of Financing Partners, an organization offering specific programs designed to help entrepreneurs and investors reach their mutual objectives. Nicola has a broad background in investor relations and marketing at both startup companies, such as Digital Integrity, and financial institutions, including Credit Suisse First Boston. Prior to joining Financing Partners, she was the director for Fundraising Forum where she grew their Silicon Valley investor base from 300 to over 1,000.
Representative Investments
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Dust Networks Dust Networks, a leader in the wireless sensor networking market, provides embedded wireless sensor networking products to OEMs in the industrial automation, building automation and defense markets. Our SmartMesh® family of products enables wireless sensor networking with unmatched reliability and extremely low power consumption. |
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Mobius Mobius is making recycling a reality by developing valuable technology and creatively bringing this technology to the global marketplace. We have focused our efforts to bring sustainable value to the plastic foam industry first. Towards this end, we have developed, manufactured, and commercialized a new way to recycle the foam used in the furniture and automobile industries. We have commercialized this technology in the United States and Europe and are currently expanding into South America, Australia and Asia. We are very proud to have partnered with The Dow Chemical Company to help globalize this form of recycling. |
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NuGEN NuGEN is dedicated to the development and commercialization of high sensitivity nucleic acid amplification and detection technologies. These technologies form the foundation for a range of products used by researchers to prepare samples for genetic analysis. |
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Starion Instruments Starion Instruments designs, manufactures and sells products for minimally invasive soft tissue surgery. Our proprietary technology called "Tissue Welding Technology" allows surgeons to seal and divide soft tissue in a number of surgical applications within the fields of Cardiac Surgery, Ear Nose & Throat Surgery and General Surgery. Because Tissue Welding does not require the use of radiofrequency energy as a mode of operation, there is less collateral tissue damage for improved patient outcomes. |
Nicola participated in the FundingPost event: Silicon Valley VC and Angel Conference
on Thursday, March 4, 2010 in CA, Sponsored by Bingham McCutchen LLP
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