Venture Fund Member Profile
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i-Hatch Ventures was formed in February of 1999 to provide experienced capital to early-stage technology ventures, primarily in the mobile and broadband sectors. Our approach is to match experienced practitioners with the founding teams of technology ventures, inject capital, and provide hands-on support from the i-Hatch team. Our investment filters focus on early-stage technology ventures in the Northeastern U.S. doing business in key industry categories: mobile data services, communications, enabling technology and broadband.
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Chip Austin
Partner
i-Hatch Ventures |
Chip has advised and built companies in the Technology and Media industries for his entire career. In addition to founding BOL.com, Bertelsmann’s E-commerce division, Chip was a member of the senior executive team leading the buyout and restructuring of Prodigy, and was a co-founder of McKinsey’s Interactive Practice, where he spent seven years advising Fortune 500 companies on their media strategies. Most recently, Chip was President and CEO of Bertelsmann Online, where he was responsible for building Bertelsmann’s global e-commerce business. Chip maintains an advisory and investor relationship with Bertelsmann Ventures, an independent venture capital fund capitalized by Bertelsmann. Chip also served as Acting CEO of European-based DealPilot.com, a Bertelsmann Ventures portfolio company. Prior to Bertelsmann, Chip was a member of the management-led buyout of Prodigy, where he was SVP of Sales and Business Development and General Manager of Prodigy's first Internet Service. Before joining Prodigy, Chip spent seven years at McKinsey in the Media and Interactive practices advising clients out of New York, Los Angeles, Australia and various European offices. While at McKinsey, as a co-founder of the Interactive Practice, Chip shaped the New Media strategies of the world's largest media companies in the fields of newspapers, magazines, yellow pages/classifieds, cable programming, network TV and film studio production.
Representative Investments
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ECOutlook EC Outlook’s software applications automate collaborative commerce activities between Global 1000 companies and their trading partners. Powered by SDI Server™ software, these applications enable customers and partners to quickly connect with one another to share information, regardless of size, technical sophistication or existing infrastructure. By overcoming connectivity and data disparity issues, customers have achieved increased revenues, working capital reductions and short-term payback on their investment. |
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FeedRoom The FeedRoom is the world's first interactive news network, featuring video on demand from some of the world's leading news and information providers including NBC, Tribune Company, Reuters, USAToday and Granite Broadcasting. FeedRoom's enterprise solutions offers the world's leading companies such as Cisco an on-demand communications platform. |
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OpenAir OpenAir offers a suite of PSA (professional services automation) services to streamline businessadministration and enhance profitability for small businesses and solo practitioners. The services provide an easy to use, convenient way to track time, record expenses, maintain project and client information, and create quality invoices ... all on the web. By eliminating the complexity of buying, installing, learning and maintaining software, OpenAir enables business professionals to focus their time on revenue-generating activity and business growth. Headquartered in Boston, MA, OpenAir is committed to providing a new network of small business professionals with continuous resources and support. |
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SkyAuction.com SkyAuction.com is a direct-to-consumer travel auction website. The founders of SkyAuction have over twenty-five years of experience in the travel industry both creating and managing a wide range of business all engaged in the sale and delivery of travel, tours and transportation services. |
Chip participated in the FundingPost event: NYC Venture Capital and Angel Showcase
on Thursday, February 3, 2011 in NY, Sponsored by Credit Suisse, Ameritech Media
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