Venture Fund Member Profile
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Sentient Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in seed, early, and expansion stage private companies. Sentient Ventures evaluates investment opportunities using a comprehensive investment process driven by a team that has extensive experience in the disciplines of venture capital investment, entrepreneurial management, strategic planning, and independent analysis of high growth emerging companies with domain expertise in the following markets:
Enterprise Software and Services, Communication Software and Services, Semiconductors and Nanotechnology/MEMs, Life Sciences and Intellectual Property (IP) Commercialization.
Sources of Capital
Angel Investing - the Sentient Ventures principals invest as individuals and as a band of angels. Investment size: < $1 million
Economic Development Focused Venture Capital Funds - investment manager of the Whitecap Texas Opportunity Fund, LP. Investment size: $500,000 to $3.5 million
University Focused Venture Capital Funds - through a joint venture with Emergent Technologies, Inc., management of funds investing in university based technologies with a current focus on The University of Texas System. Investment size: $500,000 to $4 million
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Don Carson
Principal
Sentient Ventures |
Don Carson, age 37, is a seasoned executive bringing operational expertise and vision specific to the software services infrastructure arena. He has extensive experience and achievements in executive leadership with a broad base of expertise and successes in strategic, corporate and business development, sales, services, and marketing for Fortune 500 companies and start-up organizations. Don served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of K|16 Solutions. Don's vision and direction improved the company image, increased sales, and led to two rounds of venture funding. Don has worked as a Venture Consultant with a leading venture capital firm, Pacesetter Capital Group, conducting due-diligence on start-up companies investment opportunities. Don co-founded and served as the Vice President of Corporate Development for Blom Wireless, Inc. As co-founder of Blom Wireless Inc., Don developed the business plan, validated the wireless market opportunity, and sought venture funding. Prior to Blom Wireless, Inc., Don served as Director of Business Development for 724 Solutions, formerly Tantau Software. Prior to 724 Tantau Software, Don held executive positions with industry leaders like Tivoli Systems/IBM, Compuware, and 3Com.
Representative Investments
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SensorLogic Communications Company - Application Service Provider (ASP) specializing in two-way wireless telemetry-based technologies that quickly enable machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and provide application developers with the tools to create their own remote asset management and control systems. |
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Lombardi Software Enterprise/BPM Software Company - Improves your company’s business performance across the enterprise whether it’s order-to-cash, supply chain management, logistics, financial compliance, customer service, or other processes that require operational modification.
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Advent Networks Communication Hardware and Software - Pioneered the first business-class IP access platform for the cable industry that operates on unmodified HFC networks.
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Hyalose Carbohydrate Company - Formed to commercialize the unique recombinant technology of Dr. Paul DeAngelis and Dr. Paul Weigel. A series of innovations focused on the polysaccharide Hyaluronic Acid (Hyaluronan or HA) enable better control of polymer synthesis as well as the creation of novel molecules. |
Don participated in the FundingPost event: Miami VC and Angel Event
on Thursday, February 25, 2010 in FL, Sponsored by The Launch Pad at the University of Miami, Ameritech Media
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