Venture Fund Member Profile
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Connecticut Innovations provides strategic capital and operational insight to push the frontiers of high-tech industries such as energy, biotechnology, information technology, and photonics.
Over the years, CI has helped over 100 emerging companies research, develop, and market new products and services. This activity has attracted over $1 billion dollars in additional investments from private equity providers. CI has brought the State of Connecticut over $510 million in Gross State Profit and over 5,000 additional job-years. CI was created by the Connecticut Legislature in 1989. Since 1995, returns from its own prudent investments - not state money - have supported operations and new, forward-thinking funding programs. In addition, CI is undertaking statewide efforts to provide state residents with clean energy alternatives for their homes and businesses through the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund.
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Maneesh Sagar Managing Director, Investments Connecticut Innovations |
Maneesh is a Director of investments at Connecticut Innovations and is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, investing in and managing portfolio companies, primarily in the information technology sector.
Connecticut Innovations was an investor in a Shelton-based software company that Maneesh co-founded and was instrumental in growing, NeuVis (acquired by IBM Rational). He has over fifteen years of hands-on operational experience with technology start-ups including DataEase (acquired by Symantec) and Vendavo. Maneesh has worked with Fortune 500 companies as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. He has held positions in corporate and business development, enterprise sales, product marketing and executive management.
Maneesh graduated magna cum laude from Ohio Wesleyan University with a BA in economics management and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is actively involved with, and is a speaker for, events hosted by the Connecticut Venture Group (CVG), The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE) TriState, Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES), Connecticut Technology Council (CTC) and Columbia Business School.
Representative Investments
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Bristol Technology Bristol Technology combines superior software-development expertise and customer care to deliver market-leading e-business and cross-platform software-development products. The company develops software with an emphasis on improving both the efficiency and quality of customers' software systems. |
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CIDRA CIDRA's SONARtracTM clamp-on flowmeters are versatile process monitoring systems capable of providing multi-variable measurements, such as volumetric flow and entrained air, in a wide variety of fluid regimes - liquids, gases, slurries and multiphase fluids. SONARtrac flowmeters utilize passive sonar techniques, are a robust, full-bore clamp-on solution, scaleable to large pipe diameters. |
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Memry Memry is an advanced-materials company that develops, manufactures and markets semi-finished materials, formed components and value-added sub-assembled products using shape-memory alloy technology. Products include nickel titanium components for the medical-device industry, cellular telephone antennae components, and high-performance valves. |
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Netkey Netkey develops, markets and supports innovative software products that enable companies to maximize return on their e-commerce investment by managing high volumes of self-service customer transactions and increasing multi-channel sales. The Netkey platform is used in customer-activated devices such as kiosks, managed PCs and ATMs. |
Maneesh participated in the FundingPost event: VC Event: NYC Venture Capital Showcase
on Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 in NY, Sponsored by Credit Suisse, Shelowitz & Associates, Hub International, Geller & Company
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