Venture Fund Member Profile
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Hudson Ventures is a New York based Venture Capital Firm that participates in the SBIC Program. We currently have more than $170 million of capital under management. Our team has decades of experience in operating and growing technology companies, and has successfully managed every phase of a company's life cycle. We believe that our expertise enables us to add value in both leading investment syndicates and co-investing with other Venture Funds. Our portfolio companies are primarily located in the Northeast. Our focused geographic strategy supports a close working relationship and facilitates rapid growth.
Typically, we make private equity investments in companies that need to diversify, revamp or expand operations. Investment amounts range from $2 million to $5 million. We can also provide access to public and private markets for larger or subsequent sources of capital.
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Jay Goldberg
Senior Managing Director
Hudson Ventures |
Jay has been the Senior Managing Director of Hudson Ventures since 1996, and an Angel Investor in Early-stage Technology and Mobile companies.
He was the founder of OPCENTER, LLC, a privately-held company that provides help desk and computer operations services, and the founder and Chairman of Lexstra PLC, a London based consulting company. From 1990 through 1994, Jay served as Chairman and CEO of Image Business Systems Corp., a company that provided document management and workflow software. In 1989, he founded Zeitech, Inc., a company which provided computer implementation professionals through its five national offices. Under Jay's direction, Zeitech appeared twice on Inc. Magazine's 500 List of America's fastest growing companies and was sold in January 1996 to Career Horizons, Inc. In 1986, Jay purchased Money Management Systems, Inc. (MMS) from Ziff-Davis. MMS sold software and services to banks and broker-dealers for securities trading activities. In 1989, MMS was sold to Sungard Inc. From 1968 to 1985, Jay was Chairman and CEO of Software Design Associates, a systems development firm that grew to 600 people, which was sold to AGS Computers Inc. Currently, Mr. Goldberg serves on the Boards of several of Hudson's portfolio companies, including: Bigfoot Interactive, GlobalServe, Didera, i-Hello, PowerSteering, and OpenService. He is the past Chairman of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, and Treasurer of the Governor's Committee for Scholastic Achievement. Mr. Goldberg is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the faculty of Arts and Sciences of New York University, the Board of Trustees of Montefiore Medical Center and a Trustee of the Charles Babbage Foundation. Jay, an avid golfer, holds a B. A. degree from New York University and resides in New York City with his family.
Representative Investments
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Scanbuy Scanbuy is the leading global provider of mobile marketing solutions that use the camera phone as the link between the physical world and the digital world. The ScanLife client application and Code Management Platform have been successfully deployed and supported by leading mobile providers and handset manufacturers in the United States, Mexico, France, Spain, and Denmark. Media companies and marketers use the platform to create and manage measurable 2D barcode campaigns, extending brand engagement onto mobile devices. Scanbuy has partnerships with major wireless operators including America Movil, Sprint, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Telenor, and Vodafone, and with most handset manufacturers including LG and Samsung. The ScanLife handset application has already been pre-loaded on millions of phones around the world. |
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GlobalServe, Inc. GlobalServe, Inc., is an Internet-based, Business-to-Business services and supply chain management company that Web-enables Global Fortune 1000 Companies to secure equipment and related services from leading computer manufacturers, under prices pre-negotiated at the corporate global procurement level, and obtain fulfillment for computer services and support through remote access or local fulfillment. |
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PowerSteering Software, Inc. PowerSteering Software, Inc., provides software and application services for managing work on the Web. All of PowerSteering Software's products and services aim to bring together teams, departments and entire companies including outside partners and suppliers to achieve their goals faster, more cost effectively and more efficiently. A growing list of Global 2000 companies, including Raytheon, BP and GE Capital, use PowerSteering Software. PowerSteering Software was founded in Cambridge, MA, as Cambridge Interactive in 1994. |
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OpenService OpenService is a developer of proprietary software tools for systems, application and firewall management. Its SystemWatchª product suite supports Microsoft Windows NT and a wide range of UNIX platforms. Customers include Bear Stearns, GTE, Sprint, and BellSouth. OpenService is a Checkpoint Systems alliance partner and has a distribution agreement with Nokia and Sonic Wall. OpenService merged with Response Networks in 2002. |
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