Venture Fund Member Profile
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VantagePoint operates on a number of key principles and we want to partner with entrepreneurs who share these values in building world-scale companies.
We pursue big ideas. And we invest in companies that can transform global markets through the power of their ideas. We have the financial resources and intellectual capital to tackle dynamic projects and the commitment to see them through. We often invest as the sole partner with portfolio company management and have the capacity to invest in excess of $100 million in support of a single company. Most often, we are a lead investor, with typical pre-IPO funding in the $15-50 million range.
We are creative thinkers. We don't go by the book. In fact, we don't have a book. We understand that companies with great promise often have to address unusual challenges or quickly act on new opportunities to realize their full potential. To build successful companies to scale requires creative capital — moving beyond the funding to accelerate strategic growth. The depth of our relationships and resources enable us to introduce and help structure key corporate partnering and business development opportunities, use our substantial contact network to identify key hires, lend our in-house legal, transactional, recruiting, financial, and marketing experts during pivotal moments, and drive and fund strategic acquisitions to assist our portfolio companies.
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Jason Whitt
Vice President
VantagePoint Venture Partners |
As a member of the Digital Media Group, Jason focuses on digital media, wireless, and consumer oriented technology investments. His experience includes management positions in business development, marketing, and engineering in multiple technology sectors, providing a diverse perspective to his investment and portfolio company efforts at VantagePoint. Additionally, he has experience both in industry-leading technology companies and as an entrepreneur. Prior to joining VantagePoint in 2005, he was responsible for acquisitions, venture investing, and corporate strategy for Cisco Systems' Corporate Business Development group, where he led numerous transactions involving voice, video, wireless, consumer, and broadband communications companies. Before Cisco, Jason served in product management for Xros and Nortel Networks (which acquired Xros). He was also an R&D engineer and project leader for TransVascular (acquired by Medtronic), where he was part of the founding employee team. Jason is named on 16 patents for his design work. He is a Kauffman Fellow and graduate of Stanford University (BS, MBA).
Representative Investments
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TouchTunes Music Corporation introduced the world's first digital downloading, coin-operated commercial jukebox in 1998. Today, TouchTunes' online network of 23,000 pay-per-play Internet jukeboxes in bars, restaurants, and other establishments throughout North America is the industry's largest, representing a market share of more than 60 percent. |
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Livescribe has developed a new low-cost mobile computing platform that connects the paper and digital worlds. The company is focused on innovative solutions that enhance personal productivity, learning, communication, and self expression for anyone who writes with pen and paper. |
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Tesla Motors designs and sells electric cars that break the compromise between performance and efficiency, combining world-class automotive design and Silicon Valley technology with an innovative sales and support strategy. The company's first car is a sleek all-electric roadster with exceptional performance, mileage, and range, and with zero emissions. Tesla's patented and proprietary technologies change the automotive energy. |
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Radiant Medical is a private medical technology company, focused on the research and development of state-of-the-art endovascular temperature therapy systems to advance the treatment of patients with acute ischemic or inflammatory conditions, such as acute myocardial infarction, radiocontrast nephropathy, stroke and cardiac arrest. |
Jason participated in the FundingPost event: CA early-stage breakfast
on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 in CA, Sponsored by Orrick
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