Venture Fund Member Profile
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Innovation Ventures, L.P., is an SBIC venture capital fund focused on growth and early-stage investments in the areas of chemicals and materials; electronic materials and devices; information technology; nanotechnology; software; biotechnology (excluding human therapeutics); and business information services related to the legal, financial services and manufacturing industries. IV invests in enterprises located primarily on the East Coast, with a particular emphasis on the Mid-Atlantic region, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.
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David J. Freschman
Managing Principal
Innovation Ventures |
David J. Freschman is a Managing Principal of Innovation Capital Advisors, LLC (ICA), and a Founding Member of the ARC Angel Fund. ICA serves as the management company of Innovation Ventures, L.P. (IV) and the Delaware Innovation Fund (DIF). He served as the President and CEO of the DIF since its establishment in 1995. The DIF is a seed and early stage venture capital fund that focuses on entrepreneurial ventures in the Mid-Atlantic region. Mr. Freschman has been responsible for all aspects of IV’s and the DIF’s management since its inception, including the business strategy, fiscal and operational management, raising investment capital, and evaluating all investment opportunities and portfolio company management.
Mr. Freschman is active in the venture and entrepreneurial communities, sits on a number of Boards, and has been a lecturer on such topics at The White House Conference on Small Business, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, the University of Delaware, Goldey-Beacom College, and Loyola College in Baltimore. He is the creator and founder of Early Stage East – the premier early stage venture capital fair on the East Coast. In 2001, Mr. Freschman was appointed by Gov. Ruth Ann Minner to chair the venture capital study of the state’s Strategic Economic Council. Mr. Freschman was appointed and served a three-year term representing New Castle County, Delaware on the Small Business Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia through 2002.
Prior to establishing the DIF, Mr. Freschman was responsible for the formation of the corporate finance advisory division of McBride Shopa and Company, one of the largest certified public accounting and consulting firms in Delaware. Mr. Freschman began his career with the Enterprise Group of the Philadelphia office of Arthur Andersen, LLP, from 1984 through 1989. Mr. Freschman graduated with honors with an MBA from Loyola College of Maryland and cum laude from the University of Delaware with a B.S. in accounting, where he was a John B. Lynch Scholar. He is also a member of Beta Gamma Sigma – the National Honor Society.
"The Perfect Venture Conference is a powerful event for entrepreneurs to attend in order to meet, collaborate and engage in serious discussions with investors in order to achieve the goals of their enterprises and individual aspirations. An event not to miss!"
- David J. Freschman, Innovation Ventures
Representative Investments
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Business Intelligence International is a global expert in providing the frameworks, structures and analytics that allow businesses to properly manage risk and performance. For more than ten years, BI International has led the development of key business solutions for players both large and small across many industries. More recently, it used its "expert to the experts" know-how to create AlineTM. The Aline platform is made up of an affordable set of easy-to-learn and easy-to-use tools that untangle the complexities of a business and organize critical information to a point of clarity, flagging key issues and driving successful decision making. |
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Maxion Technologies, Inc. is a world leader in the development and commercialization of long-wavelength (3-12 microns) infrared semiconductor lasers. Maxion is the only company in the world selling both interband cascade (IC) and quantum cascade (QC) lasers to business and government customers. Their laser products are being used by customers developing product solutions in the areas of homeland security, military communications, infrared countermeasures, chemical warfare agent detection, explosives detection, medical diagnostics, industrial process controls, remote gas leak detection, pollution monitoring, and real-time combustion controls. |
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Nanocomp Technologies, Inc. was formed in 2004 as a spin-out of Synergy Innovations, Inc. a Lebanon, NH based technology development company. NCTI’s purpose is to leverage its proprietary and fundamental advancements in the production of long carbon nanotubes together with a unique ability to fabricate them into physically strong, lightweight, electro-thermally conductive fibers, yarns and felts. The company’s goal is to create products with revolutionary performance benefits, creating a new generation of advanced structural materials and electro-energy devices. |
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SkillSurvey delivers on-demand reference checking via a proprietary online process. The technology enables employers to efficiently, economically and effectively review applicants’ professional references using a 360 approach for assessing past performance. The confidential format and 24/7 accessibility increases response rates by an average of 50 percent over phone references and yield more useable information. Recruiters save time, reach more references per candidate, and increase submittal-to-hire ratios with more in-depth candidate profiles. |
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