Venture Fund Member Profile
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Ballast Point Ventures, L.P. is a venture capital fund established to provide expansion capital for rapidly growing, privately owned companies in diverse industries, with a particular emphasis on companies located in Florida, the Southeast and Texas. The Ballast Point partners have more than 60 years of combined experience investing in and building private, high-growth companies in a number of industries, including communications, health care, technology, manufacturing, consumer products and specialty retail. We seek to make equity investments ranging in size from $1.0 million to $5.0 million, which result in Ballast Point Ventures owning minority positions in businesses owned and operated by outstanding management teams. The Fund invests in the following types of situations: Expansion financings for existing businesses Acquisition financings Management-led buyouts of growth companies Recapitalizations of rapidly growing private companies, providing liquidity to one or more of the company’s existing shareholders
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Drew Graham Managing Partner Ballast Point Ventures |
Prior to co-founding Ballast Point Ventures in 2001, Mr. Graham spent six years at South Atlantic Venture Funds. Mr. Graham joined South Atlantic in 1995 and was both a Principal and General Partner in South Atlantic Ventures Fund IV. He has participated in numerous venture capital investments across several industries, including communications, software, health care and business services.
Mr. Graham began his private equity career with the Merchant Banking Division of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. in New York from 1989 to 1991.
He graduated from Princeton University in 1989 with a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, and from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1995 with an MBA, with Distinction.
Representative Investments
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Matrix Management Services A provider of physician services to patients in long-term care facilities on behalf of managed care plans and skilled nursing facility operators. |
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KNOLOGY Holdings, Inc. A broadband systems operator in secondary markets in the Southeastern United States. These systems offer cable television, Internet access and telephone services to consumers. The Company completed an initial public offering in January 2004. (NASDAQ: KNOL) Ballast Point led a Preferred Stock Financing in May 2005. |
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Outback Steakhouse, Inc. Operates a chain of casual dining steakhouse restaurants featuring Western Australian decor, as well as Carrabba’s Italian restaurants. (NASDAQ: OSI) The Company completed an initial public offering in June 1991. (NYSE: OSI) |
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MTL, Inc Provides specialized tank trucking services. The Company completed an initial public offering in 1994, was taken private in 1998 and completed a public offering as Quality Distribution in November 2003. |
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