Venture Fund Member Profile
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invencor offers their portfolio companies over a century of combined experience, established contacts and personal relationships throughout the United States. Garnered while working directly with emerging growth companies, we can bring a deep expertise in operations and finance, critical to the needs of seed through mezzanine stages of any company's life cycle.
Debra R. Guerin Beresini and D. Kirk B. Westbrook, invencor's principals, have worked together since 1995 while employed at Silicon Valley Bank. The nationally recognized bank specializes in serving pre-profit, early stage technology companies most of which are backed by venture capitalists. Since their departure from the Bank in 1997, they have been working with early stage companies providing strategic direction for numerous clients in International Venture Fund's target markets. Both principals leverage over 30 years of combined experience with a very hands-on approach to provide early stage companies guidance as well as access to extensive personal contacts throughout each of the targeted areas.
In addition to Ms. Guerin Beresini and Mr. Westbrook, invencor also enjoys the additional resources provided through its partnership in International Venture Fund I with the principals of Santa Fe Venture Partners (SFVP). The Principals, Richard H. Harding and Daniel A. Macuga bring a combined total of over 60 years of executive level experience in the financing and operations of high technology companies. Ms. Guerin Beresini and Mr. Westbrook have worked with Mr. Harding to help provide financing to early stage high technology companies since 1993 at Silicon Valley Bank and later at invencor, inc. SFVP's principals are the Fund's New Mexico based representatives who are both active in the community and work with the portfolio companies located within the State. SFVP's background and experience are also leveraged in the Fund's other markets.
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Kirk Westbrook
Principal
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D. Kirk B. Westbrook is a co-founder and Managing Director of International Venture Fund (IVF). IVF is a Silicon Valley based venture fund focused on seed and early stage emerging growth investment opportunities in the geographic areas of Hawaii, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, as well as Silicon Valley. Mr. Westbrook is also the President and Chief Financial Officer of invencor, inc., which manages IVF. In 1997, invencor, inc. assumed management of an existing seed fund associated with incubators in the State of Arizona , the Arizona Technology Venture Fund (ATVF). Several new investments were made and ATVF was fully liquidated in 2005. Mr. Westbrook has or previously has held board seats on four of IVF’s portfolio companies and was instrumental in the sale of AdOn Network, Inc. to Prime Visibility Media Group.
Mr. Westbrook has been involved with finance for approximately 20 years. In 1989, he accepted a position with Silicon Valley Bank, a nationally recognized debt and equity provider which specializes in serving early stage, pre-profit technology companies, most of which are venture backed. While at Silicon Valley, Mr. Westbrook worked in all of the lending areas of the Bank, as well as managed an extensive portfolio for several years in the Bank’s workout group. His last position was as Vice President in the Bank's National Division, then one of the fastest growing divisions within the Bank, where he actively developed client and venture capital relationships in Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin. He departed his post in April 1997 to form invencor, inc. In addition to his management and investment activity with IVF, Mr. Westbrook is a reviewer of Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology grant submissions and an invited business plan judge or company selection panelist for venture conferences in the states of Arizona, Hawaii, Illinois, Texas and Utah. He served for many years as a board member of the non-profit Hawaii Venture Capital Association and is a member of the executive committee of HiBEAM, a Hawaii based business accelerator. Mr. Westbrook is a graduate of San Jose State University.
Representative Investments
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Sandpiper Software™ Sandpiper Software™ is the leading provider of business semantics infrastructure solutions for context-driven search, collaborative applications, and cross-organizational content interoperability. The Company develops semantically aware, knowledge-based products and provides context development services that facilitate business information interoperability, terminology normalization and context resolution across web-based and enterprise information systems. |
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Lumidigm Lumidigm’s superior multispectral imaging technology collects fingerprint images from surface and subsurface features of the skin. Current technologies have an error rate of up to sixteen percent; Lumidigm’s multispectral imaging technology will reduce inadequate fingerprint images to less than one percent. |
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AGIS Network AGIS Network connects government agencies, employers, service providers, and families in the eldercare and disability communities. |
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Cardax Pharmaceuticals develops proprietary small molecule therapies for large unmet medical needs where oxidative stress and inflammation play important causative roles - including cardiovascular disease, hepatitis, macular degeneration, and many cancers |
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