Venture Fund Member Profile
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.406 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in innovative Information Technology (IT) and services companies founded by the finest entrepreneurs. We are a veteran team of industry entrepreneurs, operators and investors who apply real world experience, deep industry knowledge and networks, and strong company-building skills to create value for our entrepreneurs and investing partners. We typically are the lead, first institutional investor in early-stage and de novo investments in market-changing IT Security and Infrastructure, Technology-Enabled Business Services, and Next-Generation Software companies.
As investors, we bring an entrepreneurial energy, enthusiasm and tireless commitment to our companies. Every member of the .406 team is an entrepreneur, each of us having been a founder, builder or principal driver in several successful companies. As a result, we are able to offer real-world advice based on first-hand experience with the unique challenges, opportunities and rewards associated with growing early-stage businesses.
We have a passion to share the benefits of our past experience so that entrepreneurs can make better decisions and avoid costly mistakes. We can help anticipate and manage rapid-growth risks as well as identify and support first-mover advantage on potential opportunities.
Finally, we understand the importance of mutual alignment in creating value every day. We believe in being fair to founders and sensitive to their ownership concerns. We work to achieve a balance of being an exceptionally strong advocate and a constructive sounding board. And we are committed to direct and honest communications with our investors and business partners.
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Greg Dracon
Principal
.406 Ventures |
Greg Dracon joined .406 in 2007 and is involved in all aspects of the investing and portfolio management process. He brings 18 years of venture investing and technology operating and management experience.
Prior to joining .406, Greg was a Vice President of Core Capital Partners, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage venture and small to mid-sized growth technology companies. At Core, Greg focused on software, digital media, technology-enabled services and wireless applications.
From 1995 to 2005, Greg held various operating and management roles at Texas Instruments, including positions in worldwide sales, business development, product distribution and digital signal processing applications.
Greg received his MBA, with majors in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his BS in Electrical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.
Representative Investments
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EnergyHub is the consumer face of the Smart Grid, helping homeowners reduce energy consumption and save money. EnergyHub produces smart, simple and cost-effective energy management tools that strengthen the relationship between consumers and utilities and help solve the energy problems of today and tomorrow.
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Vaultive provides cloud data encryption solutions that empower organizations to realize the cost savings, enhanced productivity and operational efficiencies of cloud computing while maintaining the data security, control and compliance advantages of on-premise computing.
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Ambient Devices is the leading provider of devices and systems that deliver instant, effortless access to information at a glance. Ambient's line of energy products, serve as a communicative approach for utility companies to relay information to customers about energy consumption and demand, and forewarn them that supply and demand on the electric system may be reaching critical mass. By outfitting consumers with an easy-to-use enterprise or in-home tool for smart energy consumption, utility companies will see energy consumption spread more evenly throughout each day and increase their overall customer satisfaction. Ambient's Energy Orbs have been deployed by over a dozen utilities in both residential and commercial demand response projects worldwide and have reduced energy consumption by approximately 25%. |
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MineralTree delivers secure, online payments solutions to banks that are specifically designed to meet the needs of their small and medium business customers. The solution provides a simple, streamlined approach that brings new efficiency, security, and convenience to payments and cash management processes at a cost that is easy to justify while helping to enhance the bank's customer relationships. MineralTree's leadership team has a long track record of creating innovative solutions to long-standing problems in banking and financial services. |
Greg participated in the FundingPost event: Boston VC & Angel Event
on Thursday, June 6, 2013 in MA, Sponsored by Bingham McCutchen, WeiserMazars, First Republic Bank
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