Venture Fund Member Profile
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Flywheel Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on information technology and physical sciences ventures in the Southwest/Rockies region. The firm matches talented entrepreneurs with market opportunities where Flywheel’s capital, entrepreneurial experience and industry relationships help accelerate innovations into profitable companies. Flywheel’s goal is to be the premier early-stage technology venture capital firm in the Southwest/Rockies region and a catalyst for its emergence as a world-class technology center. Flywheel has offices in Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Silicon Valley.
Flywheel leverages its investment team’s technology expertise and entrepreneurial experience to fuel the commercialization of globally-recognized R&D and science assets in the Southwest/Rockies region. The Fund’s investment strategy reflects a proven, disciplined approach to seed- and early-stage investing. The strategy focuses on matching managerial talent with innovative technologies and attractive market opportunities, and then supporting these ventures with the hands-on, operational assistance of Flywheel’s investment professionals. The Flywheel team’s deep domain expertise and strong relationships with technical and R&D universities and laboratories allow the firm to act as a catalyst for the commercialization and growth of new ventures.
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Scott Caruso
General Partner
Flywheel Ventures |
Scott brings a decade of angel and venture investing experience and over 25 years of technology industry experience as a founder, builder, manager and advisor to over two dozen early-stage ventures in the Internet, Software and IT arenas. A seasoned tech entrepreneur and engineer, he has particular strengths in supporting company transitions from product development to sales-driven businesses and developing effective corporate infrastructure for scale.
Scott joined Flywheel as a General Partner in 2003 and leads the firm’s investments in Groople, Lingotek, Intelisum, Sindhara Supermedia, 4Blox and Trackvia. He is also a board observer for Filtrbox.
Prior to Flywheel, Scott was an active angel investor from 1999 to 2003 investing in 12 start-up companies ranging from biotech to IT infrastructure. He founded and led two successful technology start-ups – as Founder/President HotSpare, a self-financed, profitable internet infrastructure services company and as co-Founder of Compute Intensive, a self-funded ISP services company to the SMB market (acquired by Verio and sold to NTT for $6 billion). Between 1989-1994, Scott was a Systems and Sales Support engineer at Sun Microsystems. Prior to Sun, he managed the computer operations group of New Mexico State University’s Computer Sciences Dept. and was responsible for connecting NMSU to the Arpanet (predecessor to today’s internet) and building the first campus-wide email system.
He is past Director of New Mexico Angels from 2004-2006 and is a board director of Lingotek, Intelisum, 4Blox, and Trackvia, a board observer at Groople and past board observer at SAMBA.
Scott received a BS, with a minor in Computer Science from New Mexico State University in 1987.
Representative Investments
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SkyFuel Inc is emerging as a world leader in the design and deployment of concentrating solar power (CSP) systems. The Company delivers turnkey large-scale solar plants that produce steam for power generation, desalination, wastewater treatment and other industrial applications. SkyFuel’s solar plants can be integrated into existing facilities using its proprietary FuelSaver™ approach, or can be built as stand-alone solar power plants.
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InteliSum, Inc has developed innovative and patented 3-D InteliCamera™ technology that fuses LIDAR XYZ coordinates, digital image (RGB) data, and geophysical position (GPS) information to create Life Dimensional™ image (LD3™) files. Our intelligent pixel (InteliPixel™) technology allows easy capture of 3-dimensional objects and environments, plus fast, seamless transition (transfer) into computer aided design (CAD) software. |
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Filtrbox is a digital information management service that provides an easy, reliable way for individual business professionals to filter and manage critical information flowing from the Internet. The service is similar to google alerts, however, Filtrbox provides a persistent, intelligent search application that has critical features like noise control, history and drill-down, multi-modal notification and tuning. Filtrbox helps professionals reduce and control the noise level associated with the explosion of online content, and it allows users to discover and process increasing amounts of information more productively and efficiently. Filtrbox is on a mission to ease the pain and complexity of staying in-the-know by delivering a solution that provides more knowledge with less |
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Samba Many large industries, such as insurance, banking, titling, and automotive, depend on interaction with public records data such as driving records and vehicle registration to manage the risk associated with large driver fleets. However, in most cases, this interaction is conducted in antiquated, manual ways. Samba solves this problem by partnering with state governments to host replicas of public records data. Using this data, Samba builds web-based applications that allow private industry customers to monitor driver records and ensure that only qualified drivers operate company vehicles, or personal vehicles on company time. |
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on Thursday, December 3, 2009 in AZ, Sponsored by Sedona Rouge Hotel & Spa
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