Venture Fund Member Profile
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Blade Ventures’ focus is on companies that drive the adoption of leading edge information, media, sensor and related systems technologies. Through select partners we will also invest in life science opportunities such as medical devices, diagnostics, and operations-enhancing information technology. Our portfolio companies are capable of playing a disruptive role in emerging, high growth markets, and they are led by talented management teams that have a long term commitment to the success of their company.
Our investment team and advisors include seasoned venture capitalists, senior executives in technology companies, faculty and staff at leading universities, and successful entrepreneurs. In addition to the capital that we invest, we help our portfolio companies recruit key executive team members, we assist in business and engineering outsourcing solutions, we provide entrepreneurial and operations guidance, and we help connect portfolio companies to a broad network of global resources to accelerate their growth.
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Craig Gunther
Managing Director
Blade Ventures |
Craig Gunther, the Managing Director of Blade Ventures, has more than 20 years of investing, operating, and engineering experience working with technology companies. Prior to founding the firm Mr. Gunther served as President of Blade Capital Management, where he established and managed an alternative asset focused investment platform with more than $2B in total assets. He previously served for six years as Chief Operating Officer of Nicholas Enterprises, held various management and senior engineering positions at TRW while designing and developing integrated circuits for computing and digital signal processing applications, and he has also worked with numerous public and private technology companies as an advisor. Mr. Gunther currently serves on the boards of ClearAccess, 5iScience, Lasercure and Vigilistics. He holds a BS in Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a JD from Loyola Law School.
Representative Investments
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Infinera developed a solution for optical communications networks. The Company’s photonic integrated circuits (PICs) transmit and receive 100 gigabits per second of optical capacity and incorporates the functionality of over 60 discrete optical components into a pair of indium phosphide chips approximately the size of a child’s fingernail. Infinera has used its PIC technology to design a digital optical communications system called the digital transport node (DTN) System. The DTN System is designed to enable optical to electrical to optical (O-E-O) conversion of communications signals. Infinera’s carrier-class DTN System runs the Company’s Infinera IQ Network Operating System and is integrated with its Infinera Management Suite software. Its PIC technology facilitates a network architecture that allows communications service providers to realize the benefits of both the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and digital processing. |
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ClearAccess provides managed services to Telco/Cable Service Providers for their broadband end-users which lower support costs, reduce churn, and create new service revenues. Their wireline and wireless solutions address the growing need for robust internet, telephony, video and other feature-rich applications. ClearAccess has developed capabilities in drop ship logistics, rapid response customer support, strategic consulting, hosted and managed services, co-branding marketing initiatives and application services. |
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Apollo Enterprise Solutions provides enterprise-class, hosted solutions to primary creditors, collection agencies, debt buyers and legal recovery firms for Debtor Self-Payment and Self-Settlement™. The Apollo Intelligent Debt Solutions™ (IDS™) system leverages existing software platforms and network infrastructure with bureau decisioning products to provide enhanced Decisioning Intelligence™, portfolio visibility and business analytics to the payment, collections and recovery process. |
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Motricity is a leading provider of mobile content services and solutions. The company's offerings span the content delivery chain, enabling compelling end user experiences and delivering profitable and reliable mobile content offerings for mobile network operators, media and entertainment companies, mobile specialists and more. Motricity's customer base to includes 11 of the top 13 carriers in North America including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, Bell Mobility, Tracfone and Alltel. Motricity's managed service infrastructure powers storefronts and communities for 9 of the top 13 carriers in North America. Motricity powers 5 of the top 6 carrier "start screens" with its mobile portal product which will support billions of page views this year alone. |
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on March 11, 2010 in CA, Sponsored by Bingham McCutchen LLP
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