Venture Fund Member Profile
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We make seed and early-stage investments in businesses targeting high-growth emerging mass markets. We are active investors, generally write a company's first term sheet as the lead investor, and partner with entrepreneurs who have the energy, vision, experience and passion to build great companies and help them succeed through hands-on team building, partnerships, advice and support.
Our firm began 12 years ago as Draper Atlantic and DFJ New England, two affiliates of the Draper Fisher Jurvetson network that worked closely together since inception. From 1999 to 2006, Draper Atlantic and DFJ New England invested $180 million in 59 companies with investment returns in the top ten percent of all venture funds. The firms joined forces in 2006 to create New Atlantic Ventures, a venture capital firm with a past and present portfolio of companies that generated over $600 million of revenue in 2008 and employed thousands of people worldwide with our funds achieving top decile financial performance as a result.
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Scott Johnson Founder and Managing Partner NAV Fund |
Scott is a seasoned high tech entrepreneur and venture investor. Notable past investments include EnerNOC (Nasdaq ENOC), Massive (acquired by Microsoft). He currently holds a seat on the Board of Directors of Pontiflex, Image Space Media, Solve Media, Truveris and Fashion Playtes. Prior to co-founding NAV and its predecessor, DFJ New England, Scott was the East Coast partner of the Cambridge Technology Capital Fund, cited by Venture Economics as one of the top performing post-IPO funds of 1999, where he oversaw investments in E.piphany, Silknet, Digital Think, and WebLogic. Before that, he co-founded InterSense, Inc., a 3D visualization technology company. Scott began his career as a software engineer and early employee of Cambridge Technology Partners, a global systems integration and consulting company.
Representative Investments
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Coatue Coatue is developing a new generation of memory chips based on a proprietary electronic-polymer technology that offers both far greater performance and lower cost than current memory devices. Coatue's technology combines DRAM speed, Flash non-volatility, and low power consumption into a single universal memory chip. |
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Ember The next frontier in data networking is "Embedded Networking": connecting every intelligent device to the backbone network. EmberNet -- a self-organizing, self-healing, highly robust wireless mesh technology -- makes Embedded Networking practical. Optimized for sensing and control applications, EmberNet makes it simple and inexpensive to put every device on the network, giving OEMs the means to create products that do more because they communicate better. |
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Clear Methods Clear Methods revolutionary web service platform was designed for Web services and XML from the ground up. Their software significantly reduces the complexity of developing Web Services -- eliminating the "alphabet soup" of languages and standards that web programmers must master. |
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NanoOpto Combining two leading edge technologies, sub-wavelength optics and nano-pattern transfer, NanoOpto Corporation is creating a new class of densely integrated, modular nano-optic components. Unlike conventional bulk optics, NanoOpto's components feature nano-scale structures much smaller than the wavelengths of light. These tiny structures interact "locally" with light to produce a wide range of optically useful effects, some familiar, others novel and unique to NanoOpto's technology. |
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