Venture Fund Member Profile
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Kestrel Asset Private Equity (KAPE) Fund is a venture capital partnership managed within a single family office. The Fund is not offered to outside investors.
The Fund invests in early stage and recap companies throughout the Eastern US. Potential companies need to have compelling growth opportunities and need to offer a solution to an existing, real-world problem. The Fund typically co-invests alongside an established venture fund which leads in a Series A preferred offering. KAPE may also on occasional lead or syndicate a round and participate in later stage investments or special situations.
The Fund is distinctive in its evergreen structure, which has advantages both to the limited partners of the Fund and to the entrepreneurs. The principal advantage is that all investment decisions are based solely on the prospects of the underlying company and not on the year of the Fund's life.
After investing into a company, we work hard to help the company's team succeed. We've all led start-up companies personally, and have great networks of prospective customers and strategic partners. Although every venture firm says this, we think we have a greater alignment with the portfolio company because of the advantages of the Kestrel fund.
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Michael Kane
Manager
Kestrel Asset Management |
Michael Kane manages the Kestrel early-stage venture fund. Previously, Mr. Kane served as a Vice-President for Kane Is Able, Inc., a third-generation family-owned logistics company based in Scranton, PA. His responsibilities included strategic planning, financial management, and corporate governance. Prior to joining the family business full time, Mr. Kane co-founded and ran an internet start-up company from 1995-1997, worked in portfolio accounting for a Boston bank, and taught college courses in philosophy and history for twelve years.
Mr. Kane holds an undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College. He has also studied at Oxford University and Freiburg University, Germany.
Mr. Kane is a Leadership Council member of PathNorth, a national CEO group, the Business Leaders Network, a Philadelphia CEO group, and the Institute for Private Investors, where he is a member of the Advisory Faculty. He currently serves on the board of PharmMD, a Nashville health care company and has previously been the vice-president of a Pennsylvania land trust. He has spoken to family office groups and business leaders on portfolio management and investment strategies. In addition, Mr. Kane is a co-founder of "Pour Richard's Symposium", a Philadelphia group devoted to the discussion of ideas and the enjoyment of wine, in the spirit of Ben Franklin.
Mr. Kane and his wife Dorothea are the parents of three young children. His interests include spending time with family, hiking, reading, and traveling.
Representative Investments
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PharmMD serves health plans and self-insured employers by offering medication therapy management programs which improve patient health and contain health care costs.
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Unirisx is a leading global, low-cost integrated core-processing SaaS product for Policy, Billing and Claims. The web-based solution enables insurers, agents, brokers and others to rapidly create and launch new products, broaden distribution, and manage the full policy life in real time. |
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Consensus Point is the leading provider of enterprise prediction markets serving corporations and government. The company helps customers reduce the risk of uncertainty, improve revenue through accurate forecasts of products and services, and to manage projects with immediate insight into future completion dates and budgets. Prediction markets provide viable and valuable prospective business insights and complement other useful information tools by aggregating the tacit knowledge from employees, customers, and/or partners about a business's most critical initiatives. |
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Flamedxx has developed the world's first flame-retardant OSB, protecting families and businesses by slowing the spread of fire and providing a safe and economical alternative to fire-retardant plywood. Flamedxx utilizes advanced manufacturing equipment and a patented process to treat OSB that is less expensive and stronger than most fire retardant products, therefore saving customers money now and saving lives later. |
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