Venture Fund Member Profile
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Amplifier Venture Partners, LP is a seed and early stage venture capital fund that principally targets investments in technology companies in the Washington, DC region. We are positioned to be the first institutional investor in promising technology companies and to provide highly focused, hands on assistance for entrepreneurs looking to team up with experienced business operators and managers to grow world class companies. Our multidisciplinary investment team members have played active roles in the formation, development and exit of many successful emerging companies.
Our mission is to be a leading entrepreneur-friendly seed and early stage venture capital fund for intellectual property driven businesses by working closely with strategically aligned universities and other venture capital funds to generate superior returns for our entrepreneurs and partners.
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Jonathan Aberman
Founder and Managing Director
Amplifier Venture Partners |
Jonathan is the founder and Managing Director of the Fund. He possesses substantial venture capital, financial and managerial expertise, gained over a career spanning venture capital, law and investment banking. Since 2005, when he formed Amplifier, Jonathan has been integrally involved in evaluation and execution of its investment opportunities. He is primarily responsible for evaluating and selecting the remainder of the Amplifier Team, and directs and manages Amplifier's investment process. As a member of the board of directors of portfolio companies, Jonathan plays an active role in recruiting executives, soliciting and closing funding rounds, licensing technology, identifying alpha and beta customers, and charting strategy.
Jonathan was a practicing lawyer from 1990 to 2004. During that time he represented many venture capital backed technology businesses, as well as family- and closely-held businesses. His clients looked to him for counsel and advice in all of the important challenges that a family business or closely-held company could face - for example, family disputes, transitional issues, corporate governance, transactional planning, business sales, human resources, distribution and sales, and financing. Jonathan's clients valued his commitment to their business objectives and his ability to manage complex situations with a positive attitude. He was also well respected by his colleagues and was asked to manage large practice groups and offices several times. Jonathan was a partner in the nationally-recognized law firms of Fenwick & West, Fish and Richardson, and Pillsbury Winthrop.
As Amplifier's Managing Director, Jonathan is applying the managerial experience he gained by managing the growth and business activities of branch offices for two international law firms, including a $45 million business unit with more than 200 employees. Prior to entering legal practice, Jonathan worked in the investment banking industry in London, England (Daiwa Securities, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette and Goldman Sachs International), where he applied his financial analytical skills in mergers & acquisitions and international interest rate and currency trading.
Jonathan is also an educator, and he teaches subjects relating to family- and closely-held businesses, including corporate finance, business planning, organizational development and new venture creation. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. He is also a regular speaker on topics related to business formation and expansion for groups such as the National Academies of Science, the National Science Foundation, the Northern Virginia Technology Council and others. He is frequently interviewed and quoted on business topics by national and local news organizations, including the Deal, Potomac TechWire, the Washington Post, the Washington Business Journal, ThinkTalk Television and Left Jab Radio on Sirius/XM.
Jonathan holds a BA (with honors) in Political Science and Economics from George Washington University, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa. He received an MSc in International Economics with Distinction from the London School of Economics. He also holds two law degrees, an MA from Downing College, Cambridge University and an LLM from the New York University School of Law.
Representative Investments
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CardStar develops mobile applications that promote the use of loyalty cards, merchant and manufacturer coupons and location based services to provide utility for its customers. The CardStar application consolidates membership and rewards cards on smartphones - letting consumers access scannable cards from within a single app and enabling merchants to tailor mobile deals and information to their customers. Through its integration with Foursquare and other location based services, Cardstar offers a unique platform for consumers to interact with merchants at the point of sale. The company has released its applications on iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry. It is the leading loyalty card application in the world, and counts among its strategic partners Verizon Wireless, leading retailers and aggregators of merchant and manufacturing coupons. |
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Hook Mobile is a market leader in multimedia applications for mobile with a focus on multimedia messaging (MMS) as the medium of choice due to its mass market base of handsets and ease of distribution across carriers, handsets and countries. The company provided the first cross-carrier MMS application in the U.S. with CBS in 2006. Since then, Hook Mobile has created applications that facilitate the distribution of multimedia content on mobile devices for many other leading media comapnies. |
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Veriam is pursuing a business and consumer product that focuses on the safe disposal of computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices where data is stored in "permanent" storage. As individuals and business become increasingly aware of the financial and public image damage that can result from a loss of personal, business, or customer data Veriam intends to offer a range of solutions to address the problem of safe data disposal. Veriam's SurErase product performs a high grade, professional disk erase for consumers that is easy to use, and for enterprise customers offers a multi-use appliance that allows enterprises to improve efficiency, and maximize the resale value on hardware assets. |
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iBelong Networks, Inc. is a social networking platform business that helps people find, organize, receive and distribute information relevant to their offline pursuits. Its platform utilizes proprietary search, aggregation, tagging, customer and subscriber management, and other functionality, enabling users, regardless of their technical proficiency, to create collaborative knowledge exchange groups that acquire, filter and disseminate highly relevant content. iBelong's technology makes it easy for users to form groups and for groups to form networks, that can collaborative either locally or nationally through powerful member and subscription management capabilities. iBelong's focus is on creating free-flowing networks of people, content and functionality, untethered from the traditional web site. |
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on Thursday, July 21, 2011 in DC, Sponsored by Bingham McCutchen
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