Venture Fund Member Profile
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Court Square Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage communications, information technology, and media companies, with a particular interest in points of convergence between these industries.
The firm's deep understanding of its three target sectors stems from the partners' 60 years of operating and investing experience in these areas. Court Square uses this base of experience to support young companies executing the critical transitions from pre-revenue to first sales and accelerating growth.
Court Square seeks to establish close partnership with passionate, committed entrepreneurs and like-minded co-investors. The principals bring a broad national network of target sector contacts to bear in helping portfolio companies source customers, find strategic partners, and recruit key personnel.
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Randy Castleman
General Partner
Court Square Ventures |
Randy Castleman has over two decades of company-building experience at the intersection of digital media, telecom and IT, including founding and senior operating roles in small and large companies, as well as involvement in key developments in intellectual property protection and licensing on the Internet. Prior to founding Court Square with Jim Murray and Chris Holden, he created and managed the New Media & Technology Strategy group at performance rights clearing house ASCAP, advising the CEO and board on technology issues and developing the industry’s first license for music on the Internet. While at ASCAP, Mr. Castleman also served as technology policy advisor for the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, a Federal advisory commission comprised of CEOs from the telecom, software, and media industries that advised the White House on Internet policy issues.
Prior to ASCAP, Mr. Castleman was part of the founding team, with actress Jodie Foster, of Egg Pictures, a PolyGram-financed feature film production company, where he had management responsibilities for both business operations and creative matters. He had senior management responsibilities at Interscope Communications and Ogilvy & Mather acquired by WPP and worked on DSL planning and implementation for BellSouth, acquired by ATT.
Mr. Castleman serves or has served as a director of CSV portfolio companies Automated Insights, Bug Labs, TRAFFIQ, SNOCAP, Labrador Mobile, Grand Central and Optinel Systems. He has served on the board of the UVA Emergency Medicine Advisory Board and is founder and chairman of the Charlottesville Police Foundation. Mr. Castleman earned his BA from Princeton University in 1985 and his MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia in 1998.
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TRAFFIQ ® is the industry’s leading digital media buying & management platform, directly connecting buyers and sellers of online media for optimized ad yield and maximum return on investment. Participants on TRAFFIQ include leading publishers, advertisers, and ad agencies. With proprietary media planning tools, RFP distribution, order execution, ad serving & a robust real-time reporting interface, TRAFFIQ offers the industry’s only web-based media buying platform connecting agencies and advertisers directly with publishers. |
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Automated Insights, Inc. represents the next revolution in content creation. The company’s technology automatically transforms raw data into compelling narrative content (articles, summaries, headlines), visual displays (charts, tables, graphs) and interactive applications (mobile and Twitter/Facebook–based social applications). In essence, the company uses technology to humanize big data, and automate knowledge and insight at scale. Automated Insights’ first market is sports. Through its StatSheet brand, the company currently converts a rapidly growing data set of over 2 billion statistics into comprehensive and compelling coverage of NCAA college basketball and Major League Baseball. The company currently publishes over 15,000 articles per month through its network of more than 375 team-centric websites, mobile applications and Twitter and Facebook accounts. Later this fall, Automated Insights will be launching its NFL and NCAA college football coverage. |
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Labrador Mobile produces next-generation social networking sites which enable fans and affinity groups to interact and express themselves across mobile, online and offline media platforms. Labrador’s initial property, Rowdy.com, is the world's leading social network for NASCAR fans, also delivering targeted information to the phones of mobile race fans, and producing the #1 NASCAR podcast on iTunes. |
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Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without having to solder or learn solid state electronics. Bug Labs envisions a future where CE stands for Community Electronics, the term “mashups” applies equally to hardware as it does to Web services, and entrepreneurs can appeal to numerous markets by inventing “The Long Tail” of devices. |
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