Venture Fund Member Profile
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ASAP Ventures' Mission is to get high-potential, early-stage companies to market faster and smarter. ASAP Ventures gives these companies the tools and resources they need to get a solid start and increase their chance of success. Through our Strategic Advisory Services, Capital Formation, and Incubation Services, ASAP Ventures maintains an uncompromising determination to achieve excellence in everything we undertake.
At ASAP Ventures we focus on four success characteristics - Management, Markets, Momentum and Mass. The management must be skilled and passionate. The markets must be large, dynamic, and robust. The company must be able to demonstrate significant momentum in engaging its marketplace. It must do so in a way which indicates that it will sustain the mass - a combination of financial performance and rightly positioned partnerships -- necessary to compete in the future. The artful blend of these is essential in evaluating the potential for success in early stage enterprises.
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Jeff Weiss
Managing Director
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Jeff Weiss co-founded Distributed Sun (www.distributedsun.com) in 2009, where he is Managing Director. He leads capital formation activities and plays an active role in management and governance. Since 2000, he has run ASAP Ventures to help high-potential, growth-stage companies get to market faster and smarter. He has led companies active in renewable energy, cyber and physical security, intelligence and corporate fraud mitigation, mission preparedness and training, software development, and transformational management.
An early e-business and on-line media entrepreneur, Jeff helped found two firms which deliver information and services to businesses online; Picture Network International was sold to Kodak in 1997, and CDx (Certificate of Deposit Exchange). He co-founded Trust Strategy Group, a $10MM strategic intelligence firm. He was Chief Marketing Officer of Vista Information Technologies, a $100mm network services firm. He has advised dozens of companies through significant changes, as a board member, an investor, an investment banking advisor, and as a strategy consultant, and has raised substantial funding in the corporate, venture, and capital markets. As a result, he has broad understanding of how companies grow and create value, how to create and communicate business and marketing plans, in managing operations, as well as in evaluating partners and closing capital transactions.
Jeff graduated from Cornell University and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. At Cornell, he is President of the Cornell class of 1979, on the Board of Cornell Hillel, on the Industry Advisory Group of Cornell Center for Technology, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (CCTEC), and a past Trustee Council member. He, is on the Executive Committee of the Shenandoah National Park Trust, is Director of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, is Washington Leadership Chairman of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and is past Co-Chair of the Aspen Institute's Socrates Society.
Representative Investments
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Distributed Sun was formed in 2009 to help accelerate the adoption of solar energy across the United States. We specialize in commercial rooftop installations and third-party ownership models. Distributed Sun has formed SUNONE to deploy rooftop solar arrays in the mid-Atlantic. With the right project developer, solar power installations pay back their owners and users in relatively short periods with strong returns. Whether you can benefit most from long-term reductions in energy costs, green practices, tax equity investments, state rebates, accelerated depreciation, or renewable energy credits, Distributed Sun is there with a proven solution to satisfy your objectives. |
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Trust Strategy Group (TSG) deploys strategic solutions to mitigate specific enterprise and government risk. Our team of innovators deploy specialized products and offer consultative services to clients in both the public and private sectors. TSG's Security Blinds provide the new aesthetic mitigating bomb blasts and burglary. Blinds are custom fitted for every window or door in either new construction or when retrofitting a building. Notably, they protect both human life and property. our video evidence on the Security Blinds webiste demonstrates the value of TSG Security Blinds. |
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Advanced Interactive Systems, Inc. (AIS) delivers comprehensive training solutions, when lives are on the line. AIS is uniquely capable of pairing technology expertise with extensive field experience to provide law enforcement, military, and public safety personnel with world-class training products and services that protect lives. |
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Resilient Network Systems new class of Internet servers extends the reach of the Internet to protected data and application content by introducing new methods of establishing trust and giving owners customized control over how their content is used. For every request through these servers, all policies between all parties, including incremental security or authentication services, are brokered and enforced by the network before the transaction occurs, thus removing concerns that valuable or private content will fall in to the wrong hands. |
Jeff participated in the FundingPost event: DC VC and Angel Event
on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 in DC, Sponsored by Bingham McCutchen, SocialRadius, The Soho Loft
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