Venture Fund Member Profile
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The New York City Investment Fund is a private fund with a civic mission. The fund was the vision of Henry R. Kravis, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., who serves as its Founding Chairman. His goal was to mobilize the city's financial and business leaders to help build a stronger and more diversified local economy. To that end, the Fund has built a network of top experts from the investment and corporate communities who help identify and support New York City's most promising entrepreneurs in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors.
The key criterion for investment is that the venture is likely to generate benefits for New York City and its communities. Priorities include job creation, revitalization of distressed areas and innovative ideas or products that position New York at the cutting edge of growth sector industries.
The Fund invests in technology companies but only alongside an experienced lead venture capital investor. The Fund does not make grants, but will provide below market financing for not-for-profit projects that advance its mission. The Fund does not make long-term real estate investments nor does it invest in real estate for housing or professional services firms. It will provide short-term real estate financing for projects that have a significant impact in terms of permanent job creation, new business development or revitalization of a community.
The Fund is flexible in terms of how it structures its investments. It provides subordinated debt to leverage other private capital or to maintain maximum ownership for management of minority-owned companies. When investing in a venture capital deal, returns are expected to equal those of other at-risk parties.
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Marsha Yuan
Lead Associate
NYC Investment Fund |
Lead Associate at the NYC Investment Fund, the VC arm of New York City. Marsha has an MBA from Columbia Business School and years of hedge fund and private equity experience. She leads the charge in finding great companies to invest in, on behalf of New York City.
Representative Investments
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EnergyHub develops software and hardware energy management solutions for the residential market. EnergyHub solutions allow homeowners to understand and control energy use in real-time and encourage people to take actionable steps to reduce electricity consumption. Utilities also benefit from EnergyHub’s technology as it enables them to identify and manage peak loads, implement effective demand response programs and improve operating efficiency. |
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Magnetic is the first company to focus 100% on search retargeting. Leading brands and agencies utilize Magnetic’s search retargeting technology to target users with display ads based on their search history. By leveraging search retargeting for brand awareness and direct response campaigns advertisers have the opportunity to follow-up with users outside of the search engine and re-engage them with creative messages, compared to simple text ads seen in the search campaigns. Magnetic’s scalable search data marketplace crunches millions of keyword combinations giving marketers and agencies the ability to leverage extend their search campaigns and achieve targeted awareness for display campaigns. |
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Oasis A for-profit, Brooklyn-based education company that provides affordable summer enrichment and after-school programs for children ages 4-13 in the New York metro area. In underserved areas, such as Brownsville and East New York, Oasis provides free summer programs that are underwritten by government funding. |
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Vivaldi Biosciences An early-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of advanced vaccines for prevention of common seasonal influenza and emergent pandemic flu. The Company was formed to commercialize patented technologies developed over the course of a decade by Dr. Peter Palese and Dr. Adolfo-Garcia Sastre at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM). |
Marsha participated in the FundingPost event: NYC Summer Angel & Venture Event
on Thursday, August 9, 2012 in NY, Sponsored by Greenberg Trauig, Nolcha, SocialRadius, TF Cornerstone, The Soho Loft
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