Venture Fund Member Profile
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Connecticut Innovations provides strategic capital and operational insight to push the frontiers of high-tech industries such as energy, biotechnology, information technology, and photonics.
Over the years, CI has helped over 100 emerging companies research, develop, and market new products and services. This activity has attracted over $1 billion dollars in additional investments from private equity providers. CI has brought the State of Connecticut over $510 million in Gross State Profit and over 5,000 additional job-years.
CI was created by the Connecticut Legislature in 1989. Since 1995, returns from its own prudent investments - not state money - have supported operations and new, forward-thinking funding programs.
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Douglas Roth
Investment Associate
Connecticut Innovations |
Douglas joined Connecticut Innovations in 2011 and is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities, structuring and negotiating new and follow-on investments, and monitoring portfolio companies. Douglas is a board observer for Affinimark Technologies, Discover Video, Engage121, etouches, Continuity Control and LiveClips. In addition, following the investments by CI’s Pre-Seed Fund, Douglas monitors and advises DomaniCom, Notifyi and Raditaz.
Douglas came to CI with extensive experience in business development and management consulting. Most recently, Douglas founded a consulting firm to help early-stage companies identify and assess growth opportunities, generate sustainable revenue, and manage intellectual property. Previously, as a senior consultant at ipCapital Group, Douglas provided strategic intellectual property advisory services to organizations in the telecommunications, information technology, clean technology, and medical device industries. In addition, he advised investors in intellectual property-based businesses, representing over $250M in invested capital.
Douglas began his career in the telecommunications industry and has worked for a manufacturer of infrastructure equipment, a global network operator, and a Goldman Sachs funded startup. He was responsible for business development efforts in many international markets including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Representative Investments
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interactive MOBILE @dvertising Interactive MOBILE @dvertising, or iM@, has developed a hand-held, mobile phone based application to exploit the rapid growth and expansion of “The Third Screen” (the mobile device). iM@’s initial business opportunity centers on the creation of interactive, GPS-technology enabled Mobile Destination Guides for major tourist and business travel destinations around North America. Through a simple, free-to-the-user, downloadable application, iM@ provides users with immediate, on-demand access to destination-specific information, deals and incentives from hotels, restaurants, points of interest, theme parks, clubs, and more. |
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LiveClips LiveClips is an innovator and leader in the development and delivery of video content from live sporting events to any Internet-enabled device. LiveClips is a game-changer. Its advanced technology automates the previously time- and labor-intensive processes of creating game clips and highlights, enabling broadcasters and rights holders to dramatically increase the efficiency of their sports coverage. LiveClips is also pioneering a new era of mobile engagement by creating instant in-game clips that users can filter by team, player and kind of play. |
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iDevices iDevices specializes in developing devices that connect wirelessly to smart phones, tablets and computers by leveraging Bluetooth® technology. The company’s first product, iGrill, is the market’s first grilling and cooking thermometer and application for Apple products, including iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. iGrill, which enables customers to monitor temperatures of food being cooked from up to 200 feet away, is revolutionizing the way we cook and grill today. iGrill, which consists of a food probe connected by a heat-safe wire to an external thermometer, communicates with a customer’s Apple product via a secure, long-range Bluetooth® connection. |
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Discover Video Discover Video provides video streaming equipment and services to broadcasters, schools, corporations and government entities for live and on-demand video webcasting. Its products include multimedia video encoders, decoders, transcoders, media servers, priority video alert systems, video/digital signage and mobile broadcasting kits. |
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