Our Investment Focus
We focus on investing in start-up, early stage, developing and emerging technology, internet and internet related businesses. We attempt to recognizing long term macro market and sector trends and invest in companies and the management behind them.
Our Market Focus
The small to medium sized business market is growing at a fast speed. The addressable market consists of up to 150 million subscribers. Based on Wall Street Research there are 100 million micro businesses as of July of 2010. There are another estimated 50 million in Europe.
Over 46% of small to medium sized businesses did not transition to the web. More than 80% of small to midsize businesses have less than 5 employees and in need of cost effective solutions.
Sample Customer profile of our companies
| Company size: | part-time, home based business to full scale operations with 100+ employees |
| Stage: | from startup through family businesses owned for generations |
| Industry: | from merchants to professionals to service providers (any business you'd find on main street America) |
| Geography: | While our customers are primarily in North America, we have relationships across the globe, including.. |
Focus behind our Technologies
Our customers are not typically high tech operations. Technology is an enabler of their business - not the core of the business itself. We focus on solutions that simplify, automate and streamline their operations - from generating leads to managing their existing customer relationships.
- Telephony (VOIP)
- Mobile communications
- Virtual fax
- Web conferencing
- Hosting and security
Since most of our customers have limited internal resources and capabilities, we focus on hosted solutions, including cloud-based storage, SAAS and web hosting.