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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 31, 2013
FD Venture Farm, LLC today announced a strategic relationship with six of the nation’s leading Angel investor organizations. These Angel groups will utilize FD Venture Farm’s technology platform and services to manage and socialize portfolio company business updates and to facilitate syndication initiatives between Angel organizations for follow-on seed and seed prime investments. Series A institutional investors, strategic investors and corporate acquirers will also leverage the FD Venture Farm to identify angel funded companies ready for institutional capital or a potential acquisition.
The following Angel Investor Organizations have joined the strategic initiative:
Georgia – Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA)
Georgia – Ariel Savannah Angel Partners (ASAP)
Alabama – Angel Investor Management Group (AIM)
South Carolina – Upstate Carolina Angel Network (UCAN)
North Carolina – Piedmont Angel Network (PAN)
Florida – Tamiami Angel Fund I, LLC (TAFI)
“Angel Investor organizations have grown significantly over the last decade and have emerged as the nation’s most significant driver of capital formation for early stage ventures,” observed Mike Eckert, Vice Chairman of the Angel Capital Association. “Angel organizations are becoming more organized and sophisticated in the manner in which they collaborate, not only within their respective local organizations, but across geographical boundaries. The FD Venture Farm platform will help create synergies with an expanding group of Angel organizations and will significantly help early stage companies facilitate capital formation and exit activity.”
“Improving the efficiency of capital acquisition for both investors and companies is a major goal of our business model,” said Dick Reeves, CEO of the Angel Investor Management Group. “We manage investments by over 200 people in over 16 different companies, and constantly seek ways to smooth the flow of information in all directions and over all our geographies. FD Venture Farm appears to have great potential to facilitate these goals.”
“The FD Venture Farm platform supports important strategic and operational directives of our organization, “said Bernie Dixon, Executive Chairman of the Atlanta Technology Angels. “It is important to provide our membership a mechanism to track the progress of our funding activities after investments have been made and throughout the entrepreneurial and funding lifecycles. As an independent service, associated with one of the largest CPA firms in the country, FD Venture Farm represents a trusted and professional resource to fulfill our needs and support the ATA ecosystem.”
“Increasing the reach and efficiency of Angel organizations is critical to fueling the vital entrepreneurial activities in our nation’s economy,” said Matt Dunbar, Managing Director of Upstate Carolina Angel Network and Angel Capital Association Board member. “Our group has been searching for a much needed process and technology platform to enable our early stage ventures to provide important financial and milestone updates on their businesses as they mature. The FD Venture Farm platform represents an independent and professional service that will standardize company updates and help us manage access to those updates not only for our organization, but also for other Angel organizations, larger institutional and corporate investors, and potential strategic acquirers.”
“Angel organizations are a critical source of funding for early stage ventures,” said Mark Rainosek, CEO and President of FD Venture Farm. “We are excited to be able to bring value to leading Angel investor organizations. FD Venture Farm provides the technology and processes to intelligently monitor and track early stage companies for Angel investors as well as interested institutional and strategic investors and acquirers.”
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About FD Venture Farm
FD Venture Farm, LLC is an independent deal monitoring service designed to facilitate the tracking of specific companies of interest to investors. Companies tracked through the service are limited to those referred by approved institutional and private equity capital investors and lenders. FD Venture Farm is a Frazier & Deeter company.
About Frazier & Deeter
Frazier & Deeter LLC is a nationally recognized CPA and Advisory firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm provides tailored services across a wide range of tax, audit, accounting and advisory needs. Frazier & Deeter is one of the 100 largest firms in the country and has been named the #1 Accounting Firm to Work For in the U.S. by Accounting Today magazine and a “Best of the Best” CPA firm in the U.S. by Inside Public Accounting.
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(PRWEB) June 18, 2013
weMultiply, a New York-based angel investment and business acceleration group, has partnered with the Life Sciences Angel Network (LSAN) to support LSAN’s Third Annual MedTech Conference, and provide ongoing strategic and operational backing. Through its relationship with LSAN, weMultiply provides its engaged ventures with access to the region’s most diverse, active group of life science and Health IT angel investors and investment groups.
Launched in 2010 by Dr. Milena Adamian, LSAN funds, mentors, and provides operational support to funded companies within the life sciences and Health IT sectors. The Conference, “Build or Flip: Why and When? A Unique Look at the Medical Devices and Healthcare Services Sectors,” focused on key issues facing investors and entrepreneurs today – whether to build early-stage ventures for the ‘long haul’ or a quick sale; how to best attract and successfully engage with exit partners; and, trends and developments within the rapidly-changing markets for healthcare device and service technologies. Panelists included founders of successful Health IT and life sciences ventures, as well as industry heavyweights from organizations including Johnson & Johnson, McKinsey, Bain Capital, Bank of America, Becton Dickinson, Telcare and more.
“Partnering with LSAN offers an opportunity to be a part of the most dynamic industry conversations, as well as direct access to a wide network of active investors,” said weMultiply Managing Director Lena Feygin. “Milena’s team, as expected, has created an engaging program featuring some of the top names in the industry.”
“The markets for Health IT and life sciences technologies have seen remarkable growth in the past few years, and as these segments scale we are focused on driving the industry forward and sourcing the highest-quality opportunities,” said LSAN founder Dr. Milena Adamian. “Strategic partnerships with groups like weMultiply directly enhance our ability to target the ventures most likely to succeed in the current market climate.”
“By leveraging its network of active sales channels, weMultiply identifies and invests in ventures with a high probability of rapidly securing institutional clients,” said weMultiply Managing Director Jesse Williamson. “This approach both accelerates the implementation of innovative health technologies, and mitigates a key risk associated with early stage healthcare investments. LSAN has developed a uniquely efficient program to engage, identify and place targeted investments, and we are excited to support it.”
Backed by the 9.8 Group of Companies, weMultiply seeks out, validates, and invests in emerging health & wellness technology ventures which can benefit from its network of active institutional sales channels. The weMultiply S.A.L.E.® program provides early stage and startup companies with direct investment, access to capital through the company’s angel and venture capital networks, as well as the strategic tools, leadership, advice and health industry regulatory and compliance expertise required to ensure the proper roll-out and successful growth of each venture.
Companies accepted into the S.A.L.E.® program are provided with an aggressive development and launch program designed to prepare them for market competition and success on the global stage.
For more information on weMultiply and the S.A.L.E. program, please visit http://www.weMultiply.com.
For more information on LSAN, visit http://www.lsanfund.com.
About weMultiply:
A subsidiary of the 9.8 Group, WeMultiply empowers game-changing Health & Wellness technology innovations with the capital and strategic resources to lead in tomorrow’s market. Our program invests directly in each accelerated venture, and pairs each investment with marketing and development resources from the 9.8 Group of health care advertising agencies, its mentor network, and subsidiary businesses. Learn more at wemultiply.com.
About LSAN:
Founded in 2010 by Dr. Milena Adamian in New York, LSAN was built with the understanding that to help our portfolio companies succeed, we needed to provide them with funding as well as operational support and an access to a broad network of healthcare investors, key opinion leaders, corporate players and other entrepreneurs.
San Francisco (PRWEB) June 18, 2013
Parakweet, Inc. today announced it secured $ 2 million in funding. The company has developed a proprietary artificial intelligence platform that uses social media- specific natural language processing (NLP) to detect and extract meaning from millions of unstructured conversations and accurately identify consumer behavior, intent and sentiment. Parakweet will use the funds for new product innovation and continued development of BookVibe, its recently launched book discovery engine.
The funding was led by a group of high-profile investors including Scott Banister, an early investor in PayPal, Zappos and Powerset; Alan Braverman, co-founder of Yammer and Eventbrite; David Jeske, former Director of Engineering at Google; and other angel investors and entrepreneurs.
Parakweet’s platform is fine-tuned for specific vertical markets, in order to best extract meaning from short, unstructured social media updates. BookVibe, Parakweet’s consumer-facing book recommendations product, scans a user’s social graph and extracts tweets that are actually about books with 96 percent accuracy. It also detects and distinguishes the person’s sentiment about the book—not the overall tweet. For example, if a tweet reads: “I’m reading War and Peace since the weather is lousy,” BookVibe understands that lousy refers to the weather, not the book. Some of the behaviors BookVibe identifies include “intent to read,” “read” and “recommend.” Furthermore, the Parakweet platform does not require users to join or recreate yet another social network.
“We started Parakweet to distill actionable insights from the unstructured language of social media,” said CEO and co-founder Ramesh Haridas. “Today, we’re providing consumers with book recommendations based on a user’s personal interests and the interests and affinities of the people they follow. Our platform also allows companies to tap into the behavioral signals consumers are generating across social media and uncover actionable and competitive insights.”
Added Haridas, “We’re inspired to have the backing and support of such a notable group of angel investors and tech entrepreneurs. With this funding, we’ve taken a decisive step to transform how meaning and understanding is derived from massive amounts of social media, which often includes slang, abbreviations and no punctuation—something that Parakweet is using natural language processing to solve.”
Investor Scott Banister added, “Parakweet’s disruptive technology gets under the hood of social media language and captures human behaviors with remarkable accuracy. Books and movies are just the tip of the iceberg for applications of Parakweet’s natural language processing engine.”
Parakweet was founded by a team of successful entrepreneurs and computer scientists including serial entrepreneur Ramesh Haridas; machine learning and search technologist Kiam Choo; and artificial intelligence software architect Ilmars Poikans.
About Parakweet
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Parakweet is a platform that offers product recommendations to consumers and social media analytics and metadata to global media companies. Parakweet’s proprietary artificial intelligence platform uses natural language processing technology to extract meaning from unstructured social content and accurately identify associated behaviors, intent and sentiment. Parakweet’s first product BookVibe is a social discovery and book recommendation engine for consumers launched in 2013. For more information, please visit http://www.parakweet.com.
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