Successful Business Plans:

As investment fund managers and venture operating team members, TechVest Principals have reviewed more than 6000 Business Plans and advised more than 100 Ventures and Venture Capital Funds, notably the following:

Investment Banking &  Venture Capital Management

• Confluence Ventures TX - Water Investment Pool - partnership
• Parakletos Ventures CA - $10m Fund – investor and diligence analyst
• Santa Clara Ventures CA - $20m Fund – advisor and diligence analyst
• Schroder Ventures CA - $58m Fund – partner, investor, diligence manager

Bio- and Medical Ventures

• Circon Arthroscopy CA - mezzanine investor and diligence, IPO, $3m and diligence
• Family Health Network - $6m partner funding round in preparation
• Mycogen Plant Genetics CA – first round VC investor and Board, IPO - $2m equity and $3m partnership
• Pilot Nutraceuticals NC – advisor - $3m funding and diligence
• ProCyte Wound Healing WA – Board first round VC lead investor, IPO - $2m and diligence
• Raytel Medical Imaging CA – Board, first round VC investor - $2m and diligence
• Telios Wound Healing CA – advisor and due diligence
• Ultrafine Nano-Materials NC – advisor/diligence, interim CEO
• Wellcare Wellness Software NC - founder and architect, seed funding

Telecommunications Ventures

• Advanced Compression Tech CA – advisor/diligence - $2m invested
• Applied Optoelectronics CA – advisor/diligence - $3m invested
• BR Communications CA – investor/diligence - $3m raised
• Desktone, Inc. Virtual Desktops – CFO, first 4 execs,  $17mm raised
• Eon Network Management CA – investor/diligence - $1m invested
• Innovacom MPEG2 Video CA – EVP, chief planner - $10m raised
• Phylon Communications CA – Board advisor - $2m invested
• ROLM Communications Corp CA – treasury mgr, budget director - $11m raised
• Silicon Recognition CA/France – advisor/diligence - $6m sought
• Steeplechase Broadband  Channel –startup CFO,  fund raising advisor
• Stratacom ATM Networks CA (now Cisco) – stage 0 investor, Board advisor - $1m
• Telebit Communications CA – Board investor - $2m invested
• XCI-Fluoroware RF Communications CA – Board investor - $1.5 m invested

Software and other Entrepreneurial Ventures

• ARIO Storage Networks CA - $10mm funding project and diligence
• APEX Analytix Software NC – sales acceleration and $6m project
• Avaterra Virtual Worlds CA – COO-CFO - public-listing buyout  - $5.6m raised, IPO
• Borland Applications Software CA – communication software division mgr
• BusLogic SCSI CA – advisor/planner - $1m raised
• ColdStorData Archiving MA - CFO - $200k raised
• Furndex b2B NC – Board/Founder - $4.5m raised
• Global VR Entertainment – advisor, $5m funding advisory
• Imagen Laser Printing CA – lead investor/diligence - $2m raised
• IntelliSeek Metasearch OH – advisor/investor/diligence – angel capital raised
• Internolix e-Commerce Germany - President - $4mm USA, $85m Germany
• Lacrosse Entertainment Gaming Technology - business planning, start-up funding in progress
• Modular Architecture Database Systems CA – EVP biz dev - $17m partnership raised in Japan
• Micro-MRP Manufacturing Software CA – biz dev advisor
• Neuro-Fission Intuitor Predictive Analytics NC - Strategic Advisory Board
• Portfolio Workgroup Technologies CA – CFO - $4m raised
• Resilience Security Appliances CA – CFO - $10m raised

Other Entrepreneurial Ventures

• Advanced Water Treatment Solutions - re-structuring, diligence, CFO - fund raising in progress
• ePAC Print Automation CA – diligence, business plan, $12m round raised
• Garments Dryclean Tellers – diligence, co-Founder, CFO - $1m raised
• ideamille Social Idea Network - co-Founder, regional entrepreneurial idea team building, coordination
• Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship - entrepreneurial advisory services - 65 companies
• XelAqua - co-Founder, water cleansing technology for fracking and remediation - re-star

International Expansion Implementation

• EPIC Electric Motors and Generators – fund raising advisor
• Fiberstars Lighting CA – created first European Distribution channels
• LSI Logic CA – established European Finance Center - $7m raised, diligence
• Raychem Components & Materials CA – established European Finance Center
• Remington Sports NC – VP Sales $425m, established Switzerland Finance Center
• Trinity Consulting – established  multi-client Germany & France Distribution Networks