kegonsacoinvestfund.com
Growth Stage Funding | Growth Venture Capital | Wisconsin Venture Capital
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About Kegonsa Capital Partners. Kegonsa Capital Partners, LLC. KCP) is a Wisconsin-based venture capital management firm. KCP is the general partner of the Kegonsa Seed Fund I, LP. The Seed Fund), a seed stage investment fund, and the managing member of the Kegonsa Coinvest Fund I, LLC (the Coinvest Fund), a growth stage investment fund. Key to the success of KCP and its funds is the experience of its managing director, Ken Johnson. As an angel investor, Johnson made investments in 12 companies from 1997...
kegonsacoinvestfund.com
Growth Stage Funding | Growth Venture Capital | Wisconsin Venture Capital
http://www.kegonsacoinvestfund.com/investment-strategy
The Fund manages risk by investing in numerous different technologies and likes to have geographical diversity of their portfolio companies. Typically the Fund participates on portfolio company boards, syndicates with other investors and prefers to have simple investment terms so that value of company is determined by the product value not the offering financial terms. Kegonsa Capital Partners, LLC. Bull; kegonsacoinvestfund.com. Bull; kegonsapartners.com.
kegonsacoinvestfund.com
Growth Stage Funding | Growth Venture Capital | Wisconsin Venture Capital
http://www.kegonsacoinvestfund.com/about-the-kegonsa-coinvest-fund
About the Kegonsa Coinvest Fund. The Kegonsa Coinvest Fund I, LLC (the "Fund") is a Wisconsin-based growth stage investment fund. The Fund is managed by Kegonsa Capital Partners, LLC. A Wisconsin-based venture capital management firm. Managing director Ken Johnson is among 73 investors in the Fund. Of the Fund's 13 investments, ten were made as part of a syndicate. Five of the ten syndicate offerings were led by the Fund. From 2007 to 2012, the Fund has made 13 investments totaling $7.6 million.
kegonsaseedfund.com
Seed Funding | Seed Venture Capital | Money for Minnows
http://www.kegonsaseedfund.com/articles/jellyfish_20071003
Microsoft Buys Jellyfish.com. October 3, 2007. Less than two years after it started, the online comparison shopping site Jellyfish.com has been acquired by Microsoft Corp., giving the software giant its first operations in the Madison area. Microsoft paid $50 million for Jellyfish, sources familiar with the sale said. Jellyfish says it is the only social shopping space on the Internet that offers users cash back based on purchases they make. Search engine technologies and online advertising have been two...
badgerfundoffunds.com
Badger Fund of Funds | Money for Minnows
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ABOUT SUN MOUNTAIN CAPITAL MANAGED FUND OF FUNDS. Sun Mountain Capital LLC. SMC ) is an SEC registered investment advisory firm located in Santa Fe, New Mexico with over $500 million under management. Currently SMC manages the $350 million New Mexico Private Equity Investment Program ( New Mexico Fund of Funds Program. In 2007, Sun Mountain Capital became the manager of the New Mexico Private Equity Investment Program. (see: http:/ www.sic.state.nm.us/. In early 2011, Sun Mountain was selected to be the ...
kegonsaseedfund.com
Seed Funding | Seed Venture Capital | Money for Minnows
http://www.kegonsaseedfund.com/articles/kegonsa-seed-fund-launched-2004-08-20
Kegonsa Seed Fund Launched. August 20, 2004. Madison-based Kegonsa Capital Partners has formed the Kegonsa Seed Fund I, which aims to make the first investments in fledgling midwestern companies. Act 255, which takes effect in 2005, offers tax credits of 25 percent of an investment in a company certified by the state Department of Commerce. These credits equal $3 million per year for angel investors and $3.5 million per year for investors in certified early stage seed funds for the next 10 years. Johnson...
kegonsaseedfund.com
Seed Funding | Seed Venture Capital | Money for Minnows
http://www.kegonsaseedfund.com/about-the-kegonsa-seed-fund
About the Kegonsa Seed Fund. Kegonsa Seed Fund I, LP (the Fund) is Wisconsin's premier seed venture capital fund. The Fund is a private equity limited partnership with over $10 million of committed capital. It is managed by Kegonsa Capital Partners, LLC, a Wisconsin-based venture capital management firm. In October 2007, the Fund experienced its first liquidity event when Jellyfish.com, a Fund portfolio company, was purchased for cash by Microsoft. The Fund's investment period ended January 15, 2010....
kegonsaseedfund.com
Seed Funding | Seed Venture Capital | Money for Minnows
http://www.kegonsaseedfund.com/articles/kegonsa-seed-fund-sells-second-portfolio-company
Kegonsa Seed Fund Sells Second Portfolio Company. May 30, 2012. Kegonsa Seed Fund I, L.P., the premier Wisconsin seed venture capital fund, has sold a second portfolio company, IBSI. The company was sold to QIAGEN, a large Life Sciences tools and reagent-manufacturing company in an all-cash transaction. For details about the acquisition from QIAGEN's perspective, please see the official announcement from QIAGEN. According to Johnson, about 40 percent of growth-stage investments are successful with exits,...
kegonsaseedfund.com
Seed Funding | Seed Venture Capital | Money for Minnows
http://www.kegonsaseedfund.com/kegonsa-seed-fund-entrepreneur-profiles
Anil Oroskar – Co-Founder. Anil Oroskar, Ph.D., invented the technology behind Semba Biosciences, Inc. and is the company's co-founder. Anil also co-founded Orochem Technologies, which serves the biotechnology, forensics, pharmacokinetics, and drug discovery industries. He also served previously served as UOP's manager of Separation Processes. Anil has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bradley Glenn – Founder, Inventor, Board Member. Dan Neely – Founder, CEO. Eric ...
kegonsaseedfund.com
Seed Funding | Seed Venture Capital | Money for Minnows
http://www.kegonsaseedfund.com/investment-strategy
In contrast a Whale Hunting strategy makes larger investments in a targeted technologies. The Whale Hunting fund management typically has significant experience in the targeted technology marketplace. Typically funds utilizing this strategy make multiple and typically larger investments in their portfolio companies. Risk is managed by the fund having a strong expertise and presence with the select technologies. Investment return is with significant exits or initial public offering.