Altira is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on equity capital for seed and early stage companies that develop and commercialize technology for the energy industry. Our typical investment is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. Although our primary geographic focus is North America, many of our portfolio companies operate worldwide. We welcome the chance to review international opportunities. Visit www.altiragroup.com.
Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) is a leading global investment bank serving institutional, corporate, government and individual clients. CSFB's businesses include securities underwriting, sales and trading, investment banking, private equity, financial advisory services, investment research, venture capital, correspondent brokerage services and asset management. It operates in over 89 locations across more than 37 countries on 6 continents.
The Firm is a business unit of the Zurich based Credit Suisse Group, a leading global financial services company. In addition to the business unit Credit Suisse First Boston, Credit Suisse Group (CSG) comprises the business area Credit Suisse Financial Services, including the business units Winterthur Insurance, Winterthur Life & Pensions, Credit Suisse Banking, Credit Suisse Personal Finance and Credit Suisse e-Business, as well as the business units Credit Suisse Private Banking.
Credit Suisse First Boston is one of the world's largest securities firms in terms of financial resources, with approximately US$14.0 billion in revenues in 2001 and US$9.7 billion in equity and US$406 billion in assets as of December 31, 2001. Visit www.csfb.com.
Energy Central is the leading professional portal for the electrical power industry. Founded in 1995, we deliver news, information, reports, data and more to energy professionals worldwide through e-mail services and on the Web (www.energycentral.com). As the industry leader in content aggregation, we are the direct conduit to more energy professionals on a daily basis than any other portal. We provide a powerful marketing channel for companies that create and distribute electric power information and a valuable resource for energy professionals in search of mission-critical news, events and information.
EnerTech Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in market opportunities emerging from the deregulation and resulting convergence of the energy, utility and telecommunication industries. EnerTech is focused on e-commerce applications, software and services, communications and infrastructure technologies that are shaping the "convergence" marketplace. Through its extensive network of strategic partners and industry professionals, EnerTech provides financing and domain expertise to enhance the success of its portfolio companies. EnerTech has two funds totaling $285 million of capital under management.
FA Technology Ventures provides growth capital to early and expansion stage companies in Information Technology (IT) and Energy Technologies (ET) and assists management in developing extraordinary companies.
We are committed to helping build tomorrow's leading companies. We look for business ideas with the potential for greatness and experienced, passionate entrepreneurs to execute on them. Our goal is to advise and support management teams to maximize their potential for success. FA Technology Ventures leverages its broad experience set, team-oriented approach, and partner network to give entrepreneurs a competitive edge.
We seek to capitalize on large trends that create attractive investment opportunities in two areas:
The continuing IT revolution, including software-based services, networked communications, Internet-enabled business models, and novel technologies.
The emerging ET developments in the production of new-age power generation, storage, conditioning, and delivery systems.
Our primary focus is companies founded on technological breakthroughs or innovative business models. We strive to partner with entrepreneurs poised to change the rules of competition or even spawn a new demand for product or service. Our IT and ET portfolio companies should be operating in dynamic environments in which there is no established, dominant competitor or there exists rapidly changing rules of competition that make a dominant competitor vulnerable.
Our course of action will be determined by additional characteristics of the investment opportunity:
Potential for sustainable competitive advantage
Motivated and cohesive operating management with relevant experience
Attractive exit opportunities
We make new investments of $3 to $8 million in IT and ET companies
Haddington Ventures, L.L.C. was formed in 1998 to take advantage of the changes that were occurring in the U.S. energy industry as a result of deregulation, convergence of gas and electricity, consolidation and introduction of new technologies. Haddington is unique among Private Equity Funds for two reasons:
1. Haddington is willing to take development risks if the market is such that it is more profitable to "build" rather than "buy".
2. Haddington's team has actual "hands on" experience with starting and managing operating companies.
Haddington Ventures, L.L.C. management team has been together for over 15 years and has over 90 years combined experience in applying technology, marketing, finance and general business skills to earn superior returns for investors. This team has most recently been responsible for the startup and growth of TPC Corporation (NYSE: TPC, sold to PacifiCorp in 1997). The principals are Larry W. Bickle, J. Chris Jones, John A. Strom, M. Scott Jones and Robert D. Kincaid.
Hamilton Robinson LLC (HRCo) is a private investment firm founded in 1984 and based in Stamford, Connecticut. HRCo works with managers and financial partners to make investments in small to medium size growing businesses. Over the past decade, we have managed and organized transactions involving more than 30 companies, including add-on investments, representing an aggregate value of more than $750 million
We seek long term investments in distinctive, smaller middle market companies. We commit our time and resources to investments where there is a vision of a successfully managed company and where a profitable growth strategy can be implemented. We look to become partners in market driven companies where managers have operating latitude and accountability, supported by a pay-for-performance incentive compensation.
King & Spalding's 650 lawyers in Atlanta, New York, Houston and Washington, DC provide their clients with a full range of legal services at the highest level of competence and responsiveness. The firm is also proud of its long tradition of public service, and its partners include former Attorney General Griffin Bell and former Senator Sam Nunn. King & Spalding's leading private equity capital practice represents a broad array of investors in emerging growth businesses and industries. Its finance and capital markets lawyers also represent developers, investment banks and other domestic and international banks and financial institutions that provide capital to the energy sector. The firm's large intellectual property practice provides traditional and innovative representation and services to clients with patent, trade secret, trademark and copyright legal issues. King & Spalding's energy industries practice includes the worldwide representation of firms engaged in exploiting, producing and marketing oil, gas, and other hydrocarbons; in gathering and transporting natural gas, LNG, and oil products; in acquiring, restructuring and operating power and thermal energy plants and developing greenfield power projects, including renewable and distributed generation projects, and in marketing and trading electric power. King & Spalding, with Infocast, originated the Energy Venture Fair Conference Series.
Nth Power Technologies is a venture capital firm focused on high-growth investment opportunities arising from the restructuring of the global energy utility marketplace. The fundamental changes taking place in the $300 billion global energy utility industry have given rise to many venture capital investment opportunities, and Nth Power has emerged as a leading source of venture capital for this sector. The firm is managed by a professional investment team with extensive experience growing successful companies in the energy and communication fields and managing venture capital funds.
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in New York, Prospect Street Ventures is a private equity and merchant banking firm focused on investing in and adding value to rapidly growing companies, particularly those in the
energy/utility, information technology, and communications industries. Prospect Street's experienced team of professionals have invested in several companies that have undergone initial public offerings and acquisitions. The firm is an active, hands-on partner that works hard to source new opportunities, screen for outstanding companies, build management teams, make strategic introductions, raise capital, and maximize exit value. Visit www.prospectstreet.com.
Headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE-RJF) is a diversified financial services holding company whose subsidiaries engage primarily in securities brokerage, investment banking, asset management and banking services. The firm's asset management subsidiaries manage in excess of $17 billion of financial assets for individuals, pension plans and municipalities. Total assets under control as of September 2001, including all retail accounts, were approximately $87.79 billion. Established in 1962 and a public company since 1983, Raymond James Financial shares are currently owned by more than 11,000 individual investors and institutions. The shareholders' equity, or company net worth, is more than $794 million.
Raymond James' three broker/dealer subsidiaries (Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. and Raymond James Ltd.), which have nearly 4,900 Financial Advisors throughout the United States, Canada and overseas, provide financial services to more than one million individual and institutional client accounts. Complementing this distribution network, Raymond James & Associates is a leading national investment banking firm, specializing in specific industry groups, including energy and energy technology.
Raymond James offers comprehensive investment banking services for:
Public Offerings - Leveraging the expertise of our investment bankers to develop a focused plan of action to achieve financial rewards and then providing services for equity offerings as a principal way to raise funds while attracting new investors.
Mergers & Acquisitions and Advisory Services - Helping companies identify strategic merger and acquisition opportunities and execute related transactions.
Private Equity - Offering access to an extensive network of private investors.
Corporate Debt - Employing an international network of fixed income professionals to optimize the timing and pricing of new debt issues.
Restructuring - Building flexible teams of restructuring specialists and industry experts to assist companies facing challenging financial circumstances.
To discuss opportunities in energy or energy technology, please contact Mark Huhndorff, Vice President of Investment Banking, at 214.720.1314 or mhuhndorff@ecm.rjf.com
SCIENTECH is an international provider of consulting and expert technical services to the energy and telecommunication markets, with related support to government and industry. With offices located throughout the United States and the world, SCIENTECH, supplies services and products that enable and enhance client operations by reducing risks, improving performance, minimizing costs and facilitating change. SCIENTECH is positioned in markets with exciting opportunities for capability transfer, technology application, and business growth.
Technology Partners teams with visionary entrepreneurs to build successful new companies. We serve principally as a lead investor and business adviser to technology-based ventures in our focus areas of next generation energy technology and enterprise software. Founded in 1980 as a private venture capital firm, Technology Partners manages a total of more than $400 million of investment capital. Investments are being made currently from Technology Partners Fund VII, L.P., formed in 2000 with approximately $250 million of capital.
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