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| Grosvenor is proud of its entrepreneurs. They are building successful companies founded upon wisdom, vision, and hard work. Following are brief descriptions of investments from our four portfolios; Grosvenor Fund, Grosvenor Select, Grosvenor Venture Partners III, Grosvenor Venture Partners IV. Internet links are provided where possible. The focus list presented below attempts to capture the diversity and the energy inherent in our companies and our portfolios. Contact our offices for a complete list of our investments. |
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Appfluent Appfluent Technology is the leading provider of enterprise BI and data warehouse management software. Appfluent software non-disruptively 'captures and correlates' user activity, data usage and query performance for detailed usage-analysis over time.Business intelligence and data warehousing professionals, as well as the entire IT application and database teams, rely on Appfluent's usage-analytics to help resolve query performance issues, provide efficient data management, and mitigate regulatory risk. |
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ARPU is a performance-based advertising network generating exceptional conversion rates and consumer satisfaction. ARPU's point-of-sale advertising network brings consumers contextually-relevant products and services when and where they are most likely to buy. |
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Empowering the face-to-face business experience with next generation technology solutions. BDMetrics is the award-winning Attendee Relationship Management company that is radically increasing the value of events for attendees, exhibitors and event producers. |
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BioMarin (NASDAQ: BMRN) develops and commercializes innovative biopharmaceuticals for serious diseases and medical conditions, focusing on product candidates that address currently unmet medical needs; suggest a clear-cut development profile; and provide an opportunity to be first-to-market. In addition, most of BioMarin's therapeutic products qualify for fast-track designation and orphan drug status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which, if granted, would provide these products accelerated development timelines and potential market exclusivity for seven years, respectively. |
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Catalyst IT Services is the leading on-shore alternative to offshore information technology outsourcing. Through its development centers in Raleigh-Durham, Baltimore and Philadelphia, Catalyst offers application development, quality assurance/testing and application maintenance and support solutions to clients of all sizes and industries. Catalyst specializes in web application development, database applications, production support, maintenance, and both manual and automated testing for Fortune 500 companies (including Aramark, Comcast, CIGNA, and Sunoco), health care institutions (including Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Ascension Health, and MedStar Health), and middle market clients (including Legg Mason, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund, and UnderArmour). The company is able to provide flexible solutions from its domestic facilities or on client sites with an ease of management and a quality of interaction unattainable by its overseas competitors. |
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Founded in 1996, CiDRA is the first company to combine industrial and optical skills to deliver real time process monitoring to multiple industries. CiDRA's proprietary sonar-based flow meter technology was initially developed for flow measurement in one of the world's most demanding environments: downhole, offshore oil and gas production. Today, CiDRA has engineered the SONARtracTM family of flow meters for similar performance in a diverse range of industrial flow applications. |
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Corvis is the pioneer of the all-optical network. On September 28, 2004, Corvis announced that it would change its name to Broadwing Corporation reflecting the company's primary focus as a premier supplier of voice, data and media network services to enterprises, strategic carriers as well as agencies within the United States Government. Based in Austin, TX, Broadwing will continue to operate its advanced optical communications equipment business in Columbia, MD under the Corvis. Corvis products transmit, route and manage traffic over long distances in the optical domain, virtually eliminating expensive and bandwidth-limiting electronic regeneration and switching equipment and associated operating costs. The company’s founder, Dr. David Huber, is a leading expert in optical technologies and was the founder of CIENA Corporation (NASDAQ- CIEN). |
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DoublePositive Marketing Group, Inc. was founded in late 2004 with the specific purpose of becoming the first company to dominate in the “live” leads space. Prior versions of marketing provide leads to sales professionals in data form, requiring sales professionals to work through the data to find an interested consumer. DoublePositive has evolved the model of lead generation to provide sales professionals with a genuinely-qualified and genuinely-interested consumer through a live call transfer. Having proven extremely successful for mortgage originators, DoublePositive is now leveraging its robust operations and technology platform to market LIVE Hot Transfers across multiple verticals. |
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Generic Medical Devices Generic Medical Device’s (GMD’S) mission is to improve the lives of patients, families and health care providers by offering high quality, cost effective medical devices for standard of care procedures. GMD is initially focused on soft tissue repair products and products used in soft tissue repair procedures. GMD’s first two products will be a universal sling kit for female stress urinary incontinence and a complete line of ventral and inguinal hernia repair mesh. |
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H3.com is a recruiting tool that allows you to convert your social network into a motivated search party. The tool enables you to find quality job candidates and build a talent pipeline by posting jobs and offering a cash referral reward. Founded by Hans Gieskes, former president of Monster.com, H3.com was formed in 2004 with the support of the Cambridge Innovation Center. Designed to track and manage referrals through a patented process, H3.com streamlines and brings order to the traditional and proven practice of referral hiring. Customers include: Fidelity, T-Mobile, Microsoft and Citrix. |
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Founded in 2003, i2S, Inc. ("i2S"), delivers information technology solutions to the Fortune 500 and government clents. Standing for "Ideas to Solutions," i2S is led by an experienced management team comprised of senior executives from the technology, consulting, and engineering industries. In June of 2008, i2S completed a recapitalization transaction and acquired certain holdings of the Grosvenor Funds and other shareholders. |
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iMove is the leading provider of spherical imaging technology to commercial and governmental clients in North America and Europe. Its spherical imaging system is comprised of six separate cameras packaged as a single sensor that allows viewers to see in all directions at once - forward, backward, side-to-side, and up and down. With multiple cameras capturing and integrating digital video images from each direction, iMove's spherical imaging technology provides users with a 360 degree by 360 degree field-of-view from wherever the sensor is placed -- the visual equivalent of surround sound. |
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Inside Higher Ed is the premier online source for news, opinion and career advice and services for all of higher education. Whether you’re an adjunct or a vice president, a grad student or an eminence grise, Inside Higher Ed has what you need to thrive in your job or find a better one: breaking news, provocative daily commentary, blogs, discussion areas, practical career columns, and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and colleges identify and hire employees. |
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LightLogic was acquired by Intel on April 24, 2001. LightLogic has developed a new class of active opto-electronic components and subsystems for ultra-high bandwidth fiber telecommunication equipment. LightLogic’s target customers are established manufacturers of telecommunication equipment such as Lucent, Nortel, Cisco, CIENA, Tellabs and Alcatel. |
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Established in 2000, Magnolia is a fabless semiconductor company building RF solutions by combining innovative Signal Processing technologies and novel Integrated Circuit solutions for the cellular industry. The combination of these innovations enables the wireless network operators to push out the Diversity Antenna capabilities to the edge of their networks, while enabling the handset manufacturers to offer these benefits economically. Magnolia is currently engaged with handset manufacturers to integrate their products into their designs, and is actively promoting the benefits of our solution to CDMA network operators around the world.
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mBeat is a leading mobile entertainment company that develops, promotes, and delivers compelling digital entertainment and information services to millions of mobile phone users. mBeat focuses on original content creation for its own brands and those of premier global media companies and offers distribution across radio, print, web and WAP storefronts, television, and carrier decks. mBeat, launched in 2003, is based in New York City and Reston, Virginia and has recently created an online record label service, Urbmob.
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Mobile 365 is the new company formed from the merger of the two leaders in the mobile messaging world: InphoMatch, the leader in interoperable data and messaging services for mobile operators, and Mobileway, the leader in messaging solutions for brands and content providers. |
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Established in February 1998, Nufern is the commercial arm of a successful research program at the Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Center. Nufern draws upon the knowledge of this internationally recognized research group and as such its roots in fiber research date back over 20 years. Nufern has been developing and manufacturing special purpose optical fibers at its facilities in Australia since 1990. Products include photosensitive fibers for Fiber Bragg Gratings and rare-earth doped fibers for high-power in-fiber lasers and amplifiers. Currently Nufern is the only independent supplier of these high quality fibers. The company is led by Martin Seifert, formerly of Lucent Technologies. |
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Omeros is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing products focused on inflammation and disorders of the central nervous system. Our most clinically advanced product candidates are derived from our proprietary PharmacoSurgery platform designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients undergoing arthroscopic, ophthalmological, urological and other surgical and medical procedures. Leveraging our clinical development experience and our expertise in inflammation and the central nervous system, we have built multiple development programs targeting large markets. By combining our late-stage PharmacoSurgery product candidates with this deep and diverse pipeline of preclinical development programs, we create multiple opportunities for commercial success. |
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Portero, Inc. is a consumer and business services company that operates the leading online marketplace for luxury goods such as apparel, consumer electronics, art, collectibles, jewelry, and fine housewares. To date, the luxury market has not participated in a meaningful way in the explosive growth of online marketplaces such as eBay. Portero is taking advantage of this opportunity. Through a proprietary infrastructure combining marketing, logistics, and technology, the Company offers sellers a convenient way to maximize the value of goods they no longer need, provides buyers with a single trusted source for purchasing certified authentic luxury goods, and gives brand owners the ability to protect their valuable brand names. Portero's unique platform is creating a new paradigm for how consumers view the purchase and ownership of luxury goods. With the development of an active and legitimate secondary market for these goods, consumers purchasing new items know that they can sell those items at points in the future when their personal utility for them has diminished, but while the items still have significant residual value, thereby lowering the cost of ownership. Portero calls this new paradigm "leasing luxury". |
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The name YottaYotta comes from the term yottabyte, which is one trillion terabytes of data. YottaYotta builds the NetStorage Cube, a potentially disruptive technology and unrivaled product in the networked storage marketplace. The YottaYotta NetStorage Cube provides NetStorage capabilities and data throughput and I/O operations at orders of magnitude greater than from competing products. This enables massive, scaled storage for wide area networks (WANs), for telecommunications carriers, and local area network (LANs), for distributed storage for the enterprise. Rapidly increasing use of bandwidth for applications such as voice and video on the net will drive demand for these products and services. |
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