John Glanville serves as Manager and General Partner of this entity.
Through this partnership, John has made the following investments, often
times in conjunction with outside investors.
Airsis, Inc.
is a diversified technology company with a 10 year track record of providing
innovative solutions to a wide range of customers. They have three
main business lines: enterprise software development, remote asset
management and maritime solutions. They offer standard products,
custom solutions, and engineering support. What links the three
businesses together is their common mission to apply technology solutions
that help organizations perform more effectively. They are intensely
focused on providing solutions that increase operating efficiency, reduce
costs, and enhance customer services.
(Original investment date: September, 2005)
Clinical Microsensors,
now part of Motorola Life Sciences, develops, manufacturers and markets
innovative tools for genetic analysis that promise enhanced solutions for
biomedical and industrial needs. The eSensor™ DNA Detection System is
one example of an advanced tool specifically designed to meet the demands of
clinical, pharmaceutical and industrial customers who need access to
reliable DNA testing capabilities in an easy to use and cost effective
format.
(Original investment date: 1997)
Clupedia is
the encyclopedia of clues from crowds. What Wikipedia is for words,
Clupedia is for clues - which could be ratings, reviews, opinions,
recommendations, suggestions, notes, favorites, links, and blogs about
anything and everything from products to politics and everything in between.
(Original investment date: September, 2006)
Evryx, also
known as Snap2Link in the United States, and ShaLink in Japan, is a mobile
visual search. You can receive information about anything by snapping
it with your camera phone. Your phone sends a photo to Snap2Link/ShaLink,
which recognizes the object and directs your phone to the website.
(Original investment date: June, 2007)
MapLink has become the North American distribution center for the map publishing industry. Their warehouse, located in Goleta, CA, a Santa Barbara suburb, is comprised of 31,000 square feet and stocks over 100,000 different map titles. About 65 people work at the warehouse and several others live in scattered locations around the United States. About 1,500 to 2,000 parcels are shipped out every week to thousands of store customers in North America and around the world.
(Original investment date: January 2004)
(Original Investment date: February, 2004)
Outside Labs develops proprietary, technologically superior, and clinically proven sun care and skin care products for athletes and active individuals. Outside Labs has developed a proprietary sunscreen that delivers nearly twice the UVA protection as Coppertone Sport, the #1 product in the US. Since the sun’s harmful UVA rays are primarily responsible for long term skin damage and skin cancer, this marks a significant improvement in skin protection available to consumers. Distribution licensing partnerships are in place with two successful and highly complementary action sports brands, Hawaiian Island Creations (“HIC”), K2 Sports (“K2”) and Drugstore.com.
(Original investment date: July, 2007)
Rainfinity, acquired by EMC Corporation, is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions. They help organizations of every size around the world keep their most essential digital information protected, secure and continuously available.
(Original investment date: February, 2002)
Soda Head provides a venue for users to create a poll to share with friends, with experts or with complete strangers. The user determines if they want to rely on the conventional wisdom, the opinion of their friends, or that of experts. It is a unique way to harness the power of the internet.
(Original investment date: November, 2006)
TerriG, Inc. is a creatively driven, all-inclusive marketing agency with expertise across the full marketing mix.
(Original investment date: December, 2006)
The Athenaeum Fund is a venture capital limited partnership.
Eidogen-Sertanty
is a San Diego-based company dedicated to delivering pioneering informatics
technologies that will drive drug discovery in the post genomic era.
Through the integration of advanced ligand and structure-based informatics
techniques. Eidogen-Sertanty's software and solutions effectively
bridge the existing knowledge gap between biology and chemistry.
(Original investment date: October, 2001)
Fulcrum Microsystems
was founded in January, 2000, based on advance research conducted at CalTech
by the company's founding team. Fulcrum Microsystems is applying a
patented circuit technology and designs methodology to deliver
high-performance standards-based interconnect devices for use in computing,
storage, and networking applications that are differentiated from
traditional switch chips by their lower latency, higher level of
integration, and improved power efficiency.
(Original investment date: March, 2000)
Language Weaver, Inc.
was incorporated in January, 2002 to commercialize a statistical approach to
automatic language translation and natural language processing, statistical
machine translation software or SMTS, as they call it. This
breakthrough technology overcomes the weaknesses that have limited
commercial success for machine translation in the past.
(Original investment date: December, 2002)
Syagen Technology
Inc., was incorporated in 1996, and is an analytical
instrumentation company that has developed leading mass spectrometry
technology for conducting high speed molecular analysis. The Company's
patented instrumentation was originally developed for aviation security and
chemical threat detection. Syagen has adapted this in
biopharmaceuticals, drug discovery and biotechnology.
(Original investment date: September, 2001)
BERWICK INVESTMENTS, L.P.
John Glanville serves as a General Partner of this fund, which invests in
fixed income, public securities and private companies.
BIRCH PARK LIMITED John serves as General Partner of a
family partnership investing in both public and private corporations.
CLEARSTONE VENTURE PARTNERS is an independent venture
capital firm with offices in California and India.
(Original investment date: December, 1998)
ESCHELON ENERGY PARTNERS
There are holdings in both Eschelon Chroma and Eschelon
Milagro.
(Original investment date: March, 2000)
GKM VENTURES With offices in Los Angeles and
Redwood Shores, CA, this venture capital fund invests $1.5 to $4 million in
expansion-stage technology companies located in the Western U.S. The
primary industry sectors in which the fund invests are communications,
enterprise software and IT services, semiconductors and digital media.
GKM Ventures is a licensed SBIC.
(Original investment date: December, 2001)
OAKTREE CAPITAL
MANAGEMENT, L.P. provides highly
professional management in a small number of sophisticated investment
specialties with a primary emphasis on risk control. Investments
include:
OCM POF IV
(Original
investment date: December, 2006)
OCM OF VIII
(Original
investment date: June, 2007)
PARIS RE was formed in response to rising global demands
for reinsurance protection at the initiative of an investment consortium led
by Stone Point Capital. PARIS RE is the successor to the business of
AXA RE of the AXA Group.
(Original investment date: November, 2006)
Ripplewood Holdings, LLC is a private
equity firm that specializes in late ventures, growth capital, acquisitions,
buyouts, management buy-ins, recapitalizations, turnarounds, and
consolidations. Ripplewood focuses its investments in the following areas:
consumer products, education, financial services, medical services,
electronic equipment and components, food manufacturing, chemicals,
technology, industrial equipment, publishing, advertising, auto, and general
retail.
warburg pincus,
a private equity firm with over 40 years of experience, more than $26
billion invested in almost 600 companies in more than 30 countries.
Warburg Pincus Equity Partners, LP
Warburg Pincus International Partners, LP
Warburg Pincus Private Equity IX, L.P.