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Summary: Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures holds venture forums four times annually to showcase high-growth life science, physical science and information technology businesses to the investment community.  MADV...

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Investor Presentation Basics
Blog post by Lina Lin
Ever wondered what are the essentials to an investor pitch deck? Read Steve Bowman's post and learn the tips to creating a winning pitch deck: Investor presentations come in four grades:  Trainwreck,...
How to write an Executive Summary
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When communicating with angel investors, your challenge is to be brief and exciting at the same time.  We read dozens of plans and pitches a week, and need to quickly cut through to the 10 key questions...
4 Signs A Company Is NOT A Good Candidate For Equity...
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From Forbes - CEO and co-founfer of CircleUp, Ryan Caldbeck, discusses what types of companies are not good candidates to raise money via crowdfunding. He listed four signs that a company is NOT a good...
A simple Infographic for entrepreneurs who pitch to...
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itbusiness.ca -- From understanding what an angel investor is, who they are, and what sort of slideshow to make for them - check out this handy infographic: http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/clie...
10 things that investors like and loathe in entrepreneurs’...
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From MedCity - Investors gave thumbs up to the ability to improvise and thumbs down to an infomercial tone at a recent critique of entrepreneurial pitches in Philadelphia. A panel of investors...

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Robin Hood Ventures is a group of angel investors, focused on early-stage, high-growth companies in the Greater Philadelphia region.  We help entrepreneurs build great companies, providing capital, mentoring, expertise and connections to help companies reach their potential.  Robin Hood generally invests $250k to $500k, and collaborates with angels, institutions and VCs in our network.  We invest as a single entity in businesses we know and understand, in a way that gets deals done.  Since 1999, we have invested over $14M in over 40 companies in industries including software, medical devices, biotech, internet and financial technology.
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Recent Investments

WizeHive Welcomes New Additions to its Board and Closes Seed Round

WizeHive, a productivity tool that makes it easy for anyone to build and deploy powerful online business applications, is pleased to announce the closing of a seed round from Philadelphia’s growing venture capital community, and the addition of a Gabriel Weinberg, founder and CEO of search engine DuckDuckGo to the board.     Mr. Weinberg will join Dr. Michael Zisman, former CEO of Lotus Development (Lotus Notes), as investors and board members of WizeHive.

NoviraTherapeutics has expanded its Series A round to $25 Million with a new commitment from Versant Ventures

Novira Therapeutics Inc., a Doylestown, Penn-based antiviral drug discovery company focused on the treatment of chronic HBV and HIV infections, has expanded its Series A round to $25 million with a new commitment from Versant Ventures. It previously announced a first close from 5AM Ventures, Canaan Partners, WuXi PharmaTech, BioAdvance, Mid-Atlantic Angel Group, Robin Hood Ventures and Delaware Crossing Investment Group.

Robin Hood Ventures Joins BFTP and MAG in OneTwoSee Financing

Robin Hood Ventures is pleased to announce it has completed its funding as part of the $625K debt financing in OneTwoSee™, a Philadelphia-based interactive television company. "OneTwoSee™'s applications are pioneering the way top-tier broadcasters and publishers integrate content with the mobile second-screen experience.


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Last updated Mar 15, 2013

Monetate Rounds Out Leadership Team to Further Drive Company's Growth and Market Momentum

Monetate, a leading technology solution provider that allows online marketers to leverage Big Data to create personalized online customer experiences, today announced the addition of two senior executives to its leadership team. John Healy joined as chief operating officer and David Stetson was named chief financial officer. These roles round out the Monetate leadership team and further strengthen the company to capture the growth opportunity as leading brands look to generate stronger customer relationships across digital channels through personalization.

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Going Overseas? Don't Leave Home Without This App

A number of apps promise to translate text over the Web. But a new one goes a step further: It puts live interpreters only a click away. Online translation services, such as Google Translate, have a come a long way. Even so, when you're traveling and get into a pickle or working with international customers and can't afford even a hint of miscommunication, humans still beat machines hands down--or at least so say the guys running VerbalizeIt.

Read Full Text | Inc

Compliance Assurance Corporation Continues Rapid Growth

Compliance Assurance Corporation (CAC), a leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions for the insurance industry, has announced the addition of five new clients to start what is expected to be a year of pronounced growth for the firm. Last year saw CAC join the portfolio of offerings at StoneRiver Risk and Compliance.

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Monetate says world is ready for it now

“Over 20 percent of all online retail dollars are influenced by our platform,” David Brussin, CEO of Monetate, said. Monetate uses big data to help online marketers present each visitor to their websites with the information most likely to cause that person to make a purchase.

Monetate doesn’t reveal its revenue and Brussin wouldn’t say if it’s profitable. “We don’t talk about a lot of the basic financial numbers,” he said, “but I can tell you that we’re a venture-backed growth company and so we’re much more focused on growing to serve the larger market opportunity than we are on the profitability that we’ll be focused on later.”

Read Full Text | Philadelphia Business Journal

OneTwoSee links pro sports, TV, ad data

"The ad sales organizations, some are very sophisticated, but there's a step that hasn't happened yet: connecting the dots," said Reynolds. Video companies get it that smartphones don't compete with media screens -- they supplement them: people use both at the same time -- but they haven't yet figured out how to use the different media to connect and support paid advertising and services that will make users welcome the ads.

Read Full Text | Philly.com

DocDep’s Cap Table Application Enhanced with Waterfalls and Other Management Tools

DocDep released additional versions of their cap table application, SmartCap, which includes supplementary tools to provide a clearer, more strategic view of a company and its ownership. New functionality includes waterfalls, option grant management, and an integrated filing structure. There are now 5 versions of SmartCap available; each one slightly modified to cater to the user.

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Posiphen Restores Brain Function, Cognition and Memory in Transgenic Alzheimer Mice

QR Pharma, Inc. (QR), a clinical stage specialty pharmaceutical company committed to developing therapeutics with novel approaches for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative disorders, announced today that Dr. Maria Maccecchini, CEO, will be presenting new data on its lead compound "Posiphen® Recovers Memory, Learning and Brain Function in Alzheimer Transgenic Mice" at the 12th Annual Biotech Symposium, taking place October 22, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA.

Read Full Text | Business Wire


Cloudmine Ranked #7 in Mobile App Development Tools & Resources by DailyTekk

In DailyTekk's 200 Best Graphic, App & Web Design Tools & Resources, Cloudmine was ranked #7 in Mobile App Development Tools & Resources. Cloudmine provides an instant backend for apps, allowing developers to build and scale apps in less time.

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Paradigm Spine, LLC, publishes groundbreaking results

Paradigm Spine, LLC, a leading provider of non-fusion “surgeon-centric” spinal impant technologies, announces the release of key findings based on its landmark coflex® IDE study. The results of this study show high success for the device.

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