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200 N. Mangum Street
Suite 203
Durham, NC 27701
Tel. (919) 530-1177
885 Third Avenue
20th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Tel. (212) 209-3042
101 California Street
Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94111
Tel. (415) 659-8277
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NYC Office Move
SJF's New York office is moving to 885 Third Avenue, 20 th Floor, New York, NY 10022. Arrun Kapoor leads SJF's operations in New York. David Kirkpatrick will be returning from the New York office to North Carolina in January. Alan Kelley established SJF's West Coast office in San Francisco in the fall of 2009.
Contact info for all three SJF's offices is above. | |
 SJF Holiday Greetings
In 2009, SJF celebrated its tenth anniversary with a Green Economy Summit, organized multiple cleantech networking events, invested in new portfolio companies FieldView and MediaMath, assisted hundreds of entrepreneurs and opened a West Coast office. In a difficult recession, SJF and our partners helped grow leading portfolio companies including groSolar, CleanScapes, Rustic Crust, Ed Map, Salvage Direct, Ryla, MedPage Today, Truist, B.B. Hobbs, and ServiceChannel.
We wish all of our partners, supporters and investors a wonderful holiday season and a fruitful year in 2010. |
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SJF Leads Series A Investment in FieldView Solutions
SJF Ventures announced that it led a $2.75m Series A financing in FieldView Solutions. Milestone Venture Partners and Osage Partners participated in the financing round.
FieldView Solutions is an enterprise software company based in Edison, NJ, that provides data center managers with a solution to enhance capacity planning, energy management, and risk mitigation for critical assets. FieldView's customer list includes some of the world's largest financial, insurance, co-location, and pharmaceutical companies. Customers benefit by avoiding millions of dollars of unnecessary capital expenditures, minimizing data center downtime through better load management, and reducing energy consumption and costs through consolidating assets. Click here to read the complete story. Also visit, SJF's cleantech blog for more perspective on the investment. |
 SJF Invests in MediaMath
SJF Ventures invested in MediaMath's Series B financing. MediaMath, based in New York City, is a leading online media trading company that offers advertising agencies unprecedented reach and performance through a combination of unique data integration and algorithmic bidding through advertising exchanges. MediaMath's buying platform provides advertising agencies with access to more than 10 billion impressions daily.
"We are excited to be joining Safeguard Scientifics, QED Investors, and European Founders Fund in backing MediaMath," said SJF Ventures managing director Alan Kelley. "The company has quickly emerged as the clear leader in one of the most promising areas in online advertising. MediaMath has a seasoned management team that is demonstrating an impressive ability to scale rapidly while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction." Read more about MediaMath at SJF Ventures' blog on Web-enhanced services. | |
Cleantech Networking Events in NC and NY
SJF hosted its fifth Cleantech networking event in the Triangle on December 14 at the Irregardless Café in Raleigh. More than 150 participants attended the happy hour representing a cross section of entrepreneurs, service providers and investors from the cleantech business community. Linda Kushner, the Director of Renewable Energy Business Development for Progress Energy, presented at the event.
Earlier in December, SJF assembled a gathering of clean energy business professionals in New York City. More than 200 individuals from the Tri-State area met at Connolly's in Midtown Manhattan to network with others involved in cleantech businesses. The REBN New York Chapter was founded in 2008 by SJF Ventures, Credit Suisse and Cooley Godward.
Please check with Cody Nystrom for details on upcoming cleantech events in North Carolina, and contact Arrun Kapoor for information on events in New York and SJF's new cleantech mentorship program. |
SJF Ventures and 42 NC Business Leaders Support Climate Legislation
SJF Ventures Managing Director, David Kirkpatrick, issued a letter urging Kay Hagan and Richard Burr, U.S. Senators of North Carolina, to support climate legislation. The letter, which was signed by 42 companies from North Carolina, was published by the News & Observer. Click here to read the letter in the N&O. |
 CEO of groSolar Represents Solar Industry in Copenhagen
Jeff Wolfe, CEO of SJF portfolio company groSolar, has traveled to Copenhagen as part of the delegation from the Solar Energy Industries Association. Jeff is presenting an updated version of An Inconvenient Truth at the conference. Click here to read more about Jeff's unique trip. |
 Ryla Recognized for Rapid Growth |
| Thank You, SJF 2009 Sponsors!
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 Agriculture 2.0
March 24, 2010, Palo Alto, CAAgriculture 2.0 Silicon Valley, co-hosted by NewSeed Advisors, US Venture Partners, and SPIN Farming, will bring together hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, farmers, industry experts, and journalists, all united by the common goal of driving the growth of sustainable agriculture and healthful food systems. Learn More ... |
 Wall Street Green Trading Summit
March 23-24 2010, New York
The Wall Street Green Trading Summit is the longest running and most comprehensive environmental market event in the industry. Launched in 2002 by Peter Fusaro, The Wall Street Green Trading Summit covers cutting edge content, industry developments and features the practitioners and the leaders of tomorrow. Learn More ... |
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About SJF |
SJF Ventures is a venture capital fund that focuses on cleantech, business services, web-enhanced services, and consumer brand companies. The fund works with experienced management teams that are driving exceptional growth and positively impacting the world. SJF Ventures specializes in companies with revenues of $1 million to $20 million seeking equity capital of $1 million to $5 million. SJF manages two funds which have invested in 29 companies that now have aggregate revenues of $500 million, 128 facilities, and 4,600 employees. SJF Advisory Services is an affiliated nonprofit that provides entrepreneurial assistance, trainings and research. Over the last ten years, SJF has assisted 1,500 entrepreneurial companies through workshops and direct advisory services. SJF has offices in Durham, NC, New York, and San Francisco and invests throughout the U.S. www.sjfventures.com High Growth. Positive Impact. | |
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