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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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SJF Portfolio Spotlight
Foxfire Printing, an SJF I portfolio company, was recognized by an industry publication for their outstanding growth from $24MM to $42MM over the past year. Read more in the press article.
MediaMath was recognized by Forrester as a Leading Demand Side Advertising Platform in the industry.
FieldView Solutions has been selected as an official solutions provider for Intel's Data Center Manager solution.
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SJF Team Activities
Rick Defieux spoke on an Impact Investing Panel at the Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Conference on October 7.
David Griest will be speaking at Duke's Fuqua School of Business 2012 Sustainable Business and Social Impact Conference on February 15.
SJF Expert Network member, Jerry Yudelson, was described as the Godfather of Green in a recent Wired Magazine article.
SJF Expert Network member, Bruce Usher, will be teaching an Impact Investing class at Columbia Business School this semester. |
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 eRecyclingCorps Receives $35M Investment from Kleiner Perkins
SJF portfolio company eRecyclingCorps (ERC) has closed a $35 million financing led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. ERC implements large scale buyback programs of used wireless devices for carriers and major retailers through a point-of-sale trade-in platform. With customers including Sprint and Verizon, ERC has grown to completing more than 2.5 million wireless device trades per year worldwide. "ERC is the first in their industry to provide a reliable supply of high quality, fully refurbished wireless devices in large volumes to international carriers, especially in the developing world," said SJF Managing Director David Griest.
Read the full Press Release here.
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SJF's Cleantech Strategy in the Press
 Dow Jones recently discussed SJF Ventures' differentiated cleantech strategy, which focuses on capital efficient companies that operate in undercapitalized segments of the cleantech market. SJF's focus includes electronics recycling and materials reuse, sustainable agriculture, and energy efficiency. Read the entire story here.
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 Upcoming CleanLinks Event in NYC The next CleanLinks New York event will be on Wednesday, January 25 from 5:30 to 8:00pm. It will be hosted by SNR Denton at the firm's office on 1221 Avenue of the Americas (49th Street). The event will feature the topic "Cleantech Capital: Where are Dollars Being Invested?" A panel of investors will discuss cleantech investing strategies and offer advice to entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital. Speakers include Sujit Banerjee, Managing Director, Element Partners; Andrew Garman, Managing Partner, NewVenture Partners; Matthew Nordan, Vice President, Venrock; Dylan Steeg, Director, Intel Capital. Jigar Shah, Angel Investor and CEO of Carbon War Room, has also been invited but is not yet confirmed. You will need to register in advance and please note that space is limited.
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 SJF Team Updates
Cody Nystrom has been promoted to the position of Principal at SJF Ventures. Cody joined SJF in 2007 and has played an instrumental role in advancing the organization's performance. Cody co-led SJF's investment in CleanScapes, which was sold to San Francisco-based Recology in November. Cody serves as a board observer for Community Energy, Inc., a Philadelphia-based utility-scale solar developer and renewable energy credit marketer. She helped to launch the CleanLinks network in Raleigh-Durham, a cleantech business networking group. Cody has also served on a number of selection and advisory committees for industry organizations, including Investors' Circle. |
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Upcoming Investors' Circle Venture Fairs
Online Venture Fair, January 19
 Investors' Circle is kicking off its "12 in 2012" initiative, which will feature 12 venture fairs this year. The first virtual venture fair of 2012 will be on January 19th and will include presentations from three Greenstart graduates. GreenStart is a clean-tech startup accelerator focused on the global energy crisis with a goal of helping more than 500 cleantech startups launch more successfully over the next decade.
Virtual venture fairs are free for Investors' Circle members and $50 for all others. Please read more about the Virtual Venture Fairs and RSVP to Nick Flores.
 Spring 2012 Venture Conference, April 22-24, San Francisco
Save the Date for the Investors' Circle Spring Venture Fair at Hotel Monaco in San Francisco. The program will include a members meeting and evening reception on the 22nd, 14-20 high impact company presentations, real time investor feedback, deal debrief, and an evening reception on the 23rd, and due diligence meetings over breakfast on the 24th. Register here.
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Call for Deals!
Investors' Circle invites all early-stage entrepreneurs with a focus in any of the following sectors to apply to present to at the next Venture Fair:
 Education- Sustainable Consumer Products
- Community & Economic Development
- Health, Biotech & Wellness
- Social Media & Software
- Clean Tech (Energy & Environment)
Apply here by February 3!
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Follow the SJF Blogs
Additional news and thoughts can be found at our news page and blogs:
 Read Dave Kirkpatrick's recent book review on The Quest by Daniel Yergin
 Read Alan Kelley's thoughts on "Good" and Technology
 Read about the 2011 Green Job Award Winners
 Read about the CleanScapes merger with Recology, the largest employee-owned company in the waste industry |
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About SJF
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SJF Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on delivering superior financial returns through investments in high-growth, positive impact companies. SJF has a twelve-year successful record of assisting visionary and talented management teams in building industry-leading firms. SJF provides strong expertise and networks in the cleantech, sustainability and tech-enhanced services sectors. SJF Ventures aligns best with companies generating $1 to $20 million in revenue seeking expansion equity capital of $1 to $5 million. SJF Institute is an associated nonprofit that connects, inspires and accelerates impact entrepreneurs and the fields that support them. Over the last ten years, SJF has assisted 1,500 entrepreneurial companies through workshops and direct advisory services. Investors' Circle, a network of angel investors, professional venture capitalists, foundations and family offices who are using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable economy, is an affiliate of SJF Institute.
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