Brightstone Venture Capital | Home Our Fund Our Team Industry Advisors Our Investments Our Criteria Contact Home Our Fund Our Team Industry Advisors Our Investments Our Criteria Contact Our Fund Brightstone Venture Capital Fund has a long history of helping build successful companies. Since 1985, Brightstone has managed ten venture partnerships and currently manages a $50 million venture fund focused on early-growth stage investment opportunities. Leveraging the operating experience and investment background of the Funds partners, we are primarily focused on investing in the following sectors. Technology Mobile Connectivity Digital Media Advertising SaaS and Cloud Services Data Storage Management Enterprise Software Security Consumer Social/eCommerce Energy Transportation Non-Operating Production Materials Technology Trading Marketing Services Waste Remediation No Drilling Life Sciences Medical Device Medical Information Technology Healthcare IT Biotechnology therapies Clean-tech David Dalvey 15 Years Venture Fund Partner experience 10 years Technology Investment Banking 33 years corporate board director/advisor 25 years portfolio management experience with technology and life-science businesses. Director roles with Mobile Realty Apps, Definity Health, AppTec Laboratories, Navarre Corp., chf Solutions, Agiliti, Nature Vision, Digitiliti and ShoreLunch Recipes. gView My Profile david@brightstonevc.com Patrick O'Shaughnessy 12 Years venture investment and investment banking experience 16 years early stage management as CEO, COO, VP Sales/Marketing, VP Finance Experience in Oil Gas, Information Technology, Life Sciences and Consumer Products patrick@brightstonevc.com Seth DeGroot 8 years venture stage investment and operations 5 years Senior Financial and Operations Analyst Manager VC due diligence with 2 Life Science Companies 3 years corporate director/advisor gView My Profile seth@brightstonevc.com Industry Advisors Bahram Yusefzadeh Software 35 years software and technology entrepreneurial experience building innovative, market-leading companies. Founder/CEO of Phoenix International Founder/CEO of Red Lambda 25 years experience VC advisory positions Niles Hushka Oil Gas CEO KLJ Engineering- preeminent Bakken engineering firm Extensive advisory experience launching, growing, and operating Oil Gas related companies Extensive Oil Gas relationship network- E Ps, government, land owners, service providers, entrepreneurs, investors. Former ND Senatorial Energy Advisor Tom Kieffer IT Cloud 27 years information technology, SaaS, and Cloud Computing entrepreneurial experience. Founder/CEO Agiliti- pioneering Cloud Computing and SaaS marketplace. CEO of Virteva- $7.5m IT services provider. Founder of Connect Computer a $25m IT services firm acquired by Norstan in 1996. James Bracke Life Science Biotechnology 25 years Life Science, Medical Device, Biotechnology and FDA regulation experience. Founder, President/CEO LifeCore Biomedical- life science company ultimately acquired by Landec Corporation (NYSE: LNDC). President of National Green Gas LLC, a medical waste processing company. Our Investments All Technology Past Life Sciences Energy Current AppTec AppTec Biotechnology contract manufacturing and pharmaceutical testing. (Sold to Wuxi Pharmaceuticals.) August Technology August Technology Semi-conductor vision inspection systems. (Sold to Rudolph Technologies.) Bakken Oil Express Bakken Oil Express Largest crude oil rail-transloading facility (by volume) in the United States. Definity Health Definity Health Consumer driven health plan business. (Sold to Unithed Health Group.) Health Fitness Corporation Health Fitness Corporation Corporate fitness and life style management programs. (Sold to Trustmark Brands.) Nature Vision Inc. Nature Vision Inc. Outdoor consumer products video camera business. (Sold to VersaElectronics.) GeoPark GeoPark Oil and Gas production in global markets. (AIM: GPK) Homespotter Homespotter HomeSpotter is a beautiful mobile real estate search application with built-in chat that makes collaboration, fast, easy, and fun. https://homespotter.com/ bnocular bnocular bnocular tracks the in-store performance of competitive retail brands. Discover early trends and insights. http://www.bnocular.com/ Horizon Oilfield Services Horizon Oilfield Services Horizon is a best-in-class developer and operator of oilfield waste disposal facilities in the Bakken, ND http://horizonofs.com/ Cellular diagnostic testing. Enabling more personalized medicine for targeted therapy selection and drug discovery markets. Stem cell harvest and isolation system used by orthopedic surgeons to repair and promote new bone growth in patients. MiroMatrix Medical MiroMatrix Medical The Miromatrix Medical technology has the potential to enable the creation of fully biological replacement organs for the human body. http://miromatrix.com/ Vidku Vidku Vidku boosts community and social presence in face-to-face, hybrid, and online classrooms, as well as enterprise organizations around the world. http://vidku.com/ truBrain truBrain truBrain is a next generation food and beverage brand leveraging nanotechnology to disrupt the energy drink market with products that support direct focus instead of caffeine-induced alertness. https://trubrain.com/ BiteSquad BiteSquad BiteSquad enables on-demand delivery of restaurant food and other products via its online ordering and logistics platform. Gravie Gravie Gravie is a next-generation health insurance platform focused on helping consumers achieve insurance independence by enabling them to choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all their health care expenses in one place. VRchat VRchat VRchat is a platform for creating social virtual reality experiences. VRchat allows users to create their own virtual realities, communicate naturally with other users, explore new space and events, and experience VR socially. RealVision RealVision RealVision is an immersive media technology company that builds 3D media solutions for the real estate industry. Using computer vision, machine learning and VR rendering software, RealVision offers the first end-to-end media platform that allows users to easily create, modify, navigate and build on digital representations of real places. Our Criteria We identify and support highly talented people Solving a meaningful and quantifiable problem Addressing large and growing markets Using technology to gain a defensible advantage Where our investment/operating experience, and industry connections provide leverage to help grow meaningful businesses. We look for: Opportunities to invest between $250,000 to $5 million Opportunities to be lead investors Opportunities with a demonstrable history of development/traction - Product Development - Team Development - Customer Development Send information about your opportunity to plan@brightstonevc.com Contact Name Email Message Send Message Successfully Sent! Sending... d My Profile e @brightstonevc 510 First Ave N Suite #200 Minneapolis, MN 55403 plan@brightstonevc.com (612) 345-7912