| The Catamount Newsletter | Volume 4 |
Catamount Ventures is pleased to announce the closing of its second venture capital fund. Catamount Ventures II, a $24M fund, is true to the core of our original strategy - back outstanding entrepreneurs with high value advice and apply our hands-on approach to company building.
With the early success of our first fund, we are now actively investing out of our new fund. Catamount made several exciting investments already including SignalDemand, CafePress.com, Verdiem, Dynamic Payment Ventures, and Round Two.
In addition, we are proud to report that four of our portfolio firms, eSilicon, Linden Lab, Unicru, and CafePress, were selected by AlwaysOn as part of the Top 100 most innovative and successful private companies.
For more information on our portfolio, please visit our Companies page.
High Value Seed Investing
As proven entrepreneurs and investors, we understand the many needs of an early stage company, and seek to invest in and build visionary technology companies. We are seeking world class entrepreneurs who we can back and help build long term sustainable technology companies. We invest the first $500K - $2.5M into technology leaders, and entrepreneurs – please contact us if you know of an opportunity that is an appropriate fit or with comments.
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Contents
Articles
The Controversy Surrounding Expensing Stock Options
by Kate Henriksen
The political controversy surrounding the Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) legislature requiring the expensing of stock options has prompted a loud outcry from many technology . . .
How Do You Know If the CEO is Doing Well?
by Jed Smith
Jed's Sniff Test...
Portfolio Highlights
Portfolio in the News
Employment Opportunities
Catamount Developments
Portfolio Highlights
Catamount has some exciting companies in the portfolio, one of which is profiled below. If you think you know of a strong business partner, client, or executive hire for this company, please contact the individual named below.
Linden Lab
Recently Benchmark Capital invested in Linden Lab joining early investors Catamount Ventures and Mitch Kapor. Second Life, Linden Lab's premier multi-user online world, has achieved remarkable exponential growth. In reconition of Second Life's ground breaking strategy, The AlwaysOn organization awarded one of three 'top rising star' awards to Linden Lab (along with Skype and Virsa) during its recent conference honoring its chosen top 100 companies. For more information and to try it out for yourself, please visit www.secondlife.com.
CafePress.com
Catamount Ventures recently invested in CafePress.com alongside Sequoia Capital. CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic. Launched in 1999, CafePress.com has empowered individuals, organizations and businesses to create, buy and sell customized merchandise online using the company's unique print-on-demand and e-commerce services. Today, CafePress.com is a growing network of over 2 million members who have unleashed their creativity to transform their artwork and ideas into unique gifts and new revenue streams. For more information, please visit www.cafepress.com.
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Portfolio In The News
For additional information on our portfolio companies, please visit the Companies section of our web site. Direct links to the press section of those individual companies listed on the website are also included here:
Bocada
CafePress
Dynamic Payment Ventures
eSilicon
Linden Lab
Liquid Engines
Sapias
SignalDemand
Siterra
Unicru
Verdiem
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Employment Opportunities
We currently have senior level positions open at the following company. If interested, please send your resume to the contact indicated below.
Company: Linden Lab
Linden Lab is a privately held company established to develop an extraordinary form of 3D shared entertainment. Through its first product, Second Life, Linden Lab offers a truly collaborative, immersive and open-ended entertainment experience, where together people create and inhabit a virtual world of their own design.
Harnessing the power of user creativity, Second Life offers a truly collaborative, immersive and open-ended 3D entertainment experience where people create and inhabit a virtual world of their own design, a world as rich and complex as the real world. Residents can retain their intellectual property rights in their creations, own and control the land where they live and congregate, start businesses that pay off in real world income, and have the freedom to shape the future of their digital reality. Major investors include Benchmark Capital, Mitch Kapor & Catamount Ventures.
Position: Chief Financial Officer
The Chief Financial Officer will be a strategic business partner to the CEO and a key member of the senior leadership team. As a key operating executive in driving and scaling the business, this person will be expected to provide deep strategic insight, operational advice and leadership, both strategic and tactical financial perspective, and experience anticipating issues and the impact of management decisions - as well as communicate them effectively to internal and external constituencies. The Vice President of Finance will need to build infrastructure, systems, processes and procedures, a platform for good decision-making and be a good "teacher" to the team around the financial impact of decisions. This person will be expected to provide executive expertise in the full range of financial and operating functions.
Interested professionals should contact Ramzi Ramey at Linden Lab.
For additional employment opportunities at our other portfolio companies, please visit their direct links below.
Bocada
CafePress.com
Dynamic Payment Ventures
eSilicon
Liquid Engines
Sapias
SignalDemand
Siterra
Unicru
Verdiem
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Catamount Developments
Contacting Catamount
Catamount Ventures is located in the Jackson Square neighborhood of downtown San Francisco, neighboring the financial district. Please note our contact information:
Catamount VenturesPlease refer to our website for a map and detailed driving directions.
400 Pacific Avenue, 3rd Fl.
San Francisco, CA 94133
General: (415) 277-0300
Fax: (415) 277-0301
Web: www.catamountventures.com
Email: info@catamountventures.com
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