StartUpHire would like to thank its many partners for their support. Our strategic partners are leaders in the venture community and are excited about the potential for StartUpHire to favorably impact the industry.
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Thanks to our existing Partners (listed alphabetically):
Argy, Wiltse & Robinson, P.C. (Argy) provides specialized tax, accounting and business consulting services to venture-backed clients in a variety of industries. From pre-revenue start-up to mature company, our professionals understand and work with clients through all phases of the private equity life cycle including early fundraising, financial and tax due diligence, acquisition and disposition deal structuring, as well as portfolio company tax and accounting matters. More than 200 Argy employees are headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices in Maryland, and Florida. For more information, please visit www.argy.com.
Founded in 1999, Calysto Communications is a global public relations and social media marketing firm focused solely on the specialized needs of the technology industry in the broadcasting, telecommunications, and wireless sectors. We provide a full suite of services to emerging and established business-to-business and business-to-consumer organizations. Unlike general technology PR firms, Calysto leverages its deep industry knowledge and intimate relationships with market influencers to deliver unmatched industry mindshare, analyst coverage and media publicity to our clients. Our all-senior management team uses a strategy-driven approach proven to help Calysto clients drive sales, create value for shareholders, move toward liquidity or raise overall awareness. Calysto also publishes a free e-newsletter, PR Vibes™ (www.prvibes.com), which provides industry players with insight into media and analyst moves around the industry; industry events and tradeshows; and trends in marketing and public relations. For more information, please visit www.calysto.com.
Comerica Bank’s Technology and Life Sciences Division is one of the nation's leading technology banking practices, offering a wide range of financial services tailored to corporate customers, entrepreneurs and professionals. Veteran bankers provide credit and financial services and products to young, growing, professionally backed technology and life sciences companies, as well as their more mature counterparts. The Technology and Life Sciences Division serves all major U.S. technology centers from offices coast-to-coast and its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Comerica Bank is a subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA), a financial services company that is among the 20 largest U.S. banking companies, with $66 billion in assets at June 30, 2008. For more information, please visit www.comerica.com.
Cooley Godward Kronish is a national law firm for the converging worlds of high technology, high finance and high-stakes litigation. We are counselors, strategists and advocates for the foremost private and public companies across a wide variety of industries and in all major technology fields. Our clients include business organizations, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, financial institutions, private equity firms, professional services firms and real estate owners and developers. Cooley has approximately 725 attorneys and represents clients in more than 20 industries. For more information, please visit www.cooley.com.
DLA Piper is one of the world’s largest law firms, with more than 3,700 lawyers located in 26 countries and 65 offices throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US. We are uniquely positioned to help companies with their legal needs anywhere in the world, and provide counsel to emerging companies in areas critical to both their short-term and ongoing successes, including: domestic and international tax, mergers and acquisitions, employee benefits and executive compensation, technology and sourcing, and regulatory affairs. For more information, please visit www.dlapiper.com.
The Venture Pipeline is a DLA Piper business unit specifically focused on enhancing the funding prospects of early-stage companies. Led by non-lawyers with experience in technology, start-ups and private equity markets, and working closely with the investment community, the Venture Pipeline Group actively advises on business plans, management and recruiting issues, market development, strategic partnerships and financing strategies to help early-stage companies raise capital. For more information, please visit www.venturepipeline.com.
The leading specialist in providing global software product R&D, GlobalLogic Inc. provides full product development lifecycle services to Start-up, Emerging and Established technology companies. GlobalLogic has developed a unique joint-venture model of partnering with clients to deliver great software products to market rapidly and economically. The software R&D engineers located in our global delivery centers in the US, India, China and Ukraine serve as virtual extensions of our client's local development teams. In other cases where the client does not have any internal engineering staff, GlobalLogic provides a "fabless" partnership from the start, with GlobalLogic taking ownership of the product engineering, platform and architecture. This allows companies to focus on the other aspects of a successful product launch such as strategy, marketing, customer acquisition, go-to-market challenges and the demands of ever-changing markets. By leveraging our global facilities, world-class engineers and state-of-the-art tools and processes, companies can increase the quality of their software products while dramatically reducing timelines and operating costs - often by more than 60%. For more information, please visit www.globallogic.com.
MMV is a Toronto-based specialty finance company that makes loans to venture-backed companies in North America. MMV works with companies at all stages of development with an emphasis on those with annual revenue of greater than $5MM. Loans range in size from $1.5MM to $10.0MM with terms of 36 to 42 months. An interest only period is followed by monthly amortization until the loan is repaid. Capital can be advanced at closing or staggered over time. Loans typically have no financial covenants and can be subordinated to a bank operating line. Pricing includes a competitive current return as well as warrants to purchase equity. Detailed information is available at www.mmvf.com.
Morrison & Foerster provides expert counsel to technology and life sciences companies at every stage of their development and growth - from initial business formation and intellectual property protection through venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and beyond. Armed with an intimate understanding of our clients' technologies and industries, the firm's 250 corporate lawyers are driven to achieve a client's business objectives and deliver success. In the past eight years, Morrison & Foerster has helped to raise more than $4 billion in venture financing for technology and life sciences companies. For more information, please visit www.mofo.com.
New Venture Communications is a strategic communications firm dedicated to helping accelerate the growth and value of formative-stage companies, technology investors and professional service firms. The firm has offices in San Mateo, Calif. and Washington, D.C. and has relationships with a select set of marketing service firms who provide additional services as well as added geographic reach domestically and across Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.newventurecom.com.
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) represents approximately 470 venture capital and private equity firms. NVCA’s mission is to foster greater understanding of the importance of venture capital to the U.S. economy and support entrepreneurial activity and innovation. According to a 2007 Global Insight study, venture-backed companies accounted for 10.4 million jobs and $2.3 trillion in revenue in the United States in 2006. The NVCA represents the public policy interests of the venture capital community, strives to maintain high professional standards, provides reliable industry data, sponsors professional development, and facilitates interaction among its members. For more information, please visit www.nvca.org.
The Software & Information Industry Association is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to the leading companies that are setting the pace for the digital age. For more information, please visit www.siia.net.
A boutique within a global firm, Sonnenschein's Venture Technology Group is among the top national venture firms as ranked by Chambers USA, and one of the Top 10 firms nationally in venture capital deals for 2007 as reported in Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst.
The team comprises more than 200 attorneys, with a robust network of venture capital and investment banking firms from Silicon Valley to Boston and New York. Our practice is unique among its peers for its interdisciplinary focus on finance, strategy, intellectual property protection and patent litigation, outsourcing, public policy, healthcare, information intelligence, anti-piracy and Asia-Pacific. Sonnenschein's Venture Technology group has deep expertise in IT, life sciences and medical devices, new media, clean technology, and telecommunications. The practice is headed globally by Victor H. Boyajian. For more information, please visit www.sonnenschein.com.
Aptela delivers a robust Hosted VoIP solution with 70+ features that provide advanced mobility, call management, auto attendant and reporting capabilities to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the U.S. Unlike traditional telephony that is tied to a physical location, Aptela’s features can be accessed - anywhere, anytime - through the Internet, traditional wire-line or cellular networks.
The company offers unlimited, metered and mobile extension (overlay) service plans, pre-configured IP phones and routers, along with comprehensive implementation and support to provide a complete turnkey solution to SMBs. For more information, please visit www.aptela.com.
HubSpot, Inc. provides Internet marketing software that helps businesses get found online, generate more inbound leads and convert a higher percentage of those leads into paying customers. HubSpot's software platform includes tools that allow professional marketers and small business owners to manage search engine optimization, blogging and social media, as well as landing pages, lead intelligence and marketing analytics. Based in Cambridge, MA, HubSpot can be found at www.hubspot.com. HubSpot’s free marketing tools can be found at http://grader.com.