A focus on early to growth stage companies
Companies built by the GIV founders include VeriFone, AOL, Transaction Network Systems, and many other leading technology companies. Building further on this proven success, we strongly believe in leveraging our company-building expertise, operational experience, and domain knowledge coupled with our industry contacts to help make our companies market-leaders. We partner early with our companies and commit significant resources and our time to bring our vision to fruition.
GIV is passionately committed to helping our portfolio companies succeed. We know that it takes more than financial support to get a company off the ground - we help make things happen.
Partner with the best entrepreneurs
Our goal is to work with highly motivated innovators with a shared vision of leadership in their field. As a result, GIV works with world-class individuals or teams focused on defining markets and developing disruptive technologies.
Focus on investment opportunities in areas of deep domain expertise
Given our founders’ background, we have developed deep expertise in certain sectors as well as an understanding of revenue growth drivers that can accelerate a company's growth profile. We leverage our collective experience in all aspects of our business from operational expertise to financial to executive recruiting to a successful exit. The market segments where we focus our investments include:
- Enterprise Software & Services
- Broadband
- Bioinformatics & Emergent Technologies
- CleanTech
GIV’s commitment to our portfolio companies
Drawing on our experience and expertise, GIV provides on-going assistance to our portfolio companies in many areas, including the following:
- Helping to attract key management and board members
- Assisting in development of global distribution and strategic alliances
- Addressing global strategic and organizational issues
- Developing and executing acquisition strategy
- Developing financial plans and assisting in debt and equity raising
