Industry News
Institutional Investor Announces Socially Responsible Investing Forum: Jan 30
Representatives of Institutional Investor Events (II Events) have announced their inaugural Socially Responsible Investing Forum on January 30, 2007 at the Harmonie Club, New York, New York.
The event, produced in association with the newsletters Money Management Letter and Foundation & Endowment Money Management and supported by the Social Investment Forum, will attract pension funds, endowments and foundations, family offices, asset managers, SRI fund managers, consultants and corporations engaging in, or planning to engage in responsible investing. The program will include a case study on WAL-MART's Environmental Sustainability program, and other speakers will include representatives from the Carbon Disclosure Project, UNEPFI Asset Management Working Group, TIAA-CREF, AFSCME, Unitarian Universalist Association Endowment Fund, State of Connecticut, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Presbyterian Foundation, Cleantech Capital Group and more.
The program will focus on the mainstreaming of responsible investing and the integration of ESG factors into investment strategies, including sessions on dispelling the myths and finding the returns in SRI, institutional investor and family office case studies, the U.N.'s Principles of Responsible Investing, the impact of climate change on institutional investors, VC investments in cleantech, and more.
For more information on this event visit www.iievents.com.
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Split Rock Partners Announces Josh Baltzell Promotion to Director and Relocation to Menlo Park
Representatives of Split Rock Partners, LLC announced that Josh Baltzell has been promoted to Director and will be relocating to the firm's Menlo Park office. He will continue to focus on new medical device opportunities.
Baltzell joined Split Rock Partners at the firm's inception as a Principal with the healthcare investment team. He currently serves as a Director on the boards of Emphasys Medical and Entellus, and is actively involved with the Firm's investments in Dexcom, Santarus, SkinMedica, Atritech and The Foundry.
Prior to the firm's inception in 2004, Baltzell served as Principal with St. Paul Venture Capital. Baltzell brings more than 13 years experience of venture capital and operating experience to the Split Rock Partners team. Prior to St. Paul Venture Capital, Baltzell was a Vice President in the healthcare investment banking group of Piper Jaffray. Earlier in his career, Baltzell held various marketing and business development positions in the medical device industry, most notably at SCIMED/Boston Scientific. Baltzell graduated with an M.B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota and holds a B.A. degree from St. Olaf College.
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Online Venture Capital Database Helps Angel Investors
Angel investor Don Jones has invested in many technology companies, but could never find an affordable and easy way to research and evaluate venture opportunities. Realizing that other angel investors have a similar need, he has launched VentureDeal.com, a state- of-the-art online venture capital database service that alerts its subscribers to breaking venture transactions in the U.S. and Israel.
The Venturedeal.com database is updated daily with venture-backed transactions in the United States and Israel (the second busiest country for venture activity in number of transactions). With thousands of transactions dating back to January 1, 2003, as well as thousands of companies, active venture investors and individual contacts, it has powerful and intuitive searching capabilities. It also provides subscribers with a flexible and easy-to-use due diligence module for staying organized while evaluating potential venture investments
Angel investors can use VentureDeal to research potential competitors of companies they are considering investing in. They can also review M&A
transactions to determine possible exit valuations. Automatic email alerts help them stay on top of the latest transactions in specific industries or regions.
VentureDeal.com has subscribers such as angel investors and venture capital firms wanting real-time transaction knowledge, law firms with emerging company practices, international financial firms that serve the venture and technology industries, and technology companies using the site during their funding search process.
