Awesome DC becomes a Gold Digger

August 31, 2010 by 6 Comments


I am very excited to announce Awesome DC’s  first Gold Digging experience for a local company, Motionsoft who just landed their $5.5 mil investment.

The company was one out of the eight local early/later stage firm whose technology caught my attention at MAVA Capital connection 2010 back in May. Here is my coverage on them.

Motionsoft secured their investment from Edison Venture Fund. The fund will be used for expanding the company  sales, marketing and development activities. Read more of this post

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Berkeley Research Group Moves to Washington, D.C.

July 14, 2010 by Leave a Comment


Berkeley Research Group, a preeminent expert services and data analytics firm, opening  new office in Awesome Washington, D.C., bringing the firm’s total headcount to more than 85 professionals, working in six offices across the United States.

BRG’s Washington, D.C. office will be led by Tri MacDonald who is also joined in the Health Analytics practice by Dr. Henry Miller and Jerry Lewandowski. They will be working closely with Mark Abernathy and Julie Nielsen in BRG’s Tampa, Florida office, as well as Kevin O’Brien and Cher Fieri in the Chicago office. Also joining the Washington, D.C. office are Doug Reichert, a financial services expert, and Dr. Keith Reutter, a Ph.D. economist. Read more of this post

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Capital Connection’10 Showcased the Latest Technology Innovations

May 23, 2010 by 5 Comments


The two day Capital Connection’10 event organized by the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA) provided the opportunity to 40 early stage and 15 later stage companies to pitch their products and services to hundreds of  advisors, government decision-makers, angel and institutional investors from all over the country.

Indeed, time flies. Although it was about ten years ago I presented my telezoo to the same crowd at the same event, but it feels like yesterday when I  landed my $5 million VC funding from Lazard and snatched their associate, Marie-Louise Murville as my VP of Marketing a month later :-) Read more of this post

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