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The principals at Princeton Ventures have deep experience investing in and advising companies in a broad range of industries at various stages of development. Through a partnership with Raging Capital Management, we also have the benefit of insights from their investment activities in the public markets. This provides us the unique advantage of being able to support a company from its start through and after its initial public offering.

REPRESENTATIVE INVESTMENT EXPERIENCE

Audiogalaxy
Austin, TX
Status: Realized

Audiogalaxy provides search tools that allow consumers to find music on the internet, and make music available to others.
Bankrate, Inc.
North Palm Beach, FL
Status: Public (Nasdaq: RATE)

Bankrate, Inc. is the Web's leading aggregator of financial rate information. The company provides free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.
ByteTaxi (dba FolderShare)
Austin, TX
Status: Acquired by Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq: MSFT)

FolderShare allows users to create a private peer-to-peer network that helps them synchronize files across multiple devices and access or share files with colleagues and friends eliminating the need to send large files via email, burn them to CDs/DVDs and mail them, or upload them to a website.
CallStreet
New York, NY
Status: Acquired by FactSet Research Systems Inc. (NYSE: FDS)

CallStreet is the leading provider of corrected and formatted transcripts of management conference calls to the investment community. Hundreds of leading firms rely on CallStreet for the most accurate, highest quality content available.
eFashion Solutions, LLC
Secaucus, NJ
Status: Active*

eFashion Solutions is a comprehensive outsourced e-commerce systems and service provider that has been successful in creating profitable flagship web-stores for global consumers including DKNY, jLo by Jennifer Lopez, Phat Farm, Baby Phat, Rocawear, House of Dereon by Beyonce, ShopElvis (Elvis Presley Enterprises), Judith Leiber and others.
Gerson Lehrman Group
New York, NY
Status: Active

Gerson Lehrman Group is the leading provider of customized consulting and collaboration solutions to corporations, non-profit organizations and the investment community. Through its proprietary Knowledge Logistics Platform, Gerson Lehrman Group enables its clients to consult and collaborate with the largest and highest quality network of independent experts, the GLG Councils.
Indie Research, LLC
Princeton, NJ
Status: Active

Indie Research is a provider of proprietary investment and research tools for individual and institutional investors. Indie Research has four products: FindProfit, InsiderScore, Next Inning Technology Research, and The Bull Market Report.
JiWire, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Status: Active

JiWire leverages the world's most comprehensive Wi-Fi hotspot directory and intuitive Wi-Fi software suite to connect mobile users to the wireless Internet quickly and securely.
Lux Research Inc.
New York, NY
Status: Active

Lux Research provides market intelligence and strategic advice on nanotechnology and the physical sciences to help clients make better decisions to profit from cutting-edge technologies by tapping into their analysts' unique expertise and unrivaled network.
Majestic Research Corp.
New York, NY
Status: Active

Majestic Research is a new kind of Independent Research Firm providing specialized services to institutional investors seeking to stay ahead in a changing market. Majestic Research redefines investment research by leveraging its exclusive relationships with proprietary industry data providers and proprietary Web harvesting technology to generate fresh insights from superior analysis of millions of data points.
MedAvante, Inc.
Ewing, NJ
Status: Active

MedAvante is a pharmaceutical services organization that administers clinical assessments for research studies via videoconference and telephone. Centralizing the assessments increases the precision, accuracy, reliability and quality of the administration of psychiatric diagnostic and symptom assessments.
Ragingbull.com
Andover, MA
Status: Realized

Ragingbull.com is a consumer-focused online investment site that provides financial news, commentary and message boards to individual investors.
Rosetta Stone, Inc.
Harrisonburg, VA
Status: Active*

Rosetta Stone is the world's leading language learning software company. With offices in the US and UK, the company offers programs in 30 different languages spoken by over 90% of the world's population.
Soleil Securities Corporation
New York, NY
Status: Active

Soleil Securities provides institutional investors with value-added equities research produced by a growing network of independent analysts and boutiques. Soleil provides trading services through which asset managers direct brokerage business as payment for the research. The company shares the commissions with their research partners.
The Hanover Research Council
Washington, DC
Status: Realized

The Hanover Research Council is the world's largest SME-focused research firm. The Council serves the senior executives of SMEs through research and education on solutions to their most demanding business concerns. The company is also building the largest network of these executives in the world, providing members an unparalleled level of interaction with their peers.
Unstrung
New York, NY
Status: Acquired by Light Reading, a CMP Worldwide Company

Unstrung is a news-driven website providing in-depth daily news coverage of the wireless industry, much of it exclusive. The company also has two subscription-based research reports, Unstrung Insider and Unstrung Enterprise Insider.
  * Denotes representative investment made at predecessor firm. Not currently held by Princeton Ventures or its principals.