The Grosvenor Funds

The Grosvenor Funds no longer investing. It is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early, mid, and expansion stage companies and small business investments. It is an SBIC. It does not invest in airlines, restaurants, real estate, entertainment, and retail. The firm primarily invests in wireless, healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and life sciences, pharmaceutical research and development, broadband telecommunications services, online services, networking equipments, photonic networks, broadband infrastructure, Internet technologies, biotech companies, IP protected technologies companies., IT services, next generation wireless, security technology, and labor force management in the defense and homeland security arena. It seeks to invest in the companies based in U.S. with an East Coast geographic focus. It seeks to invest between $1 million to $2 million in first round and provides add on financing in subsequent rounds. The firm prefers to be a lead investor; however, it often forms syndicates and works with a network of similar venture capital firms. It seeks to take a Board seat in its investments. The Grosvenor Funds was founded in 1994 and is based in Washington D.C. with an additional office in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Douglas Dunnan

Managing Partner

Bruce B. Dunnan

Co-Founder

21 past transactions

Informous

Venture Round in 2011
Informous, a B2B content marketing platform enabling businesses to reach highly targeted audiences with specific content, generating more informed and qualified leads.

GetWellNetwork

Series C in 2009
GetWellNetwork, Inc. develops interactive software to help hospitals get patients more involved in their care process. Using the bedside TV, the GetWellNetwork system enables patients to view movies, access the Internet, play games and get health information on the television. Using technology in this way to achieve a more patient centered care experience is often referred to as, Interactive Patient Care (IPC). GetWellNetwork was founded in 1999 by CEO Michael O’Neil Jr., based on his experience with his own hospital experience during his 1999 battle with cancer. Over the next several years, the company deployed GetWellNetwork systems in hospitals around the country. In 2009 the company launched GetWell Town, an interactive patient care system designed for pediatric patients. The GetWellNetwork system, formerly named PatientLife, provides hospital patients with an assortment of entertainment amenities such as access to cable/satellite television, on-demand movies, email, web browsing, music and video games. In addition to entertainment, the GetWellNetwork system offers educational resources tailored for the patient's specific condition. The system includes a library of educational videos and content on specific health conditions, medications, tests and procedures. The patient education library offers material from content providers like, Milner-Fenwick, KidsHealth, Blausen Medical, Swank Motion Pictures, Wired.MD and others. Patients also have access to information about the hospital including visiting hours, staff profiles and patient care initiatives. The GetWellNetwork system delivers educational content relevant to patient diagnosis, prescribed medication, and overall health. Patient education is delivered to the patient using pre-defined workflows referred to as Patient Pathways®. Patient Pathways utilize best practice templates that enable hospitals to automatically customize a patient’s hospital experience based on a variety of data inputs from existing hospital information systems. Data inputs trigger Patient Pathways to begin engaging patients in their own care. Prompts that appear on the patient’s TV proactively engage each patient to learn more about their care, condition, safety and other aspects of their hospital stay. Patients proceed at their own pace through the multiple phases of each Patient Pathway. The patient’s progress is recorded for reporting and to allow Nurses and staff to monitor the patient’s real-time progress. Progress can also be automatically documented to the patient’s EMR.

Portero

Series B in 2009
Portero is the Leading Authentic Luxury Marketplace providing a trusted place for consumers to find and buy new and vintage luxury items. Portero accomplishes this by operating a fast growth market platform that facilitates sales of luxury items by offering certified dealers, vendors and brands a unified selling platform that maintains brand and item integrity and the assurance of authenticity. Items on Portero.com include pre-owned (often in original packaging), vintage and new. All are certified and guaranteed authentic with a focus on watches, accessories, handbags and jewelry (and art). Portero™ industry expertise, combined with their new, innovative technology delivered in 2009, will position the company to deliver a superior and varied consumer shopping experience beyond the site’s current successful auction platform, including e-commerce, private member sales, brand event merchandising and product-of-the-day offerings. In 2008, Portero reported over 100 percent increase in revenue year-over-year, and projects revenues to increase by more than 100 percent in 2009.

DoublePositive

Series B in 2008
DoublePositive is a performance-based online marketing company serving lead buyers, lead sellers, and direct response advertisers. With headquarters in Baltimore and satellite offices in Tempe, the company is an industry leader in online search and display, mobile payper- call, lead generation, and telephone transfers.

mBeat Media

Angel Round in 2008
mBeat Media, Inc. (“mBeat“) is a leading service provider in the emerging digital media industry. The founding team's deep domain knowledge, is providing premium SMS mobile content aggregation and distribution (ringtones and wallpaper) services and content, primarily focused on the urban market. Through the leadership of its experienced management team has it's many subscribers, using direct-to-consumer advertising via prominent African-American targeted publications and television stations. mBeat was among the first companies to enter the mobile market and developed some of the earliest commercially availible SMS and WAP applications in the US market. The company currently offers downloadable ringtones, wallpaper images, games, and chat services. mBeat markets its services through direct response advertising through it’s flagship brand, UrbMob, www.urbmob.com, and numerous affiliate networks and partners in web, wap, TV, print, radio, and on carrier decks.

Three Stage Media

Series C in 2007
Three Stage Media, Inc. provides online media and marketing solutions for the tradeshow industry. The company focuses on developing online event portals that serve as an online show guide, search engine, and event-planning interface for attendees. It offers eventLeads for tradeshow registration process; eventAds for display media placements within show portals, show-floor kiosks, and e-newsletters; eventVideo that enables users to place custom streaming video news station on supplier microsite within the online event portal; eventMobile, which enables users to connect with on-site attendees; and eventMetrics for pre- and post-show performance reports. The company also provides eventPortal, an online show portal equipped with search engine, attendee event-planning interface, and comprehensive supplier directory; eventMarketing for lead generation, online advertising, search engine marketing, video advertising, and mobile marketing; and eventMetrics that provides data highlighting existing exhibitor performance and the opportunity afforded prospective exhibitors. It serves show organizers, exhibitors, and attendees. Three Stage Media, Inc. was formerly known as BDMetrics, Inc. and changed its name in January, 2009. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

DoublePositive

Venture Round in 2007
DoublePositive is a performance-based online marketing company serving lead buyers, lead sellers, and direct response advertisers. With headquarters in Baltimore and satellite offices in Tempe, the company is an industry leader in online search and display, mobile payper- call, lead generation, and telephone transfers.

Omeros

Series E in 2007
Omeros is a Seattle-based commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing, and commercializing small-molecule and protein therapeutics for large-market as well as orphan indications targeting inflammation, complement-mediated diseases and disorders of the central nervous system.

Magnolia Broadband

Series E in 2006
Magnolia Broadband is a fabless semiconductor company within the wireless communications industry who has invented and patented Mobile Transmit Diversity (MTD), a beam forming technology which allows wireless network operators to offer higher data throughput and improve coverage with no change in base stations or infrastructure standards. MTD can be deployed as a chip or as a software-only solution. Magnolia has industry's broadest IP portfolio: 28 issued patents and 24 patents pending in US, 2 issued patents and 12 pending (International/ 10 countries). issued patents are broad, fundamental & key with technical and commercial essential claims essential to MTD. Some of Magnolia's patents have broad implications beyond MTD. Magnolia increases spectrum utilization (network capacity) by 40%, coverage and extended performance (QoS) for voice & data services offering a field proven 4 dB gain in uplink; extends battery life and SAR emissions; Rapid and cost effective deployment- NO modifications to wireless standards and legacy cellular network. Magnolia's MTD supports multi-band standards and protocols.

DoublePositive

Series B in 2006
DoublePositive is a performance-based online marketing company serving lead buyers, lead sellers, and direct response advertisers. With headquarters in Baltimore and satellite offices in Tempe, the company is an industry leader in online search and display, mobile payper- call, lead generation, and telephone transfers.

ARPU

Series B in 2006
ARPUinc is a privately held Washington DC-based technology company, focused on enabling a superior advertising and ecommerce experience for consumers, advertisers, and publishers alike. By enhancing the ease of registration and purchase for the consumer, ARPU increases the efficacy of the online channel across all three constituencies. For online advertisers and publishers, ARPU augments the effectiveness of online advertising, thereby significantly driving ROI. With a distribution network that reaches more than 20 million unique visitors per month, ARPU's roster of advertiser and publisher partners spans from PC security and utility software providers to education and entertainment services to PC OEMs and ISPs.

Three Stage Media

Series B in 2006
Three Stage Media, Inc. provides online media and marketing solutions for the tradeshow industry. The company focuses on developing online event portals that serve as an online show guide, search engine, and event-planning interface for attendees. It offers eventLeads for tradeshow registration process; eventAds for display media placements within show portals, show-floor kiosks, and e-newsletters; eventVideo that enables users to place custom streaming video news station on supplier microsite within the online event portal; eventMobile, which enables users to connect with on-site attendees; and eventMetrics for pre- and post-show performance reports. The company also provides eventPortal, an online show portal equipped with search engine, attendee event-planning interface, and comprehensive supplier directory; eventMarketing for lead generation, online advertising, search engine marketing, video advertising, and mobile marketing; and eventMetrics that provides data highlighting existing exhibitor performance and the opportunity afforded prospective exhibitors. It serves show organizers, exhibitors, and attendees. Three Stage Media, Inc. was formerly known as BDMetrics, Inc. and changed its name in January, 2009. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Qmobile

Series B in 2005
Qmobile is one of the service providers in the emerging digital media industry. Launched in 2003 and leveraging the founding team's deep domain knowledge, Qmobile has delivered compelling entertainment and information services to almost one million mobile phone users across the US, and now has over 350,000 subscribers. The company currently offers downloadable ringtones, wallpaper images and games. It also runs a SMS chat service, and additional services are under development.

Smart System Technologies

Series A in 2004
Smart System Technologies provides merchants with cashless and contactless payment and marketing analytics services. It is based in Irvine, California.

Mobile 365

Series D in 2004
Mobile 365 is the new company formed from the merger of the two leaders in the mobile messaging world: InphoMatch, the leader in interoperable data and messaging services for mobile operators, and Mobileway, the leader in messaging solutions for brands and content providers. It is the global leader in the delivery, billing, and settlement of mobile messaging services. Their extensive footprint enables us to reach more mobile users—with more types of mobile data—than anyone else on the globe. They reliably deliver messages, premium content, and value-added services for the leading mobile operators, content providers, brands, and media companies worldwide.

Appforge

Series B in 2003
AppForge develops products and services for the mobile and wireless industry. Its product portfolio includes CrossFire, a software tool simplifying mobile applications for Symbian, Windows Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, and Palm OS. Crossfire was a software plugin for Visual Basic 6 and for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. AppForge is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

iMove

Venture Round in 2002
iMove develops visual-scanning hardware for mission-critical security and surveillance applications. Immersive imaging has become a key component in security operations requiring timely, accurate, and actionable decisions. It was founded in 1995 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Yottabyte NetStorage

Venture Round in 2001
The Yottabyte NetStorage Company.

CODEON

Series D in 2001
CODEON Corporation designs and manufactures state-of-the-art optical components for the fiber optic telecommunications industry.

Pivotech Systems

Venture Round in 2000
Pivotech is a provider of multi-service access platforms for the service provider community.

CODEON

Venture Round in 2000
CODEON Corporation designs and manufactures state-of-the-art optical components for the fiber optic telecommunications industry.
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