Ventana Capital

Ventana Capital Management, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in early and expansion stage investments. It seeks to invest in start-ups whose businesses can lead to decreased dependence on petroleum as a source of fuel, energy, or chemical feedstocks. The firm also seeks ''convergence opportunities'' which arise at the intersections or overlaps of these sectors, in particular at the interfaces of biotechnology and infotech and biotechnology and innovative energy and current investment focus of investing in semiconductors, wireless communications, communications infrastructure, bioPharma, and drug discovery companies. Within innovative energy, it focuses on bio-fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, bio-gases such as hydrogen, methane, certain aspects of clean fuels including fuel cells, batteries, energy supply, new energy, transmission, utilization and storage, advanced fuel cells, and hydrogen economy technologies. In infotech, the firm focuses on broadband infrastructure; wired and wireless, and digital media infrastructure. For biotechnology investments, it focuses on life sciences, drug research and development tools, medical technology in personalized medicine, telemedicine, broadband, internet and networking infrastructure, environmental industry with a focus on air pollution control, water treatment, remediation, recycling, hazardous and solid waste management, and power generation, biotechnology, genomics, eHealth, informatics, robotics, agribusiness, manufacturing and trading companies. The firm seeks to invest locally and partnering globally with a focus on United States, Canada, Chile, and Mexico. It invests between $0.5 million and $3 million per transaction. It also seeks an exit through merger and acquisition or an IPO. Ventana Capital Management, LLC was founded in 1974 and is based in San Juan Capistrano, California.

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