Investors
Veritas Venture Partners
Veritas is Israel's most seasoned venture capital firm, with its head office based in Herzliya, Israel, and its US office in Atlanta, Georgia. Veritas invests primarily in technology-based companies at the seed and very early stages of their lives. Its primary areas of focus are enterprise software, network communications and healthcare. A number of these companies have had successful public offerings in the US, or have been acquired by larger corporate entities.
Its managerial philosophy involves careful selection of investment opportunities, and ongoing value-adding activities in close association with the investee companies, normally through active directorship. It promotes and rewards entrepreneurship, and aims for realization of long-term capital gains, primarily by taking companies public in the US. For more information, please visit http://www.veritasvc.com/.
Seraph Group
Seraph Group offers qualified individuals, financial planners, investment advisors, fund managers and representatives of financial institutions the ability to produce better returns on their private investments. Seraph Group is developing a national network of "private investment" groups for high-net worth individuals, financial/wealth advisors, investment advisors, fund managers and representatives of financial institutions.
Named after the highest order of angels, Seraph Group provides quality deal flow, institutional grade research, professional due diligence, ongoing portfolio management and co-investment capital. Seraph Group is unlike other venture capital funds in that the membership is personal and its goal is to know more people, mobilize faster, and have deeper connections. For more information, please visit http://www.seraphgroup.net/.
Georgia Research Alliance
The vision of Georgia's business leaders, the Georgia Research Alliance is a private, nonprofit corporation. Its Board of Trustees is drawn from the top levels of some of the state's largest corporations and its university partners. With a rich background and history, the Alliance manages its programs with a small staff committed to capitalize on innovative university research to build a vibrant, technology-rich economy.
In-Q-Tel
In-Q-Tel identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions.
Launched by the CIA in 1999 as a private, independent, not-for-profit organization, IQT was created to bridge the gap between the technology needs of the Intelligence Community and new advances in commercial technology. With limited insight into fast-moving private sector innovation, the IC needed a way to find emerging companies, and, more importantly, to work with them. For more information, please visit www.iqt.org.
Angel Investors
Asankya has investment from a number of distinguished individual investors. Notable among them are Steve Chaddick, co-founder of Ciena, and Frank Bonsal, co-founder of New Enterprise Associates.
