Strategic Assistance

We believe an investment partner must add value. No substitute exists for spending time with our portfolio companies in order to understand the key issues facing management. As a result, we limit the number of investments that we make each year to ensure that our professionals can spend significant amounts of time with each portfolio company. We do not take a portfolio approach to investing where it is expected that there are only a few winners, which offset less successful investments. Rather, our mission is to add valuable assistance so that each of our portfolio companies succeeds.

Drawing on our experience and expertise, our professionals provide on-going assistance to our portfolio companies in many areas, including the following:

• Addressing global strategic and organizational issues
• Helping to attract key management and board members
• Assisting in developing global distribution and strategic alliances
• Developing and executing acquisition strategy
• Developing financial plans and assisting in debt and equity raising
• Working with CEOs and CTOs to optimize technology strategy and processes