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The company also has deep experience working with top Global Fortune 500 such as Genentech, Google, Apple, Adobe, Intel, IBM, Oracle, and HP. Launchpower works with such organizations to identify commercially relevant technologies that are needed by these large organizations and works to build successful early stage companies to meet these pressing market needs.

Mr. Opfer is Founding General Partner of LaunchPower Inc. Previously, he was Entrepreneur in Residence at Altos Ventures after selling his business news delivery service to AskJeeves. He has been helping and running startups for over 15 years also formerly serving as Venture Advisor to Accel Partners, Advisory Principal to Sterling Payot Investments in the telecommunications and wireless areas. Very active on the wireless speaking and writing circuit in the mid-1990s, Jim was known as one of the most connected persons in the world.

LaunchPower begins the investment process by identifying specific market needs, typically those that represent multi-billion dollar markets. Some examples of these are, but not limited to: Cloud Computing, Software as a Service, Mobile and Wireless Applications, Social Media Entertainment, Biotech and Green Technology. We then engage in a dialogue with the largest and most significant beneficiaries within markets, to define an agenda in which we "build to suit" our investment portfolio to address the demand.

Launchpower is structured as a fund managed by an operating entity with long term strategic objectives, which allows us to make investments and manage our portfolio from an asset allocation point of view through our fund, Launchpower LLC, while simultaneously providing comprehensive administrative resources to our portfolio companies at an operational level through Launchpower Ltd. Many of the administrative resources we provide are consistent with services offered by incubators and accelerators. However, we are not in the business of incubating startups.

LaunchPower represents a fusion of the investment and technology markets, delivering investment opportunities that previously have been part of the IPO landscape which has diminished significantly over the past ten years. Moreover, we provide investors an access to the upside potential of one of the most dynamic and creative business cultures in the world - Silicon Valley - known the world over as the epicenter of technological innovation.

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