Sourcing Investments in Private Companies
Details
Title: Sourcing Investments in Private Companies
Event Type: Private Company Analysis and Valuation
Audience Level: Executive, Technical
Agenda:
David Teten, Scott Lichtman, and Tim Olson will lead a discussion on business intelligence techniques and challenges they are addressing in building their business, Navon Partners (www.dealorigination.com (http://www.dealorigination.com/)) . Navon helps private equity funds to identify proprietary deals which are predictably attractive long-term investments. Their rigorous, data-driven process is modeled on the process used by quantitative hedge funds.
The speakers:
David Teten, CEO, was previously a Managing Director with Evalueserve (http://www.evalueserve.com/); Founder and CEO of Circle of Experts (http://www.teten.com/blog/2007/05/14/evalueserve-acquires-nitron-advisors/), an investment research firm he sold to Evalueserve; Founder and CEO of GoldNames (http://www.teten.com/goldnames-media/), an investment bank serving the internet domain name asset class; and a Bear Stearns M&A banker for the technology industry. He is also Chairman of Harvard Business School Angels (http://www.hbscny.org/angels).
Scott Lichtman, COO, was most recently a Managing Director at Evalueserve (http://evalueserve.com/); and COO of Circle of Experts. Earlier, Scott led Messaging Products and Marketing at Communicator Inc.; served as Senior Director of Marketing at InterWorld, e-commerce engine for Nike, Disney, GTE and others; was Senior Director of Strategic Marketing at Oracle Corporation; and Advanced IT Strategy Consultant at Deloitte Consulting.
Tim Olson, Head of Engineering, has worked with employers and clients such as Apple, Morgan Stanley, TIAA/CREF, HBO, and NHL.com, as well as a series of startups. Most recently, Tim served as CTO of ResponsePath (http://responsepath.com/) and Director of Engineering at Publishing Data Management (http://www.pubdata.com/) . He also worked with Media6Degrees (http://media6degrees.com/).
The company:
Navon is building a proprietary technology platform (http://www.navonpartners.com/proprietary), built on social media (http://www.navonpartners.com/social-media), web scraping, and other Internet technologies. Among the challenges they are working on: obtaining data on private companies; semantic analysis including entity extraction and linkage; co-reference problem for both executives and companies; data cleaning and canonicalization; signal extraction; and multivariate modeling.
Employment Opportunities
Navon Partners is looking for additional team members interested in an early-stage startup: http://www.navonpartners.com/careers .