Bank of America Securities
VC Fund
New York, United States
Bank of America Securities is a VC fund in New York focused on Manufacturing and Information Technology. Bank of America Securities LLC (BAS), was an investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America until it was merged with Merrill Lynch after that firm’s acquisition in 2008 to become Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company competed in both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets.Thecompany was a registered broker-dealer with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers. The use of “Banc” in the BAS’s name was indicative of the fact that the company was not a bank, and its deposits and other holdings were not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.During its years of operation its strongest investment banking groups included high-yield debt underwriting and Leveraged Finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as Healthcare, Consumer & Retail, Global Industries, Media & Telecom, Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Gaming. BAS also did a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. On the product side, the firm employed M&A senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. BAS also had a stand-alone Mergers & Acquisitions Group, consisting of bankers that transact M&A deals across all industries, as well as a Transaction Development Group, which aimed to identify and market transaction opportunities.On October 3, 2008, Bank of America announced that John Thain would lead the combined Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Global Corporate and Investment Banking enterprise. Thain was forced out by Bank of America Chairman Kenneth D. Lewis on January 22, 2009, because of the colossal losses visited on B of A due to its acquisition of Merrill Lynch. With Thain’s departure, Brian Moynihan became president of Global Banking and Global Wealth and Investment Management.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Bank of America Securities invests in
Stages Bank of America Securities invests in
Countries Bank of America Securities invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Tom Berkery
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 3 (27%)
- Information Technology 3 (27%)
- Software 2 (18%)
- Web Hosting 2 (18%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (18%)
Stage
- Series C 3 (27%)
- Series B 2 (18%)
- Series D 2 (18%)
- Funding Round 1 (9%)
- Debt Financing 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 9 (82%)
- Canada 1 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Tom Berkery
COO
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COO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Vikal K
Fixed Income Securities Lending
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Fixed Income Securities Lending | Total investments: 6 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Cohesity
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Cohesity is a data management technology company that provides hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, file services, and analytics. With the Cohesity Data Cloud, organizations can secure, manage, and recover data at an enterprise scale while gaining insights through AI capabilities. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 29, 2025 | |
Thrasio
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Thrasio is a next-generation consumer goods company reimagining how the world’s most-loved products become accessible to everyone. | $500M / Debt Financing / Jan 11, 2021 | |
Pharmasset
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Pharmasset Inc is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company committed to discovering,developing and commercializing novel drugs to treat viral infections. Their primary focus is on the development of oral therapeutics for the treatment of hepatitis B virus, or HBV, hepatitis C virus, or HCV and human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. Their researchand development efforts focus on a class of compounds known as nucleoside analogs, which act to inhibit the natural enzymes required for viral replication. They are currently focusing on three product candidates, two of which they are developing themselves and one of which they are developing with a strategic partner: • Clevudine, for the treatment of HBV, expected to enter Phase 3 registration clinical trials in the second calendar quarter of 2007; • R7128, a pro-drug of PSI-6130 for the treatment of HCV, in a Phase 1 clinical trial; and • Racivir, for the treatment of HIV, in a Phase 2 clinical trial. | $40M / Series D / Aug 11, 2004 | |
ZettaCom
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ZettaCom, Inc. manufactures and supplies chipset solutions to core multi-service switch and router original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). | $19.2M / Series C / Jul 09, 2003 | |
Sphera Corporation
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Sphera is the global provider of Web hosting automation and management software, today announced that it has expanded its management team and moved its corporate headquarters to Denver, Colorado. In the coming months, Sphera will continue to leverage recent funding to support and build its infrastructure in high-potential markets, strengthen itstechnology portfolio, increase sales and marketing initiatives and increase support for its global customers. | $4M / Series D / Nov 20, 2002 | |
CapitalStream
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CapitalStreamâ„¢ is an integrated software platform enabling commercial banks and finance companies to implement Straight Through Processing (STP) across lending and leasing portfolios. CapitalStream transforms manual paper-based operations into automated enterprises that respond quickly, efficiently and consistently. CapitalStream streamlinessales, origination, credit analysis, decisioning, document generation, closing, funding, booking, account monitoring and ongoing risk management to reduce cost, risk and processing time. For a rapidly growing list of world class financial institutions, CapitalStream has revolutionized business, commercial, equipment and real estate finance operations by integrating and automating disparate functions and systems to double transaction throughput without increasing headcount. | $10M / Private Equity / Oct 11, 2002 | |
iolon, inc.
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iolon, Inc., is a privately held optical networking components company. The company provides high performance tunable devices for advanced fiber optic networks. iolon s initial product is a high-powered, external cavity, tunable laser source ideal for high bit rate, long haul applications. Future product lines include tunable filters, opticalswitches, polarization controllers, spectral monitors and universal transponders. iolon s platform technology enables advanced automation for high volume manufacturing based on patented micro-optics, MEMS and advanced servo control technologies. | $7.6M / Series C / Apr 25, 2002 | |
Innovance
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Innovance is a 100% employee owned company (ESOP) and the holding company for subsidiaries, Lou-Rich, Inc. (www.lou-rich.com) and Almco, Inc. (www.almco.com). Lou-Rich provides contract engineering and manufacturing services. Almco is a state-of-the-art manufacturer of industrial deburring, parts washing, and vibratory metal finishing equipment.For more information on Innvoance, Inc. | $88M / Series B / Feb 25, 2002 | |
SiberCore Technologies
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SiberCore Technologies Incorporated is a pure-play, Internet IC company developing high-value-added Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) for intelligent hardware-based switching and routing platforms, such as Gigabit / Terabit Routers and Layer 2 / 3 / 4 Ethernet Switches. The company's initial products are a family ofhigh-speed high-capacity packet forwarding engines based on Content Addressable Memories (CAM technology) which overcome the performance bottleneck associated with the network's routing table look-up function. This emerging market has been created by the demands of the explosion in datacom traffic, coupled with the worldwide deployment of fiber optics and DWDM. These broadband deployments have shifted the bottleneck from the Access and Transport section of the network, to the Routers and Switches connecting to these pipes. The company's founding technical team gained industry-wide recognition for its world-class design expertise in this area at Nortel Networks. A veteran Executive team in all the functional divisions of the company supplements this preeminent technical team. | $5M / Series C / Jun 26, 2001 | |
Speedera Networks
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As of June 13, 2005, Speedera Networks, Inc. was acquired by Akamai Technologies Inc. Speedera Networks, Inc. provides distributed application hosting and content delivery services for organizations in both industry and government sectors. Its family of on-demand services solves the performance, scalability, availability, and security problems ofdistributed applications and Web sites. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $20M / Apr 04, 2001 | |
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J & W Seligman
3 deals together
Boston Millennia Partners
2 deals together
Bowman Capital
2 deals together
Corning
2 deals together
CrossBridge Venture Partners
2 deals together
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What does Bank of America Securities invest in?
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