Black River Asset Management
VC Fund
Hopkins, United States
Black River Asset Management is a VC fund in Hopkins focused on Energy and Biotechnology. Black River Asset Management an independently managed subsidiary of Cargill, Incorporated, is a global asset management company that provides sophisticated institutional investors with alternative investment opportunities. Black River draws on a global investment team deploying a wide range of strategies to develop multiple perspectives oninvestment opportunities, with the single vision of meeting their investors' expectations.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Black River Asset Management invests in
Stages Black River Asset Management invests in
Countries Black River Asset Management invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 3 (27%)
- Biotechnology 2 (18%)
- Pharmaceutical 2 (18%)
- Renewable Energy 2 (18%)
- Fuel 1 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (36%)
- Funding Round 2 (18%)
- Series A 1 (9%)
- Series C 1 (9%)
- Post-IPO Debt 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 7 (64%)
- India 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Virent Energy Systems
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Virent Energy Systems, Inc. operates as an energy technology company that enables the renewable replacement of fossil fuels. Its BioForming platform technology renewably produces transportation fuels, fuel gases, and various chemicals from fossil fuels. Virent Energy Systems, Inc. has a strategic industrial collaboration with Royal Dutch Shell plc.The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. | $46.4M / Series C / Jun 08, 2010 | |
SunEdison
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SunEdison is your trusted partner for innovative, intelligent energy solutions around the globe. We have built our business by putting our customers first, and focusing on addressing each customer's unique solar energy needs. Through our integrated service approach, we partner with you, help you navigate your way through the solar landscapeand offer uniquely tailored solutions and flexible financing. | $30M / Post-IPO Debt / May 25, 2008 | |
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SunEdison
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SunEdison is your trusted partner for innovative, intelligent energy solutions around the globe. We have built our business by putting our customers first, and focusing on addressing each customer's unique solar energy needs. Through our integrated service approach, we partner with you, help you navigate your way through the solar landscapeand offer uniquely tailored solutions and flexible financing. | $131M / Post-IPO Equity / May 23, 2008 | |
GuardianEdge Technologies
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GuardianEdge, the leader in endpoint data protection, enables enterprises to safeguard confidential and proprietary data, ensure regulatory compliance, and securely mobilize computing environments. The award-winning GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform combines managed encryption and device control technologies to protect data on laptops,desktops, portable storage devices, and smartphones. GuardianEdge solutions have been deployed by leading enterprises such as Lockheed Martin, Providence Health Services, and The Hertz Corporation to protect millions of users worldwide. GuardianEdge government customers include the Internal Revenue Service; the U.S. Departments of Defense, Education, Justice, State, Treasury, and Veteran Affairs; the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps; as well as numerous state and local government agencies.The company was founded in 2002 and is based in San Mateo, California. | $10M / Series B / Jul 23, 2007 | |
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GuardianEdge Technologies
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GuardianEdge, the leader in endpoint data protection, enables enterprises to safeguard confidential and proprietary data, ensure regulatory compliance, and securely mobilize computing environments. The award-winning GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform combines managed encryption and device control technologies to protect data on laptops,desktops, portable storage devices, and smartphones. GuardianEdge solutions have been deployed by leading enterprises such as Lockheed Martin, Providence Health Services, and The Hertz Corporation to protect millions of users worldwide. GuardianEdge government customers include the Internal Revenue Service; the U.S. Departments of Defense, Education, Justice, State, Treasury, and Veteran Affairs; the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps; as well as numerous state and local government agencies.The company was founded in 2002 and is based in San Mateo, California. | $3.5M / Debt Financing / Jul 23, 2007 | |
Alvine Pharmaceuticals
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Alvine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a privately held biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing therapeutics for autoimmune/gastrointestinal diseases. Alvine's lead product candidate, ALV003, is a combination protease engineered to digest gluten. It is being developed to treat patients with celiac disease. | $21.5M / Series A / Sep 11, 2006 | |
Microland
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Microland's delivery of digital is all about making technology do more and intrude less. As we help enterprises move to nextGen technologies, we make sure this embrace of brilliance is predictable, reliable, and stable.Incorporated in 1989 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Microland is comprised of more than 4,500 digital specialistsacross offices and delivery centers in Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East and North America. | $11M / Aug 09, 2006 | |
Teranode
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Teranode's software and services support both executives and researchers on research and development decisions. Its goal has been to change the role computing plays in Life Sciences by providing flexible, scientist-driven technology that automates experiment workflow, manages experiment and biological data, unifies data into user specificviews to improve product life cycle. | $9.5M / Series B / Sep 12, 2005 | |
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals
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Sirtris Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SIRT) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing proprietary, orally available, small molecule drugs with the potential to treat diseases associated with aging, including metabolic diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes. via: Sirtris | $27M / Series B / Mar 08, 2005 | |
Informance International
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Informance International, Inc. provides enterprise manufacturing intelligence solutions to the manufacturers in the United States and internationally. The company offers Enterprise Solution, a strategic decision support system for corporate supply chain and manufacturing executives to discover, analyze, and act on opportunities that affect theirplant network; Discrete Manufacturing Module that enables the plant staff to address improvement opportunities in their discrete manufacturing processes; Process Manufacturing Module, which targets the continuous portion of the manufacturing process; and Enterprise Synchronizer, a Web services-based platform for systems, application, and technology integration.The company was formerly known as FactoryWare, Inc. and changed its name to Informance International, Inc. in December 2005. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois. As of April 29, 2010, Informance International, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Solarsoft Business Systems Limited. | $6M / Series B / Jan 14, 2005 | |
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Co-Investors
Cargill Ventures
4 deals together
Allco Renewable Energy
2 deals together
Altos Ventures
2 deals together
Applied Ventures
2 deals together
Cardinal Venture Capital
2 deals together
Greylock
2 deals together
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FAQ
What does Black River Asset Management invest in?
Black River Asset Management invests primarily in Energy, Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Black River Asset Management last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Black River Asset Management closed in Jun 2010. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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