Jeffrey Drazan
Angel Investor @ Sierra Ventures
Fort Lauderdale, United States
Jeffrey Drazan is a Series A investor at Sierra Ventures in Fort Lauderdale focused on Manufacturing and Hardware. Jeffrey Drazan is the Founder and Managing Partner of Bertram Capital. He previously worked at Sierra Ventures as a Managing Director. Jeffrey Drazan attended Princeton University.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Jeffrey Drazan invests in
Stages Jeffrey Drazan invests in
Countries Jeffrey Drazan invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 4 (50%)
- Hardware 2 (25%)
- TV 1 (13%)
- Local 1 (13%)
- Energy 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (38%)
- Private Equity 2 (25%)
- Angel 1 (13%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 7 (88%)
- United Kingdom 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Experience the ultimate in backpacking, camping and outdoor fires through our patented, efficient and eco-friendly wood burning stoves. Our stoves have been engineered with an airflow system that is second to none. Our patented designs create secondary combustion in each of our stoves for a near smokeless burn that is as efficient as it ismesmerizing.Whether you’re a bushcraft adventurer, a solo hiker or a casual family camper, our award-winning stoves will be ready to show you just how efficient an outdoor wood burning stove can be. Join the thousands of Solo Stove users and discover how we changed fire forever! | Private Equity / Sep 25, 2019 | ||
| Mardix are a global provider of specialist switchgear, power distribution, power management and critical power servicing solutions which serves a diverse range of global customers.Delivering switchgear and critical power systems innovation at the highest level in the industry, our business model integrates switchgear, power management, andcritical power equipment servicing. Mardix offers a complete solution for every step of the critical power life cycle.With more than 50 years of leading-edge experience, the Mardix brand is synonymous with quality, reliability and innovation, and our custom engineered products ensure that value added functionality is built in to every project. From small scale to multi million pound projects, we hope you will make Mardix your first choice. | Private Equity / Jan 02, 2018 | ||
| The unstoppable forces of mobile and cloud are transforming IT and making the Internet the new WAN. Pertino enables enterprises to build and manage private cloud networks that overlay the public Internet and extend visibility, security and control to workforces and workloads everywhere. The Pertino Cloud Network Engine platform powers thecompany's network-as-a-service offering—combining the power and persuasiveness of the cloud with network virtualization, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Service Virtualization (NSV). Pertino is an entirely new way to WAN that lets IT organizations build and manage private virtual networks over the Internet, securely connecting people and resources anywhere. IT admins can add virtual network services from the AppScape app store to extend the security, visibility and control of their Pertino cloud networks with just a few clicks.Today, over 5,000 customers have used Pertino's Cloud Network Engine to build cloud networks spanning over 70 countries around the world, from Iceland to Australia.Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Pertino is a venture-backed company funded by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Lightspeed Venture Partners and JAFCO Ventures, with private investments from a number of network industry luminaries. | $8.9M / Series A / Apr 03, 2012 | ||
| Center'd is a local search and discovery site that organizes and distributes content based on SentimentAnalysis - its unique approach to analyzing conversations about local places on the Web. By analyzing millions of conversations from multiple online sources, Center'd is able to surface detailed insights about local businesses that giveconsumers a faster way to determine the tone of what people are saying about a place. Based on its contextual understanding of these conversations, Center'd has created a unique and growing index of more than 5 million U.S. places with sentiment data.Center'd formerly owned and operated Center'd uses its technology platform to create local applications on its website, mobile devices and social media websites, and to distribute unique local content through publicly available APIs and widgets.Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Center'd is led by former Microsoft and Yahoo! executives, and is funded by Norwest Venture Partners and KeyNote Ventures. Center'd was formerly named | $1M / Angel / Feb 01, 2007 | ||
| NP Photonics, Inc. designs and produces optical light sources for sensing, medical, and research and development markets. It offers fiber and single-frequency lasers, amplified spontaneous emission sources, fiber amplifiers, and light sources. It offers its products through distributors in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, SouthKorea, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, the People's Republic of China, and the United Kingdom. NP Photonics, Inc. was formerly known as NP Photonic Technologies, LLC and it changed its name in August 2000. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Tucson, Arizona. | $5M / Series A / Jul 25, 2005 | ||
| Since their inception nearly 20 years ago, Micro Power has provided customers the highest quality, best performing and most durable power solutions for their portable applications. While their mission to excel in custom battery solutions has remained unchanged, their expertise, capabilities and success have grown along with the markets they serve.Micro Power works closely with some of the most quality-driven companies on innovative and challenging applications. They've developed more than 1,000 different battery systems, from those using Ni-MH and Ni-Cd batteries to the most advanced Lithium-ion systems and smart battery packs.Their expertise runs the gamut of advanced battery systems development — from cell characterization, verification and optimization, to fuel gauges, battery management and SMBus communications. Their battery systems are found in the world's leading portable devices — including new-generation portable defibrillators, data collection devices and field instruments.If you demand a battery system provider with impeccable quality, matchless technical expertise, precision manufacturing, and a long list of loyal customers, you've come to the right place. | $9M / Series A / May 13, 2004 | ||
| SyChip Inc. designs, develops and markets Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Chip Scale Modules for the wireless Internet appliance market. The company focuses on developing highly integrated RF modules that are differentiated because of proprietary integration, modular architectures, and low loss Silicon technologies. As a result of theproprietary silicon substrate SyChip’s RF designs are more predictable and easier to simulate, thus reducing time-to-market, increasing performance and improving reliability. | $15M / Series C / Oct 10, 2003 | ||
| Spiderdance, a player in the television convergence market. | $6M / Apr 06, 2000 |
Co-Investors
About Sierra Ventures
Sierra Ventures is a Bay Area-based early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on Next Generation Enterprise and Emerging Technologies. With over three decades of experience and over $2 billion of assets under management, Sierra has created a vast network of successful entrepreneurs, Global 1000 CXOs, operational executives, and deepdomain experts, providing a platform for entrepreneurs around the world.Sierra Ventures primarily invests in Seed and Series A rounds, with a preference to lead investment rounds and reserve capital for follow on rounds. Investment sectors include artificial intelligence/machine learning, big data, cloud, fintech, health tech, IoT/infrastructure, marketplaces, SaaS & enterprise apps, security, and emerging technologies such as 5G, devices, blockchain, robotics, and virtual reality / augmented reality. Sierra Ventures typically makes initial investments between $500,000 and $7 million on average and invests between $500,000 and $15 million over the life of an investment. The firm has invested in leading companies such as Intuit, Invensense, Greenplum, MakeMyTrip, OnLink, Teradata, StrataCom, Sourcefire, Treasure Data, and more. Sierra Ventures was founded in 1982 and is based in San Mateo, California.
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What does Jeffrey Drazan invest in?
Jeffrey Drazan invests primarily in Manufacturing, Hardware and TV startups, most often at Series A and Private Equity stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Jeffrey Drazan closed in Sep 2019. Shizune tracks 8 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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