Investment Preferences | Services | Strategy

Galaxy Ventures is a boutique private investment & investment banking firm. Founded in 1999, the firm invests directly and/or with co-investors, including venture capital (VC) firms (private, institutional & corporate), private equity (PE) firms and private/angel investors, and identifies sources of capital. The firm also originates VC, PE and merger & acquisition (M&A) transactions (equity, debt, etc.), and provides retained transactional advisory & consulting services.

Industries & sectors of interest include, but are not necessarily limited to:

1. Technology | Media | Telecom (TMT) + Mobile | Wireless
   

2. Software | Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) | Web Services | Internet
   

3. Analytics | Business Intelligence | Big Data | Artificial Intelligence (AI)
   

4. FinTech | Blockchain | Crypto-currencies | Payments | eCommerce
   

5. CleanTech | Renewable Energy | Environmental
   

6. Medical Devices | Life Sciences
   

7. Storage | Networking
   

8. Consumer Products | Retail | Direct-Marketing | Direct-Response Television (DRTV)
   

9. Entertainment | Gaming | Social Media
   

10. Technology & Intellectual Property Acquisition & Licensing
    

11. “Quant” α Trading & Other Innovative Trading/Investing Technologies
    

12. AgTech (Agricultural Technology)
    

13. Real Estate
    

Investment preferences include ventures with:

1. Revolutionary (rather than evolutionary) products, services & technologies
   

2. Experienced management teams and/or talented & ambitious entrepreneurs with the “next hot thing”
   

3. Very large potential market sizes
   

4. Disruptive, unique, proprietary and/or defensible technology with intellectual property protection/patents
   

5. Little or no existing competition & substantial barriers-to-entry for competitors
   

The firm will consider investments of any size and stage of company development, including seed funding.

Geographic preference is the U.S. West Coast, but the firm will consider investments and clients regardless of locale.

Galaxy Ventures is a private, closely-held entity and does not generally publicly disclose its amount of invested funds, portfolio companies, client transactions, investment returns and the identities of its (co)investors.