Philadelphia, PA -- The National Association of Seed and Venture
Funds (NASVF) has entered into a strategic partnership with EquityNet, the
leading peer-to-peer e-marketplace for private business analysis,
capitalization, and support. In addition, EquityNet is sponsoring and
exhibiting at the 17th Annual NASVF Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, on
October 13-15.
NASVF and EquityNet have
partnered to promote to NASVF members and to the entire private equity industry
the benefits of EquityNet’s innovative business analysis and capitalization
marketplace and customized research services. With EquityNet's automated
Enterprise Analyzer™ software, investors can overcome the limitations of
business plan screening. They can receive standardized, comprehensive analytical
reports that enable them to efficiently analyze and benchmark their investment
prospects, allowing them to:
Screen deals in a
fraction of the time and cost required to review traditional business plans.
Ensure that
entrepreneurs adequately characterize their investment opportunity.
Efficiently analyze and
compare deals to quickly identify prospects for further due diligence.
According to Jim Jaffe,
President and CEO of NASVF, “We are excited about our new strategic partnership
with EquityNet. They are an entrepreneurial organization that has developed a
breakthrough product that will contribute to the success for investors,
entrepreneurs, and technology transfer professionals in the commercialization
of new technology innovations.”
Judd Hollas, co-founder
and CEO of EquityNet, stated, “We are delighted to partner with NASVF to help
bring to market EquityNet’s unique analytical tools, research, and growing
capital e-marketplace. Through our collaboration with NASVF, we plan to expand
adoption of our state-of-the-art platform and as a result, improve
capitalization activity and enterprise success in a domain that originates
one-third of U.S. public companies and that accounts for a majority of
employment and productivity growth.”
The National Association
of Seed and Venture Funds is an international membership organization that
advocates for the growth of seed and early-stage innovation capital. NASVF
connects the people in the world of venture capital and regional economic
development. NASVF collaborates with public and private funds, and tech
transfer professionals, the folks who are committed to building their local
economies by investing in local entrepreneurs and commercializing technologies.
EquityNet is the leading peer-to-peer
e-marketplace for private business analysis, capitalization, and support.
EquityNet's patented business modeling and analysis engine, Enterprise
Analyzer™, is the world's first automated system that analyzes and compares
privately-held businesses; benchmarks and validates a wide range of business
parameters against those of peer businesses; estimates business valuation based
on over 3,000 private and public market ratios and factors; and statistically
estimates 10 dimensions of business risk based on 500,000 actual cases of
enterprise failure and success