MHS Capital

MindLab

admin — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:55:08 +0000

WHY WE INVESTED: Mind Lab’s CEO, Valmir Pereira, is a serial entrepreneur that built his last company to $100 million in revenue, and after taking over Mind Lab, he has built the company into a thought leader in the Brazilian education market. Mind Lab is poised to capitalize on the significant investments the Brazilian government is making into improving the country’s education programs.

TEAM

Valmir Pereira

HEADQUARTERS

São Paulo, Brazil

FOUNDED

1994

CO-INVESTORS

Accel Partners, Meritech Capital Partners

Mind Lab Lab group has developed a unique teaching methodology that leverages proprietary strategy games to teach critical thinking and life skills to children of all ages. The company works directly with schools and educators to integrate their methodology into a school’s existing curriculum so their students can improve their cognitive, social and creating thinking skills through game play.

HandShake

admin — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:16:49 +0000

	WHY WE INVESTED: HandShake is bringing mobile sales tools to the $200+ billion B2B eCommerce industry that continues to rely upon email, phone and faxes for creating, managing and processing purchase orders. The founder, Glen, bootstrapped the company to handling over $100 million in orders per year prior to raising capital.
TEAM Glen Coates, Mike Elmgreen HEADQUARTERS New York, NY FOUNDED 2010 CO-INVESTORS Softtech VC, High Peaks Ventures, Angels	HandShake is a provider of B2B wholesale eCommerce SaaS applications for independent and dedicated sales representatives. With the company’s solutions, retailers and sales representatives can quickly and easily create purchase orders on their mobile devices.

Julep

admin — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:15:00 +0000

	WHY WE INVESTED: Julep is on a mission to create the next big beauty brand in the nail polish category, which is growing by strong double digits each year. The company’s strength in social marketing enables it to facilitate shared product discovery amongst its engaged community members and drive online commerce.
TEAM Jane Park HEADQUARTERS Seattle, WA FOUNDED 2006 CO-INVESTORS Maveron Capital Partners, Version One, Angels	Julep is building a new online beauty brand that caters to women who love to discover and share new, exciting nail polish products with their girlfriends.

Bizible

admin — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:10:37 +0000

	WHY WE INVESTED: Local businesses spend billions each year on online marketing, often without a clear understanding of what the ROI is, but now, with Bizible’s revenue tracking technology, local businesses can now get direct insight into which online marketing channels and campaigns are the most effective and the most profitable.
TEAM Aaron Bird, Peter Thompson HEADQUARTERS Seattle, WA FOUNDED 2011 CO-INVESTORS Madrona Venture Group, Angels	Bizible is building technology that helps local businesses who market online but provide services offline understand the ROI for the online marketing spend.

Vijay Nagappan

admin — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:51:28 +0000

Vijay Nagappan

Vijay joined MHS Capital in 2010 to work with entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies.

In 2002, Vijay joined his first startup, Wired Gamez, where he was responsible for customer sourcing, business development and new market expansion. After Wired Gamez, he developed a web-based CRM and job management system for a recruiting services company, built a data-driven forecasting model as part of AND1′s retail strategy, and developed data scraping/cleaning algorthims to track what TV broadcast content was being illegally downloaded across the web.

Prior to joining MHS Capital, Vijay was with Evercore Partners where he worked side by side founders and operators of VC-backed and public technology companies, advising them on corporate strategy, fundraising, mergers, acquisitions, and joint-ventures.

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Mark Sugarman

admin — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:28:38 +0000

Mark Sugarman

Mark has been working with startups as an investor, advisor and operator for over 15 years.

In 1996, Mark joined Internet Capital Group as an unpaid intern to work alongside and invest in entrepreneurs building early stage technology companies. After spending a few years there, he joined VerticalNet as an early employee, where he helped take the company public and led its corporate development/partnerships team.

After leaving VerticalNet, Mark returned to investing, first as an angel, and now as the founder and managing partner of MHS Capital.

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

mark sugarman

admin — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:17:32 +0000

Mark Sugarman

Mark is the founder of MHS Capital and has been working with startups as an investor, advisor and operator for over 15 years.

He first started working with startups in 1996 when he joined Internet Capital Group as its first investment professional. After a few years at ICG, Mark moved to the operational side when he joined VertcialNet as an early employee. While there, he helped take the company public and led its corporate development/partnerships team. After leaving VerticalNet, Mark returned to investing and now spends his time working closely with ambitious entrepreneurs driven to build large, meaningful companies.

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Yahoo

admin — Tue, 29 May 2012 01:40:16 +0000

Thumbtack

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 23:59:47 +0000

WHY WE INVESTED: Consumer expenditures on local services are in the billions, but consumers still do not have an efficient way to connect with high quality local service professionals. By building up a marketplace of over 270,000 service providers, helping them establishing trust with consumers, and streamlining the booking process, Thumbtack is on its way to disrupting this $400 billion market.

TEAM

Marco Zappacosta, Jonathan Swanson, Sander Daniels

HEADQUARTERS

San Francisco, CA

FOUNDED

2008

CO-INVESTORS

Javelin Venture Partners, Draper Associates, Angels

Thumbtack is a marketplace for connecting consumers with local service professionals. Through its marketplace, consumers can request pricing quotes, book and pay for any kind of local service offered by any of its 270,000 service providers.

We Heart It

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 23:58:44 +0000

	WHY WE INVESTED: WeHeartIt has created a community of highly-engaged, loyal users from all around the world that use the WeHeartIt platform for self-expression. Users are actively discovering, aggregating and tagging images that they believe represent their personality, interests and aspirations.
TEAM Fabio Giolito HEADQUARTERS San Francisco, CA FOUNDED 2008 CO-INVESTORS Angels	WeHeartIt is a destination site where users aggregate, organize and discover beautiful images “heart”-ed by users while casually consuming content across the internet and in the WeHeartIt community. The profiles they create on WeHeartIt are visual represenations of who they are as individuals.