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Leader Ventures

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Leader Ventures is a private investment firm providing debt and equity financing to a diversified portfolio of early and late stage, private companies.

With offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco, Leader Ventures invests primarily in the U.S. and employs a variety of loan structures to invest in companies of different developmental stages and across technology, clean tech and life science industries.

The investment professionals of Leader Ventures come from Dominion Capital Management and Western Technology Investment. The team has a wide range of expertise in lending to, investing in, and running start-ups.

Milestones

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  Leader Ventures invested in Innovalight. (10/13/09)
  Posted 10/14/09 at 7:56pm
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  Leader Ventures invested in Vindicia. (7/13/09)
  Posted 7/13/09 at 9:17am
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  Leader Ventures invested in Tagged. (12/17/08)
  Posted 12/18/08 at 12:48am
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  Leader Ventures invested in Vindicia. (3/31/08)
  Posted 6/3/08 at 10:12pm
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  Leader Ventures invested in VoloMedia. (3/18/08)
  Posted 12/30/08 at 1:22pm
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  Leader Ventures invested in SideStep. (2/1/07)
  Posted 7/10/07 at 7:27pm
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  Leader Ventures invested in Enpocket. (11/2/06)
  Posted 9/21/09 at 5:25pm

Investments

Videos

Sources

1. Solar ink maker Innovalight shines with $15M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Vindicia Bags Another $7.5 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Tagged Secures $5 Million in Venture Debt (sociableblog.com) []
4. Vindicia Raises $5.6 Million in Series C Financing from Leader Ventures and DCM (vindicia.com) [edit]
5. VoloMedia raises $3.5M for download advertising and metrics (venturebeat.com) [edit]
6. news.com.com [edit]
7. Mobile marketing co., Enpocket, gets $2M debt from Leader Ventures (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]