Portfolio Companies
| Halozyme Therapeutics (Nasdaq: HALO) Halozyme Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products targeting the extracellular matrix for the endocrinology, oncology, dermatology and drug delivery markets. The company's product portfolio is primarily based on intellectual property covering the family of human enzymes known as hyaluronidases and additional enzymes that affect the extracellular matrix. |
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| Intrexon With over 400 patents and patent applications, Intrexon is working with key channel partners across its four divisions to deliver better products through unmatched control over living cells. With scalable engineering of rationally designed complex transgenes, Intrexon is redefining industrial synthetic biology. Founded in 1998, Intrexon Corporation is a privately held synthetic biology company with facilities in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and California. |
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| Retrophin, Inc Retrophin is a biotechnology company dedicated to developing drugs for rare and life-threatening diseases. |
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Antares Antares Pharma is a revenue-generating product focused specialty pharmaceutical company that has developed three proprietary platforms, two of which now include FDA approved products. Antares' products typically improve safety and efficacy profiles by minimizing dosing and reducing side effects while improving patient compliance. Antares focuses on self-injection pharmaceutical products and technologies and topical gel -based products. Antares' subcutaneous injection technology platforms include Vibex™ disposable pressure-assisted auto injectors, Vision® reusable needle-free injectors, and disposable multi-use pen injectors |
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CardioSpectra *Sold to Volcano in 2007. CardioSpectra was founded in 2005 by Marc D. Feldman, M.D., of the Health Science Center and Thomas E. Milner, Ph.D., of UT Austin. It was acquired by Volcano in 2007. CardioSpectra is looking for innovative ways to image blood vessel plaques that are vulnerable to rupture. A better method of imaging these plaques could dramatically reduce the number of sudden deaths from strokes and heart attacks precipitated by plaque ruptures. |
| Colt Oil and Gas Colt Oil and Gas invests primarily in Gulf State oil and gas basins utilizing new completion technology. The use of innovative drilling and completion techniques allows CO&G to unlock oil reserves that were previously inaccessible or uneconomical to produce. Current operations are focused in the Permian and Delaware basins of Texas. |
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Smith Pipe
Smith Pipe has well service rigs and plug and abandonment rigs completely outfitted for the most versatile and efficient operations. Smith Pipe offers a wide variety of tubulars, normally with over a million feet on hand. Smith Pipe also has a wide variety of pumping units, well heads and hook-ups and down-hole equipment from packers to cementing equipment. Smith Pipe's manufacturing facility constantly produces storage tanks, separators, heaters, water knockouts and gun barrels to our customers' specifications. |
| XE Services (formerly Blackwater) Private Military Company |
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Craft International (Special Ops Training) Craft International is a world-class leader in security, logistics, and training, and through its subsidiaries can provide almost any imaginable combination of services to its clients. |
| Paetec International (Nasdaq GS: PAET)
PAETEC personalizes communications for business-class customers across the United States. We offer a comprehensive suite of data, voice, and IP services, as well as enterprise communications management software, network security solutions, CPE, and managed services. |
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| Trulogica *Sold to Hewlett-Packard in March 2004. TruLogica Inc. develops and markets context-based identity management solutions for complex and extended enterprises. |
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| Motive *Sold to Alcatel-Lucent In 2008. Motive is a leading provider of digital life management solutions for fixed and mobile broadband services. The organization now forms a product division within in the Application Software Group of Alcatel-Lucent. Motive’s solutions portfolio helps telco, wireless, cable and satellite operators wolrdwide deliver and manage a new generation of IP-based services that seamlessly integrate voice, video and data into a single connected experience for customers at-home or on the go. |
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| Real Foundations RealFoundations is a full-service management consultancy focused on helping companies in the real estate industry improve their operations and achieve their potential. RealFoundations was founded in 2000 after concluding that the real estate industry was being poorly served by the big consulting firms. |
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Euroseas (Nasdaq:ESEA)
Euroseas operates in the dry cargo, drybulk and container shipping markets. Euroseas' operations are managed by Eurobulk Ltd., an ISO 9001:2000 certified affiliated ship management company, which is responsible for the day-to-day commercial and technical management and operations of the vessels. Euroseas employs its vessels on spot and period charters and through pool arrangements. |
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Waste Corporation of America WCA is a vertically integrated, non-hazardous solid waste management company providing non-hazardous solid waste collection, transfer, processing, and disposal services in the south and central regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2007, WCA served approximately 333,000 commercial, industrial and residential customers in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. WCA currently owns and/or operate 24 landfills, 28 collection operations and 22 transfer stations/materials recovery facilities (MRFs). Of these facilities, two transfer stations and two landfills are fully permitted but not yet opened, and one transfer station is idle. Additionally, WCA currently operates but do not own two of the transfer stations. |
| OpsTechnology *Sold to RealPage in 2008. CARROLLTON, Texas (October 15, 2008) — RealPage, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand software and services to the multifamily industry, today announced the acquisition of OpsTechnology, the largest electronic purchasing marketplace for multifamily owners, at the Multifamily Executive Conference in Las Vegas. |
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| Colt Proprietary Trading Dallas Texas Colt Ventures proprietary trading desk uses the firm's capital to express macro views as well as to trade best ideas in the public markets. We express our views through liquid investments in public equities, preferred equities, all types of fixed income, currencies and a wide variety of derivatives. |
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| Colt Lease Bank Partners Dallas, Texas Colt Lease Bank Partners accumulates leases in emerging oil resource plays, and then drills or markets the leases. |
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| Star Double B Ranch www.starbbranch.com |
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