Portfolio
Below is a partial list of firms invested in by the Sierra Angels:
- Advanced Navigation and Position Corp.
- Animated Speech
- Avot Media
- Blueline Partners
- CalNet Business Bank
- Jopari Solutions
- Mariah-Power
- Marrone Organic Innovators
- Mobius
- Nevada Security Bank
- OptiComp Corp.
- Panoptx
- Pria Diagnostics
- RegeneMed
- Skinstore.com
- Sierra Nevada Solar
- SuperImaging
- Travidia
Advanced Navigation and Position Corp.
ANPC provides airspace safety, efficiency, and capacity to users of aviation through state-of-the-art tracking and guidance. ANPC’s technology uniquely combines the critical functions of terminal surveillance and precision approach guidance and utilizes legacy airborne systems to provide safe al-weather airport access at minimal operator cost.
Animated Speech
Our animated tutor helps build critical language skills
Children with autism, hearing impairments, developmental delays and other language problems struggle every day with communication, conversation and reading. Animated Speech’s software is designed to give speech pathologists, educators and parents who work with these children an important new tool to build comprehension and vocabulary skills.
Avot Media
Avot Media provides best-in-class tools for content owners to quickly and easily deliver their web videos to mobile users. Our mobile-specific video formatting and delivery platform includes both proprietary transcoding and streaming technologies. By smoothly delivering mobile video to all their target customers, we answer the question content providers and advertisers have been struggling with; “how do I deliver my content to mobile in a meaningful way?”
Blueline Partners
http://www.bluelinepartners.com/
BlueLine Partners invests in public micro-cap healthcare and technology companies. We take an operational or a “bottom’s up” approach to our investments focusing on the value-drivers and long-term potential of the companies in which we invest. BlueLine is also a deep value investor that seeks to take positions in companies that are out of favor with other investors. By then working with management to address existing problems, BlueLine hopes to earn above-market returns as the company’s performance improves and it wins back institutional shareholder support.
CalNet Business Bank
Acquired by Commercial Capital Bancorp, Inc. in March 2006
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_March_6/ai_n16090433
Jopari Solutions
Jopari is changing the way insurance payers manage bill and payment processing needs. Now payers can greatly reduce costs and boost operational efficiency while meeting today’s intense regulatory compliance laws including eBill, ePay and HIPAA.
Payers of all industries use Jopari Pay™ to significantly reduce both operational costs and the drain on valuable human resources, while realizing a return on investment almost immediately.
Mariah-Power
Mariah Power produces Windspire- a low cost, attractive, plug-n-produce wind power appliance that provides a safe and attractive method for harnessing power from the wind. At only 30 feet tall and 2 feet in radius, Windspire is distinguished by its sleek propeller-free design, ultra quiet operation, rugged construction, and affordable pricing. Designed for operation where we live and work, it comes complete with a high efficiency generator, integrated inverter, hinged monopole, and wireless performance monitor.
Marrone Organic Innovators
http://www.marroneorganics.com/index.html
Marrone Organic Innovations discovers, develops and markets effective and environmentally responsible natural products that focus on unmet needs for weed, pest and plant disease management.
Mobius
(Was acquired by Allen Systems Group (ASG) in June 2007)
http://www.asg.com/newsroom/pr_details.asp?id=202
Mobius provides solutions that enable enterprises to manage, control and integrate content, guarantee long-term integrity and availability, meet regulatory and audit requirements, ensure accuracy and streamline business processes. Using ViewDirect software, these enterprises have gained control of the explosive growth of records, documents and other electronic content, reduced the costs of maintaining content and improved the efficiency of business operations.
Nevada Security Bank
http://nevadasecuritybank.com/
Nevada Security Bank is the largest community bank in northern Nevada with branches in Reno, Incline Village, and Carson City. When it comes to helping your business and your bottom line, we give you the attention and guidance you expect from a bank you can trust.
OptiComp Corp.
OptiComp Corporation is a unique optoelectronics research and development company with a dedicated staff of engineers and scientists, who are stimulated and motivated by a positive and supportive work environment. OptiComp Corporation is located in beautiful Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
For more than a decade, leaders such as NASA, Air Force Research Laboratory, and the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command have turned to OptiComp Corporation for exceptional products and personal attention. Now you can get that same type of service. Our team of dedicated professionals will work together and collaborate to find the exact solution you are looking for. OptiComp Corporation prides itself on maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality and protection of our client’s interests.
Panoptx (changed name to 7EYE)
http://www.panoptx.com (old website)
http://www.7eye.com/store/home.php (new online store)
Panoptx Eyewear earned a stellar reputation as a supplier of quality motorcycle sunglasses. This season Panoptx will change their name from Panoptx to 7-Eye. Panoptx / 7-Eye still sells motorcycle glasses to people who like to look good and go fast. Panoptx / 7-Eye motorcycle sunglasses and prescription Panoptx glasses are uniquely designed to protect your eyes from wind, dust, water, UV rays, or harsh elements. Whether your passion is motorcycling, snow skiing, or water sports, Panoptx motorcycle glasses protect your eyes with style and technology. These lenses have a permanent anti-fog coating, 100% UV protection, a scratch resistant coating, and a hydrophobic hard coat to repel water. This also applies to our prescription Panoptx / 7-Eye lenses. The foam eye seal is removable in the Panoptx glasses in the Velocity CV Series. Prescription Panoptx / 7-Eye glasses are available in almost all frames.
Pria Diagnostics
http://www.priadiagnostics.com/
Pria Diagnostics specializes in low cost, high performance, fluorescent readers based on Pria’s NanoFL platform technology. The company forms partnerships with diagnostics companies and manufacturers, enabling them to improve their current test sensitivity, or to create diagnostics solutions for the point of care market. Pria can help your business expand into the new and rapidly growing segments of diagnostics testing including:
• Retail clinics
• Field Testing
• Physician office laboratories
• Consumer-driven testing
NanoFL is a proven technology which has been commercialized in Pria’s first product, the Element home fertility test for men. With offices in both Silicon Valley and Singapore, Pria’s experienced team can provide product design, product development and offshore high volume manufacturing.
RegeneMed
RegeneMed accelerates the development of safer, more effective drugs by providing integrated high throughput platforms incorporating engineered human tissue-based assays. Our patented, proprietary, core technologies enable in vitro growth of engineered human tissues, including liver, GI tract, bone marrow, blood-brain barrier, cardiovascular and neuronal. The first and critical application of these tissue-based in vitro model systems is to replace cell-based assays and
animal testing to debottleneck ADME/Tox evaluation, the leading cause of drug failures facing the pharmaceutical industry.
RegeneMed tissue technologies are off-the-shelf available, scalable, reproducible and specific and designed to provide normal, diseased and
polymorphic tissues. Additional applications include drug discovery platforms (cancer and antiviral), biosensors (chem/biowarfare), diagnostics, medical
devices (extracorporeal devices) and tissue implants.
Skinstore.com
Shopping for skin care is easy at SkinStore. Whether you want help selecting a product or regimen or know exactly what you’re looking for, we’ve got products that are right for you. We make it easy to shop our more than 200 brands and 5000 products.
Shop with confidence. You’ll receive free shipping and absolutely no hassle if you need to make a return. You’ll also find samples with every order. And with our lowest price, 115% price guarantee, you’ll never pay too much.
We’ve shipped over 2 million beauty products during the past ten years. Join women worldwide who have discovered the value, selection and expertise at SkinStore.
Sierra Nevada Solar
HelioPower engineering, consulting and installation of green energy technology, with a focus on solar power (photovoltaic) systems to a diverse roster of residential, commercial and large scale facility clients.
HelioPower is a wholly owned subsidiary of the HelioGroup. The HelioGroup portfolio of companies also includes HelioEMS, energy management solutions for commercial, public sector and large scale utility clients, and Helio mU (Micro Utility), which provides independent financing through power purchase agreements.
SuperImaging
Founded by experienced entrepreneurs and technologists in Silicon Valley, the mission of SuperImaging is to develop and commercialize state-of-art “display-on-glass” technology. The patent pending technology turns any ordinary pane of glass into an electronic display panel while not blocking the view through it. When compared to our competitors, our technology has better transparency and clarity, unlimited viewing angles, and can produce solutions at a lower cost.
For example, our technology can turn the windshield of automobiles into an informational heads-up display. Both driver and passengers will be able to clearly see the car information and navigation on the forward scene windshield without taking the eyes off the road during driving. Furthermore, integration with other subsystems such as global positioning systems (GPS) will heighten the value our display system can provide.
Retailers can also utilize this technology to draw awareness to their stores and products. Imagine customers viewing full-motion videos on a glass pane, seemingly produced by the glass itself. Or consider being able to display a product, such as jewelry, where customers can view more information through the glass case by simply touching a button.
Travidia
Travidia is the leading digital advertising services company committed to creating and driving new, profitable advertising opportunities online. These opportunities are created from content either generated online or via our partners’ printed product. By combining this information in a granular format in a database, Travidia then provides the technology solutions to display track and drive advertising frequency.
