Investors
In addition to senior officers of Bluefire Security Technologies, the Board includes industry personalities from the Internet, telecommunications, and security markets.
Grotech Capital Group,
founded in 1984, is the largest private equity firm focusing exclusively on the mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States. With $1 billion in Capital Under Management and offices in Maryland and Northern Virginia, Grotech originates and leads investments in Emerging and Traditional Industries. These include Communications, Technology and Consumer, Healthcare, and Business Products and Services. Grotech has defined itself as the industry leader in this region. Grotech typically sources and leads its investments, then assists its portfolio companies by taking board seats and imparting its operating experience to management. www.grotech.com
Motorola Ventures
is the global, strategic investment arm of Motorola, dedicated to creating profitable growth through external investments in disruptive technologies, new businesses and exceptional talent. It helps turn great new ideas into thriving businesses, seeking exciting outside technologies that complement Motorola's goal of Seamless Mobility. Motorola Ventures focuses on discovery and strives to make each investment a successful alliance encapsulated by vision, creativity and business acumen.www.motorola.com/ventures
JK&B Capital
is a venture capital firm based in Chicago with $900 million under management. The firm was founded in 1996 with the belief that in addition to capital and financial savvy, successful venture investing requires unique relationships and in-depth industry and technical expertise in order to identify the most attractive investment opportunities and consistently add value to portfolio companies. The JK&B team combines experienced venture capital investors with telecommunications and information technology industry experts who possess in-depth technical expertise. JK&B professionals are capable of evaluating the technical merits of companies and adding true value and insight to entrepreneurs after an investment is made. Some of JK&B's limited partners include Computer Associates, Goldman Sachs, the Soros Group, GE Capital and Bank of America. Successful portfolio companies of JK&B include Exodus Communications, Openwave Systems (Phone.com), Commerce One, Interwoven, Intrado, Selectica, Silverstream and CoreTek. www.jkbcapital.com
Walker Ventures
is a venture capital fund focusing on early and seed stage companies in the Mid-Atlantic region. The fund was founded in 1998 by Steve Walker, a pioneer in network security software, and has aggressively pursued companies in the high-technology and security industries. Walker Ventures seeks early stage companies that bring an experienced, dedicated and motivated management team, a sound business concept and leading edge technology with the opportunity to emerge and be a dominant player in an expanding market. www.walkerventures.com
The Maryland Angels Council (MAC), LLC
is a limited liability Company organized to provide participants an opportunity for active involvement in a diversified venture capital process. The group provides equity capital to early stage entrepreneurial companies based primarily in Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region which are in the e-commerce, telecom, software, Internet, bioscience, or health markets. www.md-angels.com