WHAT WE DO:

CNP AKAMA Ventures offers venture assistance, strategic advice and capital to entrepreneurs. The firm helps entrepreneurs extend the potential of their ideas in both traditional venture areas like manufacturing, commercial and residential real estate and technology companies involved with online media, data / video infrastructure as well as consumer and B2B marketing companies.

What we stand for:

Knowing & doing what it takes to foster winners

• We are in the company building business.
• We have a history of leveraging relationships to build teams, attract partners and customers and then together building million dollar businesses.
• We are active partners who do everything we can for our companies and have not forgotten how to hustle.

Strategic advice, creative ideas

• We love extremes - how can we make something good into something great? Are we protected against the worst that can happen? Are we leveraging the upside? Are we planning for our assets as well as our liabilities? How might your competition analyze your company?
• When good isn't good enough, we help you think outside the box and we help you change the rules.
• Call us with a direct, straightforward style. We prefer brutal honesty to hypocritical politeness

What we are looking for:

We welcome opportunities to help build companies with lasting significance

• Several sectors are of particular interest to us - mobile, alternative energy, bio refineries as well as new markets or contrarian approaches to existing markets.
• From initial ideas or ventures with significant technical risk, including "science experiments”, though risks should be identifiable and testable early, to proven businesses looking to expand.
• Investment size can range from $100,000 to $20MM+
• Individuals who are open minded about building strong teams with background diversity, who know what they know and know what they don't know, and have deep expertise & large vision.
• Individuals who are fun to work with and best in class