Industries:
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Manufacturing
Investor Types:
Venture Capital
Investment Stages:
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Value-added seed and angel capital, with experienced advice at key inflection
points: positioning, raising capital, connections, team building, bus dev, sales,
messaging, marketing, communications, M&A / IPO.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR -
Significant market potential. High conviction, high commitment founders. Core teammates who have proven
they can execute. Well-differentiated solutions with obvious appeal.
Competitive advantage. Solid plan. Good chemistry.
PORTFOLIO -
Theorem portfolio companies include Delphix, Smule, Automatic, FundersClub, Visual.ly, Unified Social, Sokanu, Pixt, Trustpipe, Traackr, Chirpify, Raise.me, OfferUp and 915Labs. Exits include MP3.com, Sigaba, Atomic, ComContext, H30, Zui & Moonfruit. Pagelever was acquired in 2013 for shares in Unified Social.
GEOGRAPHICS -
Theorem is focused on companies based in San Francisco & Silicon Valley.
HISTORY -
Theorem partners Andy Getsey and James Hannon started with an investment in the IPO of MP3.com, and have made 20 select investments with 7 exits to date.
MORE BACKGROUND -
Andy and James are entrepreneurs and angel investors who understand first hand what it takes to launch and commercialize technologies and tech-related companies.
Together, they co-developed a pioneering analytics platform, launched two companies and created an international joint venture with a publicly traded company – all of which were acquired. Along the way, they negotiated more than 500 contracts, opened 7 office locations and managed more than 200 staff in the US and Europe. In addition, they’ve invested in more than 20 companies, with 6 acquisitions and one IPO to date.
They were the co-founders of Atomic, which became one of the fastest growing SF Bay Area companies for 5 years running, and one of Silicon Valley`s premiere PR and social agencies for startups. Atomic was Technology PR Agency of the Year in 2010 and was acquired in 2011. They also co-developed ComContext, an award-winning communications analytics platform, which was also acquired.
At Atomic, Andy and James advised on the launches, growth stages and/or exits of more than 75 high profile tech start-ups including Photobucket, Linkedin, Bebo, Rapt, Xign, Splunk!, Mint, Dropbox, Milo, Jobvite, Smule, Fusion-io, Arcsight, Hirevue, Leap Motion, Moonfruit, Delphix, Automatic, Rocket Fuel, Opower, Lending Club, FullScreen Networks, BrightRoll, Fountain and more.
Theorem was founded in 2007.