Sonostar Ventures LLC was founded in 1997 to invest in private companies and start up ventures across a variety of industries and in certain special situations in the public debt and equity markets. The LLC is fully invested at this point and is in distribution mode.  To see our current fund, please click on Sonostar Capital Partners, LLC at the bottom of this page.

Sonostar Ventures backed entrepreneurs who had the vision, perseverance and integrity to succeed and who had a passion that matched our own desire to excel.  We invested in sixteen early stage private companies, representing a diverse universe of industries.

All of our investments share the following common themes:

1.  Our investments ranged between $500,000 and $2,000,000, although there were numerous instances where we helped to arrange additional financing as needed (and occasional instances where we invested less than $500,000).

2.  We only invested in companies that were projected to be raising enough money in the current raise up to reach profitability without the need to raise additional funds.

3.  We focused on companies that had reasonable prospects of generating $100 million in revenues or that had the potential to return five to ten times our invested capital by the end of the fourth or fifth year following our investment.

4.  We invested in companies that we felt we could positively impact.  Since the capital we invested was our own, we insisted on being active investors who generally took positions on the Board of Directors of the companies in which we invested.  We looked to provide our experience and insight to help enhance the value of our investment.  To each of our portfolio companies, we brought our unique combination of operating experience and financial expertise as well as access to our extensive network of professional contacts.

5.  We tried to take meaningful stakes in the companies in which we invested so that the capital we provided made a difference.

6.  Our expertise is in the financial, operating and marketing areas of business and in the biotechnology sector.  We only invested in businesses that we were able to understand quickly or in which our expertise provided added value.

7.  We are in it to win, and we only invested in companies that share that perspective.