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Calyx Ventures - aptly named for the collection of tiny leaves that support a bud as it blossoms into a flower - is an advisory firm supporting pioneering entrepreneurs building exciting new ventures in a broad base of areas, including Internet, green and clean technologies broadly defined under sustainability, and certain other compelling -- often new -- segments of technology and life sciences.  The practice has offered strategic advisory and fundraising services to passionate new company founders looking to serve a newly-defined potential billion-dollar market, and in so doing, redefining the way we live, learn, work, and communicate. 

Founded by industry veteran Vered Sharon, the firm's ethos is based on pattern recognition identified over a two-decade period of working with hundreds of companies at seed-stage and at liquidation via initial public offering, merger, or aquisition. The result is a proprietary expertise that enables Ms. Sharon to offer her clients:

A)  Esoteric know-how on fundraising from top-tier angel and venture private sources at seed stage,

B)  The ability to get founders' meetings with the right funds based on a proven calculus for success, including cutsomized assistance through out according to the specific top-tier venture capital firm and the initial General Partner assessing their investment potential, and

C) Strategy definition and execution assistance, based on her own corporate experience and expertise in what a company ought to look like at various stages of its growth in order to succeed in eventually going public or getting acquired by/merging with a leading company, and how to get there.

Upon signing, clients benefit from passionate, unyielding and unconditional assistance led by the entrepreneurs' needs.  Assistance is provided via industry-defining sales, marketing, aura-building, general operations, fundraising expertise, and sheer passion to achieve project success in a time-and-cost-efficient manner.

From coach, people-connector, your #1 ally, to behind-the-scenes, seasoned representative on your behalf with investors, Calyx offers entrepreneurs a comprehensive one-stop shop, due to an ability and proclivity to provide both hands-on and referral-based assistance. As a client, the entrepreneur gains access to a large and deep rolodex of not just top-tier VCs, but also cream-of-the-crop, global and highly successful CEOs, angel investors, and academicians who can serve founders in virtually any desired advisory capacity. Targeted investors tend to be those on Silicon Valley's Sand Hill Road -- its significance not only in its concentration of many of the world's leading venture funds, but also as a symbol of private investment in the United States as compared to that of Wall Street in the public exchange markets.