Capital Community Angel Investors

06/30/2018

"Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting... have a healthy disregard for the impossible." - Larry Page. Google Founder and former East Lansing resident.

03/16/2017

Today we heard a pitch from Towel Tracker that uses RFID to help resorts, hotels, and clubs manage their towel inventory and prevent loss.

http://www.wnem.com/clip/12997904/towel-tracker-at-local-gym

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01/27/2017

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04/06/2016

Mark Hooper from CCAI discusses angel investing in this month's edition of the Greater Lansing Business Monthly. Check it out on page 51
https://issuu.com/greaterlansingbusinessmonthly/docs/glbm_april16.compressed/51?e=10752402/34589713

CELEBRATING LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS

03/30/2016

Green Light Business Model Competition.

03/29/2016

Good news for one of our portfolio companies, Vestaron. http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160326/NEWS/303279993/kalamazoo-company-vestaron-turns-spider-venom-into-pesticides-and

After 11 years of research and development, Vestaron Corp. has received federal approval to begin selling its first three pesticides, which turn spider venom into bug killers that are benign to people, pets, livestock and water sources.

03/17/2016

Tonight we had the pleasure of listening to an investment presentation from Rob Zondervan the Founder & CEO of SteriDev. SteriDev is the maker of CleanCase, a sterile case for mobile devices to be used in medical procedures.

02/23/2016

Please join us for the 6th Annual Business Model Competition as the top 5 graduate and undergraduate teams present their business plans to the judges to win up to $5,000 for first place and move closer to getting their idea to market. Thursday, February 25 at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts E…

02/16/2016

CCAI investment, Vestaron, racks up $14 million Series C.

Vestaron Corporation, a company that designs environmentally friendly insecticides, announced today the final close of its Series C Financing. Anterra Capital, based in the Netherlands, added $4M to the $10M previously announced to bring total funding to $14M. Anterra Capital is jointly funded by Moonray Investors, the proprietary investment arm of FIL Limited, the parent company of Fidelity Worldwide Investment, and Rabo Private Equity, the proprietary private equity arm of Rabobank. The round also included Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, Southwest Michigan First Life Science Venture Fund, Open Prairie Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, Michigan Accelerator Fund and others.

“I’m very pleased to welcome Anterra to the Vestaron team. Their perspectives will be greatly valued on the Board of Directors, and their experience in food and agriculture will be invaluable to us going forward,” said John Sorenson, CEO of Vestaron. “We’re overwhelmed to have attracted so much interest from the international venture capital community.”

Philip Austin, a Partner in Anterra Capital, said, “We’re delighted to be supporting Vestaron. We’ve been watching the Company for several years now, and we feel the time is right to make an investment in this groundbreaking company. The commercialization of their first product is proving that natural peptides can be a valuable source of novel insecticides providing farmers with a crop protection tool that has the power of chemicals with the safety profile of biologicals.”

Vestaron exploits the natural insecticidal properties of a class of peptides which have potent insect killing potential, but which are safe to humans, birds, fish, and the environment, including honeybees. These peptides utilize new modes of action that have never before been used for insect control, and therefore do not suffer from insect resistance. In addition to the bioinsecticides, the Company is putting the genes for the peptides into crop plants, and is modeling the active sites of the peptides to identify synthetic mimics that also have a favorable safety spectrum

02/13/2016

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02/13/2016

Highlighting CCAI Investment Companies: Vestaron.

At Vestaron, scientists are unlocking the mystery of how spiders kill insects. Based on the natural venom produced by spiders, insecticides developed by Vestaron will offer a new generation of products to protect against insects while, at the same time, protecting the environment