Meet the Team

We're a VC funded, Silicon Valley style company located in Portland Maine. Our founders have spent years working for some of the most successful companies in the valley and in New York. We're pushing the edge of how people think about media, broadcasting, and communication. We're already working with some of the biggest media companies in the world.

Employees


Erik, Nic, and Erik's sister Mette, around 1970, Truro MA

Nic Wolff

Nic Wolff has spent 20 years designing and developing retail, client-server, and Web software for the world's greatest financial-services institutions. As a journeyman user-interface designer and programmer at Reality Technologies (now a unit of Reuters) and at SEI Investments, Nic designed and developed a number of products, including the popular WealthBuilder retail investment-planning product; ASSIST, an award-winning mutual-fund-sales presentation and report-generation tool; and the SEI 401(k) Retirement Calculator software, which was distributed to hundreds of thousands of American workers.

As partner and vice president since 1994 of Angel Networks, Nic has built database-backed Web applications for clients including the FIX and RIXML Protocol Organizations, Goldman Sachs, the AdCouncil, DuPont, Citibank, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Capital Publishing/Worth Magazine, and SEI Investments. He is an expert in requirements analysis, user-interaction design and testing, data design, rapid- prototyping development methodologies, and object-oriented programming, and is the developer and maintainer of the powerful Angel::Form and Angel::List Web-database software object classes.

Michael Slattery

Mike has spent 15 years making end users happy. At the University of Chicago, when he wasn't running around campus restarting network printers and doing desktop support, he was digitizing floorplans and making database backed apps. Later, Mike worked for Tekserve in New York City back when soldering components was common practice. There he learned electronics and troubleshooting, the importance of data backups and recovery, and above all how to serve the end user and customer.

Then the internet came about. Angel Networks was born as an ISP, complete with Unix, modem racks and pioneer-style virtual hosting. Mike dealt with the sourcing, care and feeding of the hardware (Nic did the telecom, thankfully) and everyone pulled a developer's oar. Once we saw NCSA Mosaic, we never looked back. We produced some of the first examples of online distrubuted CMS, online bill presentation, online financial presentation as well as tons of marketing support.

Mike and his wife Jessica (a Doctor a few times over) have two young children. They're slowly becoming equestrians again, and Mike has brought out the soldering gun again for fun.

Investors

CEI Community Ventures
Located in Portland, Maine, Community Ventures manages a $10M venture capital fund. Led by a team with extensive operating, investing and consulting experience, Community Ventures works actively to help you build value and realize your business aims. We connect you to critical resources using our relationships throughout Northern New England and greater Boston with banks, other equity funds, the business community and economic development agencies. Our experience, relationships and collaborative style make Community Ventures a value-added partner.

Community Ventures invests from its own fund in amounts ranging from $100,000 to $500,000. Working with partner funds, we also help coordinate and/or lead larger financings (as much as $5 million) with investors that share our outlook and criteria.

Masthead Venture Partners
Masthead is a venture capital fund investing in early-stage technology companies in the following sectors: Internet infrastructure, communications technology and IT-intensive life science applications. Masthead partners combine over 100 years of successful experience in leading and financing companies from founding through public offerings. They have the advanced technical expertise and deep industry relationships to help their venture-backed entrepenuss build companies into category-defining market leaders.

Small Enterprise Growth Fund of Maine
SEGF invests in Maine. Investments from the Fund will focus on industries that support and enhance the economic development strategy of the State. The Fund invests in a wide variety of industries, the key criteria being that the company have the potential for high growth and public benefit. Initial investments are typically between $150,000 and $350,000, leaving capital available for follow-on rounds of investment. Companies must employ 50 or fewer people or have had gross sales of $5,000,000 or less within the past 12 months in order for the Fund to make an initial investment. There is no size limitation for follow-on rounds. Companies must receive a co-investment in an amount at least equal to the amount invested by the SEGF.

Board of Directors

Nic Wolff - Foneshow Inc
Mike Gurau - CEI Community Ventures
Steve Smith - Masthead Venture Partners