Osage Venture Partners expanding its novel venture firm model
Osage University Partners closed its first fund with $100 million in January 2011. The venture fund has since invested or reserved about half of that $100 million, says managing partner Bill Harrington (pictured above right), an experienced life sciences venture firm executive who joined the firm in 2012. The fund’s life sciences portfolio companies include Kolltan; MC10 of Cambridge, MA, which […]
State-supported, Pennsylvania venture fund to support early stage software companies
The dearth of early-stage capital available to fund young technology companies in the Philadelphia region is nothing new. It was a source of concern for entrepreneurs and economic-development types in the late ’80s, when I moved here. Hand-wringing resumed early last decade after the bursting of the technology-stock bubble. And since the financial crisis-induced recession, […]