Arizona Entrepreneur Sean Moshir Founds Moshir Venture Partners.SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Consumer electronics and wireless/mobile products and applications are quickly shaping new methods for conducting personal and business transactions. Tapping into the increasing demand for productivity-oriented and transactional information, Arizona entrepreneur Sean Moshir has founded Moshir Venture Partners (www.moshirventure.com), a specialized private equity investment firm providing seed-stage capital funding for wireless/mobile, online media and entertainment broadcasting, and other technology start-ups. Prior to Moshir Venture Partners, Moshir founded PatchLink Corporation, the global leader for security patch A fix to a program that eliminates a vulnerability exploited by malicious hackers. See vulnerability and patch. and vulnerability management solutions, where as CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and chairman he was instrumental in managing PatchLink to record revenue as well as achieving one of the largest rounds of funding in the "patch management The installation of patches from a software vendor onto an organization's computers. Patching thousands of PCs and servers is a major issue. A patch should be applied to test machines first before deployment, and the testing environments must represent all the users' PCs with their unique " technology sector, totaling $40 million. Moshir's professional focus is now directed on further pursuing and expanding Moshir Venture Partners, and other entrepreneurial goals. Moshir will remain an active member on the PatchLink board supporting the security company's growth strategy. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Moshir, "It is an exciting time to focus on the wireless/mobile technology space. Having delivered on my early vision of what enterprise patch management could become years ahead of competitors, it seemed logical to take my expertise and leadership into another highly dynamic and rapidly growing technology sector." Moshir Venture Partners will focus its initial equity funding Equity funding An investment consisting of a life insurance policy and a mutual fund. The insurance policy is paid by the collateral value of fund shares, giving the investor the advantages of insurance protection with the growth potential of a mutual fund. activities on the following market segments: mobile/wireless communications software (communications, software) communications software - Application programs, operating system components, and probably firmware, forming part of a communication system. These different software components might be classified according to the functions within the Open Systems and services, and online media and entertainment broadcasting, among others. In addition to his management and leadership roles at PatchLink, Moshir has been widely recognized over the past several years, receiving annual honors from industry and business publications such as Network World, Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. , Software Magazine, IT Security, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Inc. In 2003, he and PatchLink were honored by the Governor of Arizona with the Arizona Technology Council Innovator of the Year Award for the successful leadership of innovative product development and strategic management of global growth. Most recently, Moshir served as a judge for the nation's leading SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property software competition, the CODiE Awards 2006. ABOUT MOSHIR VENTURE PARTNERS Moshir Venture Partners (MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. ) is a specialized early-stage private equity investor providing seed-stage capital funding in the unique range of $250,000 to $1 million. This private equity range, not typically served by the traditional venture capital community, gives wireless/mobile information management and other technology start-ups the equity required to successfully launch and sustain their innovations and businesses. MVP is comprised of experienced IT professionals and entrepreneurs. These professionals bring years of executive and operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. experience together with a network of global business contacts to provide unparalleled equity assistance and leadership. For more information, go to www.moshirventure.com. (C)2006 Moshir Venture Partners. All rights reserved. Moshir Venture Partners, the Moshir Venture Partners logo, and the Moshir Venture Partners product and services names and logos are either registered trademarks, trademarks or service marks of Moshir Venture Partners. In addition, other company names and products mentioned, if any, may be either registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. |
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