About
About WashingtonVC
WashingtonVC is an early stage fund and incubator that grows companies through the exchange of complementary technologies and marketing services. Our portfolio of interlocking companies share resources, talent and technology to deliver innovative products and services across a broad range of industries.
Our investment focus is in online media and marketing, software technologies, telecommunications services, domain name services and consumer Internet services. We seek out and fund world-class teams and products with the potential to be leaders in their markets, and back their companies with premium, highly relevant Internet domain names (i.e. phone.com, software.com).
A significant percentage of our investment returns go toward supporting and financing our nonprofit organizations, Grassroots.org and MakeChange! Trust.
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Mission
WashingtonVC strives to better the world by developing cutting-edge technologies, sharing ever-evolving best practices with other businesses and charities, building market leading companies, and financing innovative works for profit and charity. We are currently invested in more than a dozen high-quality technology companies, which include several of the world’s most identifiable Internet brands.
Leadership
Eric Litman, Managing Director
Eric Litman is a pioneer of the Internet’s commercialization, and as a co-founder of Proxicom, helped to build one of the first, largest, and most successful publicly traded e-business consultancies. Prior to joining WashingtonVC, Eric held senior executive roles in high growth Internet businesses, serving most recently as founder and CEO of Viaduct Technologies, a global Internet, mobile technology, and management consulting practice. Previously, he was instrumental in building digitalNATION, a world leading web hosting and services provider, from its launch through its $100m acquisition by Verio Internet/NTT (NYSE: NTT).
Eric began his career with technical and software engineering positions at GEnie, a pre-Internet online service provider, and NeXT Computer, Steve Jobs’ venture following his first tenure at Apple. In his role at WashingtonVC, Eric has global responsibility for executing the fund’s commercial and non-profit activities.
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Adam Goozh, Managing Director
Adam S. Goozh, Esq. holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, and a J.D. from The Georgetown University Law Center. Adam is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bar.
Adam was the founder of CreateHope, Inc., innovative software, services and transaction processing business providing corporate social responsibility and business outsourcing solutions to Fortune-class corporations, not-for-profit organizations and governmental entities. The company will process over $400M in transactions in 2008 and provides service to many of the world’s largest and most established organizations.
Adam was a member of the MindShare Class of 2000, an invitation-only program managed by prominent members of the Greater Washington Metropolitan region business community that each year selects the twenty most promising CEOs from high-tech and life-sciences start-up businesses, and in 2004 led CreateHope to being named by Deloitte & Touché one of only 25 Fast 500 National Rising Star Technology Companies and one of only 3 Maryland Fast 50 Rising Star Technology Companies. Adam has also served as a technical and business strategy consultant to Deloitte & Touché, serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations, and is a member of the US Chamber of Commerce Homeland Security Task Force.
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Mike Mann, Chairman and Founder
Mike Mann is an Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist and author with a track record of starting and growing successful businesses. Mike Mann serves as Chairman and Founder of WashingtonVC, a private equity group whose portfolio of companies share resources, talent and technologies to deliver innovative digital products and services. In ‘94 he founded Internet Interstate, which he sold to Verio in ‘97. In ‘98, he founded BuyDomains.com, the world’s largest secondary market for domain names, and sold majority interest to Highland Capital and Summit Partners in 2005, along with the “Seeq.com” search engine portal. Between ‘98 and ‘01, he served as the founding Chairman of ByteBack.org (501c3), which operates free computer training centers serving inner-city communities. Mike is the Founder and Chairman of Grassroots.org (501c3), a global network providing free services to nonprofits and promoting social action. He also manages Make Change! Trust, a charitable fund that supports select 501c3 organizations.
