Tuesday, October 13, 2015

XLP CAPITAL ANNOUNCES INVESTMENT IN HAYSTACK TECHNOLOGIES

October 13, 2015
BOSTON, MASS – XLP capital announced today an investment in Haystack Technologies – a San Mateo, California-based private company developing technology for the Internet-of-Things industry. Founded in 2010, Haystack Technologies joins XLP Capital’s growing list of investments with an impressive intellectual property portfolio and decades of technology development experience. The deal values Haystack Technologies at 10 million USD. This investment is a continuation of XLP Capital’s efforts to merge the gap between industry advisory, technology development and investments. The firm’s more involved, hands on approach has already generated tremendous interest. XLP Capital announced the acquisition of Lambda Prime Investment Fund, a Boston MA-based technology startup incubator, in August 2015 to serve as the technology development and innovation arm. Haystack Technologies will be housed at Lambda Prime

About Haystack Technologies
Haystack Technologies is a privately held company with over 30 granted and pending patents developed to bridge the gap between cloud-based, distributed databases and low-power, wireless sensors for Internet of Things applications. To achieve this, Haystack has developed unique technologies for maximizing two-way query throughput between a base station and an ultra low-power sensor endpoint.
Haystack’s DASH7 wireless stack is now used by dozens of companies and hundreds of developers worldwide, because it is the most energy-efficient wireless technology with two-way data transport, high security, and location features. We believe there is an opportunity for Haystack to disrupt the big-data industry by enabling the cloud database user to interact with the sensor endpoint, directly, in real-time.

About XLP Capital
XLP Capital is a technology development, venture investment, and strategy advisory firm. Headquartered in Boston, MA with offices in New York, NY, and the Berkshires, XLP takes an engineering-based, hands-on approach to strategic technology investment and advisory work. It applies sophisticated management science to a hands-on, deal-driven approach to technology investment. Whether via the application of high-throughput computational science techniques, rapid prototyping or advanced technology landscaping and analytics, XLP focuses on creating value and wealth through its technology investments. These investments take multiple forms, including venture investing, shareholder activism and corporate innovation programs. For more information, please visit www.xlpcapital.com or contact us at info@xlpcapital.com.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015

XLP CAPITAL ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF THE LAMBDA PRIME INVESTMENT FUND

August 27, 2015
BOSTON, MASS – XLP capital announced today the acquisition of the Lambda Prime Investment Fund – a Boston-based startup incubator with investments in cyber security, metadata aggregation software, biotechnology, and various other startups. This acquisition marks the first move towards strategic plan to create an integrated technology and intellectual property development investment fund. Founded in 2015, XLP Capital aims to revolutionize consulting and investment industries with its hands on, client-focused and product-centric approach. The acquisition of Lambda Prime will merge the existing engineering team, hardware and software platforms, and incubating startups with XLP Capital’s team of finance, technology and intellectual property experts while allowing Lambda Prime to keep its entity structure, offices, and employees intact. This will provide existing and future startup investments with an open opportunity to develop and patent their intellectual assets in a more time efficient manner. The acquisition will also ensure seamless integration of the Lambda Prime data centers with the XLP Capital resources for more optimal, fast paced, and in depth research and analysis capabilities. 
About Lambda Prime Investment Fund
Lambda Prime is a privately held technology development fund dedicated to the under-served technology investment gap created by the over-growth of traditional venture funds and the commoditization of web and IT investing. The firm’s philosophy centers on applying novel and cutting edge mathematical approaches and algorithms across industries, for our portfolio companies and corporate clients alike.
Lambda Prime invests resources and capital, but more importantly provides access to a platform of computational and proprietary data sets only available to in-house portfolio companies. In an age of virtualization and cloud computing, we believe that successful technological differentiation comes from access to unparalleled performance compute resources not readily available to the average startup.
About XLP Capital
XLP Capital is a technology development, venture investment, and strategy advisory firm. Headquartered in Boston, MA with offices in New York, NY, and the Berkshires, XLP takes an engineering-based, hands-on approach to strategic technology investment and advisory work. It applies sophisticated management science to a hands-on, deal-driven approach to technology investment. Whether via the application of high-throughput computational science techniques, rapid prototyping or advanced technology landscaping and analytics, XLP focuses on creating value and wealth through its technology investments. These investments take multiple forms, including venture investing, shareholder activism and corporate innovation programs. For more information, please visit www.xlpcapital.com or contact us at info@xlpcapital.com.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

XLP CAPITAL OPENS IN BOSTON, MA AND NEW YORK, NY

August 5, 2015
BOSTON, MASS - Founders Mark Blaxill and Matthew Stack announce the establishment of XLP Capital in response to the growing industry need of comprehensive, value-driven technology investment, development, and advisory services. Headquartered in Boston, MA with offices in New York, NY, and the Berkshires, XLP takes an engineering-based, hands-on approach to strategic technology investment and advisory work. It applies sophisticated management science to a hands-on, deal-driven approach to technology investment. Whether via the application of high-throughput computational science techniques, rapid prototyping or advanced technology landscaping and analytics, XLP focuses on creating value and wealth through its technology investments. These investments take multiple forms, including venture investing, shareholder activism and corporate innovation programs.
History and Background
XLP traces its lineage to the competitive strategy disciplines pioneered by Bruce Henderson at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). XLP co-founder Mark Blaxill worked and trained under Henderson while at BCG. Mark was an integral member of the BCG contingent that coined the term, “time-based competition.” He published articles on the ideas, but more importantly he pushed his BCG teams to apply these new strategy ideas inside of clients. Mark’s teams ran real-time experiments on the plant floor to improve quality even while they toured the world to document best-in-industry engineering practices. His unique blend of hands-on activism and leading edge theory earned him some of the best client relationships in the firm and an invitation to run the firms’ own strategy R&D in 1999.
Mark took his team out of BCG in 2007 to start 3LP Advisors, a firm focused on IP strategy development, patent transactions and IP-based investments. By 2014, this team had advised over $250M in technology transactions. While at 3LP, Mark co-authored The Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property (Portfolio, 2009), which was named Best Strategy Book in 2009 by a leading business journal. He has been named one of “The World’s Leading IP Strategists” by IAM Magazine.
XLP’s other co-founder Matt Stack, is an experienced technology investor, having co-founded and invested in a wide variety of startups over the past decade, including a healthcare software startup, a small electronics company, an advanced composites design firm, and a semiconductor distribution company that traded high performance semiconductor chips between Shenzhen, Tokyo, and Tecate.
Currently Matt is the founding manager of the Lambda Prime Investment Incubator Fund, and the Chief Investment Officer of XLP’s technology activist fund, Devonshire Capital Fund I. Matt also runs the Stack Family Office based in Boston, MA and New York, NY. He is an experienced early and seed stage investor in high tech hardware and analytics companies with over $200M in completed deals, and serves as a technology advisor to a variety of institutions and family offices overseeing and directing over $500M. Over the past decade, Matt has acquired and developed a collection of minority interests in companies across North America ranging from small university spin outs to mid-sized industrial technology companies. Matt serves as an advisor to a number of privately held companies, where he manages and supervises technology and high performance computing investments. Matt has served as the Director of Computational Science at Mars Corporation and as a Partner at 3LP – a Boston-based elite Intellectual Property advisory firm.
About XLP Capital
XLP Capital is a technology development, venture investment, and strategy advisory firm headquartered in Boston, MA with offices in New York, NY and the Berkshires. For more information, please visit www.xlpcapital.com or contact us at info@xlpcapital.com

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