Tom Meyer

Connotate is the market leader in web content extraction. Our combination of patented machine-learning technology and real-world experience allows our customers to precisely target and extract data from hundreds or hundreds of thousands of web sources, creating high-value proprietary data sets. Information service providers and other data-centric companies rely on Connotate because our unmatched scalability and flexibility lets them extract web content they couldn’t access before. With Connotate, customers dramatically increase their content harvesting capacity, reduce time to add new data sources, drive down their ongoing cost of content extraction, and radically reduce the complexity of their downstream operations. Connotate powers a wide range of customer applications, including competitive and pricing intelligence, news aggregation, product data analysis, risk and compliance, financial and market research, and many others. Connotate customers include such leading brands as Thomson Reuters, McGraw-Hill, Factset and The Associated Press. A 2015 Gartner Cool Vendor for Information Innovation, Connotate is recognized by the world’s leading industry and technology experts, having been included in the eContent 100, KMWorld Trend Setting Products, and KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management lists multiple times. Connotate is available as an on-premise web data extraction platform, or as a managed data service.

Since 1997, Mad River Associates has established itself as the premier intermediary of lower middle market M&A transactions. Our clients are financial and strategic buyers. Mad River Associates has developed and refined a proprietary methodology and process, resulting in a system for successfully identifying, targeting, and connecting with great companies which meet our client’s desired criteria. Our professional research team specializes in finding companies in the $10 million to $100 million range which technically are "not for sale"​. MRA Partners​ extensive operating experience contributes to our industry leading response rate. Mad River Associates​ services benefit buyers directly and meaningfully. Since our expertise and sole purpose is to support our clients​ acquisition objectives by sourcing quality deals, clients can focus on their expertise in running and building companies. We provide a solution to buyers​ needs for seeing multiple quality acquisition candidates on a timely basis and for facilitating the negotiation of creative and successful deal terms. Due to Mad River Associates’ proprietary, time-sensitive search process, our clients often see acquisition candidates before other buyers. Thereby, we increase the likelihood of completing a transaction with favorable price and terms. Our targeted and confidential acquisition approach can eliminate the open competitive auction process while protecting the objectives of both the buyer and seller.

Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25) • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies • 40+ full-time VC investors • Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts. Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.

Nassau Street Ventures is a venture capital fund for alumni of Princeton that invests in companies with a Princeton connection. We are part of Alumni Ventures, America’s largest venture fund for individuals and the #1 most active venture firm in the US and #3 globally (PitchBook 2022). Follow Nassau Street Ventures for content at the intersection of our shared alma mater, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. We are private, for-profit, and not affiliated with or sanctioned by the university.