Crestlight Venture Productions

Overview

Crestlight Venture Productions is a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments and startup development. The firm combines early-stage funding with lean, accountable expert services, offering a disciplined and collaborative approach to building value. Their sector focus broadly includes the Internet of Things, mass analytics, enterprise, mobile, and consumer industries. Crestlight employs an Equity Acquisition System, a 12-category/65-point assessment designed to evaluate a startup's readiness. While they prefer West Coast companies due to proximity, they consider companies across the United States. The firm has ignited 20 startups, managing $30 million in seed capital. The firm's investment strategy involves a comprehensive, integrated approach to venture investment. This includes collective intelligence, ecosystem diversity, corporate IP, corporate strategy, idea workshops, prototype engineering, software engineering, product development sprints, internal and external investment capital, sales and marketing, business model development, and a co-working incubator. The process is designed to identify early-stage IP, ideas, or concepts and produce them through a series of value creation stages to a desired outcome. The team comprises interim CEOs, software and hardware engineers, investment executives, product managers, entrepreneurs, strategists, and sales executives, facilitating accelerated startup development between corporate teams, industry partners, technology corporations, universities, and startups. Crestlight Venture Productions has a track record of fostering innovation by connecting corporations and startups. They have developed a portfolio of coalitions representing markets in need of technology solutions that lead to strong returns on investment for coalition members. Their first program, the Industrial Equipment Coalition (IEC), aims to transform the industrial equipment industry through digitization and leveraging technology to create new business models and revenue streams. Crestlight continues to build coalitions in industrial markets that can benefit from connecting previously unconnected entities, enabling unprecedented economic opportunities through the intersection of connected people, systems, and things, advanced software platforms, and data-driven insights.

Investment Focus

• Early-stage companies
• Disciplined and collaborative founders
• Companies in the United States

Portfolio Companies