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JobFlash is a privately held company. It closed its Series B financing on December 30, 2003, securing $4.67 million dollars. The round was led by Seattle-based Maveron LLC (http://www.maveron.com). Maveron invests in consumer brands of the future, and is an investor in eBay and Drugstore.com.

JobFlash closed its Series A financing in April 2003 in a round led by Mosaic Venture Partners (http://www.mosaicvp.com) of Toronto, Canada. Mosaic Venture Partners is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage Internet and digital technology companies. The Band of Angels also participated in JobFlash’s Series A and B rounds, and Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail.com, was an investor in JobFlash’s Series A round.

Maveron's focus is investing in the great relevant consumer brands of the future with businesses that are scalable on a national or international basis. Maveron’s mission is to be the premier financial and strategic partner to those companies who demonstrate both passion and vision in transforming the consumer experience.

Maveron is helping build a new generation of leading products and services – businesses that understand consumer’s fundamental needs, and create a culture filled with integrity and imagination.

For more information visit Maveron's Web site at www.maveron.com.

Mosaic Venture Partners is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage Internet and digital technology companies. They are committed to actively assisting entrepreneurs in creating tangible, long-term value, and their hands-on approach keeps them constantly involved in the success of portfolio companies.

Mosaic recognizes that building high-quality companies is a challenging process, and works with entrepreneurs as true partners through those challenges. After first immersing themselves in the operating details of the business to thoroughly understand the products, markets and customers that are critical to the firm’s success, Mosaic then looks for ways to add strategic, financial, and operational value.

The Band of Angels
The Band of Angels invests across all high-technology categories, representing the diverse interests and backgrounds of its membership. The vast majority of these investments are made in the seed or early rounds (Series A or B) and are accompanied by the active post-deal participation of at least one member.

Sabeer Bhatia
A pioneer in the field of web-based e-mail, Bhatia co-founded Hotmail Corporation in 1996. As President and CEO, he guided Hotmail's rapid rise to industry leadership and its eventual acquisition by Microsoft in 1998. Today, Hotmail remains the world's largest e-mail provider with over 50 million registered users.

Bhatia's visionary contribution to the Internet revolution has earned him widespread acclaim.

John Sellers
John specializes in corporate and securities law, representing emerging growth technology companies and venture capital firms. His practice includes venture capital financings, initial public offerings, technology licensing, corporate partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and general counseling to start-up companies. John's clients include Alidian Networks, Cielo Communications, Coremetrics, Crimson Microsystems, EndoTex, Fusient Media Ventures, Mediabolic, NeoPhotonics, Nanogram, OnStation and USGI Medical.

John graduated from Stanford University with honors and distinction in 1988. Prior to law school he served as Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell, specializing in environmental issues and foreign affairs. He received his J.D. with honors in 1994 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served on the Managing Board of Editors of the University of Chicago Law Review.

John grew up in Colorado and currently lives in the Bay Area.

Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson is Chairman and Co-Founder of Venture Law Group.

He began his career at the law firm of Wilson, Mosher & Sonsini (now Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati). In 1993, he was a co-founder of Venture Law Group (VLG), which today has approximately 70 attorneys with offices in California, Washington, and Virginia. Among the companies VLG has helped to start are Yahoo!, Cerent (sold to Cisco for $7 Billion), Lightera (sold to Ciena for $600 Million), Foundry Networks, Hotmail and WebTV (both sold to Microsoft), SmartPipes and Rosetta Inpharmatics (sold to Merck in 2001 for $540 Million). Among the companies Craig has represented from incorporation through initial public offering or acquisition are Adaptec, Wyse, Collagen, StrataCom, Aspect, SnapTrack, Gupta, MediaQ and IPWireless.

In addition to co-founding VLG, Craig is the co-founder of several other companies, including Garage Technology Ventures, Financial Engines, Grassroots Enterprise and Concept2Company. These companies have raised more than $200 Million in venture capital.

Craig was recognized in 1997 by Business Week as one of Silicon Valley's top 25 "movers and shakers," in 1999 by Red Herring Magazine as one of nine Silicon Valley "top power brokers", and in 2000 by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential attorneys in America. In 2001, Forbes named him as one of the country's top private company investors ("Midas List"). Craig has also been involved in several community activities, including the Board of Directors of The Exploratorium; Daytop Village, a teen drug rehabilitation center; and NetAfrica, a project to aid math and science education in the newly independent African country of Eritrea.

Craig graduated from Yale in 1968, and then spent two years teaching in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia. He worked as a systems computer programmer before starting law school at Stanford, from which he graduated in 1974.

 

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