Mbloom Ventures LLC:夏威夷第一家早期科技基金的道德冲突

2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) Pub Date : 2018-08-01 DOI:10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481923

P. Ensign

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本案例研究考察了mbloom Ventures, LLC (mbloom)的首次风险资本融资努力，这是夏威夷战略发展公司(HSDC)和私人对冲基金Rosemont Seneca technology Partners (Rosemont)之间的1000万美元早期技术投资伙伴关系。Flikdate和ozolio分别获得了50万美元的融资。在宣布两家公司获得融资后，有消息称，这两家初创公司是由mbloom的两位普通合伙人创立的。有关利益冲突和缺乏透明度的指控很快浮出水面。

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Ethical Confrontations at Mbloom Ventures LLC: Hawaii's First Early-Stage Technology Fund

This case study examines the inaugural venture capital financing effort by mbloom Ventures, LLC (mbloom), a ten million dollar early-stage technology investment partnership between the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation (HSDC) and Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (Rosemont), a private hedge fund. Following an announcement of the two recipients of funding—$500,000 each to Flikdate and Ozolio—information circulated that these two startups had been established by mbloom's two general partners. Allegations of conflict of interest and lack of transparency soon surfaced.

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