CSL
CSL Capital Management, L.P. is an SEC registered investment firm focused on energy services and equipment businesses. Headquartered in Houston, TX, the CSL team has deep sector expertise in the energy industry and takes a hands-on approach to investments, relying on organic growth and strategic thinking to generate investment success.
The current CSL portfolio includes several de novo, growth, recapitalization, and other investments. CSL’s investors include financial institutions, endowments, foundations, family offices and high net worth individuals. Since its inception in 2008, the Firm has raised in excess of $1.7 billion in equity capital and commitments across various investment vehicles.
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Texas Halo Fund
Texas HALO Fund, LLC is an investment company and fund series specializing in investments in early-stage businesses with promising growth prospects and exceptional management teams. Our investment approach identifies compelling businesses from multiple sources without regard to the industry or geographic location. Quite simply, we seek the best opportunities, locally, regionally and nationally, in order to generate the highest returns for our investors with the lowest possible risk. Each Fund invests in multiple companies in a variety of industries in order to construct a diversified portfolio. Our process involves rigorous due diligence and extensive interaction with management prior to making a capital commitment and then active on-going oversight often through board positions or board observation rights.
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Houston Angel Network
The Houston Angel Network (HAN) is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing the innovation ecosystem in Houston, Texas by supporting founders and startups with financial resources and mentorship.
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Band of Angels
We are a formal group of 165+ angel investors, mostly former and current high-tech executives, who invest their time and money into new, cutting-edge, startup companies. Since the Band’s inception in 1994 as the first organized high-tech angel investment group in the USA, we have funded 400+ companies with 82 profitable M&A exits and 16 IPOs. The entire Band meets monthly in Silicon Valley and San Francisco to formally consider 3 startups selected from among the 50+ that are screened each month by the Band deal selection process. Additionally, to facilitate deal flow and engagement from Southern California to Northern California, we hold a satellite meeting in Los Angeles for members and companies located there. During the Covid-19 pandemic we continue to meet regularly via online/virtual web meetings.
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Harvard Business School
HBS Online offers a unique and highly engaging way to learn vital business concepts, enabling committed learners to transform their careers, their organizations, and their lives.
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Tom Ren
Mr. Ren is the Founder and Chairman of LY Electronics USA, Inc. (also Chairman of Global XLR), represents several leading manufacturers, and offers factory direct pricing. The company’s mission is to help overseas, and US manufacturers directly face global buyers and provide the best quality products at the most reasonable price.
Tom Ren founded AECsoft USA in 1999, founded AEC Global (Shanghai) in 2007 and served as Chairman and CTO for both companies until January 2011 when the companies were acquired by a NASDAQ-listed e-procurement software company. Mr. Ren spearheaded the creation of AEC’s flagship products including the Total Supplier Management System, Supplier Diversity Management System, eSourcing System and Supplier Contract Management System. These software products have been licensed to hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies to automate their supplier management and sourcing processes. In October of 2010, Gartner Group ranked AECsoft’s Supplier Management System as the highest scored supplier information management system in the entire world.
Mr. Ren has dual Master’s Degrees in Physics and Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston. Prior to that, he attended Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Nanjing University in China. Tom has several inventions and a US patent and received the US Pan Asian Chamber of Commerce/Wells Fargo “Asian Business Leadership Award” in 2005.
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Jason Hu
Jason Hu joined LY Electronics in 2020 and serves as the Director of Innovation. He is an expert on magnetic resonance imaging and is familiar with various programming technology stacks.
In addition, he invests in early-stage companies and helps clients with business development. Jason graduated from Duke University in 2011 (B.S.E., Biomedical Engineering) and Rice University in 2017 (Ph.D., Bioengineering).
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