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Walnut Ventures is a group of experienced entrepreneurs and investors seeking investment opportunities in seed and early-stage companies in the New England area. We are focused on information technology companies with significant technology addressing rapidly growing markets. We can commit $250,000 to $1,000,000 to a single financing. Our objective is to help talented entrepreneurs build lasting businesses of significant value and to participate as active investors.

Consulted for medical startups and publicly traded drug and device manufacturers. Developed compliance systems that attracted and retained leading physicians in key roles on scientific advisory boards, product development and medical education. Delivered hospital compliance infrastructure tools. Author and recognized expert in Open Payments.

Initiated sales to leading McDonald's franchisees by partnering with Apple Financial services for no-money-down financing and partnering with Insight for turn-key logistics. Led multiple angel fundraising rounds for this enterprise SaaS and IoT startup that's automating the multi-unit retail industry that currently runs on paper.

Developed industry-leading software that processes more than 100,000 individual (1040) tax returns annually from scanned paper documents and digital downloads. Raised $20 million in equity capital, filed key patents and gained the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ endorsement as the accounting profession's standard for tax preparation. Sold to national tax software firm.

Co-founded management consulting and accounting and business that served small to mid-sized New England businesses and their owners in high tech, retail and real estate development. Sold to regional accounting firm.

Negotiated amicable settlement of lawsuit by structuring multimillion-dollar leveraged buyout of Internet-based temporary staffing software company. Doubled software development firm's ongoing business with its largest customer by creating a rapid prototype design process. Tripled sales and profits of high performance electronics simulation firm by revamping marketing strategy and pricing.

Founded and led an electronics business that developed more than 1,000 miniaturized products for the medical, computer, semiconductor and aerospace industries. Formed the Ceramic Interconnect Alliance with DuPont, attracting 80 corporate members and the sponsorship of the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society. Served as strategic technology consultant to French government and commercial interests. Negotiated international technology transfers. Sold the company to Honeywell in 1998, quadrupling the business as VP and General Manager over the next two years.

Booked more than $1 million in the very first orders for multichip modules used by General Electric, Texas Instruments, Raytheon and Hughes. Developed design operations from scratch by modifying conventional computer-aided design and manufacturing tools for new technology. Invented features that improved testing and rework of expensive substrates and modules.

Directed MegaOne prototype launch. Managed printed circuit board manufacturing, assembly and test: doubled productivity while cutting defects by 95%. Re-architected mainframe of VLSI test system. Invented the world's first missless cache for high-speed memory.