A vital ingredient to investment success is access to the best opportunities. Deal flow is the cumulative result of years of effort. The UV Partners team is well known and respected by entrepreneurs, other venture capitalists, investment bankers, corporate managers, consultants, academicians, attorneys, and accountants.

Key components of our approach include:

• We often lead the first institutional investment into a company and work to bring in other investors as the company grows.
• We believe founders and investors must work synergistically to maximize value. We step up to do our part.
• We know that mutual trust and a long-term view are critical elements in building successful companies.
• We expect creativity, vision, and a commitment to excellence from management. We promise integrity, fairness, and patience in return.
• We balance expectation with empathy; to demand maximum effort, yet to appreciate the vagaries of development stage activities.
• We see ourselves as an asset to be exploited, not a "boss" to be satisfied. We work diligently to make our skills, experience, and contacts useful.
• We do our utmost to be around for disappointments, as well as triumphs; to applaud accomplishments and to understand frustrations.

In short, we believe our fund is an entrepreneur's key partner in building a great company.