Investments
28Portfolio Exits
5About Endeavor Capital Management
Founded in 1988, Endeavor invests in businesses that offer proprietary products or services in large, growing or changing industries. In addition to supplying growth capital, Endeavor supports its investments by deploying the skills and experience of its principals in providing active, value-added guidance to its management partners.

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Latest Endeavor Capital Management News
Jan 15, 2013
Apple Anthony Buffa from Endeavor Capital is a member of FundingPost online! Venture Fund Member Profile Share This Profile: Founded in 1988, Endeavor seeks superior returns from private equity investments by partnering with talented, success-oriented management teams. Endeavor invests in businesses that offer proprietary products or services in large, growing or changing industries. Primary Investments: Venture: Endeavor prefers expansion stage opportunities, but will selectively pursue early stage situations. In many instances, Endeavor is the first institutional financing received by a company. Profitability is not required but prospective early stage investments must have paying customers and a near term plan for attaining cash positive operations. Typical investment size: Average investments range from $500,000 to $5.0 million. However, Endeavor has invested $10+ million over the life of an investment, and, with support from limited partners and co-investors, over $20 million. Industry focus: Environmental Technologies, Energy and Utilities, Communications, Software, Business processes outsourcing, such as metering and billing and Special situations where manufacturing or service businesses take advantage of technology to materially alter a company's operating economics and competitive strength. Anthony Buffa Managing Partner Endeavor Capital Anthony Buffa, 50, Managing Partner, has over 24 years of experience in the private equity industry. He founded Endeavor Capital Management in 1988 and oversees all investment and operating activities of the firm. Mr. Buffa has been a director of more than 25 private equitybacked businesses and has been actively involved as an investor, director and advisor to a number of successful growth companies during his career including, among others, NWP Services, Catalina Marketing, Timberjack Holdings, Harbinger Corporation, efax.com, and Education Systems. Previously, Mr. Buffa was a general partner of Edelson Technology Partners (ETP), a private venture capital firm where he originated ETPs single most successful investment, Catalina Marketing, which Mr. Buffa identified, co-led and originated to the venture community. Representative Investments APX APX is the largest independent transaction-processing agent for wholesale electric power markets. APX processes more than 500 million megawatt hours per year for approximately 200 client companies in North America. Enerwise Addresses the consumption, monitoring, management, reliability, and cost of electric energy for medium to large enterprises in a broad range of commercial and industrial segments. Nxtphase Provides digital and fiber optic solutions to the electric power industry that enable improved measurement reliability and management of electric power transmission. Sawgrass Sawgrass is a developer of proprietary, digital thermal inks and advanced color management software that allow the printing of customized and personalized images on ceramic, wood, glass, metal, and textiles. Anthony participated in the FundingPost event: Perfect Venture Conferenceon April 5-7, 2006 in NY, Sponsored by Merrill Lynch, Morrison & Foerster, PPS for Healthcare To list your Company on our website and make your profile available to Anthony and 7,500+ other VCs and Angel Investors, Click Here. About FundingPost For over Fourteen Years FundingPost has worked with thousandsof Angel and Venture Capital Investors. We believe that it isimportant to reach investors in every medium possible -both online and offline. We have been directly responsible fortons of success stories and Millions and Millions of dollars raised.We look forward to introducing your company to the leading Venture and Angel Investors nationwide. Sign up now: Entrepreneurs / Investors Join the FundingPost email list and learn how, when and where you can meet these Investors: Other Venture Profiles:
Endeavor Capital Management Investments
28 Investments
Endeavor Capital Management has made 28 investments. Their latest investment was in SmartSynch as part of their Unattributed VC - III on February 2, 2011.

Endeavor Capital Management Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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2/11/2011 | Unattributed VC - III | SmartSynch | $25.7M | No | Battelle Ventures, Beacon Group, Cinergy Ventures, Duke Realty, Emerald Technology Ventures, Endeavor Capital Management, Foundry Ventures, GulfSouth Capital, Innovation Valley Partners, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Kinetic Ventures, Lime Rock Partners, next47, Nth Power, OPG Ventures, and Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company | 1 |
5/19/2008 | Series E | SmartSynch | $20M | No | 1 | |
7/12/2006 | PIPE - II | Protalex | $15.18M | Yes | Andrew Carter Capital, Bushido Capital Partners, Carter Management Group, Centrecourt, Emerging Technology Center, Endeavor Capital Management, Grand Cathay Venture Capital Company, Nite Capital Management, Paramount Capital Asset Management, Sunrise Equity Partners, Valor Capital Management, and vSpring Capital | |
10/10/2005 | Series C | |||||
10/5/2005 | PIPE |
Date | 2/11/2011 | 5/19/2008 | 7/12/2006 | 10/10/2005 | 10/5/2005 |
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Round | Unattributed VC - III | Series E | PIPE - II | Series C | PIPE |
Company | SmartSynch | SmartSynch | Protalex | ||
Amount | $25.7M | $20M | $15.18M | ||
New? | No | No | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | Battelle Ventures, Beacon Group, Cinergy Ventures, Duke Realty, Emerald Technology Ventures, Endeavor Capital Management, Foundry Ventures, GulfSouth Capital, Innovation Valley Partners, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Kinetic Ventures, Lime Rock Partners, next47, Nth Power, OPG Ventures, and Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company | Andrew Carter Capital, Bushido Capital Partners, Carter Management Group, Centrecourt, Emerging Technology Center, Endeavor Capital Management, Grand Cathay Venture Capital Company, Nite Capital Management, Paramount Capital Asset Management, Sunrise Equity Partners, Valor Capital Management, and vSpring Capital | |||
Sources | 1 | 1 |
Endeavor Capital Management Portfolio Exits
5 Portfolio Exits
Endeavor Capital Management has 5 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was NWP Services on February 23, 2016.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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2/23/2016 | Acquired | 2 | |||
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Endeavor Capital Management Acquisitions
1 Acquisition
Endeavor Capital Management acquired 1 company. Their latest acquisition was Exelon Capital Partners on April 19, 2004.
Date | Investment Stage | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Total Funding | Note | Sources |
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4/19/2004 | Acquired |
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Endeavor Capital Management Team
6 Team Members
Endeavor Capital Management has 6 team members, including , .
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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Anthony F. Buffa | Founder | Current | |
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Status | Current |
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