Investments
29Portfolio Exits
13Funds
2Partners & Customers
1Service Providers
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Jan 23, 2023
Kurt Wolf is the Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer of Hestia Capital Management LLC, which is a sizable stockholder of Pitney Bowes. Previously, Kurt worked in financial, investing and operating roles, including as a senior analyst at Relational Investors and as co-founding partner at Lemhi Ventures, a healthcare services venture capital incubator. Kurt was also co-founding partner at Definity Health, a leading company in the consumer-driven health space that was purchased by UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) in December 2004. Earlier in his career, Kurt was a consultant at Deloitte and The Boston Consulting Group. Kurt earned his M.B.A from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Carleton College. About Hestia Capital Hestia Capital is a long-term focused, deep value investment firm that typically makes long-term investments in a narrow selection of companies facing company-specific, and/or industry, disruptions. Hestia seeks to leverage its General Partner’s expertise in competitive strategy, operations and capital markets to identify attractive situations within this universe of disrupted companies. These companies are often misunderstood by the general investing community or suffer from mismanagement, which we reasonably expect to be corrected, and provide the ‘price dislocations’ which allows Hestia to identify, and invest in, highly attractive risk/reward investment opportunities. CERTAIN INFORMATION CONCERNING THE PARTICIPANTS Hestia Capital Partners, LP (“Hestia Capital”), together with the other participants named herein (collectively, “Hestia”), intends to file a preliminary proxy statement and accompanying WHITE universal proxy card with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to be used to solicit votes for the election of its slate of highly-qualified director nominees at the 2023 annual meeting of stockholders of Pitney Bowes Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). HESTIA STRONGLY ADVISES ALL STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER PROXY MATERIALS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. SUCH PROXY MATERIALS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE ON THE SEC’S WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SEC.GOV . IN ADDITION, THE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PROXY SOLICITATION WILL PROVIDE COPIES OF THE PROXY STATEMENT WITHOUT CHARGE, WHEN AVAILABLE, UPON REQUEST. REQUESTS FOR COPIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE PARTICIPANTS’ PROXY SOLICITOR. The participants in the proxy solicitation are anticipated to be Hestia Capital, Helios I, LP (“Helios”), Hestia Capital Partners GP, LLC (“Hestia Partners GP”), Hestia Capital Management, LLC (“Hestia LLC”), Kurtis J. Wolf, Milena Alberti-Perez, Todd A. Everett, Carl J. Grassi, Katie A. May, Kenneth T. McBride and Lance E. Rosenzweig. As of the date hereof, the participants in the proxy solicitation beneficially own in the aggregate 12,619,771 shares of Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”). As of the date hereof, Hestia Capital beneficially owns 3,450,000 shares of Common Stock, including 100 shares held in record name. As of the date hereof, Helios beneficially owns 8,602,000 shares of Common Stock. Hestia Partners GP, as the general partner of each of Hestia Capital and Helios, may be deemed to beneficially own the (i) 3,450,000 shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by Hestia Capital and (ii) 8,602,000 shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by Helios. Hestia LLC, as the investment manager of each of Hestia Capital, Helios and certain separately managed accounts (the “SMAs”), may be deemed to beneficially own the (i) 3,450,000 shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by Hestia Capital, (ii) 8,602,000 shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by Helios and (iii) 523,000 shares of Common Stock held in the SMAs. Mr. Wolf, as the Managing Member of each of Hestia Partners GP and Hestia LLC, may be deemed to beneficially own the (i) 3,450,000 shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by Hestia Capital, (ii) 8,602,000 shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by Helios and (iii) 523,000 shares of Common Stock held in the SMAs. As of the date hereof, Mr. Everett beneficially owns 9,771 shares of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, Mr. Grassi beneficially owns 25,000 shares of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, Mr. Rosenzweig beneficially owns 10,000 shares of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, none of Mmes. Alberti-Perez and May or Mr. McBride beneficially own any shares of Common Stock. 1 Total stockholder return calculation includes dividends reinvested and runs through the close of trading on November 18, 2022, which is the last day of trading prior to Hestia filing its Schedule 13D with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Contacts
Lemhi Ventures Investments
29 Investments
Lemhi Ventures has made 29 investments. Their latest investment was in Paytient as part of their Series A on July 7, 2021.

Lemhi Ventures Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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7/2/2021 | Series A | Paytient | $17.2M | Yes | 4 | |
6/28/2018 | Series A - II | Surest | $10M | No | 1 | |
3/20/2018 | Series D - II | Digital Reasoning Systems | $30M | No | 5 | |
2/20/2018 | Series A | |||||
11/21/2017 | Seed VC |
Date | 7/2/2021 | 6/28/2018 | 3/20/2018 | 2/20/2018 | 11/21/2017 |
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Round | Series A | Series A - II | Series D - II | Series A | Seed VC |
Company | Paytient | Surest | Digital Reasoning Systems | ||
Amount | $17.2M | $10M | $30M | ||
New? | Yes | No | No | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Lemhi Ventures Portfolio Exits
13 Portfolio Exits
Lemhi Ventures has 13 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Digital Reasoning Systems on November 10, 2020.
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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11/10/2020 | Acquired | 1 | |||
12/4/2019 | Acquired | 1 | |||
3/25/2019 | Acq - Fin | 2 | |||
Date | 11/10/2020 | 12/4/2019 | 3/25/2019 | ||
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Exit | Acquired | Acquired | Acq - Fin | ||
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Sources | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Lemhi Ventures Fund History
2 Fund Histories
Lemhi Ventures has 2 funds, including Lemhi Ventures Fund II LP.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
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6/22/2012 | Lemhi Ventures Fund II LP | Multi-Stage Venture Capital | Closed | $150M | 1 |
5/31/2006 | Lemhi Ventures Fund I LP |
Closing Date | 6/22/2012 | 5/31/2006 |
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Fund | Lemhi Ventures Fund II LP | Lemhi Ventures Fund I LP |
Fund Type | Multi-Stage Venture Capital | |
Status | Closed | |
Amount | $150M | |
Sources | 1 |
Lemhi Ventures Partners & Customers
1 Partners and customers
Lemhi Ventures has 1 strategic partners and customers. Lemhi Ventures recently partnered with PlanSource on .
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
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Partner | United States | `` We 're pleased to be able to use this strategic investment from Lemhi Ventures to grow our relationships with both the national healthcare companies and the businesses they serve , '' said Dayne Williams , CEO of PlanSource . | 1 |
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Type | Partner |
Business Partner | |
Country | United States |
News Snippet | `` We 're pleased to be able to use this strategic investment from Lemhi Ventures to grow our relationships with both the national healthcare companies and the businesses they serve , '' said Dayne Williams , CEO of PlanSource . |
Sources | 1 |
Lemhi Ventures Service Providers
1 Service Provider
Lemhi Ventures has 1 service provider relationship
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Provider Type | Counsel |
Service Type | General Counsel |
Partnership data by VentureSource
Lemhi Ventures Team
3 Team Members
Lemhi Ventures has 3 team members, including current Managing Partner, Tony Miller.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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Tony Miller | Managing Partner | Current | |
Name | Tony Miller | ||
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Title | Managing Partner | ||
Status | Current |
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