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Groxis is a privately-held company backed by leading venture capital investors.
Groxis successfully secured seed round financing in 2001. The seed round
investors include Grok Partners LLP, Ecotrust Venture Capital and Venture
Factory Partners. The company also successfully closed Series A funding
with three new investment groups in the third quarter of 2002. In November,
2004, the company completed a round of funding headed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson
ePlanet Ventures.
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Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet Ventures
 DFJ ePlanet Ventures is a premier, global venture capital firm founded in 1999
by Asad Jamal in partnership with Draper Fisher Jurvetson to capitalize on the
growing trend towards globalization. With over $650 million under management,
DFJ ePlanet seeks to provide superior returns to its investors through strategic
investments in early and late stage information technology, consumer Internet,
medical device and wireless companies globally. DFJ ePlanet operates offices
in Redwood City, California, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, and
Tel Aviv.
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Grok Partners/Baldwin Brothers Inc.
Grok Partners was formed by the principals of Baldwin Brothers, Inc as well as
a limited number of interested clients to invest in Groxis. Baldwin Brothers,
Inc. is a private money management firm located in Marion, Massachusetts. It
manages assets approaching $1 billion, largely on behalf of high net-worth
individuals and their families. The firm invests primarily in the public equity
markets. It also provides alternative investment vehicles for clients who are
so inclined. The opportunity to invest in Groxis grew out of the friendship between
Michael Baldwin and Paul Hawken, who had met because of Michael's interest in
Paul's work concerning sustainable development.
EcoTrust
 Ecotrust is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the emergence of
a conservation economy along North America’s rain forest coast, the region
from San Francisco to Anchorage. EcoTrust works in urban and rural areas to support
entrepreneurs whose work improves environmental, economic, and social conditions.
Ecotrust was created in 1991 by a small group of diverse people with the goal
of fostering the development of a conservation economy. EcoTrust’s work
is predicated on the notion, gaining an ever wider currency, that economic and
ecological systems are mutually interdependent. To this formulation Ecotrust
and others have sought to add a third “e” — social equity — to ensure
that conservation-based development has positive benefits for all members of
the communities in which we work, particularly those who have been economically
marginalized.
Venture Factory
 Venture Factory is a new form of enterprise that invests in unique and ambitious
entrepreneurs and industry professionals and helps them to build sustainable
technology companies. Venture Factory’s experience in creating, building,
and operating Internet and network communications businesses enables them to
quickly and efficiently bring innovative new companies to market and to build
existing early-stage companies into market leaders. The focus of Venture Factory’s
growing portfolio is aimed at next generation Internet services, Internet infrastructure
technologies and services, and networked and mobile communications applications.
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