I am a Philadelphia-based venture capital investor who came to Osage Venture Partners after experiences as a CEO of a public software company, as a partner in a strategy consulting firm, and after an early forray in finance.
Osage Venture Partners provides venture capital to early stage companies with a focus on information technology, software-as-a-service, and healthcare IT. We invest in early stage, mid-Atlantic, and EXCLUSIVELY enterprise software companies
My investment philosophy is simple - work with great entrepreneurs and support their efforts to build highly successful companies.
You can reach me by email at nlentz@osagepartners.com or call me at 484-434-2255. You can learn more about how we think at our blog: http://www.blogovp.com
Specialties: Start-ups, Software, Healthcare IT, SaaS, Business Technology, Technology-enabled services, Cloud,
Managing Partner @ Osage Venture Partners is a Philadelphia-based, early stage venture capital fund focused on mid-Atlantic enteprise software companies.
Specific areas of investment focus include:
- application software
- data and analytics
- cloud computing
- technology infrastructure
- healthcare IT
We seek determined and creative entrepreneurs that have a unique concept or product. Osage provides capital and value added services to attractive early stage businesses with initial investments ranging from $1-2 million.
Current boards are listed separately. Current and past board observer roles include: SevOne, Identropy, Moda Technologies, Carnegie Speech From August 2008 to Present (7 years 5 months) Board of Directors @ By delivering client-specific best practice information and performance metrics through a scalable SaaS platform, PeopleLinx empowers corporate employees to manage their online presence and reach their individual business goals. This customizable social business solution can be quickly deployed across the enterprise to provide ongoing education, gamification, content management and network mining tools that increase user effectiveness when navigating social networks for business. When integrated into the daily workflow, these features and capabilities produce measurable results in top-line growth and efficiency across the organization. From March 2013 to Present (2 years 10 months) Board of Directors @ Canvas is an easy, fast and economical way for businesses to find, customize and create mobile apps to replace paper forms. Canvas is a cloud-based software service that enables users to collect information using mobile devices, share that information and integrate with existing backend systems. Canvas also offers the first mobile business application store of its kind, allowing businesses from diverse industries to find mobile apps specific to their needs. Canvas apps work on Android, Blackberry, BlackBerry Playbook, iPhone, iPad, and Windows mobile/desktop devices. Every Canvas app is customizable by the end user and can incorporate such functionality as GPS, image capture, barcode scanning, electronic signatures and access to business lists such as parts catalogs and patient records. To date, Canvas has automated millions of manual processes and replaced over 19 tons of paper for businesses, making it one of the fastest growing mobile app services in the world. From December 2012 to Present (3 years 1 month) Board of Directors @ Medallion Analytics offers a suit of web-based productivity and quality tools for lenders and settlement services companies to help them improve quality and reduce cost through automation. From August 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) Board of Directors @ Pneuron offers a new design, deployment, and execution paradigm to help businesses meet today’s rapidly changing and complex information systems challenges. By distributing lightweight, fixed-function, processing objects to targeted individual source systems, Pneuron creates a powerful processing network which sidesteps the time and cost penalties of today’s centralized approaches. Using a single, integrated platform, businesses are able to iteratively build and deploy solutions which solve the challenges of distributed data, applications and infrastructure. From October 2011 to Present (4 years 3 months) Board of Directors @ BA Insight™ is the leading provider of advanced search technologies that enable organizations to rapidly deploy role-based business applications within the heterogeneous enterprise environment. BA Insight’s award-winning Longitude Software Suite lets organizations extend Microsoft’s SharePoint and FAST search capabilities and integrate information across dozens of CRM, ERP, ECM, messaging, and collaboration systems, and delivers rich preview, data visualization, and content classification tools that empower knowledge workers to find relevant content more efficiently, and act upon that information with greater precision. From September 2010 to Present (5 years 4 months) Board of Directors @ FieldView's software provides facilities managers and IT personnel that handle data centers with real time branch circuit and environmental monitoring, circuit alarm notification, and cabinet asset management for small and large data centers. The offering enables better infrastructure capacity and efficiency metrics for a single facility or across a global portfolio. Headquartered in Edison, New Jersey, FieldView was spun-out of Energy Options, a 30 year-old company that is a distributor and installer of building management systems. From December 2009 to Present (6 years 1 month) Board of Directors @ InstaMed is the industry leading healthcare payments network and platform. Our patent pending platform and network handle real-time eligibility to over 430 payers, real-time claims and electronic payments from patients and payers. Working with InstaMed is simple, convenient, reliable and secure and we back it up with the InstaMed Service Guarantee. From December 2008 to Present (7 years 1 month) Board of Directors @ RackWare is focused on delivering solutions to easily and cost-effectively enable the use of cloud for today’s enterprises. RackWare brings intelligence and automation to the cloud, to improve availability for enterprises, provide greater flexibility for enterprise IT users, and reduce costs for enterprise IT providers.The company was founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs with extensive experience delivering enterprise-class products in the server, storage, network, and virtualization markets. From June 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Board of Directors @ ProtonMedia is the developer of ProtoSphere, a state-of-the-art social environment for highly effective online teaming. Since 2006, ProtonMedia has been helping businesses overcome the limits of traditional online collaboration tools with engaging environments that improve the productivity and organizational effectiveness of globally distributed teams. From July 2009 to December 2013 (4 years 6 months) President & CEO @ From November 2002 to March 2008 (5 years 5 months) Vice President / Partner @ Partner, San Francisco Office Head (1999 - 2000). Hong Kong Office Head / Asian Geography Lead (1997-1998). Senior member of Process Industries practice and E-commerce Practice. From September 1991 to July 2000 (8 years 11 months) Assistant Vice President @ Lending officer in middle market lending division with focus on mid-tier LBO financing. Completed credit training in 1986. From August 1985 to August 1989 (4 years 1 month)
MBA, Business @ Stanford University Graduate School of Business From 1989 to 1991 BA, Economics, History @ Brown University From 1981 to 1985 Nate Lentz is skilled in: SaaS, Healthcare IT, Business Optimization, Management Consulting, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software, Business Process Improvement, Product Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Executive Management, Analytics, Start-ups, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Healthcare Information Technology
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