Bringing a unique blend of technical expertise and business sense, and leveraging sustained experience in the delivery of wired and wireless broadband technologies, services and content, Hamilton Technology Advisors commonly works with investment professionals in the following areas:

• Investment Assessments and Due Diligence Projects

  • Technology assessments

  • Individual and team assessments

  • Assessment of technical and organizational process

  • Overall and specific organizational effectiveness

  • Technology scalability and sustainability

  • Quality

  • Analysis of competitive companies, products, technologies

  • When a potential merger or acquisition is being considered, the above items across the combined entity

  • Custom assessments unique to each investment decision

   

• Operational support: IT support for portfolio companies

   

  Many early stage companies, and in particular non-technology focused product and service companies, face significant IT challenges, critical to their success, yet they frequently don't have deeply experienced technology leaders on their team to ensure the solid IT decision making critical to the the success of their ventures.

   

  Hamilton Technology Advisors can provide the management team in your portfolio companies with ongoing or project based assistance, helping to analyze and guide IT strategy development, strategic business systems selection, development, and deployment, thereby enabling the venture to benefit from targeted enterprise-quality CIO support where and when required.

Hamilton Technology Advisors focuses on broadband networked systems and applications, with specific experience in the following technologies:

• Wireless technologies and mobile applications:
  • WiFi/802.11a/b/g architecture, infrastructure, applications, content, services
  • WiMAX 802.16 architecture, infrastructure, applications, content, services
  • Cellular Data Networks/2.5G & 3G architecture, infrastructure, applications, content, services
  • Private Data Network enabled architecture, infrastructure, applications, content, services
  • Handsets (phones, PDAs), dedicated MDTs (Mobile Data Terminals), Personal Computer/Laptop mobile clients
• Multimedia and rich-content production and delivery
  • Digital video & audio production and delivery
  • Streaming, downloadable, and CD-based distribution
• Internet and Web technologies, applications, services
• High-performance computing and scalable networked systems
• Embedded systems and applications
• Content and knowledge management systems
• Collaboration and community services and systems
• Open source software, applications, and operating systems

We have expertise the following markets and business/product models:

• Higher education and distance learning
• ASP-delivered products and services
• Packaged software products
• Professional services, custom software development
• Government procurement and government sponsored research