MassVentures
MassVentures Board Meeting
Published on March 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM EDT
Date and Time
Monday March 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT
Location
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Agenda
| Purpose | Presenter | Time | |||
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| I. | Opening Items | 8:00 AM | |||
| A. | Call the Meeting to Order | Yvonne Hao | 1 m | ||
| B. | Examples of Mission | Charlie Hipwood | 1 m | ||
| C. | Highlights | Discuss | Charlie Hipwood | 3 m | |
| D. | Donahue Institute Impact Report | Discuss | Charlie Hipwood | 30 m | |
| II. | Approvals | 8:35 AM | |||
| A. | Board Minutes | Approve Minutes | Charlie Hipwood | 1 m | |
| Approve minutes for MassVentures Board Meeting on February 10, 2025 | |||||
| B. | Pre-Investment Action Shee: Transaera | Vote | Charlie Hipwood | 1 m | |
| C. | Pre-Investment Action Sheet: ZPoly RLF | Vote | Charlie Hipwood | 1 m | |
| III. | Financial Matters | 8:38 AM | |||
| A. | Treasurer's Report | Discuss | Jim Madison | 5 m | |
| B. | Approve Treasurer's Report | Vote | Charlie Hipwood | 1 m | |
| C. | Investment Adjustment for Inflation | Vote | Charlie Hipwood | 5 m | |
| IV. | Conflicts of Interest | 8:49 AM | |||
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Board members are urged to review the Pipeline list of companies and disclose any potential or perceived conflict of interests. This becomes important if a company becomes a prospective investment candidate, as the Committee member should exclude themselves from discussion or votes regarding the company. New companies are listed in Red font.
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| A. | Conflicts | Discuss | Charlie Hipwood | 1 m | |
| V. | Executive Session | 8:50 AM | |||
| A. | Roll Call Vote to Enter Executive Session | Vote | Charlie Hipwood | 1 m | |
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The Board of Directors will now go into Executive Session, pursuant to Chapter 30A, for the purpose of discussing the following:
1. Regarding Investment matters:
I will need a roll call vote from the members to go into Executive Session. |
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| B. | THRiVE Grants | Vote | Charlie Hipwood | 3 m | |
| C. | START Grants | Vote | Charlie Hipwood | 5 m | |
| D. | ClearCut Surgical | Discuss | Vinit Nijhawan | 30 m | |
| E. | Clearcut Surgical Vote | Vote | Vinit Nijhawan | 10 m | |
| F. | QSM RLF Discussion | Discuss | Charlie Hipwood | 5 m | |
| G. | QSM RLF Vote | Vote | Charlie Hipwood | 5 m | |
| H. | BitEnergy Discussion | Discuss | Stacy Swider | 10 m | |
| I. | BitEnergy Vote | Vote | Stacy Swider | 5 m | |
| J. | Pipeline Report | Discuss | Priya Yadav | 3 m | |
| K. | Portfolio Update | Discuss | Charlie Hipwood | 30 m | |
| L. | Roll Call Vote to Return to Open Session | Vote | Charlie Hipwood | 1 m | |
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Having completed all business of this Executive Session, I will now ask the members to vote to reconvene in Open Session.
After Vote: Anyone who was required to leave during Executive Session be invited back into the room. We will now announce any Votes that took place during Executive Session. |
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| VI. | President's Report | 10:38 AM | |||
| A. | General Update | Discuss | Charlie Hipwood | 1 m | |
| B. | MV Capital Update | Discuss | Charlie Hipwood | 5 m | |
| C. | MV Accelerate Update | Discuss | Charlie Hipwood | 5 m | |
| D. | Strategy Discussion | Discuss | Charlie Hipwood | 5 m | |
| E. | Board-only Session | Discuss | Yvonne Hao | 5 m | |
| VII. | Closing Items | 10:59 AM | |||
| A. | Adjourn Meeting | Vote | |||