David Anthony is an experienced entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and educator. Mr. Anthony is the founder of 21 Ventures. Currently, Mr. Anthony is advisor at Unus Ventures LLC, a venture capital company that invests in early-stage technology transfer opportunities. Since 2002, Anthony has provided seed and bridge capital for 7 technology ventures. Anthony is Adjunct Professor at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB), where he teaches several courses on entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. Mr. Anthony sits on the board of portfolio companies: Aspectus VideoIntelligence, Juice Wireless, and Orion Solar. He is a board observer on A-Speed Software and Visioneered ImageSystems.
In 1995, Mr. Anthony launched Notorious Entertainment, a developer of multimedia brands, which published the internationally distributed magazine Notorious, and developed an early streaming website. In 1998, he sold the company to entertainment mogul Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, and ran the company for two subsequent years.
Before Notorious, Mr. Anthony, with Dartmouth College Professor John K. Shank, consulted Fortune 500 clients on capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, and entrepreneurship Mr. Anthony received his MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1989 and a BA in economics from George Washington University in 1982. He is an entrepreneurship mentor at the Land Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
Since 2002, Anthony has been entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of Alabama Birmingham, School of Business. At UAB, Anthony teaches three courses: “From Idea to IPO - The Technology Venture,” “Technology Ventures Business Planning,” and “Negotiating Technology Agreements.” His students include PhD. Students, post-docs, and faculty from the medical, engineering, and physical sciences schools. Anthony is the co-founder of the Alabama Launchpad, the first statewide business plan competition in Alabama. In 2004 and 2005, Anthony taught “From Idea to IPO—The Technology Venture” at the New York Academy of Sciences. His students there were PhD. Candidates and post-docs from Columbia, NYU, Sloan Kettering, Rockefeller, and Einstein.
In 2002, Anthony was awarded the Distinguished Mentor of the Year Award from Columbia University. He is also a member of the New Leadership Network of AIPAC, American Israeli Public Affairs Committee.
from http://www.fundingpost.com/venturefund/venture-fund-profile.asp?fund=354 and http://www.youngstartup.com/events/index.phtml?panel=guestspeakers&ysveid=82&speakerId=535
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