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Bart Stuck is the Managing Director of Signal Lake, an early stage Venture Capital Fund which focuses on Broadband Telecom and Networking Infrastructure. Signal Lake, located in Boston MA & Westport CT, was founded in 1998. Prior to that, from 1984-1998 he served as the Managing Director of Business Strategies LLC, a consultancy involved with 450+ client engagements and over $60B+ in capital placements.
From 1993 to 1998, Bart Stuck invested in 24 companies over $350K and generated over $16M in return. first round investor in Ciena, Covad, Torrent Networks, Tegic, and moving Uniphase into telecoms to create JDSUniphase. From 1972-1984 he was with Bell Laboratories. He holds the degrees of ScD, SMEE, and SBEE, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA. He was on the Global Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum, 2004-2006.

Yaron Bazaz: Hi Bart, how did you find yourself involved with venture capital activities?

Bart Stuck:
“While at MIT I was in Amar Bose’ group and offered job at Bose Corporation. MIT alumni have created many companies over the years, and were involved in the first venture capital fund after WWII - American Research and Development (Doriot). Bob Metcalfe, Co-Inventor of Ethernet, is a classmate of minewho founded 3COM; I reconnected with him when he and I were involved in Local Area Network Standards in the early eighties, and many companies were started up then that i was engages with.”

“While at Bell Labs I met with Wall Street analysts re industry trends and new IPOs. I advised many funds on investment opportunities during the period of 1984-1998.often I would be asked - “would you put your money in this deal?” so I asked “COULD I INVEST ?”, and from 1993-1998 I invested $350K into 24 companies that returned $16M+, 760% IRR per year, original investor in Ciena (with Sevin Rosen), in Covad (with Warburg Pincus), in Torrent Networks (with Columbia Capital) and many other funds and companies.”     Read more »»

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