BlackBerry Partners Fund 

JLA Ventures, along with RBC Venture Partners,  is co-managing the $150 million BlackBerry Partners Fund. 

Established to deliver superior returns on the compelling investment opportunity in the applications, services and supporting infrastructure for mobile platforms, the BlackBerry Partners Fund is focused on the areas of mobile commerce (payments, advertising, retailing and banking), vertical and horizontal enterprise applications, communications, social networking, location-based applications and services (navigation and mapping), media and entertainment, and lifestyle and personal productivity applications.

The BlackBerry Partners Fund will be looking at companies that possess many or all of the following elements:

• Potential product and market leadership
• Competitive differentiation
• Strong management teams
• Clear revenue & cost model
• Strong value proposition
• Defendable IP and/or barriers to entry
• Reasonable entrance value
• Capital efficiency

The BlackBerry Partners Fund is set apart from other venture funds by its laser-like focus on the mobile industry which is supported by proprietary deal flow from the Research in Motion ecosystem of partners, carriers, solution providers and systems integrators; the combination of entrepreneurial and operational expertise of the JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners investment professionals; and the focus on building teams and adding value to the companies it invests in. 

For more information please visit www.blackberrypartnersfund.com.