Richard Caruso

Provco Ventures (Provco Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1978 by Richard E. Caruso. The firm is headquartered in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

The Uncommon Individual Foundation studies, develops and applies the art and science of mentoring. It helps individuals and organizations through five mentoring programs: corporate, education, entrepreneur, media, and technology. The company was founded by Richard E. Caruso and John C. Crosby in 1986 and is headquartered in Devon, PA.

Diasome Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical stage diabetes therapeutics company which designs and develops insulin-based therapies for the treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the clinical and commercial development of breakthrough therapies for diabetes and obesity. The company’s technology platform is based on the use of its proprietary Hepatocyte Directed Vesicle or HDV, nanotechnology to deliver a wide range of critically necessary hormones and drugs to the liver, the body’s primary site of glucose storage. The firm’s HDV system is designed to fundamentally improve the way in which insulin works in people with diabetes by enabling much greater amounts of injected insulin to reach hepatocytes, the liver’s glucose storing cells. The company was founded by Len Rosenberg, Lance Converse, W. Blair Geho and Robert Geho in 2004 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

NB Therapeutics, Inc. develops pharmacologic therapies. The firm has two technology platforms: iontophoresis and nitric oxide gas, through these two technology platforms it seeks to address the inherent challenges of drug delivery for diseases of the skin and nails. The company was founded by Frank J. McCaney in 2006 and is headquartered in Bristol, PA.

Quaker Partners Management LP (Quaker Partners Mgmt) is a venture capital subsidiary of Independence Capital Partners Inc founded in 2002 by Ira Mark Lubert and Paul Sherrill Neff. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ceelite Technologies LLC developed and commercialized light emitting capacitor technology solutions. It offered LEC technology products, which include LEC panels, inverters for LEC panels, and controllers to be used with LEC panels and inverters. The company’s products were also used in transit and bus advertising, street signs, media advertising, and architectural surfaces. It sold and distributed its products to manufacturers, integrators, and resellers in the United States and internationally. The company was founded by Malcolm Hayward, Michael Binder, James Chen and Huei-Pin Huang in 2004 and was headquartered in Villanova, PA.