Franklin Madison

Capital Advisory and Management Consultant in New York

Franklin Madison

Capital Advisory and Management Consultant in New York

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As a Founder and Managing Director of Eminova Capital and Investments, LLC. I am responsible for Managing relationships and strategic partnerships with numerous investment banking partners and for developing new opportunities for strategic investment and growth of this new emerging market fund. As Managing Director & Co-Founder of Gaia Ventures, I accelerate the growth of innovative high-tech firms in the United States and Canada. I advise CEO's in areas as diverse as cleantech, virtualization, new product development, and defense technologies, I provide strategic guidance for capital formation; technology transfer commercialization opportunities and strategic partnerships.

I am responsible for Capital Advisory and Partnerships utilizing Ethereum based Blockchain to monetize illiquid assets. We are a multi-region regulatory platform for the creation, financing &governance of secure crypto assets.

My VC experience: Greenhills Ventures LLC; SJF Advisory Services & SJF Ventures, SpringLab and as a co-founder of NYCSeed an early stage fund. I also participated in Investors Circle and The Keiretsu Forum. I have placed over $700 million dollars in capital into the companies I have worked with. I served on the Board of Directors of the MIT Enterprise Forum; the Institute of Play; Games 4Change, Inc. I served on the Board of Directors for battery technology market entrant Gaia Power Technologies. In 2001 I was one of Crain’s Tech 100, a listing of the Top 100 individuals in technology in NYC.

I provided policy advice to the City and the State of NY, NYU, Cornell, Columbia U, The U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Dept of Commerce, Homeland Security and NASA on technology-based economic development; I served NYS as SBIR Regional Specialist; served on Mayor Bloomberg's Telecommunications Policy Advisory Group. I was in an NYC based Law practice for 10 years and am heavily involved in real estate development in the US, Canada & the Caribbean. In my spare time, I am a writer for The Good Men Project.

  • Work
    • Eminova Capital & Investments
  • Education
    • City University of New York
    • New York University Stern School of Business