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QUÆSTUS & Co. Inc.

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QUÆSTUS & Co. Inc. is an activist venture capital investor and fund management company. Established in 1989, QUÆSTUS specializes in start-up companies that offer unique and high-need technology-enabled services with the potential to generate sustainable recurring revenue.

The QUÆSTUS business model is to establish and manage a private equity venture fund dedicated exclusively to investment in a single start-up company and related companies and technologies in the same sector.

QUÆSTUS seeds its funds with its own capital in sufficient amount to support its companies through the development stages including technology development and confirmation, proof of business model and value proposition; revenue generation, complete management team and breakeven operations.

At this stage QUÆSTUS may invite selected institutional and strategic investor the fund which now owns a company with proven performance and significant upside.

QUÆSTUS and its principals have used this model to start 8 companies successfully realizing 6 of them by IPO and private sale.

QUÆSTUS is currently serving as the Managing Member of QUAESTECH LLC, a venture capital fund focused on aerobiology and indoor air quality and decontamination. QUAESTECH owns Prolitec Inc. a technology-enabled environmental services company.

History:

QUÆSTUS was established in 1989 by CEO Richard Weening, Chairman Charles Wright, and a small group of long-time associates. The concept of the firm was to leverage the group's operating experience to develop start-up and early-stage companies.

QUÆSTUS was established in 1989 by CEO Richard Weening, Chairman Charles Wright and a small group of long-time associates. The concept of the firm was to leverage the group's operating experience to develop start-up and early-stage companies.

The original aim was to find and fund start-up opportunities in the traditional media such a publishing and broadcasting and emerging breed of companies who were starting harness the computer and telecommunications technology deliver information and entertainment in new ways that would lead the transition into the Information Age and the Internet.

The product offered was the firm's own capital plus experience-based advice in raising capital, developing businesses, buying and selling companies, and forging joint ventures and strategic relationships.

QUÆSTUS has consistently operated as a boutique venture manager with organizing funds focused on a single company or sector. QUÆSTUS managed funds have invested over $50.0 million as equity in start-up and early stage companies always investing its own capital along side capital provided by institutional investors. While the firm is mainly experienced in private equity, QUÆSTUS has also worked with two of its portfolio companies and their broker dealers in the raising over $1.0 billion in public equity, public debt and bank debt.

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