The fund is managed by a group of highly experienced investment professionals who have successfully teamed together in the past, and they employ the same investment strategy that produced 50% net annualized returns over a ten-year period ending December 1999. CrossBridge focuses on early to late stage investments in U.S. companies and in their subsidiaries located in Asia, with targeted industries including communications, software, Internet, service, and semiconductors. The fund's advantage is a hands-on approach that offers portfolio companies both timely and strategic access to the world's second-largest market, and management consists of former senior partners at Silicon Valley Bank, JAFCO, and Techno-Venture in Tokyo who have extensive experience in venture capital investing in the United States and Asia.