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Joy Lindsay is President and Co-founder of StarTec Investments, LLC, a private venture capital firm focused on early stage companies based in the Midwest. Companies in StarTec's portfolio include XIOtech (acquired 2000), Gentra Systems (acquired 2006), WindLogics, Inc (acquired 2006), Apprise Technologies (acquired 2007), Magnum Technologies, Compellent Technologies, Iconoculture Inc., Medisyn Technologies, Halo Innovations, Inc., Restore Products Company, and Pontus Global, Inc.
In addition to her role at StarTec, Lindsay is involved in the Sofia Angel Fund, a Minnesota-based RAIN fund focused on making private equity investments in companies founded by or led by women or whose products and services target women.
Lindsay has served as Secretary and Vice-President of the Minnesota Venture Capital Association and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Minnesota. She has served or is currently serving as a director for several early stage companies and is also on the board of directors for A.C.E.S. (Athletes Committed to Educating Students), a non-profit organization providing after school programs for inner-city youth.
Prior to founding StarTec, Lindsay was a Senior Vice President in the Westlaw division of West Group (now Thomson West). In her 19 years at West, she held numerous management and executive positions in the areas of technology, product development, sales and marketing. She has a B.A. in mathematics from Carleton College and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota.
