Established Over 30 Years Ago
Beechtree Capital, LLC, founded by George over 30 years ago, is a family-owned advisory and venture capital firm with operations in New York City, Silicon Valley and Scottsdale, AZ.
Beechtree has provided venture funding, management coaching and financial and strategic networking in more than 120 transactions. While serving as a lead investor, Beechtree has enjoyed a success rate exceeding 60%, participating in equity transactions exceeding $600 million. Beechtree has realized a return on investment of more than 300% overall.
Beechtree is currently participating in a number of ventures across the energy, national international media, and ecological industries.
George M. Weiss, Founder & CEO
Current Ventures
Stellar3
Stellar3 is an international sustainability firm bringing patented technologies to the world’s waste transformation and climate industries.
Media Fusion International
Media Fusion Internation is a unique internation new media firm having formed and controlling an alliance of outlets permitting the distribution of owned and contrcted content to 50% of the world’s population.
ICT (Innovative Climatic Technologies)
Beechtree Capital is an early and leading shareholder of this innovative evaporative cooling and HVAC technology company primarily serving international data centers.
Notable Past Projects
Bowen Smith Corp.
George was the initial institutional investor in, co-founder and board chairman of Bowen Smith Corp., an early radio communications tower company based in Houston, Texas, which, after a number of equity and debt financings, merged with American Radio Systems and went public on the NYSE as American Tower Corp., currently the largest radio communications tower and related facilities company in the world with a valuation exceeding $80 billion.
Nexsan Corp.
In 2001, George led a small group to reorganize and finance Nexsan Corp., a fledgling British company in the data storage industry. George oversaw the firm’s relocation to the United States, where it became headquartered in the Los Angeles area. George served as board chair for 10 years and as co-chair with a past CEO of Lucent Technologies for two years. He also led a number of preferred stock and convertible debt funding rounds. The company merged with a NYSE firm with a $125 million valuation.
XOS Digital, Inc
Beechtree Capital was the initial institutional investor in this sports media technology company. George initially served as board chairman and introduced major venture fund investments and managerial participation. The company went on to become a leader in digital communications in the international sports world until its sale in 2017. With earlier sales, the return was approximately $120 million.
VeriFides Technology, Inc.
George co-founded and developed VeriFides Technology, Inc. in 2010, which acquired innovative patents for digital media security. George chaired the board of directors for VeriFides, which was based in New York City. The technology, originally developed by the US Military, was scheduled to be marketed through a collaboration with General Dynamics Corp. The patents were successfully sold with a one year 3x return in 2011 to a major international patent firm formed and led by an early Microsoft CTO.
Beechtree Capital Predecessor
Beechtree Capital, LLC had its earliest beginnings in the early 1990s. Beechtree CEO George M. Weiss was one of two partners in Beechtree Capital Group, LLC, a predecessor firm, which participated with international firms working in London, Malaysia and Tatarstan, an important Russian Republic, to guide the financing and modernization of that Republic’s largest chemical plant. The group advised and were pivotal in completing an initial $500 million financing from the U.S. Exim Bank, Citicorp and ABB Ltd. Early Beechtree Capital Group activities also included consulting in various situations including the public offering on the London Stock Exchange of Tatneft, Tatarstan’s leading oil company.
