TAEVAST

TAEVAST invests in high growth technology sectors, primarily those offering information & related analytics directed at “fintech”, e-commerce, fraud prevention, sales & marketing applications.

Andrew Prozes is the TAEVAST Manager, responsible for all investment and management decisions. He is on the advisory board to West Street Capital Partners VII, L.P., a GoldmanSachs fund. He serves on the board of directors and executive committee of TransUnion, chairing their compensation committee, and serves on a number of boards, including as Executive Chairman of Neoway, a Brazilian data analytics company.

Andrew served on the Reed Elsevier Board of Directors, and was CEO of LexisNexis, for over eleven years. He led growth of their legal and Risk Solutions buisness into 120 countries, growing revenue to over $4 billion from $1.7 billion. He has been an active Director of more than 20 public and private companies, and has served on a number of non-profits focusing on the promotion of the Rule of Law. He currently serves on board of trustees and on executive committee of Freedom House.

TAEVAST investment liquidations have included:

Interactive Data Corps (IDC)
Acquired by I.C.E., Owner of NYSE — New York Stock Exchange

Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists
Acquired by DeVry/Becker

Ethoca
A credit card fraud detection company
Acquired by MasterCard

Some press coverage related to TAEVAST investments:

• Prove (formerly Payfone) Raises $100M for its Mobile Phone-based Digital Verification and ID Platform (TechCrunch)
• Payfone Rebrands as Prove, Buys Authentication Tech from Early Warning (American Banker)
• Trint Named Top 10 UK Startups in 2020 (Startups UK)
• Neoway Business Solutions Recognized as a Key Player in Marketing Analytics Report (MarketWatch)
• Ethoca Sale to MasterCard (MasterCard)
• Why This Digital Identity Authentication Expert Believes 'Trust' Will Reshuffle The Fortune 500 (Forbes)
• Becker Professional Education to Acquire ACAMS (Business Wire)
• ICE to Acquire IDC for $5.2 Billion, Expanding in Data Services (Bloomberg)
• Synaptive Medical adds 3D visualisation and voice activation to its surgical tech (Pharma Phorum)

The TAEVAST strategic investments include: Fiizy; NanoPay; Neoway; Prove (formerly Payfone); Synaptive; Trint; Veriff; West Street Capital; Xolo.

Laura Heery, President of TAEVAST, brings a focus on strategic outreach. She is interested in resilience, leads “Cross Sector Conversations”, roundtables for “Freedom of the Net”, annual data collected from 65 countries by Freedom House. Laura has studied and worked abroad, is an architect, former President of Brookwood Group and member of YPO (Young Presidents Organization). She started The Live/Work/Walk Foundation, serves on the boards of the University of Miami School of Architecture and The Grove Park Foundation, a member of Purpose Built Communities, founded by Tom Cousins and Warren Buffet. After training with I.M.Pei & Partners and Heery International, she worked for Philip Johnson. She has a Masters in Architecture from Yale University.