The Texas Women Ventures Fund (TWVF) invested in Karlee in June 2006. TWVF was the lead investor in a $2.3 million sub-debt round. CapSource and CapSource 2000 Funds also invested in this round. 

Karlee is a privately owned, woman-led company located in Garland, Texas. The company currently employs 335 team members and, with the new capital infusion, that number is expected to exceed 500.Karlee is a manufacturer and integrator providing integrated enclosures, sheet metal fabrication, precision machining, cabling, electromechanical assembly and process coating to a customer base of primarily Fortune 500 companies in the medical, semi-conductor, telecommunications, commercial, nuclear and defense industries.

Karlee is the hallmark of quality, illustrated by its Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award received in 2000 as well as preferred supplier labels from Applied Materials, Abbott Laboratories, Fujitsu Network and Alcatel Communications.  Karlee ranked seventeenth among the top one hundred small businesses in Texas during 2005 and was ranked the seventh largest woman-owned business in DFW in 2004.

For more information, visit www.karlee.com.

Texas Women Ventures Fund, LP (TWVF), along with Pinnacle Minority Supplier Development Fund, LP, invested $2 million in The Warrior Group, in March 2007. TWVF led the transaction and sourced the co-investor fund to participate in this sub-debt round.

The Warrior Group is the largest SBA 8(a) woman-owned modular construction company in America. A nationwide company that is based in Desoto, Texas, Warrior provides turnkey solutions for projects such as military barracks, retail establishments, classrooms and medical buildings. Warrior's latest project is a contract to supply over 700 apartments at Ft. Bliss located in El Paso, Texas. Warrior has teaming relationships with some of the largest industry players and contractors in the country on that contract.

For more information, please visit www.warrior-group.net.