Princeton Entrepreneurship Club

Joe Allegra spoke at E-Club meeting

Entrepreneurship 101 Seminar Series

Joe Allegra

How to Ask for Money

Speaker Profile:

Joe is a General Partner of Edison Ventures. He focuses on investment opportunities in New Jersey, New York and New England, usually involving wireless applications, interactive marketing, enterprise and systems software.

As a board member, Joe contributes marketing, sales, technology and general management expertise from his many years in the software industry and as an entrepreneur. He was a co-founder and CEO of Princeton Softech, which he guided to $40M revenue. Princeton Softech was a rapidly growing, profitable company that developed and marketed database products to Fortune 1000 companies. Princeton Softech was named twice to the INC. 500 list of fastest growing companies.

Earlier, he was VP of R&D for Computer Associates, following its acquisition of Applied Data Research. He was product manager, led product support and headed R&D during 12 years with these enterprise software companies. Joe also provided strategic consulting services to several technology companies.

Joe was a finalist as Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. He received the NJTC Technology Supporter Award in 2003. He co-founded the Software Association of New Jersey, served as Chairman of the New Jersey Technology Council, and led the initial financing for the NJTC Venture Fund.