he Athenaeum Fund is a venture capital limited partnership originally founded in 1999 by Dr. John D. Baldeschwieler, Malcolm E. Cloyd and John Glanville with sixty-five Limited Partners. The Fund focuses on making seed-stage investments in emerging Southern California technology companies. The Fund's goal is to provide the funding, management and marketing skills necessary to give early-stage companies the grounding they need to get their products and services to market and to capture the attention of larger funding sources who can provide subsequent investments, if needed. The Athenaeum Fund is comprised of a group of very dedicated individuals who are committed to the success of The Fund, its members and the organizations that it is involved with.