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Beatrice A. Rothweiler
In 1997 Beatrice A. Rothweiler joined Portage Capital, Inc., a consulting firm serving selected emerging companies seeking to grow. Rothweiler has an extensive corporate background not only with clients raising capital, but also those growing through joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, mergers/acquisitions and franchising. Rothweiler has over twenty years of experience working with early stage, emerging and growing companies in the United States and internationally.
Since joining Portage Capital, Inc. Rothweiler has advised and assisted numerous companies in strategic growth initiatives domestically as well as internationally including August Technology, Inc., Reliastar Investment Research, Iconoculture Inc., and Chart Industries MVE.

Rothweiler is also fund partner and director of Portage Equity Investments II LP, an early stage accredited venture capital fund investing in software, medical device, biotech and health sciences, semiconductor, and IT technology companies. The fund prefers to invest $50,000 - $250,000 per transaction.

Prior to joining Portage Capital, Rothweiler was a partner of the Minneapolis law firm of Larkin Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, focusing almost sixteen years of practice on international corporate transactions as will as advising clients on business and legal issues affecting their growth. Prior to joining Larkin Hoffman, she began her corporate international career in Germany working on various international transactions.

Rothweiler is a past President of the Minnesota Chapter of National Association of Women Business Owners, an international organization of women entrepreneurs. In 1991 Rothweiler received the Minnesota Women in Business Advocate of the Year from the US Small Business Administration. She has also served on the SBA District Advisory Council and in 1996 was a Minnesota delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business. Rothweiler is an adjunct faculty member of the School of Business, St. Thomas University where she has taught in their Taiwan program. Rothweiler has also spoken and published extensively throughout the world on various business and legal topics including venture capital and doing business internationally.

Rothweiler graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota in 1976 with BA in political science and received a JD with honors from Hamline University School of Law in 1979.