Capstone North America

Clay K. Deniger

Clay is responsible for North American Operations including project management, transaction structuring, and firm operations.

Prior to Capstone, Clay was founder and CEO of Substrate Technologies, Inc. (STI), a venture-backed semiconductor component supplier. At STI, Clay raised capital from strategic and institutional investors on three continents, and ultimately deployed the proceeds for construction of a dedicated manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China. In 2003, Clay negotiated the sale of STI to a group of China-based investors.

Prior to STI, Clay was founder and CEO of Customer Survey Technologies (CST) a boutique technology research firm operating in North America and Europe. Clay raised CST’s critical capital through strategic investors and foreign government backed financings in the U.S. and Europe. In 1998, he sold CST to a domestic competitor.

Clay has written extensively on the subject of technology and tech industry investment. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Hamilton College.