The BlackBerry Partners Fund™ was established to deliver superior returns on the compelling investment opportunities present in the applications, services and supporting infrastructure for mobile platforms. The BlackBerry Partners Fund™ is focused on investing in mobile commerce applications (payments, advertising, retailing, and banking), vertical and horizontal enterprise applications, location-based and location-aware applications and services (navigation and mapping), communications, social networking, media and entertainment, and lifestyle and personal productivity applications for the BlackBerry® and other mobile platforms.

The BlackBerry Partners Fund™ will be looking at companies that possess many or all of the following elements:

• Potential product and market leadership
• Competitive differentiation
• Strong management teams
• Clear revenue & cost model