Be Brilliant

5Lights® partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and innovators in growing businesses to manifest their secret.

5Lights® works with our partners through sleeves-up, elbows to elbows and hands-on collaboration to create iconic companies.

It Takes 5 Lights to Make an Icon

Iconic companies do not just arrive on innovation, hard work or large cash infusions alone. We believe sustained, significant growth, value creation and profit depend on five factors — five lights — all vital, that together unlock a company’s greatest potential.

Secret

What is your unique and compelling advantage; why is your product, service, technology and/or value creation significantly better than everyone else’s?

Market

Is your market ready, big enough, and can it support your owning the space, can you be The One?

Model

Is your model its best; is it sustainable; can you scale, acquire and retain customers efficiently?

Resources

Do you have the big-A and little-a assets, whether IP, capital, credit, know-how, talent, tools, Wisdom, to make it all happen?

Team

Is your talent in place and cohesively coordinated — vision, leadership, management and execution — in a culture destined for success? Does your leadership inspire excellence?

Why

We believe in what’s possible. Inventing destiny. The satisfaction of a healthy pursuit. The gratification of a success that is well-pursued. We partner only with those that exhibit unwavering mettle, are dedicated to a culture of optimization and innovation, and are well-steeped in sound business processes, but unbound by them.

Who We Are

We are a team of entrepreneurs, business warriors, clear thinkers, compassionate leaders, fierce loyalists, capital guardians and innovation veterans with the ability to catalyze profit like few others can.

We bring sharp minds, keen eyes, listening ears, fierce hearts and capable hands to every project. We’re passionate about entrepreneurs, new inventions, and IP that can change the world.

Charlie Horn

Charlie Horn

Founder and CEO

Matt Muehlebach

Matt Muehlebach

SVP and General Counsel

Megan Wood

Megan Wood

President

Lucha Oceguera

Lucha Oceguera

Sr. Director of HR, Business Ops., & Compliance

Liam Maddock

Liam Maddock

VP of Marketing

Our Team Extensions

Capital Investors

Executives in residence

Data scientists

Domain experts

C-Suites

Talent development

Culture development

Incubators

5Lights Capital

Partner Companies

Our nimble team starts with our core group selecting the right engagements and assembling the right team of resources for you.

The right partners for success in our collective process are management teams and commercialization partners with these essentials:

We love them.

They know their business’ secret.

Their value proposition can create a paradigm shift.

Their leadership team is cohesive and shares a resonating purpose to ours, and a pervasive, propagating culture committed to continuous improvement.

Their customers are evangelists.

Deep roots and premier leadership in entrepreneurship

We use our 5Lights® model to create unique and impactful commercialization opportunities. By combining the expertise of our core team with our expansive network, we identify the most effective pathways for select inventions. Through our collective wisdom, dedicated efforts, and resources, we transform ideas into reality. Our team’s extensive experience in intellectual property and successful commercialization, grounded in an understanding of university structures and researcher passion, empowers 5Lights to bring groundbreaking life, health, and world-changing research to the forefront.

News

Keep up with 5Lights® in 
the news.

UD Benefactor Charlie Horn Gets Pete du Pont Freedom Award

A University of Delaware graduate who started several successful companies and founded the school’s entrepreneurship

Sherry Hoskinson inducted as a Longenecker Fellow at the USASBE conference in Los Angeles, CA

On January 12th, 2018, Sherry Hoskinson was inducted as a Justin G. Longenecker Fellow at

Hall of Fame Award Recipient: Sherry Hoskinson, Legacy Award

In 1998, the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship (then, the H.N. & Frances C. Berger Entrepreneurship

How to be a Badass Sales Warrior

Badass sales warriors are like Navy SEALs Like Navy SEAL warriors – the greatest sales

36 Intriguing Delawareans • Charlie Horn

“Entrepreneurs are the creative class that makes the world a better place with new inventions,

Sherry Hoskinson receives Hecker Award

The Lawrence M. Hecker Future of Possibility Award was created in honor of Larry Hecker.

Role of Academic Librarians in the Commercialization of University Intellectual Property, An Emerging Opportunity

A new partnership Sherry Hoskinson worked on at the University of Arizona has become a national

UD turning Summer Founders into tomorrow’s entrepreneurs

20 students have graduated from Delaware’s Summer Founders Program, a 12-week crash course, organized by

PBMS Group Changes to 5Lights

We are proud to announce that effective immediately, The PBMS Group, an affiliate of Pro

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