180 Degree Capital

With some 25 tiny technology companies in our portfolio, Harris & Harris Group, Inc.®, is one of the most active nanotechnology investors in the world. They have funded companies developing nanoscale-enabled solutions in solid state lighting, emerging memory devices, printable electronics, material science discovery and mass-manufacturing, organic-inorganic hybrids, next-generation semiconductor devices and equipment, thermoelectric, photovoltaic and battery technologies, as well as in various life-science applications of nano-structured materials. They participate in venture capital syndicates in most of their investments, alongside top-tier venture capital firms as well as strategic (corporate) investors. Increasingly, Harris & Harris Group is a lead investor. They believe in the classical early stage venture capital model and disciplines and that most technology-based start-ups can use all the help they can get from the diversified experiences, Rolodexes®, complimentary business networks, technical expertise, up-to-date customer connections and financial resources that a syndicate of professional venture capital investors can provide. Harris & Harris Group will invest at any stage prior to a company's initial public offering, and they will invest anywhere in the United States. Occasionally, they have also made private investments in publicly held companies (so-called "PIPE" investments). They have invested outside the United States, but rarely. Their current portfolio companies are distributed all across the country, plus one in Canada. Harris & Harris Group is looking for scientific, technological, business and execution excellence. They are attracted to markets of significant size and back passionate entrepreneurs who want to change the world with their tiny technology-enabled products. Proprietary, well-protected and highly differentiated technology is a prerequisite. But above all, they are eager to invest in companies with market-centric strategies that seek to define and dominate large product categories.

98 past transactions

EchoPixel

Series A in 2017
EchoPixel, Inc. develops medical imaging devices. The company develops a non-invasive colon cancer screening solution that enables doctors and radiologists to use computed tomography (CT) images of a patient’s abdomen and display a 3D model of a patient’s colon. With this tool, any medical professional can examine the entire colon by using a navigate and detect approach to identify most polyps or other abnormalities, the cause of cancer. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Jose, California.

NGX Bio

Venture Round in 2017
NGX Bio is an online marketplace platform for online DNA sequencing services. They make sequencing simple by connecting their customers to world-class genomic resources helping researchers complete sequencing projects in a single transaction. It streamlines the projects and makes them cost-effective by sourcing the best providers with available capacity. NGX Bio offers design and planning, sample preparation, sequencing facilities, and data analysis services. The company also operates an online project management tool that helps in sample tracking by using barcoded tubes and plates. NGX Bio serves customers worldwide.

ORIG3N

Venture Round in 2017
ORIG3N is a biotechnology company developing breakthrough treatments for rare genetically inherited diseases with targets in heart, liver, and neurodegenerative indications. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Lodo Therapeutics

Series A in 2016
Lodo Therapeutics Corporation is a drug discovery and development company focused on the creation of naturally derived novel therapeutics that will have a dramatic impact human health on a global basis. Lodo seeks to work in partnership with global pharmaceutical companies and world leading Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) to tackle some of the greatest challenges in human health: resistant infectious disease and cancers. Lodo Therapeutics was created to pursue the scientific vision of Dr. Sean Brady at Rockefeller University. Dr. Brady and his laboratory have developed a genome-based, culture-independent platform for the discovery, biosynthesis, and characterization of small molecules from microbial sources present in soil samples. Lodo believes that the potential cures for a number of deadly and/or debilitating diseases literally lie at our feet. By combining the advancements in DNA sequencing and bioinformatics, this innovative discovery platform exploits the power of microbial evolution for the identification of therapeutically valuable pharmaceutical products derived from natural sources. Lodo Therapeutics, an Accelerator Corporation-backed entity, is headquartered in New York City. The company’s lab and offices are located in the Alexandria Center for Life Science, New York City’s first and only premier life science park.

TARA Biosystems

Seed Round in 2016
Tara Biosystems provides predictive, in vitro human cardiac tissue models for use in drug discovery, safety assessment and translational medicine. Tara Biosystems offers a high-fidelity solution that is based on human stem cell-derived cardiac tissue matured to physiologically relevant adult-like levels and provides direct measures of cardiac functionality, including contractile force. The company is dedicated to pioneering predictive cardiac tissue models that enable the faster, safer, and more reliable development of new medicines.

Petra Pharma

Series A in 2016
Petra Pharma is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing a diverse portfolio of novel therapies for serious medical conditions such as cancer and metabolic diseases. The company also focused on novel enzyme targets that play a central role in a variety of important cellular processes, including cell division, growth, trafficking, and signaling. It will develop novel small molecules for the treatment of cancer and metabolic diseases to target these cellular processes in order to therapeutically impact human health. Petra Pharma was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, USA.

ORIG3N

Series A in 2015
ORIG3N is a biotechnology company developing breakthrough treatments for rare genetically inherited diseases with targets in heart, liver, and neurodegenerative indications. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

AgBiome

Series B in 2015
AgBiome, LLC, a biotechnology company, engages in delivering research and discovery to the agriculture industry. The company develops biological product that controls the predominant soil-borne diseases of greenhouse and major row crops. It identifies plant-associated microbes that enhance plant health, pest resistance, and yield applying based on genomics and screening technologies. AgBiome, LLC has strategic partnerships with Genective and ElevateBio. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

ORIG3N

Venture Round in 2015
ORIG3N is a biotechnology company developing breakthrough treatments for rare genetically inherited diseases with targets in heart, liver, and neurodegenerative indications. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

AgBiome

Venture Round in 2014
AgBiome is a biotechnology company using new knowledge of the plant-associated microbiome to create innovative products for agriculture. Partnerships with leading agricultural companies to accelerate our discovery process and allow us to deliver solutions for global markets. We employ 85 full-time and 2 part-time employees and occupy a state-of-the-art 30,000 square foot laboratory and greenhouse facility in the Research Triangle Park in Durham, North Carolina. AgBiome’s products will help farmers combat many of the most important unsolved problems in agriculture, including insects, nematodes, and diseases.

Enumeral Biomedical

Post in 2014
Enumeral Biomedical uses its microengraving (nanotechnology-enabled) process to address opportunities in immunology including therapeutic discovery, immune profiling and personalized medicine.

NGX Bio

Seed Round in 2014
NGX Bio is an online marketplace platform for online DNA sequencing services. They make sequencing simple by connecting their customers to world-class genomic resources helping researchers complete sequencing projects in a single transaction. It streamlines the projects and makes them cost-effective by sourcing the best providers with available capacity. NGX Bio offers design and planning, sample preparation, sequencing facilities, and data analysis services. The company also operates an online project management tool that helps in sample tracking by using barcoded tubes and plates. NGX Bio serves customers worldwide.

HZO

Series B in 2014
HZO delivers customized protective nano and conformal coatings that safeguard electronics from the most demanding environments. It provides water protection solutions for electronics manufacturers by introducing a durable film to components during assembly. The company specializes in the fields of nanotechnology, waterproofing, electronics, nano-coating, full-submersion. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina.

Promuc

Venture Round in 2014
ProMuc, Inc. develops synthetic mucins for lubrication and antimicrobial applications.

Metabolon

Series E in 2014
Metabolon is a technology company, that develops analytical methods and software for biomarker discovery using metabolomics. Metabolon's expertise in data and translational science enables customers and partners to tackle some of the most complex and urgent questions in the life sciences, thereby accelerating research and improving development outcomes. The company provides scalable and customizable multiomics solutions, including metabolomics and lipidomics, to support customer needs from discovery through clinical trials and throughout the product lifecycle. The company aims to provide biochemical data and insights that broaden and hasten the impact of life sciences research, while also integrating seamlessly with other 'omics' technologies.

ABSMaterials

Series B in 2013
ABS Materials designs, develops, and delivers solutions for ground, surface, and municipal water contamination. Its solutions include VoC-Eater system, which destroys pharmaceuticals, chlorinated solvents, herbicides, endocrine disruptors, PCBs, dyes, and phenols to outflow clean water; Osorb, a solution to destroy persistent organic pollutants in the groundwater; and Iron-Osorb, an inert sand-like glass used on TCE/PCE/DCE/PCBs. The company’s solutions are used to clean solvents, pesticides, and other persistent organic pollutants from the water, soil, and air. It offers its systems on a rental and long term lease basis. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Wooster, Ohio with an additional office in Houston, Texas.

EchoPixel

Seed Round in 2013
EchoPixel, Inc. develops medical imaging devices. The company develops a non-invasive colon cancer screening solution that enables doctors and radiologists to use computed tomography (CT) images of a patient’s abdomen and display a 3D model of a patient’s colon. With this tool, any medical professional can examine the entire colon by using a navigate and detect approach to identify most polyps or other abnormalities, the cause of cancer. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Jose, California.

AgBiome

Series A in 2013
AgBiome is a biotechnology company using new knowledge of the plant-associated microbiome to create innovative products for agriculture. Partnerships with leading agricultural companies to accelerate our discovery process and allow us to deliver solutions for global markets. We employ 85 full-time and 2 part-time employees and occupy a state-of-the-art 30,000 square foot laboratory and greenhouse facility in the Research Triangle Park in Durham, North Carolina. AgBiome’s products will help farmers combat many of the most important unsolved problems in agriculture, including insects, nematodes, and diseases.

Nantero

Series D in 2012
Nantero is a next-generation memory technology that, packs massive amounts of storage and is nonvolatile. Its main focus is the commercial introduction of NRAM – a high-density high-speed nonvolatile random access storage device. The applications for the nonvolatile RAM Nantero is developing include smartphones, tablets, enterprise systems, notebook and desktop computers, as well as applications in the automotive and industrial arena. NRAM can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology.

D-Wave Systems

Venture Round in 2012
D-Wave provides development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software and services, and is the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers—and the only company building both annealing quantum computers and gate-model quantum computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing today to benefit business and society.

Kovio

Venture Round in 2012
Kovio Inc., a privately held Silicon Valley company, is developing a new category of semiconductor products using printed silicon electronics and thin film technology. This new manufacturing technology combines the low cost of graphics printing with the power and functionality of silicon-based semiconductors. The company was founded in the MIT Media Laboratory.

OpGen

Series C in 2012
OpGen is a precision medicine company harnessing the power of molecular diagnostics and bioinformatics to help combat infectious diseases. OpGen, along with its subsidiaries, Curetis and Ares Genetics, develop and commercialize molecular microbiology solutions to help guide clinicians with more rapid and actionable information about life-threatening infections to improve patient outcomes. The company's approaches to infectious disease diagnostics consist of highly multiplexed syndromic molecular panels, and next-generation sequencing combined with smart bioinformatics and artificial intelligence to address the global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). By integrating these capabilities, we provide unique rapid molecular diagnostic products and services that help to dramatically transform patient care by using precision medicine to guide antibiotic therapy selection and optimize the treatment of life-threatening drug-resistant infections, improve antibiotic stewardship, and decrease the spread of multidrug-resistant microorganisms (MDROs). OpGen was established in 2002 by David Schwartz in Rockville, Maryland.

Senova Systems

Series B in 2012
Senova Systems develops, manufactures, and sells sensor systems by coupling its patented chemistry with advanced materials and proprietary microelectronics. Senova Systems’ first focus is a calibration-free pHit™ pH sensor platform that is wet-dry reversible and utilizes non-glass electrodes. This smart sensor platform marks the single most important technological advancement in the measurement of pH since the first pH meter in 1936 and will ultimately enable technological advances that were unachievable with conventional pH electrodes.

BridgeLux

Venture Round in 2011
Bridgelux is the first, new US-based light-emitting diode (LED) chip company in the past 20 years. The Company’s focus is bringing innovation to light by providing high power, energy-efficient and cost-effective LED solutions. Bridgelux actively supports its customers by delivering value-added, application-specific solutions that will open up new markets in solid-state lighting (SSL). Customers leverage Bridgelux’s technology to replace traditional lamp and luminaire technologies (such as incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lighting solutions) with solid-state products that provide high performance and energy-efficient white light for general lighting applications. Bridgelux’s current and future-generation products support global clean energy initiatives by reducing energy consumption and offering environmentally friendly solutions.

Contour Energy

Series C in 2011
Contour Energy is a company of portable power that commercializes customizable battery technologies for a wide range of cross-industry applications. It designs its next-generation battery systems to deliver unprecedented improvements in energy and power density, and are capable of performing in extreme operating conditions at significantly improved costs. Founded through the collaboration of Caltech and CNRS, the French National Center for Scientific Research, It combines expertise in nano-materials science, patented fluorine-based battery chemistries and manufacturing processes to significantly advance the state of portable power. With its headquarters in Azusa in California, a team of battery industry leaders from Caltech, Energizer, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Sanyo and Valence Technologies manages it. Private entrepreneurs hold it.

Metabolon

Series D in 2011
Metabolon is a technology company, that develops analytical methods and software for biomarker discovery using metabolomics. Metabolon's expertise in data and translational science enables customers and partners to tackle some of the most complex and urgent questions in the life sciences, thereby accelerating research and improving development outcomes. The company provides scalable and customizable multiomics solutions, including metabolomics and lipidomics, to support customer needs from discovery through clinical trials and throughout the product lifecycle. The company aims to provide biochemical data and insights that broaden and hasten the impact of life sciences research, while also integrating seamlessly with other 'omics' technologies.

HZO

Series B in 2011
HZO delivers customized protective nano and conformal coatings that safeguard electronics from the most demanding environments. It provides water protection solutions for electronics manufacturers by introducing a durable film to components during assembly. The company specializes in the fields of nanotechnology, waterproofing, electronics, nano-coating, full-submersion. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina.

PWA

Series A in 2011
The foundation of PWA's technology offering is Osorb® media - a patented, regenerable media system which removes, free, dispersed and soluble hydrocarbons and toxic contaminants from oilfield water and gas streams. The primary market for Osorb is the treatment of produced water to meet discharge and reinjection specifications.

Kovio

Venture Round in 2011
Kovio Inc., a privately held Silicon Valley company, is developing a new category of semiconductor products using printed silicon electronics and thin film technology. This new manufacturing technology combines the low cost of graphics printing with the power and functionality of silicon-based semiconductors. The company was founded in the MIT Media Laboratory.

Cobalt Technologies

Series D in 2011
Cobalt Technologies develops technologies that focuses and designed for biofuels. Cobalt is pioneering science that makes possible a new generation of fuels that burn cleaner, are more cost-effective and have a smaller environmental impact. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Nano Terra

Debt Financing in 2011
Nano Terra is developing so-called mart materials including ultra-thin electronic displays, fuel cells, sensors, and solar power devices, based on technology. The company helps companies develop and commercialize transformational products using our expertise in surface science, printing and patterning, and advanced materials. From creating ground-breaking innovations in chemical and biological defense to developing diagnostics for human health to innovating new methods for detecting counterfeit and defective parts, Nano Terra develops products by integrating creative ideas, insightful science.

SiOnyx

Series B in 2010
SiOnyx is the leading innovator in shallow junction photonics, a patented semiconductor process that dramatically enhances the performance of the light sensing devices commonly used in consumer, industrial, medical and defense related applications.

Geo Semiconductor

Debt Financing in 2010
Geo Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company, provides video and geometry processing solutions. Its products include Geo IC, a system-on-chip geometry processor for capture and projection light engines; Realta IC, an integrated system-on-chip image processor that enables a benchmark standard of video excellence; Tahoe, an evaluation board that enables evaluation and design of video systems with geometry processor; and Niobe Evaluation Board, a reference platform for image processor. The company's products are used in projectors, DVD players, medical and military displays, and video walls, as well as in signage, home theater, and education systems and AVRs. It serves consumer, automotive, and security markets. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Laser Light Engines

Series B in 2010
Laser Light Engines, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures digitally controlled laser-driven light engines for illumination applications. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Salem, New Hampshire.

Adesto Technologies

Venture Round in 2010
Adesto is a leading provider of innovative, application-specific semiconductors and embedded systems that comprise the essential building blocks of Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices operating on networks worldwide. Their broad portfolio of semiconductor and embedded technologies are optimized for connected IoT devices and systems used in industrial, consumer, communications and medical applications. Through expert design, unparalleled systems expertise and proprietary intellectual property (IP), their offerings enable customers to differentiate their IoT systems and product designs, leading to improved efficiency, greater reliability and security, integrated intelligence and ultimately lower cost. They have deep experience serving numerous IoT segments, and their technology is operating today across a broad range of connected products from smart utility meters, wearable fitness trackers and medical monitors to home automation, building control systems, fleet management systems and satellite communications applications. Their broad product portfolio, which is designed to deliver system performance and cost advantages to their customers, includes IoT edge servers, routers, network nodes and communication modules as well as analog, digital and non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies that are delivered to customers as discrete products, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), distributed network systems and IP cores. They also provide software, software development kits (SDKs), tools and system solutions to help speed time to market for customers. Their solutions enable seamless access to data, allowing for intelligent control of ‘things’ in today’s connected world.

Contour Energy

Series B in 2010
Contour Energy is a company of portable power that commercializes customizable battery technologies for a wide range of cross-industry applications. It designs its next-generation battery systems to deliver unprecedented improvements in energy and power density, and are capable of performing in extreme operating conditions at significantly improved costs. Founded through the collaboration of Caltech and CNRS, the French National Center for Scientific Research, It combines expertise in nano-materials science, patented fluorine-based battery chemistries and manufacturing processes to significantly advance the state of portable power. With its headquarters in Azusa in California, a team of battery industry leaders from Caltech, Energizer, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Sanyo and Valence Technologies manages it. Private entrepreneurs hold it.

BridgeLux

Series D in 2010
Bridgelux is the first, new US-based light-emitting diode (LED) chip company in the past 20 years. The Company’s focus is bringing innovation to light by providing high power, energy-efficient and cost-effective LED solutions. Bridgelux actively supports its customers by delivering value-added, application-specific solutions that will open up new markets in solid-state lighting (SSL). Customers leverage Bridgelux’s technology to replace traditional lamp and luminaire technologies (such as incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lighting solutions) with solid-state products that provide high performance and energy-efficient white light for general lighting applications. Bridgelux’s current and future-generation products support global clean energy initiatives by reducing energy consumption and offering environmentally friendly solutions.

Innovalight

Series D in 2010
Founded by Conrad Burke, Innovalight is focused on bringing high efficiency, low-cost solar modules to the marketplace. Enabling this manufacturing paradigm shift is the company's silicon ink, which has been in development since 2005. Historically, silicon has been processed either as a solid or as a gas. Using liquid based processing Innovalight will dramatically improve the cost and efficiency of today's solar modules.

Metabolon

Series C in 2009
Metabolon is a technology company, that develops analytical methods and software for biomarker discovery using metabolomics. Metabolon's expertise in data and translational science enables customers and partners to tackle some of the most complex and urgent questions in the life sciences, thereby accelerating research and improving development outcomes. The company provides scalable and customizable multiomics solutions, including metabolomics and lipidomics, to support customer needs from discovery through clinical trials and throughout the product lifecycle. The company aims to provide biochemical data and insights that broaden and hasten the impact of life sciences research, while also integrating seamlessly with other 'omics' technologies.

Laser Light Engines

Debt Financing in 2009
Laser Light Engines, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures digitally controlled laser-driven light engines for illumination applications. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Salem, New Hampshire.

Metabolon

Series C in 2009
Metabolon is a technology company, that develops analytical methods and software for biomarker discovery using metabolomics. Metabolon's expertise in data and translational science enables customers and partners to tackle some of the most complex and urgent questions in the life sciences, thereby accelerating research and improving development outcomes. The company provides scalable and customizable multiomics solutions, including metabolomics and lipidomics, to support customer needs from discovery through clinical trials and throughout the product lifecycle. The company aims to provide biochemical data and insights that broaden and hasten the impact of life sciences research, while also integrating seamlessly with other 'omics' technologies.

Innovalight

Venture Round in 2009
Founded by Conrad Burke, Innovalight is focused on bringing high efficiency, low-cost solar modules to the marketplace. Enabling this manufacturing paradigm shift is the company's silicon ink, which has been in development since 2005. Historically, silicon has been processed either as a solid or as a gas. Using liquid based processing Innovalight will dramatically improve the cost and efficiency of today's solar modules.

Solazyme

Series D in 2009
Solazyme is a synthetic biology company that specializes in converting algal biomass into biofuels. Solazyme not only creates biofuels for the the transportation industry, but is experimenting with ways to tailor its products for the cosmetic and food industries.

Contour Energy

Series A in 2008
Contour Energy is a company of portable power that commercializes customizable battery technologies for a wide range of cross-industry applications. It designs its next-generation battery systems to deliver unprecedented improvements in energy and power density, and are capable of performing in extreme operating conditions at significantly improved costs. Founded through the collaboration of Caltech and CNRS, the French National Center for Scientific Research, It combines expertise in nano-materials science, patented fluorine-based battery chemistries and manufacturing processes to significantly advance the state of portable power. With its headquarters in Azusa in California, a team of battery industry leaders from Caltech, Energizer, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Sanyo and Valence Technologies manages it. Private entrepreneurs hold it.

TetraVitae Bioscience

Series A in 2008
TetraVitae Bioscience is developing biobased chemicals, plastics, and fuels. Their proprietary technology and expertise in the fields of industrial fermentations, process engineering, microbiology, and cellulosic feedstocks will dramatically lower the costs of production, allowing them to compete with and replace petroleum-derived products.

Cobalt Technologies

Series C in 2008
Cobalt Technologies develops technologies that focuses and designed for biofuels. Cobalt is pioneering science that makes possible a new generation of fuels that burn cleaner, are more cost-effective and have a smaller environmental impact. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Solazyme

Series C in 2008
Solazyme is a synthetic biology company that specializes in converting algal biomass into biofuels. Solazyme not only creates biofuels for the the transportation industry, but is experimenting with ways to tailor its products for the cosmetic and food industries.
Nextreme designs and manufactures micro-scale thermal and power management products for the semiconductor, photonics, consumer, automotive and defense/aerospace industries. The company has embedded cooling and power generation capabilities into the widely accepted copper pillar bumping process used in high-volume electronic packaging. Nextreme’s breakthrough addresses the most challenging thermal and power management constraints in electronics today, and delivers the only fully-scalable technology solution by leveraging the existing, high-volume flip chip manufacturing infrastructure. By minimizing the need for manufacturing changes and focusing on developing a seamless design-in solution, Nextreme is changing the future of thermal and power management for the entire electronics industry.

Laser Light Engines

Series A in 2008
Laser Light Engines, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures digitally controlled laser-driven light engines for illumination applications. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Salem, New Hampshire.

Adesto Technologies

Series A in 2008
Adesto is a leading provider of innovative, application-specific semiconductors and embedded systems that comprise the essential building blocks of Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices operating on networks worldwide. Their broad portfolio of semiconductor and embedded technologies are optimized for connected IoT devices and systems used in industrial, consumer, communications and medical applications. Through expert design, unparalleled systems expertise and proprietary intellectual property (IP), their offerings enable customers to differentiate their IoT systems and product designs, leading to improved efficiency, greater reliability and security, integrated intelligence and ultimately lower cost. They have deep experience serving numerous IoT segments, and their technology is operating today across a broad range of connected products from smart utility meters, wearable fitness trackers and medical monitors to home automation, building control systems, fleet management systems and satellite communications applications. Their broad product portfolio, which is designed to deliver system performance and cost advantages to their customers, includes IoT edge servers, routers, network nodes and communication modules as well as analog, digital and non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies that are delivered to customers as discrete products, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), distributed network systems and IP cores. They also provide software, software development kits (SDKs), tools and system solutions to help speed time to market for customers. Their solutions enable seamless access to data, allowing for intelligent control of ‘things’ in today’s connected world.

BridgeLux

Series D in 2008
Bridgelux is the first, new US-based light-emitting diode (LED) chip company in the past 20 years. The Company’s focus is bringing innovation to light by providing high power, energy-efficient and cost-effective LED solutions. Bridgelux actively supports its customers by delivering value-added, application-specific solutions that will open up new markets in solid-state lighting (SSL). Customers leverage Bridgelux’s technology to replace traditional lamp and luminaire technologies (such as incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lighting solutions) with solid-state products that provide high performance and energy-efficient white light for general lighting applications. Bridgelux’s current and future-generation products support global clean energy initiatives by reducing energy consumption and offering environmentally friendly solutions.

Metabolon

Series C in 2008
Metabolon is a technology company, that develops analytical methods and software for biomarker discovery using metabolomics. Metabolon's expertise in data and translational science enables customers and partners to tackle some of the most complex and urgent questions in the life sciences, thereby accelerating research and improving development outcomes. The company provides scalable and customizable multiomics solutions, including metabolomics and lipidomics, to support customer needs from discovery through clinical trials and throughout the product lifecycle. The company aims to provide biochemical data and insights that broaden and hasten the impact of life sciences research, while also integrating seamlessly with other 'omics' technologies.

PolyRemedy

Series B in 2008
PolyRemedy offers integrated wound management systems designed to increase consistency by extending wound care expertise to the point of care. The PolyRemedy Personalized Woundcare System (PWS) enables clinicians to document care through easy-to-use, web-based assessment tools and order personalized wound dressings, while also providing critical and unprecedented visibility into wound care data. It was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts.

D-Wave Systems

Series C in 2008
D-Wave provides development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software and services, and is the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers—and the only company building both annealing quantum computers and gate-model quantum computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing today to benefit business and society.

Ensemble Discovery

Series B in 2007
Ensemble Discovery is developing a new class of therapeutics - the Ensemblinsâ„¢, orally bioavailable small molecule macrocyclic compounds that have the potential to behave like biologics and can disrupt protein-protein interactions. They have two complementary platforms that provide access to these molecules. Firstly, they use their proprietary DNA-Programmed Chemistryâ„¢ (DPCâ„¢) platform to generate hundreds of thousands of these molecules for rapid screening. Secondly, they have highly developed methods for the synthesis of Ensemblins as discrete molecules using conventional chemistry.

Innovalight

Series C in 2007
Founded by Conrad Burke, Innovalight is focused on bringing high efficiency, low-cost solar modules to the marketplace. Enabling this manufacturing paradigm shift is the company's silicon ink, which has been in development since 2005. Historically, silicon has been processed either as a solid or as a gas. Using liquid based processing Innovalight will dramatically improve the cost and efficiency of today's solar modules.

SiOnyx

Series A in 2007
SiOnyx is the leading innovator in shallow junction photonics, a patented semiconductor process that dramatically enhances the performance of the light sensing devices commonly used in consumer, industrial, medical and defense related applications.

Chlorogen

Venture Round in 2007
Chlorogen a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and manufacture of proteins for human therapy. The company, through its chloroplast transformation technology (CTT), offers plant made drugs for the treatment and prevention of human diseases, as well as for treatment of women's reproductive cancers. Its products include therapeutic proteins in tobacco that are made using chloroplast transformation technology. The chloroplast transformation technology facilitates hyper-expression of recombinant proteins in tobacco chloroplasts. The company offers its chloroplast-tobacco platform for commercial use in food and agriculture. Chlorogen, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Kovio

Series D in 2007
Kovio Inc., a privately held Silicon Valley company, is developing a new category of semiconductor products using printed silicon electronics and thin film technology. This new manufacturing technology combines the low cost of graphics printing with the power and functionality of silicon-based semiconductors. The company was founded in the MIT Media Laboratory.

BridgeLux

Series C in 2007
Bridgelux is the first, new US-based light-emitting diode (LED) chip company in the past 20 years. The Company’s focus is bringing innovation to light by providing high power, energy-efficient and cost-effective LED solutions. Bridgelux actively supports its customers by delivering value-added, application-specific solutions that will open up new markets in solid-state lighting (SSL). Customers leverage Bridgelux’s technology to replace traditional lamp and luminaire technologies (such as incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lighting solutions) with solid-state products that provide high performance and energy-efficient white light for general lighting applications. Bridgelux’s current and future-generation products support global clean energy initiatives by reducing energy consumption and offering environmentally friendly solutions.

Xradia

Series D in 2007
Xradia develops technology to help advance innovation in science and industry by providing unique insight through superior X-ray imaging solutions. Our products utilize advanced X-ray computed tomography (CT) imaging methodology and optics to nondestructively produce 3D images of objects with exceptional spatial resolution and contrast. Xradia's technology is based on proprietary X-ray optics and detectors. Xradia produces state-of-the-art far-field ambient environment imaging systems capable of 3D imaging with resolution below 50 nm. Xradia's commercial products have 3D resolution from the nanometer level up to several hundred microns.

Crystal IS

Series B in 2006
Crystal IS is the market leader in the commercialization of single-crystal aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates for the cost-effective production of long lasting, energy efficient, water and air purification devices.

SiOnyx

Series A in 2006
SiOnyx is the leading innovator in shallow junction photonics, a patented semiconductor process that dramatically enhances the performance of the light sensing devices commonly used in consumer, industrial, medical and defense related applications.

NanoOpto

Series D in 2006
NanoOpto is applying proprietary nano-optics and nano-manufacturing technology to design and make components for optical systems and networks. Based on years of research, the company's technology allows orders of magnitude more rapid prototyping, higher performance, and lower overall system cost. Both on its own and with corporate partners, NanoOpto will use subwavelength techniques to produce better conventional optical components and also to create new classes of integrated components. The company's development of proprietary nano-pattern transfer techniques forms the basis for high volume manufacture at its facility in Somerset, New Jersey.

NeoPhotonics

Series C in 2006
NeoPhotonics offers a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, Datacom, Storage Area Networks, Metro and Long Haul networks. NeoPhotonics' transceivers are compliant with industry standard MSAs, are available in GBIC, SFF, SFP, XFP and other configurations, and serve a variety of reaches, applications and data-rates from 155MBps to 10GBps. NeoPhotonics' advanced silica Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) integrated optical modules and subsystems are critical parts in access FTTH networks and in metro and long-haul DWDM networks. For FTTH, NeoPhotonics manufactures integrated splitters in high volume and FTTH BiDi and TriPlexer transceivers, Other products include AWGs, Athermal AWGs, VOA Multiplexers, EDFAs and ROADM Modules. NeoPhotonics' manufactures MEMS-based Variable Optical Attenuators and Dynamic Channel Equalizers

Cswitch

Series B in 2006
Cswitch was founded by a team of highly experienced semiconductor executives to develop the next generation of configurable solutions for a wide range of networking-based platforms. Their ground-breaking work building advanced processors and ASICs at companies such as LSI Logic, Sun Microsystems, SGI and most recently Transmeta, has allowed them to develop the insight to chart a new course for the networking, telecom, storage and wireless base station markets.

D-Wave Systems

Series B in 2006
D-Wave provides development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software and services, and is the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers—and the only company building both annealing quantum computers and gate-model quantum computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing today to benefit business and society.

Innovalight

Series B in 2006
Founded by Conrad Burke, Innovalight is focused on bringing high efficiency, low-cost solar modules to the marketplace. Enabling this manufacturing paradigm shift is the company's silicon ink, which has been in development since 2005. Historically, silicon has been processed either as a solid or as a gas. Using liquid based processing Innovalight will dramatically improve the cost and efficiency of today's solar modules.

Cswitch

Series B in 2006
Cswitch was founded by a team of highly experienced semiconductor executives to develop the next generation of configurable solutions for a wide range of networking-based platforms. Their ground-breaking work building advanced processors and ASICs at companies such as LSI Logic, Sun Microsystems, SGI and most recently Transmeta, has allowed them to develop the insight to chart a new course for the networking, telecom, storage and wireless base station markets.

BridgeLux

Venture Round in 2006
Bridgelux is the first, new US-based light-emitting diode (LED) chip company in the past 20 years. The Company’s focus is bringing innovation to light by providing high power, energy-efficient and cost-effective LED solutions. Bridgelux actively supports its customers by delivering value-added, application-specific solutions that will open up new markets in solid-state lighting (SSL). Customers leverage Bridgelux’s technology to replace traditional lamp and luminaire technologies (such as incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lighting solutions) with solid-state products that provide high performance and energy-efficient white light for general lighting applications. Bridgelux’s current and future-generation products support global clean energy initiatives by reducing energy consumption and offering environmentally friendly solutions.

NanoGram

Venture Round in 2006
NanoGram Corporation develops and manufactures products for the next generation of photovoltaics, electronics and displays. A dynamic and agile nanotechnology company, NanoGram has incubated and spun out two successful companies in NeoPhotonics and NanoGram Devices. The NanoGram KK office in Tokyo, and a strategic development and manufacturing supply relationship with Nagase & Co., Ltd / Nagase ChemteX Corporation, supports their growing presence in Japan, while the NanoGram Korea office in Seoul serves the expanding markets and opportunities in Korea.

Metabolon

Series B in 2006
Metabolon is a technology company, that develops analytical methods and software for biomarker discovery using metabolomics. Metabolon's expertise in data and translational science enables customers and partners to tackle some of the most complex and urgent questions in the life sciences, thereby accelerating research and improving development outcomes. The company provides scalable and customizable multiomics solutions, including metabolomics and lipidomics, to support customer needs from discovery through clinical trials and throughout the product lifecycle. The company aims to provide biochemical data and insights that broaden and hasten the impact of life sciences research, while also integrating seamlessly with other 'omics' technologies.

Kovio

Venture Round in 2005
Kovio Inc., a privately held Silicon Valley company, is developing a new category of semiconductor products using printed silicon electronics and thin film technology. This new manufacturing technology combines the low cost of graphics printing with the power and functionality of silicon-based semiconductors. The company was founded in the MIT Media Laboratory.

Mersana Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2005
Mersana Therapeutics employs its biodegradable polymer platform to create new and better medicines. They are advancing their own clinical-stage pipeline of novel compounds with the potential to address multiple oncology indications. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Molecular Imprints

Series C in 2005
Molecular Imprints, Inc. (MII) was founded in Austin, Texas in 2001, spun out of the University of Texas. Molecular Imprints has applied for over 700 patents, resulting in a growing portfolio of over 100 patents issued covering imprint tools, imprint materials and masks/templates, process technology and imprint-specific device designs. Jet and Flashâ„¢ Imprint Lithography (J-FILâ„¢), powered by their IntelliJetâ„¢ Drop Pattern Generator Drop Pattern Generation System, is the heart of Molecular Imprints' advanced nanoimprint technology, allowing precise placement of photoresist on substrates in picoliter quantities, enabling uniform and consistent nanoimprinting of features down to 10nm and below at very low cost. Molecular Imprints delivers this value to customers through integration of a unique set of core competencies and partnerships that cover lithography, precision nanomechanics, fluid dynamics, surface chemistry and materials formulation.

Chlorogen

Series B in 2005
Chlorogen a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and manufacture of proteins for human therapy. The company, through its chloroplast transformation technology (CTT), offers plant made drugs for the treatment and prevention of human diseases, as well as for treatment of women's reproductive cancers. Its products include therapeutic proteins in tobacco that are made using chloroplast transformation technology. The chloroplast transformation technology facilitates hyper-expression of recombinant proteins in tobacco chloroplasts. The company offers its chloroplast-tobacco platform for commercial use in food and agriculture. Chlorogen, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

NeoPhotonics

Venture Round in 2005
NeoPhotonics offers a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, Datacom, Storage Area Networks, Metro and Long Haul networks. NeoPhotonics' transceivers are compliant with industry standard MSAs, are available in GBIC, SFF, SFP, XFP and other configurations, and serve a variety of reaches, applications and data-rates from 155MBps to 10GBps. NeoPhotonics' advanced silica Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) integrated optical modules and subsystems are critical parts in access FTTH networks and in metro and long-haul DWDM networks. For FTTH, NeoPhotonics manufactures integrated splitters in high volume and FTTH BiDi and TriPlexer transceivers, Other products include AWGs, Athermal AWGs, VOA Multiplexers, EDFAs and ROADM Modules. NeoPhotonics' manufactures MEMS-based Variable Optical Attenuators and Dynamic Channel Equalizers

NanoOpto

Series C in 2005
NanoOpto is applying proprietary nano-optics and nano-manufacturing technology to design and make components for optical systems and networks. Based on years of research, the company's technology allows orders of magnitude more rapid prototyping, higher performance, and lower overall system cost. Both on its own and with corporate partners, NanoOpto will use subwavelength techniques to produce better conventional optical components and also to create new classes of integrated components. The company's development of proprietary nano-pattern transfer techniques forms the basis for high volume manufacture at its facility in Somerset, New Jersey.

Nanomix

Series C in 2005
Nanomix's leadership in nano particle based electronic sensors has enabled the development of eLab, the next generation of Point of Care testing systems where superior performance and rapid results can both be achieved in virtually any setting. Assays run on eLab provide actionable diagnostic information in 10 minutes or less and can be used to accelerate critical care or to make decisions to treat patients in place or transport them to the hospital. Use of mobile POC diagnostics is essential to reducing healthcare system costs while improving the patient experience and outcome. The Nanomix mobile diagnostic platform performs multiple in-vitro diagnostic and enzymatic assays simultaneously from a single whole-blood sample. The compact size of the electronic instrument and disposable test cartridge can be configured to run a wide variety of tests using muitple assay techniques. Initial system assays address critical cardiac care and sepsis screening.
Nextreme designs and manufactures micro-scale thermal and power management products for the semiconductor, photonics, consumer, automotive and defense/aerospace industries. The company has embedded cooling and power generation capabilities into the widely accepted copper pillar bumping process used in high-volume electronic packaging. Nextreme’s breakthrough addresses the most challenging thermal and power management constraints in electronics today, and delivers the only fully-scalable technology solution by leveraging the existing, high-volume flip chip manufacturing infrastructure. By minimizing the need for manufacturing changes and focusing on developing a seamless design-in solution, Nextreme is changing the future of thermal and power management for the entire electronics industry.

Nantero

Series C in 2005
Nantero is a next-generation memory technology that, packs massive amounts of storage and is nonvolatile. Its main focus is the commercial introduction of NRAM – a high-density high-speed nonvolatile random access storage device. The applications for the nonvolatile RAM Nantero is developing include smartphones, tablets, enterprise systems, notebook and desktop computers, as well as applications in the automotive and industrial arena. NRAM can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology.

Cambrios Technologies

Series B in 2005
Cambrios Technologies Corp. develops electronic materials for the display industry. The company provides wet-processable transparent conductive films. Its nanostructured materials can be deposited using existing production equipment to achieve enhanced performance of display devices and components. The company was founded in 2002 as Semzyme, Inc. and changed its name to Cambrios Technologies Corp. in August 2004. Cambrios Technologies Corp. is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Solazyme

Seed Round in 2004
Solazyme is a synthetic biology company that specializes in converting algal biomass into biofuels. Solazyme not only creates biofuels for the the transportation industry, but is experimenting with ways to tailor its products for the cosmetic and food industries.

NanoGram

Series B in 2004
NanoGram Corporation develops and manufactures products for the next generation of photovoltaics, electronics and displays. A dynamic and agile nanotechnology company, NanoGram has incubated and spun out two successful companies in NeoPhotonics and NanoGram Devices. The NanoGram KK office in Tokyo, and a strategic development and manufacturing supply relationship with Nagase & Co., Ltd / Nagase ChemteX Corporation, supports their growing presence in Japan, while the NanoGram Korea office in Seoul serves the expanding markets and opportunities in Korea.

Cswitch

Series A in 2004
Cswitch was founded by a team of highly experienced semiconductor executives to develop the next generation of configurable solutions for a wide range of networking-based platforms. Their ground-breaking work building advanced processors and ASICs at companies such as LSI Logic, Sun Microsystems, SGI and most recently Transmeta, has allowed them to develop the insight to chart a new course for the networking, telecom, storage and wireless base station markets.

Nanotechnologies

Venture Round in 2004
NovaCentrix is a leader in manufacturing tools that enable printed electronics technologies. State-of-the-artPulseForge® tools utilize photonic curing which is a cutting edge technology that dries, sinters, and anneals functional inks in milliseconds on low-temperature, flexible substrates such as paper and plastic. NovaCentrixis seeking collaborative partners and customers for our patented photonic curing tools. These tools process a wide array of depositions including but not limited to metallic, non-metallic and semiconductor-based inks, as well as PVD metals and metal oxides. An integrated material and tool simulation package, SimPulse™, enables rapid assessment of the photonic curing capabilities in combination to experimental results. NovaCentrix also offers high-performance and economical Metalon® and PChemconductive inks, including the innovative and award-winning ICI copper-oxide reduction inks which work optimally with PulseForge tools given the need for high temperature processing of inks on low temperature substrates. NovaCentrix possesses in-house inkjet, screen, and flexographic presses and provides customers with prototyping services.

Molecular Imprints

Series B in 2004
Molecular Imprints, Inc. (MII) was founded in Austin, Texas in 2001, spun out of the University of Texas. Molecular Imprints has applied for over 700 patents, resulting in a growing portfolio of over 100 patents issued covering imprint tools, imprint materials and masks/templates, process technology and imprint-specific device designs. Jet and Flashâ„¢ Imprint Lithography (J-FILâ„¢), powered by their IntelliJetâ„¢ Drop Pattern Generator Drop Pattern Generation System, is the heart of Molecular Imprints' advanced nanoimprint technology, allowing precise placement of photoresist on substrates in picoliter quantities, enabling uniform and consistent nanoimprinting of features down to 10nm and below at very low cost. Molecular Imprints delivers this value to customers through integration of a unique set of core competencies and partnerships that cover lithography, precision nanomechanics, fluid dynamics, surface chemistry and materials formulation.

Continuum Photonics

Series C in 2004
Continuum's mission is to provide optical networking equipment manufacturers with strategic subsystems that enable higher bandwidth products and associated revenue-generating services at a substantially lower cost. As a first step, Continuum Photonics is developing a radically different, operationally and economically beneficial photonic switch that will solve many of the problems associated with delivering and managing optically-transported bandwidth.

NeoPhotonics

Series B in 2004
NeoPhotonics offers a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, Datacom, Storage Area Networks, Metro and Long Haul networks. NeoPhotonics' transceivers are compliant with industry standard MSAs, are available in GBIC, SFF, SFP, XFP and other configurations, and serve a variety of reaches, applications and data-rates from 155MBps to 10GBps. NeoPhotonics' advanced silica Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) integrated optical modules and subsystems are critical parts in access FTTH networks and in metro and long-haul DWDM networks. For FTTH, NeoPhotonics manufactures integrated splitters in high volume and FTTH BiDi and TriPlexer transceivers, Other products include AWGs, Athermal AWGs, VOA Multiplexers, EDFAs and ROADM Modules. NeoPhotonics' manufactures MEMS-based Variable Optical Attenuators and Dynamic Channel Equalizers

NanoOpto

Series B in 2003
NanoOpto is applying proprietary nano-optics and nano-manufacturing technology to design and make components for optical systems and networks. Based on years of research, the company's technology allows orders of magnitude more rapid prototyping, higher performance, and lower overall system cost. Both on its own and with corporate partners, NanoOpto will use subwavelength techniques to produce better conventional optical components and also to create new classes of integrated components. The company's development of proprietary nano-pattern transfer techniques forms the basis for high volume manufacture at its facility in Somerset, New Jersey.

Nantero

Series B in 2003
Nantero is a next-generation memory technology that, packs massive amounts of storage and is nonvolatile. Its main focus is the commercial introduction of NRAM – a high-density high-speed nonvolatile random access storage device. The applications for the nonvolatile RAM Nantero is developing include smartphones, tablets, enterprise systems, notebook and desktop computers, as well as applications in the automotive and industrial arena. NRAM can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology.

NanoGram Devices Corporation

Venture Round in 2003
NanoGram Devices Corporation is a nanotechnology company based in Milpitas, California. The company was founded by Jason Lemkin in 2002.

Optiva

Series C in 2003
Optiva is mission-critical, cloud-native monetization and revenue management software on the private and public cloud. It is recognized by the industry for its disruptive and innovative approach beyond the cloud. Operators that leverage solutions gain the freedom to experiment with new capabilities with speed and agility. The result is the rapid introduction of new customer offerings services and commercial models to accelerate their business velocity.

Terion

Venture Round in 2002
Terion was one of the first companies to market with a solution developed from the ground up for the un-tethered trailer tracking market. Equipment Services and Terion combined operate more than 100,000 tracking and monitoring units on over-the-road trailers in the U.S. and Europe.

Continuum Photonics

Series B in 2002
Continuum's mission is to provide optical networking equipment manufacturers with strategic subsystems that enable higher bandwidth products and associated revenue-generating services at a substantially lower cost. As a first step, Continuum Photonics is developing a radically different, operationally and economically beneficial photonic switch that will solve many of the problems associated with delivering and managing optically-transported bandwidth.

Nantero

Series A in 2001
Nantero is a next-generation memory technology that, packs massive amounts of storage and is nonvolatile. Its main focus is the commercial introduction of NRAM – a high-density high-speed nonvolatile random access storage device. The applications for the nonvolatile RAM Nantero is developing include smartphones, tablets, enterprise systems, notebook and desktop computers, as well as applications in the automotive and industrial arena. NRAM can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology.

Informio

Series A in 2000
Informio,Inc trial service delivers Internet content and voice applications through any wireless phone. It has been developed by people who pioneered voice messaging systems and the World Wide Web. Find out about what they're doing by subscribing to their mailing list.

Nanophase Technologies

Series D in 1994
Nanophase Technologies Corporation provides nano-engineered solutions for various industrial product applications. It produces engineered nano and sub-micron materials using integrated nanomaterial technologies. The company offers coated nanoparticles and nanoparticle dispersions. These products are used various markets, which comprise personal care, including sunscreens; architectural coatings; architectural window cleaning and restoration, industrial coating ingredients; abrasion-resistant additives; plastics additives; medical diagnostics; energy; various surface finishing technologies; and others. Nanophase Technologies Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Romeoville, Illinois.
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