Navigator Technology Ventures

Navigator Technology Ventures (NTV) works with innovators to turn their technologies into successful companies. They provide a unique combination of venture funding, technological expertise with the help of Draper Laboratory staffers, services and experience.

James V. Harrison

Venture Manager

19 past transactions

HistoRx

Venture Round in 2011
HistoRx is developing theranostic solutions to towards individualized patient care. HistoRx's proprietary technology delivers objective and reproducible multiparametric analysis of proteins in tissue, providing insights into cancer treatment.

Tizor Systems

Series C in 2008
Tizor Systems, Inc. provides enterprise data auditing and protection solutions for monitoring and reporting data activity in the data center, databases, file servers, and mainframe applications. It offers Mantra, a network-based data auditing and protection solution that enables compliance assurance, data security, and privacy by providing data auditing, data discovery, audit reporting, theft detection, real-time alerting, and data protection. The company also offers support, education, and consulting services. Tizor Systems, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Maynard, Massachusetts.

HistoRx

Series B in 2007
HistoRx is developing theranostic solutions to towards individualized patient care. HistoRx's proprietary technology delivers objective and reproducible multiparametric analysis of proteins in tissue, providing insights into cancer treatment.

Polychromix

Series D in 2007
Polychromixâ is an advanced communications technology company providing modular optical subsystems. Polychromix’s products are based on an innovative core technologies that enable dynamically configurable optical networks.
Food Quality Sensor International, Inc. operates as a sensor technology company. It develops and commercializes real-time and interactive food freshness measurement devices. The company provides SensorQ, which measures the level of freshness of meat or poultry within the package; and SensorfreshQ, a handheld electronic nose that detects meat and poultry spoilage. It serves food processing, grocery distribution, food service, regulatory, defense, and consumer retail markets. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Polychromix

Series C in 2007
Polychromixâ is an advanced communications technology company providing modular optical subsystems. Polychromix’s products are based on an innovative core technologies that enable dynamically configurable optical networks.

HistoRx

Venture Round in 2006
HistoRx is developing theranostic solutions to towards individualized patient care. HistoRx's proprietary technology delivers objective and reproducible multiparametric analysis of proteins in tissue, providing insights into cancer treatment.

Sionex

Series C in 2005
Sionex Corporation is a high technology company focused on commercializing breakthrough chemical and biological sensor chips and systems based on its proprietary microDMxâ„¢ detection technology. Sionex maintains its worldwide headquarters and laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts, close to Boston with its commercial, technology and communications infrastructure. The Company is privately held and was founded in 2001 with patented technology exclusively licensed from The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.

Polnox

Seed Round in 2005
Polnox is a developer of antioxidants to significantly extend the service life of a wide range of consumer products and materials. Products designed using the company’s proprietary DT-mPM Antioxidants and eco-friendly McIn Corrosion Inhibitors provide performance far surpassing that of conventional additives.

Aircuity

Series C in 2005
Aircuity manufactures integrated sensing and control solutions that cost-effectively reduce building energy and operating expenses while simultaneously improving its indoor environmental quality. Aircuity's first product, a portable air monitoring system known as OptimaTM, it was developed in collaboration with Environmental Health & Engineering, the primary research contractor for the EPA's Indoor Environments Division. It was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

HistoRx

Series A in 2004
HistoRx is developing theranostic solutions to towards individualized patient care. HistoRx's proprietary technology delivers objective and reproducible multiparametric analysis of proteins in tissue, providing insights into cancer treatment.

Tizor Systems

Series A in 2004
Tizor Systems, Inc. provides enterprise data auditing and protection solutions for monitoring and reporting data activity in the data center, databases, file servers, and mainframe applications. It offers Mantra, a network-based data auditing and protection solution that enables compliance assurance, data security, and privacy by providing data auditing, data discovery, audit reporting, theft detection, real-time alerting, and data protection. The company also offers support, education, and consulting services. Tizor Systems, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Maynard, Massachusetts.

Aircuity

Series C in 2004
Aircuity manufactures integrated sensing and control solutions that cost-effectively reduce building energy and operating expenses while simultaneously improving its indoor environmental quality. Aircuity's first product, a portable air monitoring system known as OptimaTM, it was developed in collaboration with Environmental Health & Engineering, the primary research contractor for the EPA's Indoor Environments Division. It was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Polychromix

Series B in 2004
Polychromixâ is an advanced communications technology company providing modular optical subsystems. Polychromix’s products are based on an innovative core technologies that enable dynamically configurable optical networks.

Sionex

Series B in 2003
Sionex Corporation is a high technology company focused on commercializing breakthrough chemical and biological sensor chips and systems based on its proprietary microDMxâ„¢ detection technology. Sionex maintains its worldwide headquarters and laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts, close to Boston with its commercial, technology and communications infrastructure. The Company is privately held and was founded in 2001 with patented technology exclusively licensed from The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.

Plej

Series A in 2003
Plej is a software provider that helps retailers and affinity groups leverage traditional payment networks to develop and implement innovative new marketing programs. PLEJ's technology augments existing payment processing infrastructures and offers merchants easily configurable, rules-based merchandising solutions, such as stored-value and credit cards with user- specific properties, enhanced security, and automatic inclusion in extra value programs.

PLEG

Series A in 2003
PLEG Inc., a Boston-based provider of payment and marketing software for affinity groups and retailers

Aircuity

Series B in 2003
Aircuity manufactures integrated sensing and control solutions that cost-effectively reduce building energy and operating expenses while simultaneously improving its indoor environmental quality. Aircuity's first product, a portable air monitoring system known as OptimaTM, it was developed in collaboration with Environmental Health & Engineering, the primary research contractor for the EPA's Indoor Environments Division. It was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Sionex

Series A in 2002
Sionex Corporation is a high technology company focused on commercializing breakthrough chemical and biological sensor chips and systems based on its proprietary microDMxâ„¢ detection technology. Sionex maintains its worldwide headquarters and laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts, close to Boston with its commercial, technology and communications infrastructure. The Company is privately held and was founded in 2001 with patented technology exclusively licensed from The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.