Intellectual Ventures

Intellectual Ventures is developing, incubating, and commercializing ground-breaking ideas. IV has established more than a dozen firms with the potential to alter sectors, led by enthusiastic inventor and technology pioneer Nathan Myhrvold. They collaborate with the world's finest inventors to push innovation ahead at the cutting edge of technical developments to serve global markets.

Mathen Ganesan

Executive Vice President, Invention Investment Fund

Roy Maharaj JD

Vice President of Global Patent Licensing

Maurizio Vecchione

Vice President, Global Good

4 past transactions

Append Medical

Series A in 2021
Append Medical develops a next-generation transcatheter Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) closure system. The Append Medical solution is in the pre-clinical in-vivo trial phase. It is intended to become a differentiated solution in the LAA closure market, which has been estimated to reach $25B within several years. This is the second-fastest growing segment of the medical device market, with potential sales of $500M in 2019. Append Medical is a member of MEDX Xelerator, a medtech incubator backed by Boston Scientific, Intellectual Ventures, MEDX Ventures and Sheba Medical Center.

EarthNow

Seed Round in 2018
EarthNow provides pictures of the planet on demand and real-time video anywhere a client desires. EarthNow is creating the means for anyone to instantly see almost anywhere on Earth in “true real-time,” giving anyone a live and unfiltered view of your planet. The company's aim is for you to experience Earth’s beauty and its fragility, and to recognize the importance of being good stewards of our world. Via a constellation of advanced imaging satellites, EarthNow will deliver an unprecedented and highly valuable user experience: continuous real-time video of the Earth enhanced by machine intelligence.

Social Network

Venture Round in 2015
Social Network connects k-culture, possess famous character license, localization, and creative research and development. Trickeye Museum is an AR museum that applies augmented technology to the artworks and offers astonishing experiences to every visitor.

TerraPower

Venture Round in 2008
TerraPower aims to develop a sustainable and economic nuclear energy system while greatly reducing proliferation risks and creating new options for converting low-level waste into vast energy resources. TerraPower is investigating a class of nuclear fast reactors called the traveling wave reactor (TWR).
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