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In addition to our general experience in venture capital, we have specific scientific, business, financial, intellectual property and start-up experience that benefits our portfolio companies and co-investors.
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TINY TECH ECOSYSTEM
Our growing portfolio now consists of some 25 companies focused exclusively on tiny technology innovations. As an active investor, we maintain close relations with the management teams of our companies, thus learning about emerging technology and market trends as well as key industry developments and pain points. Our knowledge of where to find needed technical, manufacturing and intellectual property for our portfolio companies is one of our competitive advantages. We readily share Harris & Harris Group’s Rolodex with our portfolio companies, helping them identify and recruit executives, engineering talent and experienced independent boards of directors.
The five members of our deal team have between us three Ph.D. degrees with specific training in nanotechnology, three M.B.A. degrees and one master's degree in economics. We have specific technical expertise in intellectual property, as well as scientific expertise in materials science, solid-state physics and physical chemistry. We also have first-hand experience in implementing, and compliance with, Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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SYNDICATION PARTNERS
Harris & Harris Group has co-invested with many venture capital as well as strategic (corporate) investors. For example, we have co-invested with:
VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTORS:
| 3i Group |
Duff Ackerman & Goodrich |
Polaris Venture Partners |
| Accel Partners |
El Dorado Ventures |
Prism Venture Partners |
| Alafi Capital |
EnerTech Capital |
Prolog Ventures |
| Alloy Ventures |
Fidelity Biosciences |
Proquest |
| Alta Partners |
First Analysis |
Prospect Venture Partners |
| Apax Partners |
Flagship Ventures |
Redshift Ventures |
| ARCH Venture Partners |
GF Private Equity |
Rho Ventures |
| ATA Ventures |
Globespan Capital Partners |
RiverVest |
| Atlas Ventures |
Headland Ventures |
Rockport Capital Partners |
| Aurora Ventures |
Highland Capital Partners |
Roda Group |
| Avalon Ventures |
In-Q-Tel |
Rothschild Ventures |
| Battery Ventures |
Insitutional Venture Partners |
RWI Group |
| Bay Partners |
Jerusalem Venture Partners |
Sevin Rosen Funds |
| Bessemer Venture Partners |
JPMorgan Partners |
Sigvion Capital |
| Burrill & Company |
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers |
Star Ventures |
| California Technology Ventures |
Lux Capital |
StarTech Early Ventures |
| CB Health Ventures |
Masters Capital |
Stata Venture Partners |
| Charles River Ventures |
Morgenthaler |
Technology Partners |
| Charter Life Sciences |
NanoStart |
Techxas Ventures |
| CW Group |
New Enterprise Associates |
Trelys Venture Partners |
| Cycad Group |
NGEN Partners |
Triathlon Venture Partners |
| DCM - Doll Capital Management |
Noro-Moseley Partners |
Trinity Ventures |
| Delphi Ventures |
Nth Power |
US Trust |
| DFJ Gotham |
Oak Investment Partners |
Venrock Associates |
| DFJ New England |
OneLiberty Ventures |
Whitney & Co. |
| Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
Oxford Bioscience Partners |
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STRATEGIC INVESTORS:
| AirProducts |
Genentech |
Motorola |
| Applied Materials |
H.B. Fuller |
Micron |
| Bayer |
Intel |
Mitsui |
| Brewer Science |
Kodak |
Mitsubishi |
| Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing |
KLA-Tencor |
Philips |
| DuPont |
Lam Research |
Tokyo Electron (TEL) |
| Dai-Nippon |
LSI Logic |
Zeiss |
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXPERTISE
Most of our portfolio companies have their roots in universities and government research labs. We have helped spin out companies from Harvard, MIT and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and supported spin-offs from UC Berkeley, Princeton, UCLA, UCSB, UT Austin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, etc. Our team members have prior work experience in technology commercialization offices, and we actively assist our portfolio companies with negotiations of favorable licensing agreements. |
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RELATIONSHIP WITH GLOBAL 2000 COMPANIES
Remaining focused in making tiny technology investments, we have worked with major chemical, electronics and semiconductor companies. Our active Rolodex includes Dow Chemical, DuPont, AirProducts, Rohm & Haas, ATMI, Sumitomo Chemical, Mitsui Chemical, BASF, Degussa, Eastman Chemical, Eastman Kodak and Bayer Specialty Materials. We have made introductions for our portfolio companies to a wide range of industrial and semiconductor companies, including Intel, IBM, Micron, Samsung, Hitachi, Toshiba, NEC, NTT, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, SANYO, Motorola, Raytheon, Honeywell, Boeing, International Rectifier, Cabot, Cargill, ChevronTexaco, BMW, Infineon, KLA-Tencor, Tokyo Electron and ASML.
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