The inherent advantage of the Kovio printed silicon technology platform over alternatives like organic electronics is that printed silicon enables significantly higher performance, lower power consumption and environmental stability.
Investors
Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm that carries on one of the longest-standing venture capital activities in the country. In 1911, Henry Phipps established what was to become Bessemer Securities Corporation (BVP's principal limited partner) as an investment firm for the benefit of his descendants, starting with his share of the proceeds from the sale of Carnegie Steel. Since its inception, a central component of Bessemer Securities' charter has been to invest in and help build innovative, high-growth companies. Some of the companies that Bessemer helped establish or build in the early days include W. R. Grace, International Paper, and Ingersoll-Rand. Bessemer Venture Partners continues this tradition, managing over a billion dollars of venture capital, in addition to the $2 billion of investments outside venture capital that other Bessemer entities manage.
Duff Ackerman & Goodrich Ventures (“DAG Ventures”) is a venture capital partnershipinvesting in and helping outstanding entrepreneurs create leading, long-term companies across a range of markets. With roots from the 1980’s in cable TV, infrastructure, media, and wireless industries, the partnership today is privileged to work with world-class entrepreneurs as they build tomorrow’s leaders in the information technology, energy, and life science sectors.
Flagship Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on creating, financing, and building innovative companies in the Life Science and Technology sectors. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Flagship Ventures was founded in 1999 and manages $700 million in capital. Prior to its founding, Flagship's principals were involved as founders or investors in over 100 firms including: Adolor, AltaVista, Anesta, Antigenics, Aspect Medical, Astral Point, Celera Genomics, ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals, Color Kinetics, Chantry Networks, Cytyc, DataSage, Exact Sciences, IDEXX, PerSeptive Biosystems, Somatogen, Telecorp PCS and TripAdvisor.
Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital company that makes initial investments exclusively in tiny technology, including nanotechnology, microsystems and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).
JVP is a leading Israeli venture capital fund with a unique international network, focusing on building technology-based market leaders in the areas of media technologies & enterprise software, semiconductors & innovative materials and communications & networking. With over $680 million under management, headquarters in Jerusalem, investment offices in New York and London and business development offices in Tokyo and Shanghai, JVP leverages its international presence, vast expertise and substantial capital base to build companies with the potential to shape and dominate global markets.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is committed to helping entrepreneurs build enduring market-changing institutions, defining new business sectors or expanding existing ones. Since 1972, our partners have supported hundreds of entrepreneurs in building over 475 companies, including such household names as Amazon, Sun, Genentech, Intuit, Verisign, and Google.
Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners (MCVP) is a provider of early stage venture capital for various types of U.S. technology firms with a special expertise in helping to build their businesses globally. Over the years, we have invested in break-through technologies in the communication, software, information series, life science, and medical device industries and accelerated their growth. Located in New York, Silicon Valley and Tokyo, MCVP currently manages over $280 million in capital.
Northgate Capital was formed in the late 1990's with one goal: to provide institutional and family investors with superior identification of and unsurpassed global access to a very select group of alternative investment opportunities. Today, with a strong and growing group of top institutional and family investors, and a global footprint with offices in the United States and the United Kingdom, Northgate is delivering on this aspiration.
The Venture Group of global consumer electronics leader Panasonic creates technology partnerships between private companies and research and development units of Panasonic. To promote strong strategic alliances, venture capital investments are made in companies that present a technology based advantage to Panasonic. The Venture Group is based in San Jose, California.
Pangaea Ventures invests in early-stage cleantech and advanced material companies. It has offices in Vancouver and New Jersey and invests across North America. Pangaea Ventures believes that advanced materials are critical for the widespread adoption of products in many markets, including printed electronics.
Pinnacle Ventures is a private venture capital fund focused on providing debt and equity financing to early-stage companies. Pinnacle differentiates itself through the strength and diversity of its team, its broad range of investment alternatives, its creative and flexible structures, its thoughtful responsiveness,by taking a long term perspective with respect to its investments and by helping its portfolio companies achieve success.
The company offers a broad spectrum of digital and multimedia products and services. To continue the company’s transformation from paper-based business forms into an integrated information management services, Toppan Forms has developed and invested some key enabling technologies in IT-related fields. The company will continue to stay one step ahead of industry needs with its products and services, opening the way to the future. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.
One of the most experienced VC firms in Japan.Achieved hundreds of exit through almost 40 years history. Leveraging Yasuda's network among Japanese corporate, actively investing in global technology start-ups including material, cleantech, biotech as well as conventional technology ventures.
