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Silicon Valley Nano Ventures is focused on the commercialization of Clean Technology & Nanotechnology. We engage with entrepreneurs, large corporations, investors, and researchers in Asia & North America. Our teams deliver services including:
- Investments - corporate, individual, venture capitalist: both early & late stage private equity transactions
- Mergers & Acquisitions - representing either the buying or the selling company and including spin-outs
- Alliances & Partnerships - we provide help in marketing & sales and corporate strategic partnerships globally, as well as for product development & research and outsourcing of both manufacturing and R&D
- Business Consulting & Research - we help develop business strategy - including positioning & presentation - for applications & business models & identify partner companies. We also provide assistance in intellectual property buy/sell/license.
Bo Varga, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Nano Ventures, co-founded the nanoSIG in 2000 for global business networking & staged 60+ conferences, forums, & symposiums. He has an extensive global network of consultants, entrepreneurs, & investors. Recent projects include:
- strategic consulting re marketing & two funding rounds for a computational chemistry start-up resulting in $3 million A round and $9 million B round funding
- strategic consulting re proposed nano-micro institute in Alberta, Canada
- strategic consulting re nano battery company resulting in major funding
- business development consulting to a nano-materials start-up company
- strategic consulting re funding to a computational combustion chemistry start-up resulting in identification of co-lead for $5 million A round - work in progress
- strategic consulting re funding to a solar PV start-up resulting in identification of two potential leads for $3 million A round - work in progress
Ken Epstein, Principal, NewCap Partners has 20+years of investment banking & venture management experience, including P&L responsibility for major business units & startups. Clients include private businesses, strategic equity investors, large corporate venture funds, & material, high-tech & life science firms. Work includes selling & buying companies, negotiating global marketing & production alliances & joint ventures (JVs), & advice re strategic planning, acquisition & valuation. With an extensive background in materials (ceramics, chemicals, metals, nanotechnology, plastics), he advises clients aggressively seeking expansion opportunities into new material markets (e.g. pharmaceutical, aerospace, semiconductor, energy, etc.) via acquisitions -as well as small companies seeking larger global partners or exit strategies.
Current work includes advising Japanese companies re acquisition in China & North America and North American companies re acquisitions in greater China, Japan, & South Korea.
Representative Clients
ABR Oy, Finland
Alberta Science & Innovation, Canada
Applied Nanotechnology, Inc.
ASME/Nanotechnology Institute
Breault Research Organization
Chelatech
Coronado Venture Fund
Combimatrix USA, Inc.
Dodsworth & Associates Medical Device
Eikos, Inc.
ImaRx Therapeutics, Inc.
Integrated Nanosystems, Inc.
Intematix, Inc.
Inqutek, Inc.
Intermolecular
Life Science/Information Technology Institute
ModViz, Inc.
Molecular Diamond Technologies, Inc.
Nanocrystals, Inc.
Nanoexa
NanoInk, Inc.
NanoMEMS, Edmonton
Nanopharm, Edmonton
Nanoplanet, Inc.
NanoSIG, Inc.
Nanospire, Inc.
Nanostellar, Inc.
National Cancer Foundation
National Institute of Nanotechnology, Edmonton
Cypress Ventures, Inc.
Optiva, Inc.
Optics Report
Silicom Ventures
SRI International
Tailored Materials Corporation
Zetetic Institute
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