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Accelergy Accelergy Corporation
Sector(s): Energy & Materials
Location: Houston, TX
Accelergy creates ultra-clean fuels from abundant coal resources. Its proprietary catalytic and process technologies significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the production of high quality fuels. Accelergy's management, directors, and advisors are a talented and dedicated group of industry veterans, serial entrepreneurs, world-renowned scientists, and energy policy experts. Partnered with leading global energy companies, backed by world-class investors, and represented with offices in the U.S. and China, Accelergy is poised to change the way we think about our energy future.
 
Angstrom Publishing - Nanotechnology Angstrom Publishing
Sector(s): Information Services
Location: New York, NY
Angstrom Publishing has an exclusive joint venture with Forbes Inc. that owns and operates leading media properties covering emerging technologies. The company publishes the monthly Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report, Forbes Weekly Insider e-letter, www.forbeswolfe.com and regularly contributes to Forbes.com, Forbes Video Network and Forbes iConferences.
 
Atair Aerospace Atair Aerospace
Sector(s): Aerospace & Defense
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Atair Aerospace, Inc. is dedicated to modernizing military, government, and corporate logistics by creatively solving complex aerospace and engineering problems that integrate state-of-the-art parachute designs and flight navigation systems. Atair Aerospace's proprietary technology has resulted in precision airdrop systems.

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Cambrios Technologies Corp. Cambrios Technologies Corp.
Sector(s): Electronics, Energy & Materials
Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Cambrios is commercializing ClearOhm™ transparent conductive films for applications in touch screens, LCDs and thin film solar PV. The company's proprietary nanostructured materials can be deposited using existing production equipment to achieve enhanced performance of display devices and components at lower manufacturing cost. Cambrios' first product, a directly patternable, wet-processable transparent conductive film, is poised to replace the industry standard sputtered indium tin oxide (ITO).

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Cerulean Pharmaceuticals Cerulean Pharma Inc.
Sector(s): Life Sciences
Location: Cambridge, MA

Cerulean Pharma Inc. is a privately-held biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel, nanotechnology-based therapeutics in the areas of oncology, cardiovascular, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The Company has assembled a world-class management team, board of directors and scientific advisory board that collectively have a significant track record of business building, product development and scientific breakthroughs.

 
Crystal IS Crystal IS
Sector(s): Energy & Materials, Electronics
Location: Green Island, NY

Crystal IS, Inc. is the world's leading developer of ultraviolet light emitting diodes (UV LEDs) on aluminum nitride substrates for the cost-effective production of long lasting, energy efficient, water and air purification devices.

 
Everspin Everspin Technologies
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Sector(s): Electronics
Location: Chandler, AZ

Everspin Technologies is the global leader in developing and manufacturing standalone and embedded magnetic-based memory (MRAM). As the world's first volume MRAM supplier, Everspin delivers the most reliable, high-performance and cost-effective non-volatile random access memories in the market and also leads the industry in next generation Spin-Torque (ST-MRAM) technology development.

 
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Sector(s): Life Sciences
Location: Cambridge, MA

Genocea Biosciences was founded in 2006 to commercialize key breakthroughs in vaccine discovery and development. Genocea can rapidly identify antigens that result in the in vivo stimulation of protective CD8+ and CD4+ T-cells, targets that can be immediately incorporated into existing antigen delivery systems to produce multivalent vaccine formulations that have the highest probability of generating protective cell-mediated immunity.

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Kala Pharmaceuticals Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Sector(s): Life Sciences
Location: Cambridge, MA

Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology company founded upon a proprietary drug delivery technology. By utilizing this unique technology, Kala aims to address unmet therapeutic needs of various diseases and conditions in a fundamentally novel way.

Kereos Inc. - Molecular Imaging Agents and Targeted Therapeutics Kereos, Inc.
Sector(s): Life Sciences
Location: St. Louis, MO

Kereos develops molecular imaging agents and targeted therapeutics that identify and attack cancer and cardiovascular disease earlier and more specifically than conventional methods. The company has raised over $15 million in government grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute and is currently partnered with Bristol Myers Squibb, Dow Chemical, and Philips Medical Imaging. Kereos’ management and technical team is responsible for over 12 INDs.

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Kurion Kurion
Sector(s): Energy & Materials
Location: Oak Ridge, TN

Lux Research Lux Research, Inc.
Sector(s): Information Services, Energy & Materials
Location: Boston, MA

Lux Research is the leading market intelligence and strategic advisory firm for energy, cleantech, and science-driven innovation. The company helps leaders in business, finance, and government make better informed strategic decisions. Through its proprietary methodologies and global network of innovators, Lux Research clients uncover opportunities and gain competitive advantage.

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Luxtera Luxtera
Sector(s): Electronics
Location: Carlsbad, CA

Luxtera brings optical connectivity to mainstream computing by providing photonic transceivers manufactured at commercial CMOS foundries. Optical connectivity will enable computers to overcome the bottlenecks posed by copper's inability to move information quickly between components and chips, thereby fully leveraging advances in processor and memory speeds.

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Magen Biosciences Magen Biosciences Inc. (acquired by PPD, Inc. [PPDI])
Sector(s): Life Sciences
Location: Cambridge, MA

Magen Biosciences is focused on improving the health and appearance of human skin. Magen's science-driven understanding of skin physiology leads to effective therapies for a number of skin disorders and the prevention of UV radiation related skin damage. The company has assembled an outstanding science, investor and management team. The team includes co-founders of Idexx, Alnylam, Momenta, Vertex, Biogen and Genzyme. The company is headquartered in Massachusetts.

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Molecular Imprints Molecular Imprints, Inc.
Sector(s): Electronics
Location: Austin, TX

Molecular Imprints is the technology leader for high-resolution, low cost-of-ownership nanopatterning systems and solutions in the hard disk drive and semiconductor industries. MII is leveraging its innovative technology to become the market leader in patterning solutions for storage and memory devices, while enabling emerging markets in optics, biotechnology, and other industries.

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Nanosys Nanosys, Inc.
Sector(s): Energy & Materials, Electronics, Life Sciences
Location: Palo Alto, CA

Nanosys is an industry-leading nanotechnology company developing, manufacturing and selling products based on a technology platform of high performance inorganic nanostructures. Nanosys' technology is covered by a portfolio of over 500 patents and patent applications that is currently being applied to multiple industries including energy, electronics, optoelectronics, life science, and defense. Current Nanosys technology applications include flat-panel displays, solar PV, non-volatile memory, fuel cells, solid-state lighting, chemical analysis chips and medical devices. Nanosys' partners include Intel, Sharp, Rockwell Collins, NTT DoCoMo and agencies of the United States government.

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QD Soleil QD Soleil
Sector(s): Energy & Materials
Location: Palo Alto, CA

QD Soleil has developed and consolidated a range of technologies for use in solar, including the use of spectrum capture enhancers such as quantum dots; nanoparticle scattering and light capture materials; semiconducting inks; and materials for dual nanocrystal and hybrid organic/nanocrystal designs. QD Soleil controls an IP estate of over 500 patents and patent applications, with fundamental patents related to the materials, processing, and use of nanotechnology in solar.

SiBEAM SiBEAM, Inc.
Sector(s): Electronics
Location: Sunnyvale, CA

SiBEAM is a leading developer of high-speed wireless communications technologies to meet demand for high-bandwidth services. SiBEAM is the first company to build 60GHz chipsets using standard CMOS technology. A founding member of the WirelessHD Consortium, SiBEAM's products have been adopted by the leading global consumer electronics brands, to provide wireless high-definition digital video display, without compression or buffering.

Silicon Clocks Silicon Clocks (acquired by Silicon Labs [SLAB])
Sector(s): Electronics
Location: Fremont, CA

Silicon Clocks is a fabless semiconductor electronics company developing timing chips for hard disk drives, disk controllers, communications devices, and other consumer electronics. The technology eliminates the need for off-chip quartz crystal resonators, which results in cost reduction and up to a 10x decrease in power dissipation for the timing component.

Siluria Technologies Siluria Technologies
Sector(s): Energy & Materials
Location: San Francisco, CA

Siluria Technologies is a Silicon Valley startup developing natural gas conversion technology. Based on groundbreaking MIT material science research, Siluria is focused on the direct conversion of natural gas, the world's most abundant petrochemical feedstock, into ethylene, the world's largest commodity chemical intermediate.

Visterra Visterra, Inc.
Sector(s): Life Sciences
Location: Cambridge, MA

Visterra rationally designs more effective therapeutics and vaccines based on a groundbreaking technology platform built around a unique structural understanding of how a virus interacts with human cells. The company has established proof of concept with its lead therapeutic product candidate for influenza.