Saturday, August 15, 2009

FINANCE: Firm Escorts Nanotech Energy Startups through 'Valley of Death

The article spotlights an early-stage venture fund, called Nanoholdings, that says it exists to help nanotechnology ventures get through the "Valley of Death", the hostile gap between laboratory and market - a place where startups collapse and die due to a lack of cash. The company, based in Connecticut, United States, was launched in 2003 and has already invested US$15 million in 14 nano-energy companies in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its partners work with scientists starting companies and help them to develop business models, find employees, identify potential buyers more . . .

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