Current Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
- Brown Rudnick LLP
Brown Rudnick is a full-service, international law firm. From offices in the United States and Europe, our 200 attorneys practice across integrated areas of law and provide clients with a breadth and depth of expertise uniquely suited to their individual legal needs.
Boston office: One Financial Center Boston, MA 02111
- Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton PC
Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton (MBBP) focuses exclusively on the core legal services that businesses need to succeed. We are built on a unique business model that provides our clients with access to highly experienced counsel in areas of:
- business and securities law
- technology, licensing and intellectual property
- employment and immigration
- taxation
While we enjoy a reputation for special competency in technology ventures, we represent clients of all sizes and industries.
Waltham: 1601 Trapelo Road, Suite 205, Waltham, MA 02451
Gold Sponsors
- AngeLab Ventures
Founded in 2000 by Angelo Moratti, AngeLab (www.angelabventures.com) is a private holding company which focuses on Seed and Early Stage Venture Capital investing. The firm seeks innovative companies in the areas of food, fashion/lifestyle, new media, internet services and life sciences. AngeLab investments range in size from $100k for seed financing to as much as $1-2M for early stage venture capital.Milan, Italy
- Citrix Systems
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtualization, networking and cloud computing technologies that transform static datacenters into virtual computing centers. More than 230,000 organizations worldwide use Citrix technologies to simplify computing and deliver IT as an on-demand service to anyone, anywhere. Founded in 1989, Citrix today partners with over 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2009 was $1.61 billion. www.citrix.com - Foley Hoag LLP
Foley Hoag LLP is a leading national law firm in the areas of dispute resolution, intellectual property, and corporate transactions for emerging, middle-market, and large-cap companies. With a deep understanding of clients’ strategic priorities, operational imperatives, and marketplace realities, the firm helps companies in the biopharma, high technology, energy technology, financial services and manufacturing sectors gain competitive advantage. 225 lawyers located in Boston, Washington, and the Emerging Enterprise Center in Waltham, Massachusetts join with a network of Lex Mundi law firms to provide global support for clients’ largest challenges and opportunities. For more information visit www.foleyhoag.com.- Goodwin Procter LLP
Goodwin Procter is one of the nation’s leading law firms, with a team of 900 attorneys serving clients through offices in Boston, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. We are a hard-driving, entrepreneurial and dynamic group, working tenaciously for clients whose problems and challenges we treat as our own.www.goodwinprocter.comExchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109
KPMG LLP is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. KPMG’s Venture Capital Practice offers a range of services specifically designed to help ventured-backed companies navigate each stage of development from inception to market leader. Our services are delivered by seasoned professionals who are experienced and dedicated to assisting clients through the challenges faced in founding and growing a new venture.www.kpmg.com
Boston Office: 99 High Street Boston, MA 02110
- Mintz Levin Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
Mintz Levin is a 500-attorney law firm with eight offices in the US and the UK. Our clients recognize that what sets us apart is our industry focus. We offer our clients more than just legal advice: we provide solutions to business issues. Now, in our 76th year, we have built on this foundation to become one of the top law firms working with businesses focusing on energy and clean technology, life sciences, information technology and other key industry sectors. We serve established companies as well as start-ups and emerging-growth companies, helping them launch and manage operations, protect and optimize intellectual property, raise capital, build and expand facilities, recruit and retain talent, resolve disputes and enter into joint ventures. www.mintz.com
- Polaris
Polaris invests in seed, early stage, and middle market companies inhigh growth industries. As the lead or co-lead investor, we take an active and long-term role in helping management teams build highly successful businesses. We have over $3 billion under management and current investments in more than 90 companies.www.polarisventures.com
Boston Office: 1000 Winter Street Suite 3350 Waltham, MA 02451
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
WilmerHale offers unparalleled legal representation across a comprehensive range of practice areas that are critical to the success of our clients. The depth and scope of these practices provide WilmerHale with a cutting-edge blend of capabilities that enables its lawyers to handle cases and deals of any size and complexity. With a staunch commitment to public service, WilmerHale is renowned as a national leader in pro bono representation. The firm is more than 1,000 lawyers strong, with offices in 11 cities around the world. Please visit wilmerhale.com for more information.www.wilmerhale.com
Boston: 60 State Street, Boston, MA 01209
Waltham: Bay Colony Corporate Center, 1100 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451
- Wolf Greenfield
Wolf Greenfield is the largest New England law firm devoted exclusively to intellectual property law. Our 80 attorneys and technology specialists advise clients on the acquisition, prosecution, and enforcement of patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights, on pursuing/defending IP litigation or seeking alternative dispute resolution, on opinions, strategic counseling on product clearance, trade dress protection, IP audits and due diligence, interferences, competitive analysis, and licensing and other IP agreements.
KPMG
Limited Gold Sponsors
Uniquely Focused on the Business of the Life Sciences Community
FDR is comprised of 15 professionals whose collective experience handling life science business transactions and in-house operational knowledge are extraordinary in a law firm. FDR’s clients are public and private corporations, not-for-profit research institutions, hospitals and private equity investors. We provide counsel in corporate and commercial matters, and handle transactions ranging from licensing, discovery/development collaborations and product/program alliances to private equity financing and private M&A transactions. We are committed to delivering legal services in a pragmatic manner that optimizes efficiency and effectiveness.
Waltham: 950 Winter Street, Suite 4500, Waltham, MA 02451
New York: 110 East 59th Street, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10022
Google Ventures
Google Ventures seeks to discover and grow great companies – we believe in the power of entrepreneurs to do amazing things. We’re studying a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care. We invest anywhere from seed to mezzanine stage and embrace the challenge of helping young companies grow from the garage to global relevance. Our team includes entrepreneurs, investors and innovators, along with some 20,000+ exceptional Googlers whose breadth of knowledge, experience and creativity constitute perhaps our own most valuable resource.
The Gary Karlin Michelson MD Charitable Foundation
The Gary Karlin Michelson MD Charitable Foundation Inc. is devoted to improving access to educational resources, bolstering concern for animal welfare, and driving technological innovation in the nation’s premier universities. In addition to its support for the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, the Gary Karlin Michelson Foundation, funds the $75 million Michelson Prize and Grants in Reproductive Biology, and has established the Found Animals Foundation (foundanimalsfoundation.org).
Reliance Venture Asset Management Limited is the corporate venture capital arm of the Reliance ADA Group and is ranked 30th among Global VCs and #1 among Indian firms by Red Herring. Reliance Venture was recently conferred with the ‘Excellence Award’ and Harshal J Shah, CEO, with the the ‘Udyog Rattan Award’ by the ‘Institute of Economic Studies’ (IES), to recognize their outstanding contribution to the industrial development of India. Reliance Venture has advised and / or invested in deals to the tune of over $4 billion including in companies such as Yatra.com, India’s largest on-line travel portal, Pelago Inc, Suvidhaa Infoserve, Sequans Communications, Stoke Inc, E-Band Communications Corporation, Seedfund, Scalable Display Technologies and Dhama Apparel Innovations are some of its portfolio investments. Reliance Venture invests across stages in leading edge technologies, disruptive business models and technology enabled companies around the world. Reliance Venture works with and co-invests with leading venture capital firms across the globe such as KPCB, Sequoia and Norvest Venture Partners. It has built from ground-up India’s leading online travel portal, Yatra.com, which has revenues of over Rs.1400 crore ($300 million). For more information, visit www.rtvl.co.inDevelopment Track Sponsors
- Lemelson-MIT Program
From medical breakthroughs to technological advances to product and process improvements, invention is at the heart of a great society.The Lemelson-MIT Program is dedicated to honoring the acclaimed and unsung heroes who have helped improve our lives through invention. We inspire and encourage great inventors through various outreach programs such as Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams, a non-competitive, team-based national grants initiative for high school students. The cornerstone of the Lemelson-MIT Program is a prestigious awards program that includes the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.
Life Sciences Sponsors
- Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) is a quasi-public agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts tasked with implementing the Massachusetts Life Sciences Act, a ten-year, $1 billion initiative that was signed into law in June of 2008. The Center’s mission is to create jobs in the life sciences and support vital scientific research that will improve the human condition. This work includes making financial investments in public and private institutions that are advancing life sciences research, development and commercialization as well as building ties between sectors of the Massachusetts life sciences community. For more information, visit www.masslifesciences.com.
- Novartis Venture Funds
Novartis Venture Funds is a life sciences investor that is focused on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms. NVF looks for early stage companies that address unmet needs and clinical impact. It seeks to enhances the therapeutic focus with investments in medical devices, diagnostics or drug delivery systems. Located in Basel Switzerland and Cambridge, MA, NVF brings together more than 100 years of combined experience in pharmaceutical R&D and venture capital. http://www.venturefund.novartis.com/
Products & Services Sponsors
- Philips Lifestyle Incubators
Philips Lifestyle Incubators is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs create successful businesses. We provide capital and management support to seed / early stage start-up businesses worldwide. We are interested in venture business opportunities to which Philips could make a material contribution, through its brand, expertise,infrastructure and other assets. The ventures should be highly attractive investment opportunities in their own right, but even more so in partnershipwith Philips. We have over 50 ventures in the current portfolio.
Web/IT Sponsors
- Microsoft New England Research & Development Center
The Microsoft New England Research & Development Center is a new research and software development campus located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts. This new campus is home to Microsoft Research New England, Microsoft Startup Labs, Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) and other development and marketing teams from across Microsoft.www.MicrosoftCambridge.com
One Memorial Drive,Cambridge, MA 02142
In-kind Sponsors
- Cambridge Innovation Center
Neighboring the MIT campus and steps away from the Red Line in the heart of Kendall Square, Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) is the largest flexible office facility for growing technology and life sciences companies in the Greater Boston area. The Cambridge Innovation Center offers start-up and emerging companies award-winning facilities and state-of-the-art business and technical services in a package which is designed to meet the needs of small and growing businesses. CIC is cost efficient and scales with the company’s growth. Currently, over 175 companies are located at CIC.- Version 2.0 Communications
Version 2.0 Communications is a boutique public relations agency that provides senior-level communications consulting to entrepreneurial organizations in the technology, Web 2.0 and alternative energy sectors. V2 specializes in helping clients fine-tune corporate and product positioning, establish credibility in target markets and gain visibility through a combination of customized, measurable social and traditional media programs. Clients include a broad range of established market leaders such as Salary.com and Kaspersky Lab, as well as emerging brands.
Fresh Tilled Soil is a web design and web marketing firm for entrepreneurs and growing businesses who want to use the web to help their companies grow.We’re a passionate team of web designers, developers and digital marketers who create simple, user-friendly and beautiful looking web-based solutions to increase traffic, conversions and customer loyalty for clients. Bonus: we have fun at it too.
We always start with the question “does this feature or element enhance or reduce the customer experience?” We don’t design websites to win awards, we design them to give the customer a reason to want to keep coming back to your site. Our team members have built their own web businesses from the ground up and have a deep understanding of what it takes to create and grow a web business.
Please get in touch with matt@freshtilledsoil.com to learn more, and check out what we’re proud of at http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/.
Exclusive Media Sponsor
- Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal, the flagship publication of Dow Jones & Company, is the world’s leading business publication. Founded in 1889,The Wall Street Journal has a print and online circulation of more than 2 million, reaching the nation’s top business and political leaders, as well as investors across the country. Holding 33 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism, The Wall Street Journal provides readers with trusted information and knowledge to make better decisions. The Wall Street franchise has more than 760 journalists world-wide, part of the Dow Jones network of nearly 1,900 business and financial news staff.Other publications that are part of The Wall Street Journal franchise, with a global audience of 3.8 million, include The Wall Street Journal Asia and The Wall Street Journal Europe. The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com is the largest paid subscription news site on the Web with 10.9 million users each month. In 2008, the Journal was ranked No. 1 in BtoB’s Media Power 50 for the ninth consecutive year. The Wall Street Journal Radio Network services news and information to more than 310 radio stations.
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