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The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance fosters invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship in higher education as a way of creating innovative, commercially viable, and socially beneficial businesses and employment opportunities in the United States. The program was founded on the premise that invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship are essential components of the higher education curriculum and vital to the nation's economic future. The NCIIA works with colleges and universities to build collaborative experiential learning programs that help nurture a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs with strong technical and business skills and the tools and intention to make the world a better place. (web site)

Fish & Richardson P.C. is a national law firm with 300 lawyers in eight offices: Boston, Dallas, Delaware, New York, San Diego, Silicon Valley, Twin Cities, and Washington, DC. The firm is one of the largest firms practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law and the only firm with a truly national intellectual property practice. Founded in 1878, the firm represented Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright Brothers. For 125 years we have served great innovators, helping to protect countless ideas, nurture discoveries, and bring new concepts to market. The firm prosecuted and litigated many of the fundamental patents of an industrialized America, serving corporations creating the cutting-edge technologies of the day: the telephone, the air-brake, the steam turbine, the automobile, and the radio. Frederick Fish, the firm's founder, was for many years the acknowledged leader of the patent bar of the entire country at a time when patents were more important than they had ever been. Today, the firm continues to represent great innovators working in cutting-edge technologies. (company web site)

Gray Cary is a national law firm that represents emerging growth and technology companies. The firm has more than 420 attorneys practicing in Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Austin, Seattle and Washington, DC. Gray Cary's clients include public and private companies, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations.

The firm's clients do business in a variety of domestic and international markets, and they operate in major industry sectors, including software, hardware, life sciences, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, media and e-commerce, real estate and construction, semiconductor and nanotechnology. Gray Cary also represents service providers, investment banking and financial institutions, venture capital firms, entrepreneurs and high net worth individuals. (company web site)

TDF is a private corporation based in Washington, DC financing early stage companies with high growth potential in the telecommunications industry that have innovative concepts and outstanding management.

TDF is committed to building long-term relationships with its portfolio companies. While our typical investments last from three to six years, we expect to build relationships that last much longer. Recognizing that venture capital investing requires patience as well as foresight, TDF expects to become deeply involved in the evolution of each portfolio company. TDF serves as an important resource to the management team, as well as an originator of new ideas and strategies. (company web site)

Techno Venture Management , founded in 1983, is one of the first venture capital firms formed in Germany, and a leader in transatlantic venture investments. For many years, TVM has focused on information & communications technology and life sciences, high growth sectors where innovation, effective management and sound financial backing have enormous impact on company growth. TVM funds have made investments in over 200 technology companies throughout Europe and the United States. A pivotal objective is to create transnational businesses that enjoy access to science, management talent and capital on both sides of the Atlantic. (company web site)

SpaceVest is a venture capital firm managing approximately $300 million for global institutional limited partners. The firm has a decade of experience successfully investing in space-related and advanced technology companies. SpaceVest typically leads expansion-round syndicates in US-based businesses.

SpaceVest's investment philosophy is based on the premise of building long-term, sustainable value. Our investment strategy incorporates an approach that begins with identifying high-growth markets that rely on or can benefit from advanced technology solutions. The strong business experience and extensive institutional relationships of its principals are contributed through active participation on the portfolio company's Board of Directors to assist in development and growth. SpaceVest seeks to contribute its sound reputation, financial resources, and intellectual capital as a partner for the success of the businesses in which it invests. (company web site)

Reed Smith is a top 20 international law firm, dedicated to core values of teamwork, professionalism and mutual respect, and poised to deliver a level of personal service unsurpassed in its 125-year history. We have worked with many of our clients for years, representing some since the founding of the firm. That speaks volumes about our commitment to building and maintaining longstanding relationships. At Reed Smith, we believe "It's not just business. It's personal."

Founded in Pittsburgh in 1877, we now have nearly 1000 lawyers in 16 offices in the U.S. and 2 in the U.K., and we are counsel to 29 of the top 30 United States banks; 26 of the Fortune e-50 companies; 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies; and 50 of the world's leading drug and device manufacturers. (company web site)