Ascent Venture Partners
http://www.ascentvp.com/
Ascent has been investing in early stage, emerging technology companies since 1985. In backing over 100 companies, Ascent has remained committed to its mission of investing in exceptional entrepreneurs striving to build innovative market leaders. With over 80 years of combined venture capital experience, the Ascent investment team manages five venture funds with total commitments of over $450M.

Flagship Ventures
http://www.flagshipventures.com/
Flagship Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on creating, financing and building innovative companies. Founded in 2000, Flagship manages over $600 million in early-stage funds and operates from its offices at Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. With an active portfolio of over 40 companies, the firm’s strategy is to balance its investments across three principal business sectors: Therapeutics, Life Science Tools & Diagnostics, and BioEnergy/Cleantech.

The Flagship investment team consists of 10 professionals and is led by co-founders Noubar Afeyan and Ed Kania. Complementing our internal team is our extensive network of academic and industrial advisors who are actively engaged in evaluating and helping develop our new ventures. During the past two decades Flagship's principals have been involved as founders or investors in many highly successful ventures including: Adnexus Therapeutics, Alere Medical, Aspect Medical, Celera Genomics, ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals, Color Kinetics, Cytyc, DataSage, Exact Sciences, Helicos Biosciences, Hypnion, IDEXX, Morphotek, PerSeptive Biosystems and TripAdvisor.

To maximize the returns to our investors, we combine our experience, our passion for innovation, our focus on value creation and our commitment to the success of each company's leadership team.

Fontinalis Partners
http://www.fontinalispartners.com/
Fontinalis’ mission is to leverage its considerable product management experience, market access, strategic relationships, cross-border expertise, and background in transportation innovation to scale companies providing the transportation technology solutions of tomorrow.

As a Michigan-based investment firm which acts as a strategic operating partner to transportation technology companies around the world, Fontinalis seeks to fund and partner with companies whose transformational ideas and products are devoted to solving the world’s most pressing environmental and mobility-oriented problems.

Fontinalis concurs with the growing belief among entrepreneurs and investors that business can be a positive force for social change and will work to support entrepreneurs dedicated to this belief.
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