IllinoisVENTURES partners with
leading researchers and experienced entrepreneurs to build successful
companies based on proprietary and patented technologies.
We
build innovative start-up companies in the following areas:
- Information Technology and Software
- Life Sciences
- Basic Engineering and Physical Sciences
Illinois
Ventures is a seed and early-stage technology investment firm
focused on research-derived companies in information
technologies, physical sciences and life sciences, with a
particular emphasis on those deriving from research conducted at
the University of Illinois and other regional research
institutions and federal laboratories.
Current
investments reflect targeted practice areas in energy, device
physics, advanced materials, biotechnology, medical devices and
instrumentation, homeland security, and software.
Illinois Ventures works with inventors & entrepreneurs to mold
concepts, vision, intellectual property, sweat and passion into
breakthrough, high-growth companies, and was recently named by
Entrepreneur magazine to its 2005 list of the top 100 venture
capital firms nationally for entrepreneurs.
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