Our Investor Partners

INVISTA is an integrated polymers, intermediates, and fibers business with a global presence in more than 30 countries. It operates five major businesses: Apparel; Performance and Textile Fibers; Interiors; Intermediates; and Polymer and Resins. INVISTA delivers exceptional value for its customers through market insights and technology innovations, along with a powerful portfolio of the most recognized global brands and trademarks in the fibers, apparel, and interiors industries, including LYCRA®, STAINMASTER®, ANTRON®, COOLMAX®, THERMOLITE®, CORDURA®, SUPPLEX®, TACTEL®, Polarguard®, ESP®, and Avora®FR. INVISTA brands and trademarks in the specialty chemicals business include CORFREE®, DYTEK®, ADI-Pure®, TERATE® POLYOLS, and TERATHANE®.
www.INVISTA.com

NGEN is a venture-capital team comprised of world renowned academic, business, and corporate partners. Based in Santa Barbara, California, NgGEN seeks high-growth companies that address large markets in materials-related fields. The fund is engineered to support accelerated product development through the fund’s limited partners, which include Air Products and Chemicals, BASF, Bayer, Boeing, Canon, DSM, Dupont, Henkel, Honda, Schott Glass, CDP Capital and Unilever.
www.ngenpartners.com

Unilever Technology Ventures Fund BV, is a venture capital arm of Unilever, the global consumer goods company committed to bring vitality to consumers everywhere and everyday. Unilever Technology Ventures invests in start-up companies with innovative technologies that may be of potential interest to Unilever. Areas of interest include materials science, lifescience, nanotechnology, health and wellness, water, and others.
www.unilevertechnologyventures.com

SAS Investors, formerly known as Silicon Alley Seed Investors, facilitates the creation and growth of seed and early-stage core technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. Located in New York City and backed by Canaan Partners, Rho Capital Partners, and Sevin Rosen Funds, SAS Investors works to launch companies that provide expert-conceived, cutting-edge technologies that specifically address palpable industry obstacles.
www.sasinvestors.com

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