Clinton Bybee
Co-Founder and Managing Director @ ARCH Venture Partners
Austin, United States
Clinton Bybee is a co-founder and Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners. Mr. Bybee concentrates primarily on advanced materials, electronics, semiconductors, photonics, and infrastructure businesses.Mr. Bybee has helped organize and finance numerous companies including MicroOptical Devices (acquired by EMCORE), Cambrios Technologies,Aveso, Innovalight, Intelligent Reasoning Systems (acquired by Photon Dynamics), Semprius, Nanosys, and Xtera Communications.He is a board member of Impinj, Innovalight, Cambrios Technologies, Xtera Communications, Nitronex and Aveso. Mr. Bybee is an organizing member of the Texas Venture Capital Association and currently serves as its first President.Previously, Mr. Bybee worked with ARCH Development Corporation. He also managed a venture investment fund for the State of Illinois and was a production engineer with Amoco Corporation.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 16%
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Industries Clinton Bybee invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 4 (21%)
- Nanotechnology 3 (16%)
- Solar 2 (11%)
- Software 2 (11%)
- Electronics 2 (11%)
Stage
- Funding Round 6 (32%)
- Series C 3 (16%)
- Series A 2 (11%)
- Series B 2 (11%)
- Series D 2 (11%)
Investments
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| Voxel8 has developed a unique digital 3D printing technology that can zonally tune the mechanical properties of textiles, add 3D embellishments and aesthetic features. The technology is broadly applicable in textile applications from footwear uppers, apparel (bras, gloves, leggings), medical (orthotic braces, wearables), wall coverings, seatcovers, branded goods and fashion articles. Key benefits of the technology are the ability to customize each individual print, tailoring the performance and aesthetic of the textile to the individual or application. Voxel8 uses an additive process (less waste) and have developed a 65 % bio-based material set to further reduce the carbon footprint. They can impact the functional performance of textiles making them more abrasion resistant, adding support or impact resistance, cushioning elements or grip features. At the same time they can digitally add 3D embellishments and color. The technology was developed in Professor Jennifer Lewis' Lab at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. | $12M / Series A / Jul 24, 2015 | ||
| OOTU, Inc. (Outline of the Universe) is a new semantic discovery company. The technology™s first application will be launching later this year. OOTU™s technology is patent-pending. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay area. | $325K / Seed / Jul 07, 2014 | ||
| Siluria Technologies is a materials innovation company solving global challenges for partners in the natural gas, chemicals and fuel industries. Integrating nanotechnology, biotechnology and chemical engineering, Siluria has developed a solution to the grand challenge of efficient manufacturing: the ability to produce chemicals and fuels from acheaper, more abundant resource than oil. The company's economically superior, energy-efficient platform converts natural gas into the same materials manufactured today using current industry infrastructure. Siluria's world-class R&D and engineering teams are rapidly commercializing the company's technology to pilot-scale production in close dialogue with the world's largest chemical and fuel companies.Siluria's backers include Alloy Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Lux Capital, and Presidio Ventures. | $2.9M / Series C / Jan 25, 2013 | ||
| Nanosys, Inc. researches, develops, and manufactures light-emitting Quantum Dot (QD) technologies for use in a wide range of applications from displays to agriculture. Quantum dots are nanoscale semiconductors that enable displays to reproduce a more lifelike image with a wider range of color and higher brightness. Quantum Dot technologies arecompatible with and offer improved performance for displays of all types including LED-LCDs, OLEDs, and micro-LEDs. As of 2020, consumer electronics brands have shipped more than 20 million devices across over 400 unique products including televisions, monitors, tablets, and automotive interiors based on Nanosys’ proprietary quantum dot technology. | $15M / Series E / Nov 26, 2012 | ||
| Siluria Technologies is a materials innovation company solving global challenges for partners in the natural gas, chemicals and fuel industries. Integrating nanotechnology, biotechnology and chemical engineering, Siluria has developed a solution to the grand challenge of efficient manufacturing: the ability to produce chemicals and fuels from acheaper, more abundant resource than oil. The company's economically superior, energy-efficient platform converts natural gas into the same materials manufactured today using current industry infrastructure. Siluria's world-class R&D and engineering teams are rapidly commercializing the company's technology to pilot-scale production in close dialogue with the world's largest chemical and fuel companies.Siluria's backers include Alloy Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Lux Capital, and Presidio Ventures. | $30M / Series C / Jul 26, 2012 | ||
| Impinj is a provider of RAIN RFID solutions that deliver Item Intelligence to retail, pharmaceutical, healthcare, food and beverage, and many other industries. We enable the Internet of Things to identify, locate and authenticate billions of items, and our Item Intelligence platform comprises the most comprehensive and widely adopted RAIN RFIDproduct portfolio in the world. For more information about Impinj, visit www.impinj.com. | $21M / Jul 26, 2012 | ||
| Cambrios Technologies Corp. develops electronic materials for the display industry. The company provides wet-processable transparent conductive films. Its nanostructured materials can be deposited using existing production equipment to achieve enhanced performance of display devices and components. The company was founded in 2002 as Semzyme, Inc.and changed its name to Cambrios Technologies Corp. in August 2004. Cambrios Technologies Corp. is based in Sunnyvale, California. | $3.9M / Jul 01, 2012 | ||
| Semprius is developing low cost, high performance concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules to make solar power generation economically viable in sunny, dry climates. The company’s unique micro-transfer printing technology enables CPV modules with high performance, high reliability and low cost with scalability to high-volume production.Semprius is also licensing its micro-transfer printing technology for non-solar applications to enable a wide variety of new products requiring large-area, thin, lightweight form factors. Applications include flat- panel displays, flexible electronics, large-area sensors, RF devices and other applications requiring heterogeneous integration of high-performance semiconductors.Semprius, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. | $7.5M / Jan 28, 2012 | ||
| Siluria Technologies is a materials innovation company solving global challenges for partners in the natural gas, chemicals and fuel industries. Integrating nanotechnology, biotechnology and chemical engineering, Siluria has developed a solution to the grand challenge of efficient manufacturing: the ability to produce chemicals and fuels from acheaper, more abundant resource than oil. The company's economically superior, energy-efficient platform converts natural gas into the same materials manufactured today using current industry infrastructure. Siluria's world-class R&D and engineering teams are rapidly commercializing the company's technology to pilot-scale production in close dialogue with the world's largest chemical and fuel companies.Siluria's backers include Alloy Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Lux Capital, and Presidio Ventures. | $20M / Series B / Sep 27, 2011 | ||
| Semprius is developing low cost, high performance concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules to make solar power generation economically viable in sunny, dry climates. The company’s unique micro-transfer printing technology enables CPV modules with high performance, high reliability and low cost with scalability to high-volume production.Semprius is also licensing its micro-transfer printing technology for non-solar applications to enable a wide variety of new products requiring large-area, thin, lightweight form factors. Applications include flat- panel displays, flexible electronics, large-area sensors, RF devices and other applications requiring heterogeneous integration of high-performance semiconductors.Semprius, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. | $20M / Series C / Jun 30, 2011 | ||
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About ARCH Venture Partners
ARCH invests primarily in companies co-founded by scientists and entrepreneurs, concentrating on bringing to market innovations in life sciences. They enjoy special recognition as a leader in the successful commercialization of technologies developed at academic research institutions and national laboratories. ARCH has raised ten venture funds totaling over $3 billion and has invested in the venture capital rounds for more than 150 companies. ARCH investors include corporations, pension funds, endowment funds, financial institutions, and private investors.
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Kristina Burow
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What does Clinton Bybee invest in?
Clinton Bybee invests primarily in Manufacturing, Nanotechnology and Solar startups, most often at Funding Round and Series C stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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