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:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
Last updated:
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Industries Clinton Bybee invests in
Stages Clinton Bybee invests in
Countries Clinton Bybee invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Solar 2 (12%)
- Software 2 (12%)
- Manufacturing 2 (12%)
- Nanotechnology 2 (12%)
- Apps 1 (6%)
Stage
- Funding Round 6 (35%)
- Series C 3 (18%)
- Series B 2 (12%)
- Series D 2 (12%)
- Seed 1 (6%)
Investments
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OOTU
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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
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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 | |
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Siluria Technologies
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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
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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
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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
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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 | |
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Siluria Technologies
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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 | |
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Semprius
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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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Siluria Technologies
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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. | $13.3M / Series A / Oct 19, 2010 | |
Innovalight
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Founded by Conrad Burke, Innovalight is focused on bringing high efficiency, low-cost solar modules to the marketplace. Enabling this manufacturing paradigm shift is the company's silicon ink, which has been in development since 2005. Historically, silicon has been processed either as a solid or as a gas. Using liquid based processingInnovalight will dramatically improve the cost and efficiency of today's solar modules. | $18M / Series D / Jan 06, 2010 | |
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Co-Investors
Madrona
5 deals together
Alloy Ventures
4 deals together
Polaris Partners
4 deals together
Altitude Life Science Ventures
3 deals together
Intersouth Partners
3 deals together
Mobius Venture Capital
3 deals together
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 fundstotaling 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.
ARCH Venture Partners Contacts
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Cindy Bayley
Affiliate
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Clinton Bybee
Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Hong Hou
Venture Partner
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Keith Crandell
Co-founder & Managing Director
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Kristina Burow
Managing Director
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What does Clinton Bybee invest in?
Clinton Bybee invests primarily in Solar, Software and Manufacturing startups, most often at Funding Round and Series C stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Clinton Bybee last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Clinton Bybee closed in Jul 2014. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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