New Venture Partners
VC Fund
Berkeley Heights, United States
New Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in corporate spinouts. It focuses on incubation, seed, and early stage investments. The firm invests in underleveraged or underutilized corporate assets; technology or concept ready for commercial product development that is not seeking capital for additional research; product andunderlying technology that is meaningfully differentiated along dimensions that matter to potential customers; and where preliminary research suggesting there are customers willing to pay for the product or service. It seeks to commercialize corporate technologies through the creation of independent ventures.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries New Venture Partners invests in
Stages New Venture Partners invests in
Countries New Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $2.4M–$33M
- Series B
- $4.5M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 6 (19%)
- Software 4 (13%)
- Information Technology 4 (13%)
- Wireless 3 (9%)
- Semiconductor 3 (9%)
Stage
- Funding Round 8 (25%)
- Series A 7 (22%)
- Series B 5 (16%)
- Series C 5 (16%)
- Series D 4 (13%)
Country
- United States 15 (47%)
- Ireland 1 (3%)
- Australia 1 (3%)
- The Netherlands 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jane Dela Cruz
Office Manager & Executive Assistant
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Office Manager & Executive Assistant | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Stephen Socolof
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Andrew R. Garman
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Harry Berry
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Tom Uhlman
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Brisbane Materials Technology
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Brisbane Materials aims to be the leading supplier of anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings for solar and other applications. Born out of the University of Queensland in 2005, Brisbane Materials builds on six years and significant investment in technology and application experience. Longer term, Brisbane Materials will extend its unique roomtemperature and atmospheric pressure synthesis of glass and ceramic coatings to a wide variety of materials systems and applications. | Series B / Jun 18, 2017 | |
NVMdurance
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NVMdurance delivers via software, a set of NAND Flash optimization techniques developed over the past 13 years by our technical co-founders Joe Sullivan and Conor Ryan. | $2.4M / Series A / Mar 23, 2016 | |
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NVMdurance
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NVMdurance delivers via software, a set of NAND Flash optimization techniques developed over the past 13 years by our technical co-founders Joe Sullivan and Conor Ryan. | $800K / Aug 05, 2014 | |
AetherPal
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AetherPal has transformed the ability of carriers, enterprises, OEMs, and customers to optimize the experience for smart devices, utilizing real-time data, while ensuring complete user privacy, significantly reducing support costs, and dramatically improving the end-user experience, resulting in extended device lifecycle and increased brandloyalty.AetherPal Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in South Plainfield, New Jersey, United States. | $6M / Series A / Nov 04, 2013 | |
EverSpin Technologies
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Everspin Technologies develops and manufactures integrated magnetic products It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona. | $15M / Series B / Aug 12, 2013 | |
GainSpan
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GainSpan brings Ultra-low-power Wi-Fi to sensors and embedded applications. The company's semiconductor solutions break new ground in Wi-Fi applications by enabling years of battery life for Wi-Fi sensors and other devices.In September of 2006, a core team of engineers and thought leaders spun off from Intel Corporation to form EmphanySystems, later GainSpan. The vision was simple... enable and accelerate the adoption of new wireless usage models for sensor network applications using an existing widely deployed standard technology.The challenge was daunting... while wireless sensor networks have seen steady growth over the past few years, their market potential has, in fact, been hindered by power consumption issues and lack of mature standards based solutions.The solution was innovative... new Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery. This allows users to leverage the global Wi-Fi infrastructure, existing tools and knowledge investments, for new applications such as temperature monitoring for energy management, condition monitoring of industrial equipment in manufacturing plants or streetlights in metro areas. | $19M / Series D / Jun 26, 2013 | |
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GainSpan
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GainSpan brings Ultra-low-power Wi-Fi to sensors and embedded applications. The company's semiconductor solutions break new ground in Wi-Fi applications by enabling years of battery life for Wi-Fi sensors and other devices.In September of 2006, a core team of engineers and thought leaders spun off from Intel Corporation to form EmphanySystems, later GainSpan. The vision was simple... enable and accelerate the adoption of new wireless usage models for sensor network applications using an existing widely deployed standard technology.The challenge was daunting... while wireless sensor networks have seen steady growth over the past few years, their market potential has, in fact, been hindered by power consumption issues and lack of mature standards based solutions.The solution was innovative... new Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery. This allows users to leverage the global Wi-Fi infrastructure, existing tools and knowledge investments, for new applications such as temperature monitoring for energy management, condition monitoring of industrial equipment in manufacturing plants or streetlights in metro areas. | $7.4M / Oct 01, 2012 | |
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Brisbane Materials Technology
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Brisbane Materials aims to be the leading supplier of anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings for solar and other applications. Born out of the University of Queensland in 2005, Brisbane Materials builds on six years and significant investment in technology and application experience. Longer term, Brisbane Materials will extend its unique roomtemperature and atmospheric pressure synthesis of glass and ceramic coatings to a wide variety of materials systems and applications. | Series A / Sep 25, 2012 | |
CrossFiber
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CrossFiber develop and manufacture LiteSwitch Modules: flexible all-optical switching modules for a range of applications from ROADMs to automated fiber cross-connects. | $13.4M / Series D / Sep 12, 2012 | |
Novinda
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Novinda Corp., a Denver, CO-based developer of non-Carbon reagent for mercury emission control. Formed in 2009 as a spin out of CH2M HILL to commercialize environmental technologies for the power utility industry, and led by CEO Ed Williams, Novinda pioneered the concept of a reagent for removing mercury with chemical reactions, rather than throughabsorption technologies. Its Amended Silicates® is a non-carbon mercury control product 100% compatible with fly ash use in concrete products. It meets the mercury removal rates required by the EPA’s proposed Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards. | $6M / Series C / Feb 13, 2012 | |
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FAQ
What does New Venture Partners invest in?
New Venture Partners invests primarily in Manufacturing, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is New Venture Partners's check size?
New Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$33M at Series A and $4.5M–$20M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds New Venture Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at New Venture Partners?
The team at New Venture Partners includes Jane Dela Cruz (Office Manager & Executive Assistant), Stephen Socolof (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Andrew R. Garman (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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