Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies
VC Fund
Burlington, United States
Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies is a VC fund in Burlington focused on Software and Manufacturing. The Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) offers actionable advantages to Vermont entrepreneurs to start, scale and sustain technology enabled businesses. VCET manages $15M in evergreen, early stage venture capital, provides no cost business advisory services and operates a new venture platform (coworking, programs, podcast, etc) tosupport startups and scaling firms.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
- Fund size:
- $6M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies invests in
Stages Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies invests in
Countries Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (14%)
- Manufacturing 3 (14%)
- Apps 2 (10%)
- Biotechnology 2 (10%)
- iOS 1 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (29%)
- Seed 5 (24%)
- Series B 3 (14%)
- Convertible Note 3 (14%)
- Series C 2 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Bradbury
President, VCET | Entrepreneur Advocate | Investor | Mentor | Podcast Host | Management Consulting
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President, VCET | Entrepreneur Advocate | Investor | Mentor | Podcast Host | Management Consulting | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Everett S. McGinley
Entrepreneurs in Residence
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Entrepreneurs in Residence | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Justin Siegel
Entrepreneurs in Residence
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Entrepreneurs in Residence | Total investments: 6 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resonant Link delivers 5x faster and highly efficient wireless power for applications big to small, from massive industrial trucks to medical devices smaller than a fingernail. Resonant Link’s mission is to provide fast, safe, and reliable wireless power to help people, businesses, and the planet thrive. | $3.4M / Series A / Jan 28, 2025 | ||
| Verde Technologies specializes in the production of perovskite solar cells that offers thin film and flexible solar panels. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 05, 2024 | ||
| The world they live in is built from petroleum. The paints on their walls, the carpets in their homes, the tires on their cars, the plastics for everyday consumer goods – these and many more products are made from chemicals that are mostly made from petroleum, creating a $3 trillion/yr industry. To fulfill their dependency on petroleum, theydo crazy things like setting up oil rigs in the middle of the ocean and drilling several miles into the ocean floor! They’ve done these things because they have had no alternative to meet their needs. Not anymore!Over the past decade, advances in engineering microorganisms have afforded us the opportunity to make the same chemicals that are traditionally made from petroleum. Instead of requiring raw materials buried deep within the earth, microbes can use abundant and renewable sources of carbon such as sugars during processes akin to brewing beer. Despite the numerous advantages, making chemicals this way at the industrial level is still rare. This is because it’s still more expensive than using petroleum for producing the chemicals. Although a few challenges need to be solved to usher in the era of renewable chemicals, a fundamental constraint that limits the economic competitiveness of using microbes is the loss of at least 33% of the carbon as carbon dioxide waste during the fermentation – think of this as the head on your beer. Because of this carbon loss, potential product is simply not made. In technical terms, the maximum achievable yields are 67%. As sugars are the most expensive component of a bioprocess, making the carbon dioxide waste translates to as much as 20% of total costs, which severely hampers the economics of the bioprocess and its competitiveness with petroleum-based production methods.At ZymoChem, they are re-imagining the microbe, one that is designed to eliminate (or substantially reduce) carbon loss during the production of chemicals. To do this, they had to design a completely new biosynthetic pathway – one that doesn’t exist in nature – to make the chemicals. Each individual step of this pathway is designed to not lose carbon as carbon dioxide, enabling their biosynthetic pathway to retain all of the sugar’s carbon into the final chemical product. This carbon conservation allows their approach to have superior theoretical yields, up to 50% better than existing state-of-the-art technology! In turn, their technology has the potential to substantially lower production costs and drastically improve cost-competitiveness for making a variety of chemicals from renewable sources, even at today's oil prices. | $21M / Series A / Jan 15, 2024 | ||
Vernal Biosciences
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Vernal Biosciences is an mRNA manufacturing company that provides high purity mRNA, from concept to clinical trials, on a transactional basis. | $20M / Series A / Jun 27, 2023 | |
| Verde Technologies specializes in the production of perovskite solar cells that offers thin film and flexible solar panels. | $500K / Pre-Seed / May 31, 2023 | ||
| Lost Lantern Whiskey is a brewing company that focuses on wine and spirits. The company was founded by Nora Ganley-Roper and Adam Polonski in 2018 and is headquartered in Weybridge, Vermont, United States. | Convertible Note / Jan 27, 2022 | ||
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Vernal Biosciences
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Vernal Biosciences is an mRNA manufacturing company that provides high purity mRNA, from concept to clinical trials, on a transactional basis. | Seed / Jul 12, 2021 | |
| Benchmark Space Systems is building a low-cost propulsion system for the rapidly growing small satellite market. The company system uses a non-toxic, inert chemical that is safe to transport and store, making it attractive to a range of customers.The small satellite market is predicted to be $30B over the next 10 years, and propulsion is a keyenabling technology for this growth. Their system also uses a proprietary, patent-pending system that will offer tremendous value by offering solid performance at a low cost. It proposes a resistor jet micro propulsion system that leverages a solid gas generator to offer high-performance, low-cost propulsion with key safety features. Benchmark Space Systems was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in South Burlington, VT, USA. | $1.1M / Seed / Nov 30, 2018 | ||
| NextCapital partners with world-class institutions to deliver personalized planning and managed accounts to individual investors across multiple channels including 401(k), IRA, and taxable brokerage accounts. Their open-architecture digital advice solution provides integrated account aggregation, analytics, planning, and portfolio management, andallows partners to customize advice methodology and fiduciary roles.The company was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $30M / Series C / Jan 04, 2018 | ||
| Born and raised in the security community, we're on a roll and just getting started. In late 2009, the original team of Pwnies - Dave Porcello, Gabe Koss, and Oliver Weis - placed the Pwn Plug on the original site (Dave's blog) with little expectation of what was to come.From those humble beginnings, we have focused on providing fullthreat detection of every wireless and wired device in and around your workplace. We are the only company that detects rogue, misconfigured, and unauthorized devices across wired and wireless spectrums. By automating wireless and wired device detection, our solutions continuously detect the devices on or around your network that are open pathways for attackers.Pwnie Express is led by industry veterans with deep security testing and product development experience. Security assessment is our lifeblood, and we believe in making it simple to do the easy things, and possible to do the hard stuff. With Pwn Pulse, a distributed security assessment service, and our award-winning sensors, security teams can get the answers they need in a timely and effective manner. | $8M / Series C / Nov 29, 2017 | ||
| See all 21 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies invest in?
Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 21 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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Who are the partners at Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies?
The team at Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies includes David Bradbury (President, VCET | Entrepreneur Advocate | Investor | Mentor | Podcast Host | Management Consulting), Everett S. McGinley (Entrepreneurs in Residence) and Justin Siegel (Entrepreneurs in Residence). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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