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Materia, Inc.

"Green Chemistry" is defined as the use of chemistry for environmentally sustainable industrial growth, including: (1) the use of renewable feedstocks rather than those derived from petrochemicals; (2) efficient chemical processes utilizing less energy and creating less waste; and (3) environmentally benign, biodegradable, or recyclable end products. Metathesis, Materia's powerful Green Chemistry technology, provides sustainable solutions in all three areas and does so across a broad range of industries - from pharmaceuticals to personal care and industrial plastics to electronics. Materia has partnered with industry leaders to maximize the impact of its technology platform.

Collaboration with Cargill Ventures resulted in the creation of Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. The new company will harness the potential of natural oils combined with Materia's Nobel Prize winning metathesis technology to aggressively grow in the $500 billion specialty chemicals market. Elevance has secured more than $40 million in venture capital and expects to generate over $1 billion in sales by 2016.

Other current commercial opportunities include:

  • Solvent free and volatile free closed mold processes for the clean manufacture of industrial polymers
  • Efficient production processes for rapid pharmaceutical discovery, development, and manufacture
  • Natural alternatives to pesticides for insect control
  • Durable and safe building materials that avoid arsenic, formaldehyde, and other hazardous ingredients
  • Alternative drilling fluids for environmentally conscious oil field development

For more information: www.materia-inc.com
 
 

CMEA Ventures

Partnering with Extraordinary People, Building Great Companies

CMEA Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on life sciences, high technology, and energy & materials investments. CMEA believes that the most successful venture backed companies are science focused with experienced teams intent on winning. As a result, CMEA's portfolio companies typically have cutting edge and highly differentiated technology at their core, with founding teams of the highest caliber.

CMEA invests in both early and late stage ventures, and has a strong network of corporate, investment, and entrepreneurial relationships that it leverages on behalf of its portfolio companies. The firm currently manages six funds representing investments in excess of $1 billion. CMEA has been an early stage investor in many leading Silicon Valley high technology companies, including Entropic (ENTR), Flextronics (FLEX), Magma (LAVA), Maxygen (MAXY), Monogram Biosciences (MGRM), Silicon Spice (BRCM), Symyx (SMMX), and Syrrx (purchased by Takeda.)

CMEA Ventures was founded in 1989 and maintains offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park. CMEA's partners and associates have extensive science, engineering, and operational backgrounds that particularly suit CMEA's focus on technology and teams --- an effective differentiator for entrepreneurs and venture investment partners who dare to change the world, one great company at a time.

For more information: www.cmeaventures.com
 
 

Nixon Peabody

Nixon Peabody LLP early on identified the explosive growth and disruptive nature of Cleantech technologies. We work with entrepreneurs, venture capital investors, private equity investors, and key industry players to take full advantage of Cleantech opportunities and meet the legal, business and strategic challenges associated with financing, developing and commercializing these innovative technologies. We offer our clients not only deep experience in the area of carbon use reducing technologies and processes; but, we also offer our Cleantech clients a platform of 25 multi-disciplinary practices, across 18 offices throughout the world, including London and Shanghai.

As our clients move to respond by developing innovative technologies and products and implementing more sustainable practices, Nixon Peabody LLP has launched a "legally green" initiative to help our clients achieve their business goals and join with them in promoting environmental responsibility. The phrase "legally green" signifies the firm's unique combination of legal experience, thought leadership, and responsible citizenship, and our commitment to serving our clients and our community well in the changing world. While many law firms have separate practices that occasionally handle sustainability issues, at Nixon Peabody we've integrated our league-leading practices as very few others can. Our attorneys understand the issues that arise in the context of emerging industries such as Cleantech, renewable energy, and green building, and we are developing innovative solutions.

Nixon Peabody is proud to be one of the first law firms in the nation to embrace sustainable building practices. Our San Francisco office has been certified by the United States Green Building Council under the program for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), making Nixon Peabody the first law firm in the U.S. to have an office LEED-certified in the category of "Commercial Interiors." In the coming months, other Nixon Peabody offices will also pursue LEED certification.

For more information: www.nixonpeabody.com
 

 

Merrill Lynch

Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, with offices in 40 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.6 trillion. Merrill Lynch offers a broad range of services to private clients, small businesses, and institutions and corporations. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide.

Merrill Lynch's Wealth Management Products and Services, include financial, retirement and generational planning. Banking, trust, lending and related services, include mortgage loans, trust, commercial loans, deposit-taking, securities-based loans, cash management, insurance and annuity products and annuity underwriting, and investment management and investment advisory services.

Richard McWhorter (626-396-2818; email: Richard_McWhorter@ML.com ) is one of the experts at Merrill Lynch's Pasadena Office who can help you manage your personal assets. A Merrill Lynch Financial Advisor, Mr. McWhorter will work closely with you to ensure your long-term strategies are tailored to meet your personal risk tolerance, investment timelines and most valued life goals. Whether you're saving for your children's education, buying a home, growing your business, or building a legacy for your family, there's a solution to help you meet your needs.

For more information: www.ml.com
 
 

UK TRADE & INVESTMENT

UK's Strategic Interests in Energy: The UK has a target of obtaining 10% of electricity from renewables by 2010. To ensure the UK's renewable energy targets are met, in the years up to 2010, both on- and offshore wind will make the major contribution. Beyond 2010, biomass, wave and tidal, and building integrated renewables will make increasing contributions. By 2020, the UK is likely to see decommissioning of coal and nuclear plants that currently contribute about 30% of the current generating capacity. Investment in this sector, stimulated by the government's Renewable Obligation (RO) is growing by 30% a year. UK Trade & Investment is the British Government's international business development agency. Our remit is to attract, retain and add value to inward investment into the United Kingdom and to help US companies take advantage of the vast business opportunities in Europe from an UK base.

What we provide to U.S. Businesses: Our services are confidential and free of charge. We provide tailored information to allow that company to make informed commercial decisions more quickly. We help companies find potential UK partners for US technology companies through our Global Partnership Programme. UK Trade & Investment works in partnership with 12 regionally based development agencies that provide information on the cost of potential locations/office space, the availability of skilled labour, employee costs, tax, local incentives, and proximity to customers, suppliers, cluster information and other investment considerations. Our extensive Investor Development Programme, or Aftercare program maintains communications with our US partners, providing information to help them grow. Contact: Mike Rosenfeld, Vice Consul, Mike.Rosenfeld@fco.gov.uk

For further information contact:

Mike Rosenfeld
Vice Consul
US--UK Clean Technology & Renewable Energy Sector Lead
Tel: 310 481 2986
Email: Mike.Rosenfeld@fco.gov.uk

Beverly Xu
Business Development Associate
US--UK Clean Technology & Renewable Energy Sector
Tel: 310 481 2918
Email: Beverly.Xu@fco.gov.uk

For more information: www.uktradeinvestusa.com/
 

 

City of Pasadena

In the past year, the City of Pasadena has undertaken a comprehensive effort to become a model "Green City" - striving to be a community of residents, workers, and visitors who work together to balance ecological, economic, and social needs in order to ensure a clean, healthy and safe environment for everyone.

Of particular importance to Pasadena's business community, City leaders believe that the implementation of an environmental ethic need not interfere with economic development. Indeed, by introducing and incentivizing environmentally responsive building, maintenance, and operational practices, Pasadena seeks to provide opportunities for responsible, farsighted development. The City of Pasadena was recently honored by SustainLane Government as one of the nation's top 5 cities for Cleantech incubation clusters.

For more information: www.ci.pasadena.ca.us
 
 

Pasadena City College

Pasadena City College's Biological Technology Program educates and trains students as technicians and as researchers. Collaboration with PCC's LA/Orange County Biotechnology Center and with Caltech provides a vehicle for partnerships between education and industry, promotes economic development in the biotechnology-biomedical industries, and enhances science education in the Greater Los Angeles region.

Training includes wetlab skills, computational biology, stem cell culture and a new project in Environmental Sciences in collaboration with Oak Crest Institute of Science and the City of Pasadena's Hahamonga Green Project. A grant from the Parsons Foundation allowed this project to begin in Fall 2007.

For more information:www.pasadena.edu/

 

Avery Dennison

Founded in 1935, Avery Dennison is a global leader in pressure-sensitive technology, self-adhesive base materials and self-adhesive consumer and office products. Based in Pasadena, Calif., the Company had 2007 sales of $6.3 billion.

Avery Dennison is best known for its Avery-brand office and consumer products, Fasson-brand self-adhesive materials, reflective and graphic materials, peel-and-stick postage stamps, retail tag and labeling solutions, RFID inlays, specialty tapes and performance polymers. With over 60 percent of sales generated outside the United States, the Company is focused on developing international growth opportunities, expanding its core markets, investing in new products and technologies. Avery Dennison is also looking to identify innovative companies in key areas of interest for strategic partnerships including licensing, joint development and value-enhancing acquisitions.

For more information:www.averydennison.com/
 

 

Entretech

Entretech is the leading non-profit association in Greater Los Angeles empowering entrepreneurs to build new businesses through capital, education, people, and strategic partners. It provides the high tech community with critical and practical business development resources and connections. Recently expanding its geographical reach beyond the San Gabriel Valley to cover all of Los Angeles, Entretech formed a closer relationship with the Tech Coast Angels, alongside an existing partnership with the Pasadena Angels. In addition, in 2007, Vice Provosts from USC and UCLA joined Caltech on the Entretech Board, representing a powerful regional triumvirate of innovation. Since its inception more than seven years ago, Entretech has worked closely with other organizations throughout Southern California, including the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, the Keck Graduate Institute, the Los Angeles CDC's Business Technology Center, LARTA, Connect, the LAEDC, the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership, OCTANe, and the Cities of Pasadena, Los Angeles and Monrovia. Entretech is positioned to work with communities throughout Los Angeles to advance a significant cluster of advanced-tech development. Entretech operates from an office on the Caltech campus.

For more information: www.entretech.org
 
 

Materia, Inc.

Materia was founded in 1998 to commercialize olefin metathesis catalyst technology. This market-enabling, Nobel Prize-winning, green chemical technology enables chemical compounds to be synthesized with greater efficiency, under less stringent reaction conditions, and with reduced byproducts and hazardous waste. Metathesis has been accepted as an emerging "green technology" platform and has been broadly adopted by the pharmaceutical, chemical, and polymer industries. As stated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences when awarding the 2005 Nobel Prize, "metathesis is an example of how important basic science has been applied for the benefit of man, society, and the environment."

For more Information: www.materia-inc.com
 
 

California Institute of Technology

Recognized for its outstanding faculty, including Nobel Laureates and such renowned off-campus facilities as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the W. M. Keck Observatory, and the Palomar Observatory, Caltech has become one of the world's major research centers. Its faculty and alumni have won 32 Nobel Prizes, a number far out of proportion to its small size of 285 professorial faculty and 2,200 students. The university, whose history goes back to 1891, has had many world-famous scientists on its faculty, including Linus Pauling, Charles Richter, Roger Sperry, and Richard Feynman. Caltech has ranked number one in U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of America's best colleges.

Taking Technology from the Lab to the Marketplace: The primary mission of Caltech's Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) is to promote and facilitate the transfer of useful technologies to the commercial sector so that the public can directly benefit from the ingenuity and creativity of our outstanding researchers. Providing access to new and improved devices, drugs, services, etc., all contribute to improving the quality of people's lives. OTT strives to find the most efficient ways to take a concept developed by our inventors and turn it into a product useful in everyday life.

Founded in 1995, OTT works to effectively commercialize technology developed at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Specifically, OTT assists the faculty with intellectual property, evaluates inventions, manages the Caltech/JPL patent portfolio, negotiates technology licenses and assists entrepreneurs with the creation of startups.

For more Information: www.ott.caltech.edu
 

UCLA

UCLA's Office of Intellectual Property & Industry Sponsored Research is the campus-wide organization where:

Technologies developed by UCLA researchers are patented, marketed and licensed to industry for public dissemination and benefit; Startups based on UCLA discoveries begin to take shape; And, industry finds a gateway to research collaboration opportunities at UCLA.

OIP-ISR supports UCLA's research, education and service mission by:

  • Educating the academic community about appropriate methods for protecting intellectual property
  • Accelerating the development of UCLA discoveries for the public good
  • Promoting economic growth in California
  • Facilitating collaborations with industry for next-generation scientific breakthroughs.

For more Information: www.research.ucla.edu/oipa
 

USC Stevens

USC is one of the world's leading private research universities. Last year USC received more than $430 million in sponsored research and approximately $20 million of that was from corporate research funding. USC, a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), ranks #14 in receiving federal research funding. There are over 2,500 faculty members contributing innovation at USC through the quality and originality of their research and teaching.

Originally established as the USC Stevens Institute for Technology Commercialization (SITeC) in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering through the generous naming donation from Mark and Mary Stevens, the Institute evolved to become the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation (USC Stevens) out of a recognition for USC's wealth of innovation across disciplines beyond science, engineering, and technology transfer and the opportunity to explore different approaches for seeing ideas make an impact.

USC is in a unique position to redesign the process of innovation in a university due to USC Stevens' integrated structure across all of these important functionalities as well as the enterprising nature of the USC community and the involvement of top-notch schools in a broad range of disciplines. The approach to innovation is unique in three ways: It focuses on the Innovator as well as the Innovations; it is university-wide; and it utilizes cross-functional teams across thematic areas of interest.

For more Information: www.stevens.usc.edu

 

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