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The WBTshowcase is the nation's premier event showcasing the largest collection of undiscovered technologies emanating from top universities, labs, and research institutions from across the country and around the globe.
Confirmed Investors and Licensees
Each year's Showcase represents the collaborative effort of investors, licensees, and tech commercialization professionals, offering an unparalleled forum that is both deal-focused and unbiased with regard to geography, funding source, or originating research institution. Participating technologies are selected by - and presented to - over 100 seasoned venture investors and Fortune 500 licensing scouts representing a variety of industries, each supported by private funding, federal R&D grants, or both. Most are presenting for the very first time. All selected presenters are coached and prepped in making concise, investor-oriented presentations seeking investment capital or licensing partners.
To mark the fifth anniversary of the WBT, the 2007 WBTshowcase will be produced in conjunction with the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer National Meeting, offering a one-time opportunity to attend both conferences in the same location. Come and discover why over 1 in 3 of our past presenters has been successful in raising almost $400 Million in first (or next) round capital or licensing their technologies.
We would like to congratulate this year's award winners,
selected by over 400 participating peers, investors,
licensees, and tech-commercialization experts:
Platinum
Cube Technology, Inc
Chandler, Arizona
Gold
NEOS
University Santa Maria
University of Valparaiso
Instituto de Seguridad del Trabajo
Fondef
Santiago, Chile
Silver
NEVENKUM
La Serena, Chile
Investors or licensees seeking additional information on any of this years participants should contact Paul Huleatt at phuleatt@wbtshowcase.com
Who Should Attend? |  | Who will be Presenting? |
- Seed and early stage venture investors
- Commercial and corporate licensing experts
- Corporate venture investors
- Technology officers
- CRADA Partners
- SBIR Award Recipients
- Federal R & D Program Managers
- Scientists
- Business, legal, and financial experts
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- Researchers
- Research institutions
- Technology entrepreneurs
- Enterprises and businesses
each seeking:
- to license or commercialize advanced technologies
- Seed and early stage venture capital
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Click here for a representative list of past attending investors and licensees
WBT07 Selection Committee.
3M • Air Products & Chemicals • Arch Ventures • Atlanta Technology Advisors • AT&T Knowledge Ventures • Avansis Ventures • Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory • Brainbelt Consulting • Capnet Ventures • Carnegie Mellon University • Carrot Capital • Chart Ventures • Chisholm Private Capital Partners • Concerto Venture Partners • Cycad Group • DFJ Mercury Venture Partners • Dow Chemical Company • Eastman Kodak Company • Emergent Technologies • Endeavor Innovation Partners • Flywheel Ventures • Ford Motor Company • Garage Technology Ventures • Gefinor Ventures Intel Capital • Growthink • Headwaters Energy Services • Hospira • Hot Ventures • In-Q-Tel • Intel Capital • International Venture Fund • JLB Consulting • Johnson & Johnson • Mason Wells • Masthead Venture Partners • Medical Product Innovation • Medtronic • MidCoast Capital • National Semiconductor Corp • Natural Carbon, LLC • National Science Foundation • Nokia • Nomadics Inc. • Patent Bridge • Perceptive Sciences • Procter & Gamble Company • Prolog Ventures • Raytheon • Research Corporation Technologies • Research Strategies • Roche Diagnostics • Rocke Capital • STARTech Early Ventures • Taproot Ventures • TechRanch • Techxas Ventures • Tecterra Food Capital Fund • Telecommunications Technology Fund • Texas Lifescience Center • The Commercialization Institute • Invest In Group • Triton Ventures • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS SAY
"We raised capital immediately after the WBT event... WBT helped us keep our message clear and avoid drifting after every investor meeting."
Bryan Bjorndal
Assure Bioassay Controls
"Our experience last year at WBT Showcase in presenting 2 technologies led us to apply again this year... both exposure and feedback were very positive returns for us."
Didier Leconte
Univalor
"...We have found the Worlds Best Technologies to be an excellent forum for bringing together diverse parties that share a common interest in product innovation. Perhaps more importantly, we have profited through the early identification of investment opportunities provided through WBT."
Terry Fetterhoff
Roche
"Really impressed -- a clean way of doing tech transfer."
Rich Dimmick
Army Lab
"All that it was advertised and more."
Ronald W. Kaese
Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO)
"The most positive result was recognition by Time Magazine as 'One of the Coolest Inventions of 2002.'"
Bud Cass
Advanced Cerametrics
"We are discussing an investment from a VC we met at the show."
Joshua Ziff
Bridge Semiconductor Corporation
"My inclusion in the Fortune article is a direct result of WBT02."
George E. Dzyacky
2ndpoint, L.L.C.
"We made key contacts at the WBT02 showcase."
Richard L. Pilston, Ph.D.
Plextronics, Inc.
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