Investors
www.dfjmercury.com DFJ Mercury is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm which invests in compelling and novel start-up opportunities in the information technology, advanced materials and bioscience sectors. We partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs to build globally competitive businesses based on opportunities in Texas and targeted regional tech clusters in the Mid- and Southwest. Our team has extensive experience and strong relationships with technology transfer offices, and appreciates hard science with solid intellectual property. Our firm has a particular focus on university spin-outs and incubation, often investing prior to a business plan or full management team being formed. DFJ Mercury is an active partner in the DFJ Global Network of venture capital funds. 
www.rpmvc.com RPM Ventures provides capital and guidance to entrepreneurs starting and building innovative technology companies. We start with the basic idea that venture capital is a service business and our entrepreneurs and portfolio companies come first. In this capacity, we provide unique insight and access for our companies to one of the globe's largest IT customer bases. Additionally, we draw from our own experience in starting companies to define products, find first customers and raise future rounds of capital. We have a passion for early-stage companies, as we believe that any company we'd invest in is also a company we'd want to work in. 
www.i2afund.com The Illinois Innovation Accelerator Fund (i²A) is an innovative $10 million for-profit early-stage investment fund created in direct response to the decrease in seed-stage investing that's occurred since the turn of the new millennium. The fund's goal is to provide the first external professional capital raised by companies, allowing them to grow and allowing the fund members to capitalize on high-growth opportunities. i²A's formation was driven by J.B. Pritzker, Founder and Partner of New World Ventures, himself an enthusiastic early-stage investor, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, and the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC), a nonprofit affiliate of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, to address this growing but detrimental seed-stage "capital gap." |