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Venture Capital: Risk Capital_Angel, Venture, Sovereign Wealth Investor Companies & Organizations
Madrona Venture Group
Impinj
Parents
*Architects: Telecomm, Networking, WiFi, VideoTeleConferencing(VTC), RFID, MDI Companies
*Industry: Seattle
*Industry: Washington
*Portfolio Companies: Arch Ventures
*Portfolio Companies: Polaris Venture
GF Private Equity
Madrona Venture Group
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*Key People: Impinj
*Portfolio Companies: Mobius
2011: NSF's $18.5M grant aids new neural engineering center (2011)
Impinj now has 150 employees and "tens of millions" in annual revenue (2007)
It also has $75 million in venture capital from nine major funds
Originated in research done at Caltech by Carver Mead, one of the founding geniuses of modern electronics
RFID chip manufacturer
Take small early stage equity stakes
The equity investment by Caltech was in lieu of fees for acquiring a patent usually about $20,000
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CalTech (California Institute of Technology)