Catalyst Technologies Venture Capital Group
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The Catalyst Technologies Venture Capital Group was one of the first technology company incubators. It was founded in the early 1980s by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell and received much assistance from Atari's other co-founder, Al Alcorn. The Catalyst Group continued to operate throughout the 1980s.
The term "Catalyst Group" may refer to both the companies spawned by the Group and the people involved.
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[edit] Catalyst companies
The Catalyst Group companies included Androbot, Etak, Cumma, Axlon and many more.
[edit] Androbot
In addition to his animatronic entertainment at Pizza Time Theater, Nolan Bushnell was also involved in the 1982 founding of Androbot, Inc, a company that introduced personal robots for entertainment purposes. The company stopped production in 1984.
[edit] Axlon
Axlon launched many consumer and consumer electronic products successfully, most notably AG Bear, a bear that mumbled/echoed a child's words back to him/her. Axlon was largely sold to Hasbro.
[edit] Etak
Etak was the first company to digitize the maps of the world, ultimately providing the back bone for google maps, mapquest.com, and other navigation systems. Etak was sold to Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s.
