Advanced Technology Ventures

Advanced Technology Ventures

Type	Private
Industry	Private equity
Founded	1979
Headquarters	Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Products	Venture capital
AUM	$1.8 billion
Website	www.atvcapital.com

Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) is an American venture capital firm with more than $1.8 billion in capital under management. The firm was founded in 1979 and invests in IT, healthcare, and cleantech companies. ATV has offices in Waltham, Massachusetts and Palo Alto, California.

History

ATV was created when Dr. Thaddeus (Teddy) F. Walkowicz left Venrock, a venture capital firm associated with the Rockefeller family, to team up with Dr. Ivan Sutherland, George Kokkinakis and Dr. Robert Loewy. Together they founded Advanced Technology Ventures.

Investment funds

1981 - ATV I closes with $30.2M

1994 - ATV II closes with $28M

1988 - ATV III closes with $30.7M

1995 - ATV IV closes with $100M

1998 - ATV V closes with $175M

1999 - ATV VI closes with $400M ^[1]

2001 - ATV VII closes with $720M

2007 - ATV VIII closes with $305M^[2]

Investments

ATV's investments in IT, healthcare and cleantech companies have resulted in 30+ successful exits via IPO or acquisition. For example, Acme Packet had a successful IPO and the company is one of the fastest-growing telecommunications companies in the state of Massachusetts ^[3] Today, ATV backs a variety of early-stage portfolio companies, including the following.

IT: Alfalight, Anagran, Apprion, CaseCentral, Cenzic, Cedexis,^[4] CombineNet, Handango, Host Analytics, HVVi Semiconductors, Liquid Engines, Nextivity, Nominum, Omneon, Packet Design, Qumu, Sanovi, Tripwire, X+1

Cleantech: AltaRock Energy, Coskata, CaliSolar, GreatPoint Energy, Nuventix, Rive Technology, Sub-One Technology, Solar Junction, Wakonda

Healthcare: Acceleron, Aperio, Apoptos, Ardian, ConcepTx Medical, Emphasys, EndoGastric Solutions, Five Prime, GI Dynamics, GluMetrics, Gynesonics, Helixis, Hydra BioSciences, NeuroVista, Plexxikon, PolyRemedy, Portola, Powervision, Proteolix, Second Genome, Valeritas, Zeltiq

Notes

1. ↑ Staff (December 26, 2001),“ATV Creates $800 Million Venture Fund”, “EDN”, Retrieved 2008-23-12.
2. ↑ Sorkin, Andrew Ross (February 6, 2008). "Advanced Technology Closes New $303 Million Fund". The New York Times: Dealbook. Retrieved 2008-12-26. 
3. ↑ Noblett J. (January 11, 2008), “Andy Ory Ahead of the Pack”, “Boston Business Journal”, Retrieved 2008-23-12.
4. ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/25/cedexis-raises-22m-series-b-round-for-its-internet-traffic-monitoring-and-routing-platform/

References

• Buckman, R. (2007-3-12), “Seeking the Green in Clean”, “Wall Street Journal”, Retrieved on 2008-12-23.
• Brown, E., Miller, C., Douglas, E. (2007-1-24), “Forbes Midas List”, “Forbes”, Retrieved on 2008-12-23.
• LaMonica, M. (2008-12-22), “Clean-tech Investors Take Cue From Biotech”, “CNET”, Retrieved on 2008-12-23.
• Rogoway, Mike (2016-1-25), "Portland cloud computing startup Cedexis", "Oregonlive", Retrieved on 2016-1-27.

External links

• Advanced Technology Ventures

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