Nanotechnology Venture Capitalists

One way to decide which nanotechnology companies would be good investments is to see if successfuly venture capitalists are investing in them.  The purpose of this blog post is to keep track of venture capitalists in the nanotechnology field.  Please post any that you know of as comments.

Steve Jurvetson, of Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Menlo Park, Calif.

Institutional Venture Partners in Menlo Park, Calif.

Abingworth Management Inc. in Menlo Park, Calif. and London England.

Technogen Associates

MPM Capital

Frazier & Company

Schroder Ventures Life Sciences

CMEA Ventures


According to an article at Physorg.com (a Science, Technology, Physics and Space News site), funding for nanotech research by venture capitalists is still very small compared to that spent by government and large corporations.  The latter is 19x larger than venture capitalist funding.