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SpectraSensors is backed by a leading group of Venture Capital Firms including:

Blueprint Ventures

Blueprint Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area investment firm focused on technology start-ups including components, systems, and software/services. The firm works with exceptional entrepreneurs to deliver disruptive technologies to market in a capital-efficient manner. Blueprint is the industry innovator in leading Corporate IP Spinouts by partnering with high-tech companies to commercialize their non-core, pre-revenue intellectual property. Blueprint’s investment professionals provide significant entrepreneurial, operating, and investment experience to their portfolio companies.

American River Ventures

American River Ventureswith over $100 million under management, is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Roseville, California. ARV invests in information technology and communications companies in Northern California and throughout the Western United States. The firm helps entrepreneurs accelerate the growth of their companies by applying the investment team’s technical backgrounds and extensive operating experience.

Nth Power

Nth Powerfocuses on high-growth investment opportunities in the trillion-dollar global energy and utility marketplace. Nth Power began investing in 1997 and has over $250 million under management, with investments in energy intelligence, power reliability, distributed generation and related services. Nth Power’s industry partners include leading electric and gas service providers and equipment manufacturers from around the world.

 

Nomura

Nomura is a global financial services group dedicated to providing a broad range of financial services for individual, institutional, corporate and government clients. The Group offers a diverse line of competitive products and value-added financial and advisory solutions through its global headquarters in Tokyo, over 155 branches in Japan, and an international network in 30 countries; with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York. The Group’s business activities include investment consultation and brokerage services for retail investors in Japan, and, on a global basis, brokerage services, securities underwriting, investment banking advisory services, merchant banking, and asset management.

 

Chevron Technology Ventures

Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), a division of Chevron, USA, Inc., champions innovation, commercialization and integration of emerging technologies and related new business models within Chevron. CTV is pursuing this goal through business units involving biofuels, hydrogen, emerging energy and venture capital. Chevron Corporation is one of the world’s leading energy companies. With approximately 56,000 employees, Chevron subsidiaries conduct business in approximately 180 countries around the world, producing and transporting crude oil and natural gas, and refining, marketing and distributing fuels and other energy products. Chevron is based in San Ramon, Calif.