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Illinois Partners works with seed-stage companies in complex or advanced
technologies. We work with researchers to help commercialize their work based around hard sciences. Examples of some of the technologies that we
work with are:
- Nanotechnology
- MEMS
- Bio-chemical sensors
- Advanced materials
- Human-computer interfaces
- Optoelectronics
- Photonics
- Lasers
- Complex software
Drawing on our experience in some of the world's most successful technology
companies such as IBM and Microsoft, we sometimes work with more mature
companies on sales, marketing or business development issues.
Some of the recent projects we have done include:
- Commercialization feasibility study of a powerful text-based search engine
for a major research university.
- Marketing strategy for a developer of innovative computer aided design
software.
- Assisted a life sciences company that has a patented process for
transdermal analyte extraction with their fund raising.
- Incubated a chemical sensor company spun out of a major research
university.
- Advised an early-stage software company in the labor scheduling market on
their investor presentation.
- Performed a due diligence project for a venture leasing firm.
- Completed a technology commercialization study on a nanocrystalline
diamond thin-film technology for a federally funded research laboratory.
- Served as interim sales executive for a developer of a parametric search
engine.
- Served as panelist and mentor in business plan competitions and coursework
at the Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana, The
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Kellogg School of
Management at Northwestern University.
- Advisor to numerous early-stage companies and the Microfabrication
Applications Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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