ASM International
San Fernando Valley Chapter
Presents

September 2005 Meeting
Awards Night


Materials Science Venture Investing

Presented by Unilever Technology Ventures

Dr. Min Zhou Berbon, Senior Associate
 

Unilever Technology Ventures is one of the venture capital funds of Unilever,
an Anglo-Dutch Consumer Packaged Goods company. UTV invests in startup
companies with technologies of potential interest to Unilever. UTV primarily
invests in materials science and life science companies.

Innovation in materials science plays an important role in many industries, including energy, clean tech, electronics, health and specialty materials.

However, materials science has been relatively underserved by venture capital because of the lack of industry-wide business models, the need for high capital investment, the usually long sales cycles etc. This talk discusses the challenges of making a venture-fundable materials science company and gives a
few examples in the UTV portfolio.
 
WHERE:

Marie Callender’s
The Garden Room
19310 Business Center Dr., Northridge, CA 91324
(on Tampa south of Nordhoff)
TIME: 5:30pm – Executive Board Meeting
6:30pm – Social (No Host Bar)
7:00pm - Dinner
8:00pm - Presentation
WHEN: Thursday, 22 September 2005
COST: Dinner $15.00 ($7.00 for students)
QUESTIONS?: Contact Ken Davis  (ken@artistryinmotion.com)

Scott Schroeder (sschroeder@exponent.com)

Christian Fuller (cfuller@rwsc.com)
 
 
 
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