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The
Nanotech Planet conference
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REPORT
Only
a week after the Nanotech Planet conference in Singapore, the first
European Nanotech Planet conference took place at the Hilton Park
Hotel in Munich on June 17 – 18, 2002. Capital Stage Nanotech was
premier sponsor of the event which was attended by approximately 50
participants. Well known Nanotech specialists speaking were Dr.
Meyya Meyyappan form NASA and Tim Harper from cmp-Scientifica (No,
Josh Wolfe was NOT there). On the 2nd day, several young
Nanotech companies had the chance to present themselves and their
technology to a very interested audience.
At
the conference there was a general consensus that “Nanotechnology
has come to stay” and that its importance will continue to grow.
However, one of topics raised in the panel discussion was whether
there are currently sufficient investment opportunities available
in the market. Some of the larger VCs claimed that they have not
enough attractive nanotech projects in their deal flow. Others, like
Capital Stage, stated that there many are successful Nanotech
companies with products in the market, some being even highly
profitable.
Today’s
low level of investment interest in Nanotechnology is caused
partly by the current state of the financial markets and the
resulting general reservation to invest in high tech, partly by the
lacking technological understanding of Nanotechnology among VCs.
Capital Stage emphasized that particularly investors with strong
Nanotech networks can create very attractive deals by connecting
or integrating Nanotech opportunities into other companies. The
question is therefore not whether there are enough deals available
in the market, but rather whether the investors have sufficient
know-how to assess and handle them.
In
connection with the conference, Capital Stage Nanotech held
an Advisory Board
Meeting on June 19 in Spitzingsee, south of Munich.
For
comments or questions, please contact Kim Ludvigsen at kim.ludvigsen@capitalstage.com
or +41 1 210 33 77
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Nanotechnology Investing Forum, organised by IBForum
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On Feb. 11, 2002 a nanotechnology conference took place in Palm Springs, two hours west of LA in the Californian Desert. The event was with 250 attendants very well visited. The Speakers were all well-known experts from the nano world such as Meyya Meyyappan from NASA, Ajay Ramachandran from Ark Ventures, Peter Freundenthal from meVC who is marketing his new fund Darwin, Rick Snyder from Ardesta, Josh Wolfe from Lux (does this guy never have to work? He speaks at ALL nano conferences) and the most famous of the all, Steve Jurvertson, just to name a few. The themes went from VC financing over corporate venturing and tech transfer to licensing and intellectual
property.
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Mining Nanotechnologies with LLNL, NanoSIG meeting at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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On Feb. 14, 2002, a quite technical event with 100 participants took place at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, not far from Silicon Valley. Together with Los Alamos, LLNL is the lab where the atomic bomb was developed in the 50ies. Security was consequently tight. Today, LLNL develops an array of other sophisticated technologies, such as nanotechnology. Various projects were
presented.
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First Nanotech Planet Conference in Boston
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November 29-30, 2001, the first Nanotech
Planet conference took place in Boston
and was attended by approx. 250 entrepreneuers, scientists and Venture
Capitalists. Over the two days, 20 presentations and speeches were given,
both on the technology in general and on individual companies and projects.
There was a common understanding that
Nanotechnology is one of the technologies
which will have the strongest impact on the 21st century. It is currently
transforming itself from being a science to becoming a technology. The
U.S., Japan, and European Union countries are all investing heavily
in the field, with amounts of US$ 200 -
500 million each.
Currently, the U.S. has its focus on
nanoscale structure, nano-powder, nanotube,
nano electronic devices, and nano-biotechnology. Germany is known for
its nano materials, nanoscale measurement, and nano film
technologies while Japan is active in
nano electronic devices and inorganic nano materials.
Also Switzerland is with the development of the world's first scanning
tunneling microscope at IBM's lab in Rüschlikon on the forefront of
nanotechnology.
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Capital Stage -a German listed investment
house with offices in Hamburg, Frankfurt,
Berlin and Zurich- has a strong interest in nanotechnology and holds
several investments in the area.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Kim Ludvigsen
Capital Stage (Schweiz) AG
Bahnhofstrasse 94
CH-8001 Zürich
Switzerland
Phone +41 1 210 33 77
Fax +41 1 210 33 75
Email kim.ludvigsen@capitalstage.com
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