Battelle Ventures, L.P., is a $220-million independent venture fund that invests in technology companies at many early stages of development, from companies looking for seed or start-up capital through pre-revenue and post-revenue companies raising later rounds of financing. The fund, which is based in Princeton, N.J., is actively seeking to invest in technology companies within the areas of security, health & life sciences, and energy & environment. Battelle Ventures’ $35-million affiliate fund, Innovation Valley Partners, based in Knoxville, Tenn., proportionately invests alongside Battelle Ventures in all deals. Battelle Ventures and Innovation Valley Partners enhance and add value to their portfolio companies by leveraging the technologies and expertise of Battelle Memorial Institute and the National Laboratories it manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy.

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 Chart Venture Partners (CVP) concentrates its investments in the homeland defense and security sectors, with an emphasis on dual–use technologies of interest to the government and commercial sectors. The rise in government spending in homeland defense R&D is stimulating a corresponding increase in technology breakthroughs in need of early stage venture funding. These technologies will be developed by CVP to meet the global market demand for improved security. Through an exclusive Strategic Partner Agreement with InSitech, Inc., the sole Partnership Intermediary for Picatinny/ARDEC (Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center), Chart Venture Partners has unique access to federally funded technologies that are the result of research initiatives in the defense and homeland security arena.