Currently she is Director of a digital technology based venture, Vital Connect.
Karen Kerr leads a team focused on making investments and developing partnerships in the advanced manufacturing ecosystem at GE. Karen comes to GE with two decades of experience in developing technology based businesses and venture investing.
Currently, as Vice President at Intellectual Ventures, I build technology based businesses through partnerships with institutions, companies and governments in order to begin addressing mega-trends and grand challenges such as elder health care, energy efficiency and food quality and safety.
If you are a technology based start up looking to raise venture capital, then the VC is likely to want a PowerPoint Slide deck, and an executive summary of your business plan.
Lux Capital, a venture capital firm, and McGovern Capital, an investment firm, said they had formed a venture to start Angstrom Partners, a merchant bank focusing on clients in the nanotechnology industry -- technology based on the tiniest molecular structures.
A key answer is the movement of optical technologies to chips themselves by such companies as Luxtera, a venture startup in Carlsbad, Calif., technologies based on Caltech advances that link fiber directly to chips.
Based on the lenses of the organizational knowledge literature, organizational routines literature, and heuristics literature, six technology-based ventures were chosen for theoretical reasons.
Money might be borrowed for new technology-based ventures from commercial lenders, perhaps leveraged by the proposed state-supported "Bank for Business".
