Neah Power Systems, Inc. is a publicly-held technology development company. Original venture investors include:
Frazier Technology Ventures (FTV) is among the Frazier family of venture funds, which is the largest family of venture capital funds based in the Pacific Northwest with over $800 million under management. FTV was founded in late 2000 with an investment focus on seed and early stage technology investments in the Pacific Northwest. The FTV partners have a combined 70 years of operating experience with industry leaders such as Microsoft, Visio, AT&T, Real Networks and Immunex. Leveraging their operational, technical and domain skills, FTV’s mission is to partner with entrepreneurs to build innovative and sustainable businesses.
Alta Partners is a Bay Area venture capital firm with just under $1 billion under management. Alta invests in companies in the information technology and life sciences sector and provides financing, relationships and guidance to help build highly successful organizations. Alta Partners was founded in 1996 as a successor to Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. (BEDCO), which invested more than $700 million in over 200 companies in the U.S. and overseas. Alta Partners builds on the BEDCO legacy combining capital and experience with exceptional entrepreneurial talent to achieve investing success.
Intel Capital, Intel’s strategic investment program, is one of the largest worldwide corporate venture programs investing in the technology segment. With an overall strategy to stimulate advances in computing and communications, the Intel Capital team seeks out and invests in promising companies worldwide working together to establish new and innovative technologies, develop industry standard solutions, drive Internet growth and advance the computing platform.
Castile Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm providing financial backing and strategy guidance to help exceptional entrepreneurs build successful businesses founded on fundamental innovations in technology. Distinguished by the deep business and technology experience of its partners, Castile often leads or co-leads investment syndicated and plays an active role in guiding and advising its portfolio companies.
WestAm is the global investment management arm of WestLB AG, Germany's fourth largest bank by assets. WestAM has investment management operations in the US, Europe, Japan and Australia. As of March 31, 2004, WestAM managed a total of $51 billion for more than 500 institutional clients around the world. The Private Equity Group of WestAM is based in Chicago with offices in New York and Los Angeles. The Group manages nearly $3 billion in institutional commitments to private equity through discretionally managed portfolios of venture and buyouts partnership, and direct investment in underlying portfolio companies.
