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Intro

Since 1999, Chevron Technology Ventures Investments has supported a wide range of companies and venture capital funds. Partner technologies are used across upstream and downstream business units producing substantial earnings for the company.

Advanced Materials

  • Artifical Muscle

    Artificial Muscle designs and manufactures an electroactive polymer that converts electrical energy to mechanical motion that can be used in many consumer, medical, industrial, automotive, aerospace, and cleantech applications. Their technology can offer significant advantages over existing alternatives because of its comparatively smaller size, quieter operation and design flexibility.

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  • Five Star Technology

    Five Star Technologies is an advanced materials company that focuses on commercializing a hydrodynamic cavitation process that creates small-scale materials with unique morphologies. The potential application of this technology ranges from specialty pastes to biofuels.

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  • Microfabrica

    Microfabrica is the industry leader in manufacturing of micrometer- and millimeter-scale metal components, subsystems, and devices with features measured in microns. The company's breakthrough proprietary EFAB technology can create complex three-dimensional micron-precision metal structures with unprecedented flexibility.

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  • Soane Energy

    Soane Energy is a specialty materials company that is developing and applying innovative chemistry based on polymers and surface science to help meet the worldwide "hunger for energy" in a practical, immediate, and environmentally responsible way. The company's initial focus is on the oil sands market in Canada.

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  • Sub-One Technology

    Sub-One Technology has developed a revolutionary new nanotechnology – and a family of systems – for depositing super-hard, smooth, pure films on the internal surfaces many different products. These products can range from large-diameter industrial piping to small, complex metal and plastic components.

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Communications/Networking

  • Apprion

    Apprion's comprehensive industrial wireless application provides an open, scalable, and secure platform to monitor and manage multi-vendor wireless devices and applications. Their ION system is designed to help plant managers, engineers, and IT teams build systems that can provide the critical information necessary to ensure an industrial facility is running optimally.

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  • Axnonn

    Axonn develops low power spread spectrum wireless communication devices that enable remote equipment monitoring and asset tracking. These communication products can help deliver timely, consistent data from fixed and mobile assets to optimize equipment performance and meet regulatory and safety requirements.

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  • Ember

    Ember's wireless, self-organizing scalable data networks enable businesses, homes, and utilities, to better manage energy requirements. As a member of the ZigBee Alliance, Ember is part of an association of companies collaborating to develop low-power, wirelessly networked products that conform to an open standard. Ember offers its customers chips, software, and development tools.

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  • Moblize

    Moblize delivers last mile monitoring and control solutions using open standards based technologies for the oil and gas industry. Moblize products allow wireless interaction with end devices in the field such as temperature, pressure, and level sensors. The goal of Moblize's intelligence and open architecture is to allow Moblize units to be programmed and upgraded remotely allowing customers to use any vendor's software to analyze the data from any vendor's sensor or remote device.

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Emerging/Alternative Energy

  • Acumentrics

    Acumentrics's solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is designed to be fuel-flexible and to operate at high temperatures to maximize efficiencies. Unlike many other types of fuel cells, SOFC's require a negligible amount of precious metals and instead can be made out of ceramics. Besides SOFC's, Acumentrics is an industry leader in selling rugged, uninterruptible power supplies for military, transportation and industrial applications.

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  • BrightSource Energy

    BrightSource Energy designs and builds large scale solar plants that produce low-cost steam and/or electricity. These plants consist of an array of thousands of small mirrors that follow the sun throughout the day and concentrate sunlight on a central receiving tower that generates steam which can be used to generate electricity or other uses.

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  • Codexis

    Codexis is a developer of biocatalysts that can be applied to a broad spectrum of industries. Their technology, commonly referred to as DNA shuffling, enables the creation of customized "super" enzymes capable of performing selective chemical processes that can produce high value chemical products to life sciences and energy industries worldwide.

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  • Konarka

    Konarka builds products that convert light to energy. Konarka is the leading developer of polymer photovoltaic products that provide a source of renewable power in a variety of form factors for commercial, industrial, government and consumer applications. Konarka's photovoltaic technology is focused on delivering lightweight, flexible, scalable and manufacturable products. Konarka has an accomplished technical team and a broad portfolio of patents and technology licenses.

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  • Southwest Windpower

    Southwest Windpower is the world's leading manufacturer of small wind turbines. Its innovative designs and engineering advances are dramatically lowering the price of power from small wind machines into the 6-8 cent per kilowatt-hour range. The company's new 1.8 kilowatt turbine has the potential to put wind power on comparable footing in the market with solar and photovoltaic technologies.

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Information Technology

  • BlueArc

    BlueArc is a world leader in network storage innovation. BlueArc's Titan storage system utilizes a unique patented architecture to deliver performance, scalability and simplicity to its customers. BlueArc's energy efficient designs allow for the consolidation of legacy storage infrastructures, increases storage utilization rates and reduces the cost of ownership.

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  • MetaCarta

    MetaCarta is a provider of geographic intelligence solutions offering users map-driven geographic search, geographic referencing, and data visualization capabilities. MetaCarta products make data and unstructured content "location-aware" making that information geographically relevant. These innovative solutions make it possible for customers to discover, visualize, and act on important location-based information.

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  • Nimbus

    Nimbus provides enterprise scale business process management software solutions which enable organizations to capture, analyze and communicate a common set of processes that can be used to manage and transform the business. Nimbus is one of the UK's fastest-growing software companies, regularly featured in the Deloitte Fast 50 & 500, and since its inception in 1997, Nimbus has helped over 700 organizations drive transformational change through process management.

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  • OpenSpirit

    OpenSpirit provides a complete data integration framework specifically for upstream software applications. OpenSpirit already partners with most of the global upstream software providers and can connect with nearly all industry standard packages. The aim of this technology is to significantly increase the speed, efficiency and accuracy of analyzing and valuing hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs.

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  • SchemaLogic

    SchemaLogic is a leading provider of metadata management solutions for unstructured content. Metadata management improves search results by organizing the terms, definitions and relationships that describe corporate content. The SchemaLogic Enterprise Suite extends the value of content management systems such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and EMC Documentum.

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Oil and Gas

  • DeepFlex

    DeepFlex develops and manufactures a new generation of lightweight, flexible composite pipe for the deepwater applications in the oil and gas industry. The DeepFlex Flexible Fiber Reinforced Pipe can be made in continuous lengths and avoids many of the typical pipe manufacturing issues because of the inherent nature of the materials.

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  • DynaPump

    DynaPump is a leading manufacturer of surface mounted artificial lift systems for the oil and gas industry. Benefits of the DynaPump include its low acquisition cost, light weight and ease of installation, high reliability, low maintenance and reduction in energy requirements. The unit is remote computer-controlled with automated diagnosis of well operations and flow control; and it offers a differential speed control that increases production efficiency.

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  • MicroSeismic

    MicroSeismic, Inc. has proprietary technologies which enable passive surface-based microseismic monitoring and imaging for the exploration and production of hydrocarbons. Passive seismic makes use of existing, often naturally occurring, sound sources, rather than dynamite or vibrators. Passive seismic can go where conventional seismic cannot and sees not only the structure in 3-D but also detects fluid movement, fracturing and fault movement.

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  • Network International

    Network International is the global marketplace for buying and selling energy equipment through online auctions and private sales in the oil and gas, petrochemical and power industries.

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  • Pangeo Subsea

    PanGeo Subsea delivers high resolution subsea imaging solutions using 3D and 4D acoustic technology; these technologies are utilized primarily to characterize the area beneath the seafloor prior to construction of offshore infrastructure or pipelines.

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  • Silixa

    Silixa has developed the next generation of distributed fiber optic sensing with applications in the energy and security industries.

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  • SpectraSensors

    SpectraSensors is a leading manufacturer of optically based gas analyzers for the analytical process and natural gas markets. Typical applications include non-contact measurement of moisture, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and other contaminants in natural gas pipelines, refinery and petrochemical processes; and airborne water vapor and other atmospheric measurements from commercial aircraft for the U.S. and International Weather Services.

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  • Stingray

    Stingray has developed an advanced all fiber-optic sensor array system that will be deployed permanently on the seabed. The sensors are completely passive, allowing the array to consist only of optical fibers. Because no electrical power is required, the array, cables and infrastructure are much smaller than conventional electrically-powered systems. The approach used also allows a large number of sensors to be combined on one fiber pair, resulting in a system which is inherently reliable, smaller and therefore easier to handle and deploy at significantly lower manufacturing and installation costs than is possible with conventional electrical systems.

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  • TradeCapture

    TradeCapture develops and markets enterprise-wide trading and risk management systems for multi-commodity marketplaces throughout the world.

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Limited Partner Funds

  • Ampersand Ventures

    Ampersand Ventures is a private equity firm that focuses in information technology, life sciences, and communications across all stages of development.

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  • APV Technology Partners

    APV Technology Partners is a private venture capital firm emphasizing early stage investments in privately-held information technology companies.

  • Arch Ventures Partners

    Arch Ventures Partners is a premier provider of seed and early stage venture capital for technology firms.

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  • CMEA Ventures

    CMEA Ventures specializes in life sciences and information technology investments

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  • Element Partners

    Element Partners is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with additional offices in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2006, the company invests in products, services and technologies in the energy and power, water, environmental, materials and chemicals, and manufacturing and industrial sectors.

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  • EnerTech Capital

    EnerTech Capital is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1996, EnerTech Capital is a private equity firm that invests exclusively in service and technology companies emerging from, and capitalizing on, the reshaping of the energy, utility and telecommunications markets.

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  • Nth Power

    Nth Power is based in San Francisco, CA. Nth Power is a leading venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to high potential investments resulting from the restructuring of the global energy industry.

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  • Oxford Biosciences

    Oxford Biosciences provides equity financing and management assistance to emerging, entrepreneurial-driven companies within the life sciences and healthcare sectors.

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  • RockPort Capital Partners

    RockPort Capital Partners is located in Boston, Massachussetts. RockPort Capital Partners is dedicated to investing in and supporting the most promising entrepreneurs and technologies in the Energy and Power, Advanced Materials, and Process and Prevention sectors.

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  • Vanguard Ventures

    Vanguard Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs build pioneering technology and life science companies.

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Selected Exits

  • Here is a partial list of CTVI investments in firms which were acquired by other companies or had successful public offerings.

    Digital Angel
    Downhole Injection Systems
    Frictionless Commerce
    Alumina
    IronPort Systems
    Path Scale
    Spotfire
    Tacit Networks
    Teros (FKA Stratum8)
    Trade Ranger
    Tubel Technologies
    Vigilance
    Xenogen