Partners & Sponsors

There are numerous benefits for ITEC sponsors, including goodwill exposure in multiple news stories, direct access to bright talent, first looks at new technology, participation in University research, and networking opportunities with other industry technology leaders. There are several levels of and areas of sponsorship and we are always open to specific new ideas.

For more information about sponsorship of ITEC, please contact ITEC Executive Director Paul McManus at 617-353-4258.

Our Current Sponsors

The Association of Cleantech Incubators of New England (ACTION) is New England’s leading network of cleantech incubators sharing the common goals of accelerating the growth and success of early-stage companies, strengthening the regional cleantech cluster, and creating more green jobs in New England. ACTION is a nonprofit organization. Our network of incubators provides diverse resources and a highly- supportive hub in which entrepreneurs, business leaders, government agencies, community leaders, investors, universities, and other interested organizations can collaborate toward the successful commercialization of enterprises that will build a prosperous green economy, improve the quality of our lives and sustain the health of our environment.

Cummings Properties is a full-service real estate development, property management and construction firm with more than 70 buildings in 10 greater Boston communities. Since 1970, Cummings has offered its clients the value of full-service leases including maintenance, snow removal, plentiful free parking, property management and more. Its facilities are business homes to nearly 2,000 clients in office, laboratory, R&D, retail and general commercial space. Cummings is very entrepreneur friendly offering cost-effective small suites for start-up companies and incubator labs for early stage lab clients as well as guaranteed expansion space to accommodate future growth of businesses.

Goodwin Procter LLP is one of the nation’s leading law firms, with a team of 850 attorneys serving clients through offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. The firm’s Technology Companies Group is a highly focused team of 160 lawyers who provide dedicated representation to over 500 emerging companies and entrepreneurs, 200 venture capital and private equity firms, and many of the leading investment banks in the country. Goodwin Procter takes pride in understanding its clients’ businesses, shares their entrepreneurial spirit and drive, and provides counsel in connection with venture financings, IPOs, securities offerings, M&A transactions, fund formations, and other corporate matters. The Group’s areas of industry focus include software, information services, life sciences, clean tech, and telecommunications and networking, among others.

GrandBanks Capital partners with entrepreneurs to create and build dominant, market-leading companies through its established experience set, operating expertise and insight, and extensive top-level industry relationships. Understanding the challenges that arise when building a world-class company, GrandBanks Capital guides entrepreneurs in the direction of market leadership by utilizing the team’s early-stage investing experience and broad network of contacts through some of the fastest growing industry sectors. These markets include Internet infrastructure, software and software services, security and storage applications, media technologies and services, financial technologies and services, and wireless technologies and services.

Focused on growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for nearly 45 years, Jefferies is a global, full service investment banking and institutional securities firm operating in more than 25 offices in six countries spanning three continents. They provide world-class investment banking, sales & trading, research, and asset management to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net worth individuals. They are industry experts specializing in aerospace & defense, energy, financial & business services, gaming & leisure, healthcare, industrials, maritime & oil service, media & communications, retail & consumer and technology, with a dedicated private equity coverage group.

Kodiak invests in seed and early stage technology companies that are exploiting fundamental shifts in very large markets or are bringing disruptive products, technologies or services to fast-growing, emerging markets. they invest in entrepreneurs who understand what it takes to build world-class organizations, and who are world experts in their company’s technology and markets.

Kodiak focuses on building companies in eastern North America. The partners spend their time in markets where they have had proven success in building successful companies. This approach enables them to actively work with entrepreneurs at the earliest formation of their ventures to positively impact their long-term success. Their seed and first round investments typically range in size from $500K to $5M. Kodiak also focuses on emerging communications/wireless, semiconductor/equipment, software/services, internet/new media, and life technology companies.

Our investment partners are successful high-technology business entrepreneurs who take a hands-on approach to building market leaders.

A coach and public speaking instructor for the past 15 years, Paul Horn draws on a unique background in business, government, and the non-profit world, as well as his experience as a professional actor. Paul’s clients represent a variety of fields—high tech, architecture and engineering, financial services, medical technology, construction management, and human services–to name a few. Horn earned his MBA at Boston University and worked for many years in government and community development at the local, state, and federal levels. Apart from his consulting work and coaching role with ITEC, Horn currently teaches graduate courses at Babson College (where he oversees the MBA first year speaking program) and at Northeastern University.

Polachi provides Access Executive Search™ services to technology, life sciences, clean tech, consumer electronics, venture capital and private equity clients. The firm’s partners and principals, all search industry veterans with decades of experience, understand that leading companies deserve access to the absolute best talent on the planet. Polachi is a sponsor of the New England Clean Energy Council (NEIC).

SV Life Sciences is a venture capital advisor and manager that makes selected investments in businesses with experienced entrepreneurs and management teams. SV Life Sciences provides finance to businesses at all stages of development and across the human life sciences sector. These sectors range from biotechnology & pharmaceuticals to medical devices & instruments, to healthcare information technology and services. SV Life Sciences currently advises or manages five funds with capital commitments of approximately $1.6 billion which primarily invest amounts of between $1m and $20m in North America and Europe, but will consider innovative investments in other regions. Their team of 28 professionals has a diverse, complimentary set of skills and experience that allows them to tailor a team to work with almost any life sciences business.

TeleEMG is an EMG and nerve conductions company that assists healthcare professionals to improve the quality of care they provide to their patients with neuropathy. TeleEMG offers a full range of EMG and NCC services, including audio-visual EMG and NCV courses, training, electrodes, and supplies. TeleEMG’s critically acclaimed NCV ExpertT service is a custom-tailored program to train the healthcare professional in the performance of nerve conduction studies, assist them with the setup of a full fledged NCV practice, and provide them with a state-of-the-art live analysis of their nerve conductions reports.