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Dingman Center Sponsors
Deloitte
 Deloitte is an organization of member firms around the world devoted to
excellence in providing professional services and advice, focused on client
service through a global strategy executed locally in nearly 150 countries. With
access to the deep intellectual capital of approximately 135,000 people
worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas — audit, tax,
consulting, and financial advisory services — and serves more than one-half of
the world's largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public
institutions, locally important clients, and successful, fast-growing global
growth companies. Services are not provided by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Verein, and, for regulatory and other reasons, certain member firms do not
provide services in all four professional areas.
RedShift Ventures
 RedShift Ventures has established a record of success finding, funding, and
building advanced technology companies of lasting value. They focus on a few key
sub-sectors of the communications and information technology industries - areas
which receive large amounts of research and development funding. RedShift
leverages this funding and technology to create companies that provide
compelling products and services to exciting new markets.
RedShift Ventures is trusted by their partners- the entrepreneurs whose ideas
they help nurture, the limited partners and other venture capital firms who are
co-investors, and the strategic partners that often retain a stake in the
outcome.
Because of their track record, RedShift Ventures has built a strong network
of contacts reaching deep into public and private research and development
centers that provides us unique, perhaps unmatched, access to groundbreaking
technologies.
Silicon
Valley Bank
 SVB Financial Group provides diversified financial services to emerging
growth and mature companies in the technology, life science, private equity and
premium wine markets. Through its focus on specialized markets and extensive
knowledge of the people and business issues driving them, SVB Financial Group
provides a level of service and partnership that measurably impacts its clients'
success.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., the company offers its clients
commercial, investment, merchant and private banking, as well as value-added
services using its knowledge and networks. Merger, acquisition, private
placement and corporate partnering services are provided through the company's
investment banking subsidiary, SVB Alliant. Founded in 1983, SVB Financial Group
serves nearly 11,000 clients around the world through 27 domestic offices, three
international subsidiaries in the U.K., India and China, and an extensive
network of relationships with venture capitalists in Asia, Australia, Europe,
India, and Israel.
Core
Capital Partners
 Core Capital Partners is a $350 million private equity fund that provides
capital to both early-stage technology ventures and small to mid-sized growth
companies where technology is a driver of change in the business or sector. The
common thread is that these companies are developing or incorporating disruptive
technologies into their businesses. Core Capital Partners focus principally on
the kinds of "core" or fundamental technologies that enable or enhance
information, data and communication. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., most of
the company's investments are made on the East Coast.
Backed by some of the country's most sophisticated and experienced
institutional and individual investors who are often actively involved in the
investment work, each year the company views thousands of potential
transactions. Its extensive network of investors, bankers, service providers and
entrepreneurs is critical to the company's ability to source attractive
investment opportunities. Its initial investments are typically in the $2-10
million range and the company often serves as the lead investor.
Morrison Foerster
 With more than a thousand lawyers in 18 offices around the world, Morrison &
Foerster offers clients comprehensive, global legal services in business and
litigation. The firm is distinguished by its unsurpassed expertise in finance,
life sciences, technology, legendary litigation skills and an unrivaled reach
across the Pacific Rim, particularly Japan and China. They have one compelling
mission: to deliver success for their clients.
Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer
 The
Johns Hopkins University's mission is to educate its students and
cultivate their capacity for life-long learning, to foster independent
and original research and to bring the benefits of discovery to the
world. The University was founded on the principle that knowledge and
the understanding of the intricacies of that knowledge are best sought
through research.
The mission of Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer (JHTT) is to advance
the mission of the Johns Hopkins University to bring the benefits of
discovery to the world, by implementing the commercialization of
university inventions for the public good. To achieve this vision, we
will engage strategically with our stakeholders - faculty, industry,
sister institutions and funding entities to become a vital component of
the University's commitment to social responsibility and public service.
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