Materia, Inc.

Materia was founded in 1998 to commercialize olefin metathesis catalyst technology. This market-enabling, Nobel Prize-winning, green chemical technology enables chemical compounds to be synthesized with greater efficiency, under less stringent reaction conditions, and with reduced byproducts and hazardous waste. As stated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences when awarding the 2005 Nobel Prize, “metathesis is an example of how important basic science has been applied for the benefit of man, society, and the environment.”

For more information: www.materia-inc.com

Nixon Peabody

Nixon Peabody works with entrepreneurs, venture capital investors, private equity investors, and key industry players to take full advantage of cleantech opportunities and meet the legal, business and strategic challenges associated with financing, developing and commercializing these innovative technologies. The company offers cleantech clients dedicated service with the resources of 15 multi-disciplinary practices, across 17 offices throughout the United States. Depending on the clients industry, business objectives, stage of growth or commercialization plans, company experts counsel clients on virtually any area related to cleantech, including venture capital, corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, tax, environmental, energy regulatory, intellectual property, project finance, and real estate. The Nixon Peabody team helps clients take advantage of these emerging opportunities and scale them into viable enterprises for bottom-line results.

For more information: www.nixonpeabody.com

Idealab

Idealab creates, builds and operates technology businesses. Founded in March 1996 by entrepreneur Bill Gross, Idealab currently has approximately 25 businesses in various stages of development. In addition to capital, Idealab provides a full range of resources to infuse startup companies with the development strategies and financial support needed to rapidly introduce innovative products and services. Resources include office space and the accompanying network infrastructure, consulting and services relating to development and technology, graphic design, marketing, competitive research, recruiting, legal, accounting and business development support. In addition, Idealab provides advice on strategy, branding and corporate structure. The mission is to develop individual ideas into highly focused and successful technology businesses.

For more information: www.idealab.com

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

Innovative energy companies, investors and emerging businesses turn to K&L Gates’ Clean Technology & Alternative Energy Group with their most important opportunities and challenges in the alternative energy industry. The company’s practice encompasses such diverse energy sources as hydrogen, solar, wind-power, ethanol, biodiesel, gas to diesel, coal gasification and various "Green Tech" technologies employed in industry to facilitate the production of clean energy.

Using a broad and deep range of legal experience relevant to the clean technology and alternative energy sector and has helped develop, finance, site, permit and evaluate renewable energy projects for clients across the nation and internationally.

For more information: www.klgates.com

City of Monrovia, CA

The City of Monrovia has been a commercial hub for more than 120 years, and today is the home to one of the largest high-tech and bio-tech communities in the region, including such leading innovators as Aerovironment, Sun Microsystems, Prolacta Bioscience and ITT Deep Space Division. Monrovia offers small-town amenities and charm mixed with a richly diversified and creative population. It’s stable and progressive city government and its many public-private partnerships have made it a model community and a winner of the coveted All-America City title.

For more information:www.ci.monrovia.ca.us

Zouk

British based zouk partners with visionary and experienced entrepreneurs in building technology companies to a large scale across key European markets. We are looking for disruptive technologies that create new market opportunities. We are looking for experienced entrepreneurs that can leverage business opportunities in large underlying markets. We also encourage our portfolio companies to develop defensible positions and to create recurring revenue streams by developing technology-based service businesses. The team manages technology funds investing in a range of technology sectors including cleantech, new materials and software. zouk's dedicated Cleantech Fund focuses on technology companies at the expansion stage in areas such as: Renewable energy technologies, Energy storage and transmission, Optimisation and control software, Water technologies, New materials, Fuel cell technology, Waste and recycling, Emissions reduction and management, Technologies for carbon offset/trading.

For more information: www.zouk.com

Citi Family Office

The Citi Family Office represents a team of financial professionals giving the intense personal experience of a small financial boutique while using the scope and influence of Citigroup, one of the world’s strongest financial institutions. “We are a firm within a firm”.

The group offers a range of financial planning services including: Comprehensive Wealth Planning, Wealth Strategies Group, Family Wealth Advisory, Philanthropic Services, Trust Advisory, Investment Management, Unique Investment Opportunities, Lending Services, Personal and business Security Advisory, Aircraft Advisory and Finance, Multi-Residence and Farm Advisory, and Art Advisory. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Citicorp Investment Services, and Citibank, NA are affiliated companies under the common control of Citigroup Inc.

For more information: www.fa.smithbarney.com

Deloitte & Touche

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu 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 140 countries. With access to the deep intellectual capital of approximately 150,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas ó audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services ó and serves more than 80 percent of the worldís largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, locally important clients, and successful, fast-growing global growth companies.

For more information: www.deloitte.com

City of Pasadena

In the past year, the City of Pasadena has undertaken a comprehensive effort to become a model “Green City”—striving to be a community of residents, workers, and visitors who work together to balance ecological, economic, and social needs in order to ensure a clean, healthy and safe environment for everyone.

Of particular importance to Pasadena’s business community, City leaders believe that the implementation of an environmental ethic need not interfere with economic development. Indeed, by introducing and incentivizing environmentally responsive building, maintenance, and operational practices, Pasadena seeks to provide opportunities for responsible, farsighted development.

Pasadena’s recent accomplishments in the areas of sustainable growth and governance include the following:

• Adoption of an Environmental Charter
• Endorsement of the United Nations Green Cities Declaration and Urban Environmental Accords
• Endorsement of the US Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
• Adoption of a Green City Action Plan
• Adoption of ordinance creating an Environmental Advisory Commission
• Adoption of a Green Building Program

The City of Pasadena was recently honored by SustainLane Government as one of the nation’s top 5 cities for Cleantech incubation clusters.

For more information: www.ci.pasadena.ca.us

Pasadena City College

Pasadena City College's Biological Technology Program educates and trains students as technicians and as researchers. Collaboration with PCC's LA/Orange County Biotechnology Center and with Caltech provides a vehicle for partnerships between education and industry, promotes economic development in the biotechnology-biomedical industries, and enhances science education in the Greater Los Angeles region. Training includes wetlab skills, computational biology, stem cell culture and a new project in Environmental Sciences in collaboration with Oak Crest Institute of Science and the City of Pasadena's Hahamonga Green Project. A grant from the Parsons Foundation has allowed this project to begin in Fall 2007.

For more information:www.pasadena.edu/

Avery Dennison

Founded in 1935, Avery Dennison is a global leader in pressure-sensitive technology and innovative self-adhesive solutions for consumer products and label materials. Based in Pasadena, Calif., the Company had 2006 sales of $5.6 billion. Avery Dennison develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of products for consumer and industrial markets, including Avery-brand office products, Fasson-brand self-adhesive materials, peel-and-stick postage stamps, reflective highway safety products, automated retail tag and labeling systems, RFID inlays, and specialty tapes and chemicals. With approximately 50 percent of sales generated outside the United States, the Company is focused on developing international growth opportunities, expanding its core markets, investing in new products and technologies and pursuing licensing deals, joint development ventures and value-enhancing acquisitions.

For more information:www.averydennison.com/

TPG Growth

TPG Growth represents more than $2 billion of capital and is focused on funding and growing technology, biotechnology and consumer companies utilizing several approaches including venture capital, growth equity, leveraged buyouts and private investments in public equities on a global basis. TPG Growth is the venture and growth arm of TPG, a leading global alternative investment firm founded in 1992 with approximately $30 billion under management. TPG Growth delivers the combined leverage of TPG's early stage growth and growth investing expertise with extensive resources to grow companies and has offices in the United States, China and India.

For more information: www.tpg.com

California Institute of Technology

Recognized for its outstanding faculty, including several Nobel Laureates and such renowned off-campus facilities as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the W. M. Keck Observatory, and the Palomar Observatory, Caltech has become one of the world’s major research centers. Its faculty and alumni have won 32 Nobel Prizes, a number far out of proportion to its small size of 285 professorial faculty and 2,200 students. The university, whose history goes back to 1891, has had many world-famous scientists on its faculty, including Linus Pauling, Charles Richter, Roger Sperry, and Richard Feynman. Caltech has ranked number one in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of America’s best colleges.

It was at Caltech that Theodore von Kármán developed the principles that made jet flight possible, that Charles Richter published his logarithmic scale for measuring the magnitude of earthquakes, and that astronomer Maarten Schmidt discovered the nature of quasars. Here Linus Pauling determined the nature of the chemical bond, Max Delbrück conducted the studies of bacterial viruses that led to a new branch of biology called molecular genetics, Murray Gell-Mann theorized that all particles are made up of quarks and anti-quarks, and Roger Sperry developed new insights into the implications of right-brain and left-brain functions.

For more information: www.caltech.edu

California Institute of Technology
Office of Technology Transfer

The primary mission of the OTT is to promote and facilitate the transfer of useful technologies to the commercial sector so that the public can directly benefit from the ingenuity and creativity of the outstanding researchers that are the heart of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Providing access to new and improved devices, drugs, and services contributes to improving the quality of people’s lives. OTT strives to find the most efficient ways to take a concept developed by Caltech inventors, and turn it into a produce useful in everyday life. Founded in 1995, OTT works to effectively commercialize technology developed at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Specifically, OTT assists the faculty with intellectual property, evaluates inventions, manages the Caltech/JPL patent portfolio, negotiates technology licenses and assists entrepreneurs with the creation of startups.

For more information: www.ott.caltech.edu

Approximately 80 companies have been formed by faculty based on Caltech technology during the past decade. Here are some that hold promise to be successful.

Entretech

Entretech is the leading non-profit association in Greater Los Angeles empowering entrepreneurs to build new businesses through capital, education, people, and strategic partners. It provides the high tech community with critical and practical business development resources and connections. Recently expanding its geographical reach beyond the San Gabriel Valley to cover all of Los Angeles, Entretech formed a closer relationship with the Tech Coast Angels, alongside an existing partnership with the Pasadena Angels. In addition, in 2007, Vice Provosts from USC and UCLA joined Caltech on the Entretech Board, representing a powerful regional triumvirate of innovation. Since its inception more than seven years ago, Entretech has worked closely with other organizations throughout the region, including the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, the Keck Graduate Institute, the NASA Commercialization Center, the Business Technology Center, LARTA, the LAEDC, the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership, and the Cities of Pasadena, Monrovia and Irwindale. Entretech is positioned to work with communities throughout Los Angeles to advance a significant cluster of advanced-tech development. Entretech operates from an office on the Caltech campus.

For more information: www.entretech.org

Materia, Inc.

“Green Chemistry” is defined as the use of chemistry for environmentally sustainable industrial growth, including: (1) the use of renewable feedstocks rather than those derived from petrochemicals; (2) efficient chemical processes utilizing less energy and creating less waste; and (3) environmentally benign, biodegradable, or recyclable end products. Metathesis, Materia’s powerful Green Chemistry technology, provides sustainable solutions in all three areas and does so across a broad range of industries – from pharmaceuticals to personal care and industrial plastics to electronics.

For more Information:www.materia-inc.com

Materia has partnered with industry leaders to maximize the impact of its technology platform. Current commercial opportunities include:

• The use of vegetable oil rather than petroleum feedstocks for the production of performance additives.
• Solvent free and volatile free closed mold processes for the clean manufacture of industrial polymers.
• Efficient production processes for rapid pharmaceutical discovery, development, and manufacture.
• Natural alternatives to pesticides for insect control.
• Durable and safe building materials that avoid arsenic, formaldehyde, and other hazardous ingredients.
• Alternative drilling fluids for environmentally conscious oil field development.