Current Sponsors


Platinum Sponsors

Brown Rudnick LLP is a full-service, international law firm. From offices in the United States and Europe, our 200 attorneys practice across integrated areas of law and provide clients with a breadth and depth of expertise uniquely suited to their individual legal needs. [Website] Boston office: One Financial Center Boston, MA 02111

Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton (MBBP) PC focuses exclusively on the core legal services that businesses need to succeed. We are built on a unique business model that provides our clients with access to highly experienced counsel in areas of:

While we enjoy a reputation for special competency in technology ventures, we represent clients of all sizes and industries. [Website] Waltham: 1601 Trapelo Road, Suite 205, Waltham, MA 02451

The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation‘s goal is to ignite imagination; to build character; to teach young people the value of education and the power of the individual; and to inspire them to aim high and reach for greatness. [Website]

The Segal Family Foundation, created by businessman Barry Segal, supports development projects in Sub Saharan Africa. The foundation’s mission is to perpetually help improve the quality of lives of deserving people in this region, by supporting activities in education, jobs, economy, health, sports and, most important, family planning. [Website] [MIT100K Press Release]


Gold Sponsors

Edwards Wildman believes in investing in innovation. We understand that properly navigating through the maze of financial obstacles and legal issues can be a difficult journey without an experienced guide. This is why we’ve developed the Edwards Wildman HIT program, and have committed up to $2 million annually in discounts, deferrals and awards of free legal services to this program. Edwards Wildman HIT is designed to help qualifying entrepreneurs and young companies avoid costly mistakes and chart their course to success by providing support and affordable access to strategic legal advice. [Website]

Foley Hoag LLP is a leading national law firm in the areas of dispute resolution, intellectual property, and corporate transactions for emerging, middle-market, and large-cap companies. With a deep understanding of clients’ strategic priorities, operational imperatives, and marketplace realities, the firm helps companies in the biopharma, high technology, energy technology, financial services and manufacturing sectors gain competitive advantage. 225 lawyers located in Boston, Washington, and the Emerging Enterprise Center in Waltham, Massachusetts join with a network of Lex Mundi law firms to provide global support for clients’ largest challenges and opportunities. [Website]

 

Goodwin Procter LLP is one of the nation’s leading law firms with offices in Boston, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. The firm provides corporate law, litigation and intellectual property services to clients ranging from start-up companies to Fortune 500 multinationals. In the technology space we work with entrepreneurs, emerging and established companies, investors and investment banks on financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and project financings. Our expertise allows us to help clients navigate this rapidly-changing market, seizing opportunities while avoiding obstacles. [Website] Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109

KPMG LLP is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. KPMG’s Venture Capital Practice offers a range of services specifically designed to help ventured-backed companies navigate each stage of development from inception to market leader. Our services are delivered by seasoned professionals who are experienced and dedicated to assisting clients through the challenges faced in founding and growing a new venture. [Website] Boston Office: 99 High Street Boston, MA 02110


Mintz Levin Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C. is a 500-attorney law firm with eight offices in the US and the UK. Our clients recognize that what sets us apart is our industry focus. We offer our clients more than just legal advice: we provide solutions to business issues. Now, in our 76th year, we have built on this foundation to become one of the top law firms working with businesses focusing on energy and clean technology, life sciences, information technology and other key industry sectors. We serve established companies as well as start-ups and emerging-growth companies, helping them launch and manage operations, protect and optimize intellectual property, raise capital, build and expand facilities, recruit and retain talent, resolve disputes and enter into joint ventures. [Website]

North Bridge Venture Partners is an active, bi-coastal, early-stage venture capital firm based in the Boston, Massachusetts and San Mateo, California areas with over $3 billion under management. Our definition of active, early-stage investing is quite simple: more than capital is required to achieve business success.Several successful North Bridge companies are MIT spinouts including 24M Technologies, A123 Systems, Arsenal Medical, Entra Pharmaceuticals, QD Vision and Xtalic Corporation. [Website] Waltham: 950 Winter Street Suite 4600 Waltham, MA 02451 San Mateo: 2755 Campus Drive Suite 165 San Mateo, CA 94403

Polaris Venture Partners invests in seed, early stage, and middle market companies inhigh growth industries. As the lead or co-lead investor, we take an active and long-term role in helping management teams build highly successful businesses. We have over $3 billion under management and current investments in more than 90 companies. [Website] Boston Office: 1000 Winter Street Suite 3350 Waltham, MA 02451

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale) offers unparalleled legal representation across a comprehensive range of practice areas that are critical to the success of our clients. The depth and scope of these practices provide WilmerHale with a cutting-edge blend of capabilities that enables its lawyers to handle cases and deals of any size and complexity. With a staunch commitment to public service, WilmerHale is renowned as a national leader in pro bono representation. The firm is more than 1,000 lawyers strong, with offices in 11 cities around the world. Please visit wilmerhale.com for more information. [Website] Boston: 60 State Street, Boston, MA 01209 Waltham: Bay Colony Corporate Center, 1100 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451

Wolf Greenfield’s character is the product of two factors: our practice and our people. Our practice is focused solely on intellectual property law. Nobel Prize winners, Fortune 500 companies, high-tech startups, and major research universities choose us to protect and enforce their IP rights. Whether we are litigating a high-stakes patent case, drafting claims to demarcate a client’s core technological innovations, or developing a trademark branding strategy, our work is driven by our clients’ business goals. We learn a client’s business so that we can protect and defend it. For over 80 years, full-service IP enforcement and defense has defined what we do. [Website]


Limited Gold Sponsors

Highland Capital Partners was founded with the mission of helping great people build great companies.  With over $3 billion of committed capital and offices in Menlo Park, Boston, Geneva and Shanghai, Highland has invested in and worked to create such firms as Ask Jeeves, Avid Technology, CheckFree, Conor Medsystems, lululemon athletica, Lycos, MapQuest, Quattro Wireless, Qihoo 360, Quigo, SCVNGR, Starent Networks, Sybase, Telica, VistaPrint and wooga. [Website]

Reliance Venture Asset Management Limited is the corporate venture capital arm of the Reliance ADA Group and is ranked 30th among Global VCs and #1 among Indian firms by Red Herring. Reliance Venture was recently conferred with the ‘Excellence Award’ and Harshal J Shah, CEO, with the the ‘Udyog Rattan Award’ by the ‘Institute of Economic Studies’ (IES), to recognize their outstanding contribution to the industrial development of India. Reliance Venture has advised and / or invested in deals to the tune of over $4 billion including in companies such as Yatra.com, India’s largest on-line travel portal, Pelago Inc, Suvidhaa Infoserve, Sequans Communications, Stoke Inc, E-Band Communications Corporation, Seedfund, Scalable Display Technologies and Dhama Apparel Innovations are some of its portfolio investments. Reliance Venture invests across stages in leading edge technologies, disruptive business models and technology enabled companies around the world. Reliance Venture works with and co-invests with leading venture capital firms across the globe such as KPCB, Sequoia and Norvest Venture Partners. It has built from ground-up India’s leading online travel portal, Yatra.com, which has revenues of over Rs.1400 crore ($300 million). [Website]


Life Sciences Track Sponsors

Limited Track Sponsor

Faber Daeufer Itrato & Cabot provides corporate and transactional counsel to clients in the drug and life sciences industries, and in other emerging technology sectors including cleantech and cloud computing.  The driving force of our practice is our focus on the business transactions that accelerate company growth, and scientific product development and commercialization, from the discovery and invention phase through commercial success. Our deep legal expertise, especially in life sciences, cleantech and other technology-related matters, yields extraordinary creative insight and keen judgment from our senior lawyers and contract specialists who have collectively navigated thousands of transactions.  We can quickly recognize, prioritize, structure and document the key elements of every kind of transaction needed for our clients and their stakeholders to develop and commercialize new products.  www.faberlawgroup.com

Offices:
Waltham – 950 Winter Street, Suite 4500 Waltham, MA 02451
New York - 1515 Broadway, 11th Floor New York, NY 10036


Data Prize Sponsor

The Thomson Reuters Corporation, with 2010 revenues of $13.1 billion, is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. They combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization.  Thomson Reuters is comprised of approximately 50,000 employees in over 100 countries with operational headquarters in New York, NY. [Website]


In-kind Sponsors

Neighboring the MIT campus and steps away from the Red Line in the heart of Kendall Square, Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) is the largest flexible office facility for growing technology and life sciences companies in the Greater Boston area. The Cambridge Innovation Center offers start-up and emerging companies award-winning facilities and state-of-the-art business and technical services in a package which is designed to meet the needs of small and growing businesses. CIC is cost efficient and scales with the company’s growth. Currently, over 175 companies are located at CIC. [Website]

Version 2.0 Communications is a boutique public relations agency that provides senior-level communications consulting to entrepreneurial organizations in the technology, Web 2.0 and alternative energy sectors. V2 specializes in helping clients fine-tune corporate and product positioning, establish credibility in target markets and gain visibility through a combination of customized, measurable social and traditional media programs. Clients include a broad range of established market leaders such as Salary.com and Kaspersky Lab, as well as emerging brands. [Website]