Venture Fund Member Profile
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Chart Venture Partners, L.P. (CVP) is a $100M early stage venture capital fund investing in security related technologies with government and commercial applications. We invest in highly differentiated opportunities with large markets where we add value through our industry experience, network of relationships and technology insight.
CVP was founded through an exclusive agreement between the Chart Group and InSitech, Incorporated, a non-profit commercial partnership intermediary for the U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal. Our partnership provides unique access into the defense and security markets, allowing us to take active roles for the benefit of our portfolio companies.
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Michael Wu
Principal
Chart Venture Partners |
Michael joined CVP as Principal in 2006 and has more than 14 years of experience from engineering and product management to venture advisory, angel investing and venture capital. In 2002, he founded Blue Angel Ventures, a Research Triangle Park, NC-based seed funding and venture advisory firm focusing on wireless IT, advanced materials, nanotechnology, and medical devices. He has served in interim management and board positions of several technology start-ups and is also a founding board member of Long Island Angel Network. From 1994 to 2002, Michael held engineering, technical sales, and product management roles in fiber optics, smartphones, public safety and next-generation technologies at Nortel Networks, Ericsson, Siemens, and Nextel Communications. He also worked as an avionics software developer at Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm / DASA, an aerospace defense contractor in Munich, Germany.
At CVP, Michael focuses on investments in MEMS and Nanotechnology as they apply to communications, sensors, and power & energy, and actively supports CVP's portfolio companies. He has led investments and represented investors on the Board of Blue Angel Ventures' portfolio companies.
Michael earned an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, MS in Electrical Engineering and Management of Technology from Georgia Institute of Technology, and BSEE (magna cum laude and Eta Kappa Nu graduate) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is also fluent in Mandarin, Taiwanese, and German.
Representative Investments
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FortiusOne leads the market in the next generation of geospatial imaging with its breakthrough intelligent mapping technologies that offer rich information visualization on maps and unprecedented access to geographic data. FortiusOne innovations include: high-speed Web-based geographic analysis tools, a flexible and scalable Web services platform supporting the special needs of geographic data, and GeoCommons, an innovative application of social networking techniques to geographic knowledge creation for the commercial, government, and consumer markets. |
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Maxion Technologies is a world leader in the development and commercialization of long-wavelength (3-12 microns) infrared semiconductor lasers. Maxion is the only company in the world selling both interband cascade (IC) and quantum cascade (QC) lasers to business and government customers. These laser products are being used by customers developing product solutions in the areas of homeland security, military communications, infrared countermeasures, chemical warfare agent detection, explosives detection, medical diagnostics, industrial process controls, remote gas leak detection, pollution monitoring, and real-time combustion controls. |
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Pacific Star Communications is a leading technology-based systems integrator providing total communications solutions that empower military, federal, state and local governments, and emergency responders with reliable, interoperable communications capabilities. |
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RemoteReality designs and manufactures next-generation intelligent-omni-video systems. RemoteReality's systems promise 360° real-time, continuous video with the ability to simultaneously detect and track multiple objects, in both visible and infrared thermal spectra. These systems reliably function in low-bandwidth network environments, are fully compatible with current object-recognition applications, have no moving parts and operate at maximum efficiency in just about any wireless communication network environment. |
Michael participated in the FundingPost event: PA Venture and Angel Conference
on Thursday, July 29, 2010 in PA, Sponsored by Ameritech Media, RMSC Law
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