Investors
Novak Biddle Venture Partners (NBVP) provides equity financing and assistance to the management of early-stage, information technology companies, principally those located in the Mid-Atlantic region. Its mission is to help build successful, long-term, sustainable companies. NBVP is backed by a number of the country's most prestigious limited partners, and has more than $580 million under management.
Chart Venture Partners (CVP) concentrates its investments in the homeland defense and security sectors, with an emphasis on dual-use technologies that are of interest to both the government and the commercial sectors. CVP recognizes that the rise in government spending in homeland defense R&D is stimulating a corresponding increase in technology breakthroughs, many of which are in need of early stage venture funding.