Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSORS

Brown Rudnick Berlack Israles LLP

Brown Rudnick 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.
www.BrownRudnick.com
Boston office: One Financial Center Boston, MA 02111

 

Goodwin Procter LLP

Goodwin Procter is one of the nation's leading law firms, with a team of 750 attorneys serving clients through offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. We are a hard-driving, entrepreneurial and dynamic group, working tenaciously for clients whose problems and challenges we treat as our own.
www.goodwinproctor.com
Exchange Place 53 State Street Boston, MA  02109

 

Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton PC

Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton (MBBP) 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:

• business and securities law
• technology, licensing and intellectual property
• employment and immigration
• taxation

While we enjoy a reputation for special competency in technology ventures, we represent clients of all sizes and industries.

www.mbbp.com

Waltham: 1601 Trapelo Road, Suite 205, Waltham, MA 02451

 

 

GOLD SPONSORS

Polaris

Polaris invests in seed, early stage, and middle market companies in high 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.
www.polarisventures.com
Boston Office: 1000 Winter Street Suite 3350 Waltham, MA 02451

Adams Capital

Adams Capital Management, Inc. (ACM) is a national venture capital firm specializing in early-stage applied technology investments. Established in 1994, ACM is a lead Series A investor and currently manages $800 million. Our general partners have extensive domain and operations expertise in the information technology, networking infrastructure and the semiconductor industry.
www.acm.com
Boston office: 245 First Street 18th Floor  Cambridge, MA 02142

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.
www.wilmerhale.com
Boston: 60 State Street, Boston, MA 01209
Waltham: Bay Colony Corporate Center, 1100 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451

Boston Consulting Group

The Boston Consulting Group is an international strategy and general management consulting firm whose mission is to help leading-edge businesses gain lasting strategic and competitive advantage through a combination of breakthrough thinking, rigorous analysis, and applied creativity. As an international firm of 3,500 consultants, our strong global presence offers clients and employees a wealth of cross-cultural experiences that have helped change the way our clients approach and engage in competition.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C.

Founded in 1933, Mintz Levin has grown into a versatile law firm of nearly 500 highly qualified and dedicated attorneys representing diverse international clients in many industries who turn to us for a wide range of legal services and resources. Our offices are located in Boston, Washington DC, New York, San Diego, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Stamford (CT), and London. Our clients include:

• Entrepreneurs, Research Scientists, Investors, Underwriters, Directors and Officers
• Start-Ups and Emerging Growth Companies
• Privately Held and Family Businesses
• Fortune 500 Companies
• Medical and Academic institutions, public agencies and industry associations

www.mintz.com

Boston: One Financial Center, Boston, MA 02111

Faber Daeufer & Rosenberg PC

Uniquely Focused on the Business of the Life Sciences Community

 

FDR is comprised of 15 professionals whose collective experience handling life science business transactions and in-house operational knowledge are extraordinary in a law firm.  FDR’s clients are public and private corporations, not-for-profit research institutions, hospitals and private equity investors.  We provide counsel in corporate and commercial matters, and handle transactions ranging from licensing, discovery/development collaborations and product/program alliances to private equity financing and private M&A transactions.  We are committed to delivering legal services in a pragmatic manner that optimizes efficiency and effectiveness.

www.fdrpc.com

 

Waltham: 950 Winter Street, Suite 4500, Waltham, MA 02451

New York: 110 East 59th Street, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10022

 

 

MOBILE (M-PRIZE) SPONSORS

M-PRIZE Corporate Sponsor

Nokia

 

Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing consumer Internet services, as well as enterprise solutions and software, is a key area of focus. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.

2007 facts and figures:

. Head office in Finland; R&D, production, sales, marketing activities around the world . Mobile device volumes 437 million units (38% of global device market) . Net sales EUR 51.1 billion, Operating profit EUR 8.0 billion . 112,262 employees at year end (including Nokia Siemens Networks) . R&D investment EUR 5.6 billion

 

M-PRIZE Venture Capital Sponsors

North Bridge Venture Partners

North Bridge Venture Partners is an active, bi-coastal, early-stage venture capital firm based in the Boston, MA and San Mateo, CA areas.  What is active, early-stage investing?  The North Bridge partners have a simple definition: more than capital is required to achieve success.

Facts about the firm

-       Founded in 1994

-       12 Partners and Principals

-       $2B under management

-       Work with companies at concept stage ($100K to $500K investment)

-       Series A / Series B: $2M to $10M

Trilogy Partnership

Established by a team of wireless and technology entrepreneurs, Trilogy Partnership invests private capital in areas where in-house expertise and market growth promise superior financial returns.  Current businesses include operating wireless carriers in the Caribbean and Latin America as well as investments in multiples early stage application and infrastructure companies.  Based on experience building mobile franchises in 12 diverse national markets, Trilogy seeks high growth opportunities in both developed and emerging countries.  Our partners have long been at the center of the global wireless revolution as founders of Voicestream (T-Mobile) and Western Wireless (Alltel) in addition to previously holding pivotal roles at McCaw Cellular (AT&T).