CAN: Sponsors

Morrison Foerster

With more than a thousand lawyers in 18 offices around the world, Morrison & Foerster offers clients comprehensive, global legal services in business and litigation. Morrison & Foerster works with emerging companies to make sure they succeed at every stage of their development. The firm advises companies from their initial business formation to raising venture capital financing and achieving a successful exit through a sale or public offering. Morrison & Foerster is distinguished by its unsurpassed expertise in finance, life sciences, technology, legendary litigation skills and an unrivaled reach across the Pacific Rim, particularly Japan and China. The firm has one compelling mission: to deliver success for their clients.

Deloitte

Deloitte 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 150 countries. With access to the deep intellectual capital of approximately 135,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas — audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services — and serves more than one-half of the world's largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, locally important clients, and successful, fast-growing global growth companies. Services are not provided by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein, and, for regulatory and other reasons, certain member firms do not provide services in all four professional areas.  

Emerging Technology Centers

The Emerging Technology Centers (ETC), a venture of the Baltimore Development Corporation, is a non-profit business incubator focused on growing early-stage technology and biotechnology companies. The ETC promotes economic development, providing business, technical, and networking connections to help these companies grow and prosper – adding to both the job and tax base of Baltimore City. To date, ETC client companies have received $817 million in outside investment and have been issued nearly 200 patents. Since 1999 ETC has provided assistance to 143 companies and 77 percent of its graduates are still in business. 

ETC's two incubator facilities provide participating companies with direct, customized business assistance, including technical assessment, marketing assistance, business modeling, mentoring, and access to funding sources in addition to a wide array of physical amenities, including fully wired office space, flexible leases, shared basic services and equipment, and technology support. Go to www.etcbaltimore.com to learn more about ETC or contact Neil Davis at (443) 451-7002.

Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer

The mission of Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer (JHTT) is to advance the mission of the Johns Hopkins University to bring the benefits of discovery to the world, by implementing the commercialization of university inventions for the public good. To achieve this vision, we will engage strategically with our stakeholders - faculty, industry, sister institutions and funding entities to become a vital component of the University's commitment to social responsibility and public service.

Montgomery County Business Incubator Network

Managed by the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development, the Business Incubator Network offers the infrastructure and resources needed to facilitate the growth and success of young biotech, advanced technology and business services companies, thereby stimulating job creation to benefit the local economy.

Since 1999, graduates of the County's Business Incubator Network have added over 1,000 jobs to the local economy. The National Business Incubator Association estimates that four out of five new businesses fail within the first five years, while 80 percent of firms cultivated in an incubator are still in business after that same time period. Successful graduates include: Aeras Global Foundation, Avalon Pharmaceuticals, Nextone, Tetracore and Visual Networks.

Silicon Valley Bank

SVB Financial Group provides diversified financial services to emerging growth and mature companies in the technology, life science, private equity and premium wine markets. Through its focus on specialized markets and extensive knowledge of the people and business issues driving them, SVB Financial Group provides a level of service and partnership that measurably impacts its clients' success.

Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., the company offers its clients commercial, investment, merchant and private banking, as well as value-added services using its knowledge and networks. Merger, acquisition, private placement and corporate partnering services are provided through the company's investment banking subsidiary, SVB Alliant. Founded in 1983, SVB Financial Group serves nearly 11,000 clients around the world through 27 domestic offices, three international subsidiaries in the U.K., India and China, and an extensive network of relationships with venture capitalists in Asia, Australia, Europe, India, and Israel.