Huron River Venture Partners

PE/Buy-Out · Ann Arbor (United States)

PE/Buy-Out

Seed

Series A

AI

Cloud/SaaS

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Huron River Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in start-ups, seed stage, later stage, and early stage investments. It typically invests in a company’s first round of outside investment, capital efficient businesses, providing start-up/spin-out support and growth capital to companies. The firm focuses on working with entrepreneurs and technologists at the 'origination' stage. It seeks to invest in energy and resource efficiency and savings and advanced clean technology companies including clean energy (technologies that result in cleaner or more efficient production, distribution, storage or use of energy resources), food, agriculture, logistics , defense, advanced manufacturing and materials (engineered materials, mobility and related processes and technologies, that result in better performing and more cost effective products), advanced automotive (technologies that support higher performing, cleaner and smarter vehicles), energy technology (technologies that result in more efficient production, distribution, storage or use of energy resources and infrastructure), enterprise, cleanweb (technologies that uses information technology, the Internet, and social media to address the issues of energy, transportation, and smart grid), and smart transportation (advanced applications and technologies that provide innovative services that enable users to make safer, more coordinated, and ‘smarter’ use of transportation networks). Energy efficiency could also include software and information technology businesses enabling solutions to resource energy constraints, sensors/controls, lighting, building materials, and energy storage. The firm seeks to invest in Michigan based companies. It prefers to invest between $0.5 million and $2 million over multiple rounds. The firm seeks to hold its investments for three to five years. Huron River Ventures Partners was founded in early 2010 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan with an additional office in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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