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Cottonwood Technology Fund Launches fourth fund to Fuel Early-Stage Hard Tech Innovation
Cottonwood Technology Fund has announced the launch of its fourth investment vehicle, Cottonwood Technology Fund IV, continuing its commitment to the hard tech investment space where it has established itself as uniquely willing to support disruptive hard tech innovation at the earliest stages. Building on the learnings of three prior funds, this latest offering is expected to be in the range of $80 to $100 million, targeting early-stage, IP driven startups that specialize in building hardware technologies.
This new fund will continue Cottonwood’s strategic focus on innovation-driven regions, specifically the Southwest United States and Northern Europe, both of which are known for their strong hard tech ecosystems. With previous funds backing groundbreaking technologies in sectors like advanced materials, nanotechnology, micro- and nano-electronics, quantum photonics, medical technology and clean energy; Cottonwood aims to seed and support startups that are tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
By providing crucial early-stage funding, Cottonwood Technology Fund IV is well positioned to support the next wave of disruptive startups, fostering innovation in areas that require significant research and development.
Q*Bird
Q*Bird provides ultra-secure communications and protection for your digital infrastructure, based on the laws of physics.
Reyedar
Reyedar provides a unique window to people’s health by combining eye tracking and Deep Learning: we make the screening of visual and neurodegenerative diseases accessible and affordable through fast, objective, and user-friendly testing.
TeamWildfire
Team Wildfire is building advanced technology to suppress fire, capture embers, defend structures, and harden evacuation routes.
The Drone Bird Company
The Drone Bird Company is the global leader in the development of bird-shaped drones. They specialize in the development of fixed-wing and flapping-wing systems.
Orange Quantum Systems
Orange QS offers products to test quantum chip performance. Creating the test equipment and protocols needed to obtain relevant information about this performance requires extensive developer time and expertise.
Green Theme Technologies
Green Theme Technologies is a textile innovation company with the mission to create products that out-perform existing technologies while eliminating water usage and pollution.
Circular Genomics
Circular Genomics is a biotechnology and genomics company with a vision to use circular RNAs as novel and improved biomarkers for the diagnosis and better treatment of psychiatric and neurological diseases.
Sencure
Sencure is a medical company with an ultra-low power biometric sensing chip that offers wearable biometric solutions for medical technology companies.
mPower Technology
mPower Technology Inc. is shaping the future of solar energy with a revolutionary new technology called DragonSCALES, a completely flexible, interconnected mesh of miniature solar cells. DragonSCALES starts with high efficiency state-of-the-art silicon cells that are the product of billions of dollars a year in R&D investment.
Sarcos Robotics
Sarcos Robotics is a global technology leader designing and producing dexterous robotic systems that prevent injury, save lives, and create new possibilities.
BioFlyte
BioFlyte is commercializing a revolutionary new class of fieldable aerosol mass spectrometers and complementary products for detection and identification for safety and security.
SmartNanotubes Technologies
SmartNanotubes Technologies has the ambition to be the global leading provider of sensors / detectors for high-performance electronic products of a new generation. It is a multi-gas sensor / electric nose based on nanotubes which can detect –with pattern recognition- high sensitivity gases and VOC’s.
Fiberio
FibeRio -acquired by CLARCOR, currently PARKER- has pioneered a new process to create microscopic nanofibers used widely, ranging from traditional textiles and filtration products to medical supplies, aerospace materials, tissue engineering and drug delivery.
BayoTech
BayoTech is an energy solutions company committed to addressing the need for consistent, cost-effective supply of hydrogen. They offer modular, scalable, and rapidly deployable hydrogen production systems through sales, rentals, leases, and gas-as-a-service to customers worldwide.
Infinitum Electric
Infinitum Electric develops motor and generator products that utilize patented Printed Circuit Board (PCB) stator technology and provide unrivaled advantages. Their electric motors and generators are more efficient, more durable, lighter weight and provide the highest cost advantage in the market.
Exagen
Exagen is a patient-focused, discovery-driven, CLIA-certified, CAP-accredited laboratory with a growing menu of proprietary, internally developed tests targeting rheumatology and autoimmune diseases. Committed to personalized medicine, their AVISE tests are designed to provide objective information for more accurate, efficient diagnosis and better disease management.
Horne Technologies
Armonica Technologies
Armonica Technologies is developing a proprietary long-read DNA sequencing platform that can sequence a complete human genome in minutes. The company’s mission is to become the gold standard of DNA sequencing for precision medicine research applications.
TriLumina
TriLumina’s “Light Engine” is a disruptive laser technology. TriLumina laser arrays can “scan,” select, transmit data, and “see” the world in a dramatically new way. TriLumina was acquired by Lumentum in 2020.
SoundEnergy
SoundEnergy® is a technology startup active in the cooling industry. It focuses on converting heat (waste or ambient) into usable air-cooling for industrial, commercial, enterprise and applications worldwide.
Flexiramics
Flexiramics is a flexible pure ceramic fiber mat that is light and flexible like paper but retains the main physiochemical properties of traditional ceramics. The most important properties of ceramics are heat resistance, electrical insulation and resistance to corrosion.
BennuBio
BennuBio is developing new flow cytometers that transcend previous limitations to flow cytometry in terms of sample recovery, particle size, analytical rate, and large volume sample analysis. Their technology is the basis of a new scalable flow cytometry platform that can address unmet needs in many profitable market spaces.
OPNT
OPNT’s mission is to relocate all current GPS-based services to telecommunication networks, thereby opening the €200 Billion global market of GPS and GPS-enabled products to developers, managers, and users of telecommunication networks. The solutions of OPNT integrate GPS-quality timing and beyond with the flexibility and reliability of standard telecom equipment.
Respira
Respira is a clinical-stage inhaled therapeutics company developing next-generation pulmonary targeted therapeutics to address significant unmet patient needs in cardio-pulmonary diseases.
Lattice-X
Latice-X was established in 2012 to demonstrate and commercialize a low-cost process for producing defect free wide band gap materials. Their success in producing these wafers has put the company in a position to disrupt the entire advanced power electronic industry.
xF Technologies
xF Technologies turns any biomass into valuable products, such as fuel, additives, petrochemical replacements, and specialty chemicals. Expert in furan chemistry and homogeneous organic catalysis, xF’s patent-pending, low-temperature chemical process breaks down almost any biomass from agricultural, solid waste, woody or algal waste to create specialty bio-based chemical additives and fuels.
Skorpios Technologies
Skorpios Technologies is the most innovative and largest Silicon Photonics company in the world. They deliver highly integrated communications products built on their proprietary, wafer-scale, silicon photonics process. First target market is the largest global data centers.