Alain S. Harrus
Fondateur chez Impact Science Ventures
Profil
Alain is an Operating Partner in the Investment Team, where he supports CI’s portfolio companies in achieving their impact mission by enabling significant carbon reduction.
Prior to joining CI in 2023, Alain was Chairman and CEO of Kateeva, a venture-backed, global supplier of inkjet equipment to the OLED display industry.
Alain held investment roles for the past two decades at Compass Venture Partner, Crosslink Capital, and Impact Science Ventures, where he focused on materials-enabled technologies for energy, energy efficiency and industrial investing.
Prior to his venture capital career, Alain spent 15 years in the Global Semiconductor Industry, initially at AT&T Bell Laboratories and then at Novellus Systems as its CTO.
Alain holds a Ph.D.
in Solid State Physics, has authored and co-authored more than 30 technical papers, and is a co-inventor on six patents.
Alain is based in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley.
Postes actifs de Alain S. Harrus
| Sociétés | Poste | Début |
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Kateeva, Inc.
 Kateeva, Inc. Electronics/AppliancesConsumer Durables Kateeva, Inc. manufactures production equipment for flat panel display products like OLEDs. The company was founded by Vladimir Bulovic, Martin A. Schmidt, Conor F. Madigan, Valerie Leblanc, Somekh Sasson and Gerry Chen in 2008 and is headquartered in Newark, CA. | Directeur/Membre du Conseil | 30/03/2020 |
Pixelligent Technologies LLC
 Pixelligent Technologies LLC SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Pixelligent Technologies LLC develops and manufactures high performance nanocomposites. Its PixClear dispersions are tailored to be compatible with a wide variety of monomers and polymers. The firm’s patented synthesis and surface modification technologies produce high quality dispersions that can be easily incorporated into many of the most widely used polymer systems, from acrylics and epoxies to silicones and spin-on glasses. It delivers next generation materials for demanding applications in solid-state lighting, flat panel displays, and optical components and films. The company was founded by Gregory D. Cooper September 2000 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD. | Directeur/Membre du Conseil | 07/11/2017 |
Neutron Therapeutics, Inc.
 Neutron Therapeutics, Inc. Medical DistributorsDistribution Services Neutron Therapeutics, Inc. is a private company that specializes in providing accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) systems for targeted radiation therapy of solid tumors. The company is based in Danvers, MA and was founded in 2015 by Bill Buckley and Ted Smick. The company's flagship product, the Nubeam® therapy platform, is a compact, in-hospital neutron source that offers a higher neutron flux compared to competing systems and meets stringent reference values published by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Elizabeth Reczek has been the CEO of the company since 2020. | Directeur/Membre du Conseil | 01/01/2018 |
Impact Science Ventures
 Impact Science Ventures Investment ManagersFinance Impact Science Ventures (Impact Science Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Robert Ethier, Alain Harrus and Kiang Meng Hsiung. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Fondateur | 01/01/2021 |
OGCI Climate Investments LLP
 OGCI Climate Investments LLP Investment ManagersFinance OGCI Climate Investments LLP (OGCI) is a venture capital arm of OGCI Climate Investments Group Ltd Founded in November 2016. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an office in Houston. | Private Equity Investor | 01/02/2023 |
Roboze SpA
 Roboze SpA Chemicals: SpecialtyProcess Industries Roboze SpA provides industrial 3D printers with technopolymers. The company was founded by Alessio Lorusso in 2013 and is headquartered in Bari, Italy. | Consultant / Advisor | 01/01/2021 |
Inziv Ltd.
 Inziv Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Inziv Ltd. designs and manufactures the next generation of panel inspection tools for OLED screen displays. The firm specializes in nanotechnology, OLED, MicroLED, Panel Display Inspection, and Near-field Microscopy. The company is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. | Consultant / Advisor | 01/01/2021 |
Eyesafe, Inc
 Eyesafe, Inc Computer PeripheralsElectronic Technology Eyesafe, Inc is a global provider of advanced blue light mitigating technology, solutions, and standards. Eyesafe is based in Minneapolis, MN. The company collaborates with healthcare to design consumer electronics with human health in mind. Eyesafe's team of eye doctors, engineers, and scientists with decades of experience in electronics, display materials, light management, optometry, and ophthalmology develop the eyesafe® standards, eyesafe® technology, and the associated intellectual property portfolio. The company's brand is trusted by consumers and integrated into millions of digital devices from Dell, HP, Lenovo, Zagg, and others. The company was founded in 2013 by Justin Barrett and Steven Moe, and Justin Barrett has been the CEO since 2013. | Consultant / Advisor | 01/01/2021 |
Applications Technology, Inc.
 Applications Technology, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Applications Technology, Inc. engages in the development and provision of machine learning-based automatic speech recognition, machine translation, and natural language understanding platform. It offers speech oh text, enterprise translation, live closed captioning, subtitling and editing, customer analytics, meetings and interviews, and voice-enabled commerce solutions. It serves the media, entertainment, call centers, government, and enterprise business markets. The company was founded by Mohammad A. Shihadah, Mudar Yaghi, and Majed Qastandy Sifri in 1990 and is headquartered in McLean, VA. | Private Equity Investor | 01/06/2020 |
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Formation de Alain S. Harrus
| Temple University (Pennsylvania) | Doctorate Degree |
| Stanford Graduate School of Business | Masters Business Admin |
| Université Paris-Saclay | Undergraduate Degree |
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Compass Technology Partners LP
 Compass Technology Partners LP Investment ManagersFinance Compass Technology Partners LP (Compass Tech Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1988 by David Arscott. The firm is headquartered in Redwood City, California. | Finance |
NanoNexus, Inc.
 NanoNexus, Inc. Wholesale DistributorsDistribution Services NanoNexus, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and sells electrical contactors for miniature devices to communicate with larger systems. It offers electrical interconnect solutions for testing and packaging integrated circuits. The company was founded in January 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Distribution Services |
Metara, Inc.
 Metara, Inc. Wholesale DistributorsDistribution Services Metara, Inc. provides in-line chemical metrology tools to monitor and control chemical processes. It offers sentry harsh chemistry metrology system, an analysis solution for harsh chemistries used in semiconductor manufacturing processes and inline mass spectrometers. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. | Distribution Services |
Applied MicroStructures, Inc.
 Applied MicroStructures, Inc. Electronic Production EquipmentElectronic Technology Applied MicroStructures, Inc. designs and manufactures molecular vapor deposition tools. It offers anti-stiction films, self-assembled monolayers, hydrophobic films, conformal coatings, moisture barrier films, hydrophilic films, bio-compatible or reactive coatings and compatible substrates. The company was founded by Richard C. Yi, Romek Nowak, Jeffrey D. Chinn, Richard S. Payne and Boris Kobrin in January 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Crosslink Capital, Inc. (Venture Capital)
 Crosslink Capital, Inc. (Venture Capital) Investment ManagersFinance Crosslink Capital, Inc. (Venture Capital) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Crosslink Capital, Inc. founded in 1989 by Sy F. Kaufman and Michael Joseph Stark. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco. | Finance |
ReVera, Inc.
 ReVera, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services ReVera, Inc. provides materials metrology solutions for advanced semiconductor processing. Its products include VeraFlex III XF an inline metrology for film composition and thickness control, VeraFlex II standard for HKMG production metrology and QED an offline advanced data analysis and recipe creation and maintenance system. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. | Commercial Services |
SoloPower Systems, Inc.
 SoloPower Systems, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology SoloPower Systems, Inc. manufactures and commercializes thin-film photovoltaic cells and modules. The firm’s proprietary electrochemical process for CIGS solar cell formation is differentiated from Si-based PV and alternate thin film PV technologies. Its products include SP1, SP3L and SP3S. The company was founded by Bulent M. Basol and Homayoun Talieh in 2005 and is headquartered in Portland, OR. | Electronic Technology |
Photodigm, Inc.
 Photodigm, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Photodigm, Inc. produces semiconductor diode lasers. It delivers photonics technology for communications, digital imaging, defense and medical device applications. The firms products includes spectroscopy certified laser, application certified laser, mercury TOSA package for high power DBR lasers and semi active laser target simulator. The company was founded by John E. Spencer, Jack Mattis, Kirk Jay and Gary A. Evans in 2000 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX. | Electronic Technology |
Intematix Corp.
 Intematix Corp. Chemicals: SpecialtyProcess Industries Intematix Corp. develops and manufactures phosphor solutions. Its products include phosphor materials and phosphor solutions. The firm provides blue light down selection access to the entire color spectrum, regardless of the manufacturer of the underlying blue LED chip. The company was founded by Yi-Qun Li and Xiao-Dong Xiang in March 2000 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA. | Process Industries |
Twin Creeks Technologies, Inc.
 Twin Creeks Technologies, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Twin Creeks Technologies, Inc. offered ion implanter technology that enables the production of thin substrates. The company was founded by Srinivasan Sivram in 2008 and headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Millennium Broadcast, Inc.
 Millennium Broadcast, Inc. Data Processing ServicesTechnology Services Millennium Broadcast, Inc. provides real-time survey and knowledge management system services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Technology Services |
Kateeva, Inc.
Kateeva, Inc. Electronics/AppliancesConsumer Durables Kateeva, Inc. manufactures production equipment for flat panel display products like OLEDs. The company was founded by Vladimir Bulovic, Martin A. Schmidt, Conor F. Madigan, Valerie Leblanc, Somekh Sasson and Gerry Chen in 2008 and is headquartered in Newark, CA. | Consumer Durables |
Alta Devices, Inc.
 Alta Devices, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Alta Devices, Inc. develops and manufactures mobile power technology solutions. The firm specializes in the development of a technology that extends the energy source of a system, with focus on cell and module single junction conversion efficiency. It offers single and dual junction solar cells, bringing flexible and portable power that can be embedded into any other material. The company was founded by Eli Yablonovitch, Nasreen Chopra and Harry A. Atwater in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Bell Laboratories
 Bell Laboratories Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ. | Commercial Services |
Novellus Systems, Inc.
 Novellus Systems, Inc. Industrial MachineryProducer Manufacturing Novellus Systems, Inc. manufactures and services advanced automated wafer fabrication systems. The company was founded by Brad Mattson on April 11, 1984 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA. | Producer Manufacturing |
Pixelligent Technologies LLC
Pixelligent Technologies LLC SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Pixelligent Technologies LLC develops and manufactures high performance nanocomposites. Its PixClear dispersions are tailored to be compatible with a wide variety of monomers and polymers. The firm’s patented synthesis and surface modification technologies produce high quality dispersions that can be easily incorporated into many of the most widely used polymer systems, from acrylics and epoxies to silicones and spin-on glasses. It delivers next generation materials for demanding applications in solid-state lighting, flat panel displays, and optical components and films. The company was founded by Gregory D. Cooper September 2000 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD. | Electronic Technology |
Neutron Therapeutics, Inc.
Neutron Therapeutics, Inc. Medical DistributorsDistribution Services Neutron Therapeutics, Inc. is a private company that specializes in providing accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) systems for targeted radiation therapy of solid tumors. The company is based in Danvers, MA and was founded in 2015 by Bill Buckley and Ted Smick. The company's flagship product, the Nubeam® therapy platform, is a compact, in-hospital neutron source that offers a higher neutron flux compared to competing systems and meets stringent reference values published by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Elizabeth Reczek has been the CEO of the company since 2020. | Distribution Services |
Impact Science Ventures
Impact Science Ventures Investment ManagersFinance Impact Science Ventures (Impact Science Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Robert Ethier, Alain Harrus and Kiang Meng Hsiung. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
OGCI Climate Investments LLP
OGCI Climate Investments LLP Investment ManagersFinance OGCI Climate Investments LLP (OGCI) is a venture capital arm of OGCI Climate Investments Group Ltd Founded in November 2016. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an office in Houston. | Finance |
Roboze SpA
Roboze SpA Chemicals: SpecialtyProcess Industries Roboze SpA provides industrial 3D printers with technopolymers. The company was founded by Alessio Lorusso in 2013 and is headquartered in Bari, Italy. | Process Industries |
Inziv Ltd.
Inziv Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Inziv Ltd. designs and manufactures the next generation of panel inspection tools for OLED screen displays. The firm specializes in nanotechnology, OLED, MicroLED, Panel Display Inspection, and Near-field Microscopy. The company is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. | Technology Services |
Eyesafe, Inc
Eyesafe, Inc Computer PeripheralsElectronic Technology Eyesafe, Inc is a global provider of advanced blue light mitigating technology, solutions, and standards. Eyesafe is based in Minneapolis, MN. The company collaborates with healthcare to design consumer electronics with human health in mind. Eyesafe's team of eye doctors, engineers, and scientists with decades of experience in electronics, display materials, light management, optometry, and ophthalmology develop the eyesafe® standards, eyesafe® technology, and the associated intellectual property portfolio. The company's brand is trusted by consumers and integrated into millions of digital devices from Dell, HP, Lenovo, Zagg, and others. The company was founded in 2013 by Justin Barrett and Steven Moe, and Justin Barrett has been the CEO since 2013. | Electronic Technology |
Applications Technology, Inc.
Applications Technology, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Applications Technology, Inc. engages in the development and provision of machine learning-based automatic speech recognition, machine translation, and natural language understanding platform. It offers speech oh text, enterprise translation, live closed captioning, subtitling and editing, customer analytics, meetings and interviews, and voice-enabled commerce solutions. It serves the media, entertainment, call centers, government, and enterprise business markets. The company was founded by Mohammad A. Shihadah, Mudar Yaghi, and Majed Qastandy Sifri in 1990 and is headquartered in McLean, VA. | Technology Services |
