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LabStart Looks for Promising Technologies

August 20, 2009

LabStart, a joint undertaking between two venture capital firms, Verge Fund and ARCH Venture Partners, has been formed to help discover technologies that are diamonds in the rough at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Russ Hopper, LabStart’s entrepreneur in residence, envisions the joint venture’s efforts as producing the seed of a vibrant entrepreneurial culture in Los Alamos. Hopper stresses that LabStart helps researchers get their inventions into the marketplace. “I would love to see 10 or 20 startups come out of the Lab and provide employment for talented individuals in the area,” he said. To read the article in its entirety, please click the below link.

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Biography

B. Russell Hopper (Russ) is the Venture Partner and Entrepreneur-in-Residence of LabStart. Russ has over 20 years experience commercializing technology. He worked as Director of Business Development for MBI International, in Lansing, MI where he helped start 5 companies in 4 years out of Michigan State University. He has also worked in the semiconductor, materials science, high tech instrumentation and biotechnology industries. Prior to joining LabStart, he was at LANL for 2 ½ years in the Technology Transfer Division, commercializing technology.