A unique fund requires
unique skillsets.
We're not your ordinary venture capitalists.
Our team consists of people who are uniquely qualified.
We're not your typical venture capitalists. Instead, we are experts in
technology commercialization. We are leaders at the intersection of government, academia, entrepreneurship, and
business. We have unique skills and experiences to help navigate
the difficult terrain of turning a breakthrough technology into a killer
business.
Victor W. Hwang, Managing Director.
Victor Hwang is the co-founder and Mana
ging Director of T2 Venture Capital,
a venture fund focused on breakthrough technology spinning out of government
and academia. He is a
Kauffman Fellow,
a member of a selective program to groom the future leaders of top-tier
venture firms. He is the immediate past President of
Larta Institute, one of
the nation's leading organizations helping to commercialize technology from
key federal agencies, a network of universities, and global partnerships
with numerous countries. Victor was the founding CEO of
Stonybrook
Purification, a water filtration company. Victor was Chief Strategy
Officer of Veatros, a video search company, where he led the company's
acquisition by DivX. He
has mentored over 200 companies and has structured venture capital and
technology transactions as a corporate attorney in world-class law firms.
Before joining Larta Institute, Victor was an attorney in the Corporate
Securities and High Technology groups of Irell & Manella in Los Angeles.
Victor practiced in a variety of legal areas, including negotiating venture
capital investments, public and private equity and debt structurings, and
mergers and acquisitions. Victor has also counseled on a range of new
technology matters, including software development, telecommunications,
multimedia, and the Internet. Prior to joining Irell & Manella, Victor
practiced corporate and finance law with the international firm of Mayer,
Brown & Platt.
Victor graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. with Honors, studying
Government plus additional studies in Computer Science, Computer
Architecture, and Operating Systems Design. He graduated from the Law School
of the University of Chicago with a J.D. He was appointed as a Law Clerk in
the General Counsel’s office of the U.S. Agency for International
Development in 1997 and served in national politics from 1995 to 1997.
Victor has reviewed grant investments in startup technology businesses for
the National Science Foundation and the State of California. He has
testified on technology policy for both the California Senate and Assembly.
Victor was appointed to the California Blue Ribbon Task Force on
Nanotechnology. Victor was awarded a
Marshall
Memorial Fellowship, a program for emerging leaders in America and
Europe. His opinions have been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. He served on the Steering
Committee of the International Banking and Finance Committee of the American
Bar Association. He is the co-author of “Selected Developments in Federal
Securities Law and California Corporate Law,” Business Law
Section of the State Bar of California; Hollywood Unstrung
(Entertainment in a Wireless Age); Sand Dollar Report (An Analysis of
Venture Investing); and numerous other publications.
Greg Horowitt, Managing Director. Greg
Horowitt is the co-founder and Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital, a
seed stage venture fund focused on the commercialization of intellectual
property from government-funded agency programs, major research institutes,
and universities around the world. In this role, he has been active in the
IP sourcing, founding, business structuring and executive management of
their portfolio companies, including his role as the first CEO of
STAR (Stonybrook Technology and Applied Research), a biomedical
discovery and development company. Greg’s past accomplishments have been as
an executive with a Berkshire Hathaway company, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at
a leading venture firm, and CEO
of a venture-backed enterprise software company.
Greg is concurrently the Executive Director of
Global CONNECT, a think tank based at the University of California, San
Diego focused on assisting the development and growth of successful
international research and technology clusters. Today the Global CONNECT
network includes more than 20 countries and 40 cities internationally
focused on accelerating global technology commercialization. Greg is one of
the most sought after speakers on topics of technology commercialization and
has been published internationally.
Greg was formerly the Interim Executive Director of
CONNECT, an organization which is generally credited with San Diego’s
success as a technology leader and which helped launch over 300 companies
that raised over $600 million in early-stage funding and achieved over $10
billion in market capitalization. Greg has personally been involved with
and/or mentored more than 200 companies.
Prior to CONNECT, Greg served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for SK Global,
a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. His career in technology started
when he was President and CEO of
the Praetorian Group, a venture-backed enterprise software company
providing e-business solutions to law enforcement and public safety agencies
across the country. For nearly 20 years before that, he was with a Berkshire
Hathaway company,
Flying Cross by Fechheimer Uniforms, where he finished his tenure as
Vice President of Regional Sales
Greg currently serves roles as a lead mentor for the
University of California’s
UC Discovery Fellows Program; Senior Advisor to
Larta Institute; reviewer for the
Kauffman Foundation’s e-Venturing Program; co-founder and Industry
Advisory Board member for the
Life Sciences-IT Global Institute; past board member and Chairman,
Project Inform; judge for the
PriceWaterhouseCoopers New Zealand HiTech Awards, and a member of the
Leadership Trust for the San Diego Regional EDC.
Greg holds degrees in Biochemistry and Economics with a
minor in Music Performance from the University of California, San Diego, and
received a prestigious President’s Undergraduate Fellowship Award for his
work studying the links between nutrition and breast cancer.
Larta Institute, Special
Limited Partner. Larta Institute is one of the nation’s leading
organizations in technology commercialization. Larta has unique contractual
relationships with the National Institutes of Health, the Department of
Defense, and the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the National
Institutes of Standards and Technologies (NIST) to work directly with
early-stage companies spinning out of those institutions and to assist their
commercial development. Larta manages Network T2, a consortium that involves
over 28 universities and research institutions to help those entities
transfer new technologies from the research laboratory to the commercial
marketplace. Larta manages global programs, in partnership with Global
CONNECT, to connect startup companies from a network of 18 countries to
markets in the U.S.
Larta Institute has worked with hundreds of partners over the years,
including:
