Institutional Members

The Houston Angel Network offers a unique category of membership for Investment and Academic Organizations such as venture capitalists, small business investment companies, family investment organizations, and academic institutions. The goals of this class of membership include bringing together more of the Houston investment community, encouraging cooperation between investors throughout the investment “value chain”, and increasing the resources available to both the Institutional Member and the Network. HAN Institutional Investors work directly with our members to help evaluate and fund promising technologies, and are a valued part of our Organization.

For more information on how to become an Institutional Member, please contact Kala Marathi at kmarathi@houstonangelnetwork.org or by phone at 832.476.9291.

	The Houston Technology Center (HTC), is a business accelerator and the largest technology business incubator in Texas, supported by more than 300 corporations and organizations, Houston’s leading academic institutions, Greater Houston Partnership, Texas Medical Center, NASA-Johnson Space Center, and the City of Houston. HTC serves as the Gulf Coast Regional Center for the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, helping small to mid-size companies expediting the commercialization of new technologies.
	DFJ Mercury is a Texas-based seed and early-stage venture capital fund. They invest in companies that address large market opportunities in the information technology, life sciences, and cleantech sectors. DFJ Mercury is a partner in the global intelligence network of Draper Fisher Jurvetson funds.
	As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to pathbreaking research, unsurpassed teaching and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this mission by cultivating a diverse community of learning and discovery that produces leaders across the spectrum of human endeavor.
	The British Consulate-General in Houston is ready to help with professional business advice and assistance - free and on a confidential basis. Through our network of contacts in various UK institutions and organizations, we can help develop your business. Whether wanting to import, find out about UK events and trade shows, establish a UK presence, find a UK partner, or develop commercial/technological/cultural links, we can work with you.
	The University of Houston Small Business Development Center (UH SBDC) provides business consulting and training to entrepreneurs of small and emerging companies.
	VES Partners, is an investment company in Texas focused on early-stage angel investments. VES Partners takes equity and debt positions in private companies and monitors, influences and facilitates their successful operation and ultimate acquisition by strategic/venture buyers. We generate income through the sale of these investment positions and use this income to pay expenses, make additional investments in the current portfolio and into new companies, ultimately to pay dividends to our shareholders.
	Strategic Technology Group – The group, which reports to the Group VP, Global R&D for Weatherford, identifies and pursues longer term technology opportunities with universities,consortia,entrepreneurs and other organizations. We work closely with all Weatherford R&D groups and product lines, as well as our customers, to identify strategic technology needs and drivers, and recommend technology directions and partnerships that can have a positive impact on our business going forward.