Daniel Behr
( Director Business Development, Harvard )

Bio

Daniel Behr co-founded 4 technology companies, was a general partner in a seed-stage venture fund, and serves as director/advisor to several start-ups. He is currently a “venture catalyst” at Harvard University where he is Director of Business Development in the Office of Technology Development. Daniel was co-founder of IN USA which became a $10M world leader in ozone instrumentation; Compact Instruments, which developed the world’s first hand-held mass spectrometer and was acquired by MKS Instruments (NASDAQ:MKSI) in 2000; Arradiance, which is developing an electron-beam source for use in semiconductor lithography (funded by top-tier VC funds in November 2004); and Growth Point Life Sciences, a firm focused on accelerating the commercialization of intellectual property assets. His seed-stage angel fund, Seed Partners, was founded in 1999 and is fully invested in a portfolio of start-up companies. Daniel is a Director of Nutfield Technology (industrial lasers) and an advisor to companies commercializing new medical devices, instruments, nano technologies, and software products. Daniel earned an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and an engineering degree with Highest Honors from Georgia Tech, and is fluent in Spanish and German.