private industry private equity founded 1979 headquarters waltham massachusetts united states products venture capital aum 1.8 billion website www.atvcapital.com advanced technology ventures atv is an american venture capital firm with more than 1.8 billion in capital under management . the firm was founded in 1979 and invests in it healthcare and cleantech companies . atv has offices in waltham massachusetts and palo alto california . contents 1 history 1.1 investment funds 2 investments 3 notes 4 references 5 external links history edit atv was created when dr. thaddeus teddy f. walkowicz left venrock a venture capital firm associated with the rockefeller family to team up with dr. ivan sutherland george kokkinakis and dr. robert loewy . together they founded advanced technology ventures . investment funds edit 1981 atv i closes with 30.2 m 1994 atv ii closes with 28m 1988 atv iii closes with 30.7 m 1995 atv iv closes with 100m 1998 atv v closes with 175m 1999 atv vi closes with 400m 1 2001 atv vii closes with 720m 2007 atv viii closes with 305m 2 investments edit atv s investments in it healthcare and cleantech companies have resulted in 30 successful exits via ipo or acquisition . for example acme packet had a successful ipo and the company is one of the fastest growing telecommunications companies in the state of massachusetts 3 today atv backs a variety of early stage portfolio companies including the following . it alfalight anagran apprion casecentral cenzic cedexis 4 combinenet handango host analytics hvvi semiconductors liquid engines nextivity nominum omneon packet design qumu sanovi tripwire x 1 cleantech altarock energy coskata calisolar greatpoint energy nuventix rive technology sub one technology solar junction wakonda healthcare acceleron aperio apoptos ardian conceptx medical emphasys endogastric solutions five prime gi dynamics glumetrics gynesonics helixis hydra biosciences neurovista plexxikon polyremedy portola powervision proteolix second genome valeritas zeltiq notes edit staff december 26 2001 atv creates 800 million venture fund permanent dead link edn retrieved 2008 23 12 . sorkin andrew ross february 6 2008 . advanced technology closes new 303 million fund . the new york times dealbook . retrieved 2008 12 26 . noblett j. january 11 2008 andy ory ahead of the pack boston business journal retrieved 2008 23 12 . http techcrunch.com 2016 01 25 cedexis raises 22m series b round for its internet traffic monitoring and routing platform references edit buckman r. 2007 3 12 seeking the green in clean wall street journal retrieved on 2008 12 23 . brown e. miller c. douglas e. 2007 1 24 forbes midas list forbes retrieved on 2008 12 23 . lamonica m. 2008 12 22 clean tech investors take cue from biotech cnet retrieved on 2008 12 23 . rogoway mike 2016 1 25 portland cloud computing startup cedexis oregonlive retrieved on 2016 1 27 . external links edit advanced technology ventures v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies this article about a financial services corporation of the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title advanced technology ventures & oldid 742627907 categories venture capital firms of the united statesunited states financial services company stubshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2016articles with permanently dead external linksall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 20 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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