Sachem Ventures

Sachem Ventures is a small venture capital investment fund that invests in local startup businesses in urban areas of New Haven. Sachem aimed to provide hands-on venture capital investing experience for MBA students at Yale. Yale SOM students ran the fund.

Sachem Ventures’ investment period expired in 2004. The fund now is monitoring its small investment portfolio. This portfolio overall has shown paper gains equal to about ten times original cost. Sachem’s investors include Zilkha Venture Partners, the New Alliance Bank and Yale University. Sachem Ventures is an independent venture capital fund and is not part of any academic program at Yale.

United Illuminating

UI, The United Illuminating Company, was formed in 1899 when the Bridgeport Electric Company merged with the New Haven Electric Company. UI is a regional distribution utility providing electricity and energy-related services to more than 320,000 customers in the Greater New Haven and Greater Bridgeport areas.

Website: www.uinet.com

Finn Dixon & Herling

Finn, Dixon, and Herling LLP represents nationally-known venture capital firms in both early-stage and growth capital investments and in the formation and organization of venture capital funds. We also assist venture capital firms in connection with legal and business issues affecting their portfolio companies. We advise emerging companies and their founders and shareholders on many issues that relate to the development, financing and operations, including structuring transactions from a financial and tax point of view, executive compensation, tax and accounting treatments of various types of equity incentives, federal and state securities law issues and protection of intellectual property.

Website: www.fdh.com

Wiggin and Dana

Founded in New Haven, Connecticut in 1934, Wiggin and Dana LLP provides first-class legal counsel to an international client base of major corporations and institutions, as well as to private businesses, entrepreneurs, individuals, and families. From offices in New Haven, Stamford and Hartford, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New York City, the firm serves clients located in the Northeast, as well as throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America. The firm acts as general or special counsel for publicly traded corporations, banks, accounting, architectural engineering and securities firms, public utilities, insurance companies, family-owned businesses, new technology companies and start-ups, hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers, universities, colleges and schools, and individuals.

Website: www.wiggin.com

Credit Suisse

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 40,000 people. Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group, is a leading global financial services company head1quartered in Zurich. Credit Suisse Group's registered shares (CSGN) are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CSR), in New York.

Website: www.credit-suisse.com

Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is a leading bank holding company that engages in investment banking, securities services, and investment management. The firm acts as a financial advisor and money manager for corporations, governments, and wealthy families around the world. Goldman offers its clients mergers & acquisitions advice, underwriting services, asset management, and engages in proprietary trading, and private equity deals. It is a primary dealer in the U.S. Treasury securities market.

Website: www.gs.com

Yale Entreprenurial Institute (YEI)

The Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI) was formed to help undergraduate and graduate Yale students start scaleable new ventures. While initially existing as a stand-alone 10-week summer program, YEI has since expanded into a year-round University department acting as a portal for entrepreneurship on campus and offering programs and events year round that serve the entrepreneurial interest of students and the New Haven community.

Website: www.yale.edu/yei

Office of New Haven and State Affairs

Yale University has been a part of the New Haven community for three centuries. The Yale University Office of New Haven and State Affairs (ONHSA) provides a front door to Yale and its resources for the people and organizations of Greater New Haven. Working with other University departments and our neighbors in New Haven , ONHSA spearhead1s Yale's partnerships to strengthen New Haven through economic development, neighborhood revitalization, public school and youth programs, and a vital downtown.

Website: www.yale.edu/onhsa

Yale School of Management

The mission of the Yale School of Management is to educate leaders for business and society. Our goal is to prepare men and women who will be leaders in their organizations and entrepreneurial ventures, and who will be leaders in their communities. The philosophy that superb business and management skills are a critical ingredient for leadership in every sector of the economy -- private, public, and nonprofit - has been manifested by extraordinarily successful graduates in all three arenas.

Website: mba.yale.edu

Yale Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Society (YBPS)

The Yale Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Society (YBPS) is a university-based organization committed to bringing together people and groups in the Yale-NewHaven community and beyond with an interest in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. The YBPS was founded in 1997 by a team of business and graduate students, and now it consists of over 1200 members and coordinates a plethora of biotechnology- and pharmaceutical-related activities in the Yale-New Haven community and beyond, including a pharmaceutical case competition, biotechnology entrepreneurial competition, and symposium and career fair.

Website: www.yale.edu/ybps/