Judy moderated the panel "Exit Strategies - Financing to the End Game" at the American Chemical Society Entrepreneur Resources Center Entrepreneur Summit at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in March 2013.  The panel featured Dr. Stephen Flaim of Tech Coast Angels, Dr. Scott Lockledge of Fairbridge Venture Partners, and Dr. Edward Greer of the Venture and Business Development Group of the Dow Chemical Company.

You can watch the presentation here - this panel begins at 01:04:00 of the video.

Download the slides here.

Mark Vreeke, Sid White and Judy have co-founded the Chemical Angel Network (CaN). The Chemical Angel Network focuses on seed and early stage deals that have a substantial chemical sciences aspect. Have a venture you want to share?  Want to become part of the network as an angel?  Please sign in to www.ChemicalAngels.com and send us your information!  We are already screening and funding deals!

October 2012

Judy is quoted in the October 22, 2012, Chemical & Engineering News article "Chemical Angel Network Funds Chemistry Start-Ups" by Marc Reisch.

Mark discusses the recently founded Chemical Angel Network (CAN), which specializes in providing seed capital for chemistry-related start-up companies.  Judy is a CAN advisor and member.  In the article Judy points out that while chemistry is essential for many biotechnology, pharmaceutical and energy-related start-ups, "chemistry is not a buzzword today that people love.”  But the time is right for chemistry-related start-ups, and investing in these will help spur the US economy as well as develop the technology we need for a better future.

September 2011

Judy spoke at the  Nanomanufacturing Summit 2011 in Boston, MA, in the "High Performance Green Nanomaterials for Electronics & Industrial Applications" session.  Her talk was titled "GOAL: Sustainable Materials Commercialization and Innovator Preparation" - click to download a PDF of the presentation.

March 2011

Judy and VentureWell were featured in an article in Mass High Tech: The Voice of New England Innovation on March 30, 2011:

In "Entrepreneurs help the next generation learn from their life lessons" author Galen Moore delves into VentureWell's goals to help scientists form successful start-up companies and take their innovations to the next level.  Judy and Joseph Steig, VentureWell's Director, explain some of the key issues that scientists moving into industry need to consider.

Judy counsels that "You need to understand what markets can you get into what price points and how much will they buy." She also advises that people think about their market strategy - "People think about, 'Look at my exit strategy', and, 'Here's my 30-second pitch.' We've sort of trained people to do pitches and that's unfortunate."