INDUSTRY: Technology Exchange
http://www.SparkIP.com
VC Funding:
· NUMBER OF DEALS - 1
· AMOUNT INVESTED - $1.1M
· KEY INVESTORS - The company's key investors include John Mack, CEO of Morgan Stanley, and Kristina M. Johnson, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at The Johns Hopkins University.

SparkIP.com is the first of its kind. It is an intellectual property (IP) online exchange that ties together the entire scientific community and provides fully searchable intelligent access to patents, new technologies and the people seeking innovation such as inventors, IP professionals, licensors and licensees.
Secret to success. SparkIP.com provides a virtual "snapshot" of the innovation universe and the site capabilities allow users to gain a better understanding of what technologies exist and how they can be applied. At the heart of SparkIP.com is a new type of marketplace where inventors and commercialization offices can broadly market new technologies to a worldwide audience of corporations, entrepreneurs and other acquirers of new technologies.

"SparkIP.com is designed to make information on IP and new innovation much more accessible than it has ever been before and to present that information in a context that gives the user interesting and actionable insights",
says Ed Trimble, CEO of SparkIP.
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