Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 4 of a series)

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Follow the Lead of the Oil Majors

Large corporations, including the oil majors, have begun supplementing inhouse R&D (Research & Development) with investment in innovative startups.

TIP: READ, for example, the following article …
Financing R&D and Innovation / B. H. Hall and J. Lerner – August 2009
Free full text source: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~bhhall/papers/HallLerner09_rndfin_chapter_draft.pdf ]

But how to identify startups that fit your corporate goals? One way is to set up and advertise a venture capital unit, which enables young companies to pitch their technology to your corporation.

And that is just what several oil majors have done.

Studying their portfolios can provide a wealth of helpful information, whether you are a venture capitalist, a startup, or simply interested in identifying emerging technology.

Some results from Google® search string: venture capital oil gas

Results revealed these three corporate venture capital entities …

• Phillips Energy (http://www.phillipsenergygroup.com/VentureCapital )
• Chevron Technology Ventures (https://www.chevron.com/technology/technology-ventures)
• Shell Ventures (https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/new-energies/shell-ventures/portfolio.html)

Browse this post to see details on each of the above.

TIP: Use the above Google® search string, or a variant thereof, and browse several pages down the results list to find other useful links.

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Venture Capital - Phillips Energy Inc.
http://www.phillipsenergygroup.com/VentureCapital

In an effort to diversify their wealth, the Family began investing in venture capital and private equity deals. Similar to oil and gas opportunities, venture capital and private equity deals are inherently risky. This risk leads to the opportunity for rewarding returns. Devotion to a due diligence process and selectivity has increased the Family's success rate. The partnerships and investments the Family has decided to invest in range from aerosols and propellants sold to DuPont to banks and financial institutions to pipelines and education in Latin America, plus many more. A few examples of the venture capital and private equity partnerships are listed below.

Aeropres Corporation
You can't see it, touch it, smell it or taste it but you'll find it in many of the products you use every day. If you have sprayed anything from an aerosol can or bottle it is very likely that you have used the products of the Aeropres Corporation.
In 1973, Chairman B.C. McKeever and eleven other local investors bought the small, Illinois-based Aeropres and moved it to Shreveport, Louisiana. Beginning with a single plant, the company initially reached nearly $2 million in annual sales. By the year 2000, annual sales had grown to $75 million.
http://www.aeropres.com/home/

Argent Financial Group
https://argentfinancial.com/
Oil & Gas
If oil and gas resources are present on a property, the land/mineral owner has a range of opportunities to generate wealth from exploration and development activities. While others are available to assist you with certain aspects of mineral (oil and gas) management, few can provide Argent’s expertise and comprehensive range of oil and gas services.

B1Bank
https://www.b1bank.com/
Our mission is to be the financial institution of choice for enterprises, their owners and employees.
By delivering the best banking solutions available, including personal and commercial banking, treasury management and wealth solutions, our talented and empowered employees are able to assist b1BANK clients with reaching their financial goals.
In addition to offering our clients a superior level of customer service and a diverse product set designed to get the job done, b1BANK aims to provide a safe and rewarding workplace for our dedicated and highly skilled employees.
We bank for the individual, the small business, the doers, the go-getters and the ones who just get it done.

Energy Transfer
https://www.energytransfer.com/
Energy Transfer is one of the largest and most diversified midstream energy companies in the country with more than 86,000 miles of pipelines traversing 38 states transporting the oil and gas products that make our lives possible.
On December 5, 2019, Energy Transfer LP (ET) and SemGroup Corporation (SEMG) completed their previously announced merger, in which ET acquired SEMG. For more information on the merger, please click here.         

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Chevron Technology Ventures
https://www.chevron.com/technology/technology-ventures

What we do
Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) champions the innovation, commercialization and integration of emerging technologies into Chevron. We pursue innovative business solutions and externally developed technologies that have the potential to improve Chevron’s base business operations and champion their deployment and adoption into Chevron.

A conduit for early adoption of emerging technology
Chevron is integrating emerging technologies into our business and CTV helps make that happen. We identify technology advances that could strengthen our core operations and lead Chevron to new opportunities for growth. Through our technology teams and venture capital group, we scan the globe for technologies that can yield strategic and financial value. We also look for pioneering startup companies whose technologies could enhance the way Chevron produces and delivers energy. CTV can invest in companies at any phase in the development cycle, from providing early-stage seed investment to offering capital for full-scale commercialization. Some technologies may be studied, and then shelved for future consideration.
We focus our search for innovation on six dominant technology streams:
•Water Management
•Production Enhancement
•Emerging Materials
•Power Systems
•Information Technology
•Subsurface & Base Business

Investment portfolio
Since 1999, Chevron Venture Capital has supported a wide range of companies and venture capital funds. Partner technologies are used across our upstream and downstream businesses, producing substantial earnings for the company.

Advanced materials

Microfabrica
https://www.microfabrica.com/
Microfabrica is the industry leader in manufacturing of micrometer- and millimeter-scale metal components, subsystems, and devices with features measured in microns. The company breakthrough proprietary EFAB technology can create complex three-dimensional micron-precision metal structures with unprecedented flexibility.

Soane Energy
http://www.soaneenergy.com/
Soane Energy is a specialty materials company that is developing and applying innovative chemistry based on polymers and surface science to help meet the worldwide “hunger for energy” in a practical, immediate, and environmentally responsible way. The company’s initial focus is on the oil sands market in Canada.

Emerging/alternative energy

Acumentrics
https://www.acumentrics.com/
Acumentrics’s solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is designed to be fuel-flexible and to operate at high temperatures to maximize efficiencies. Unlike many other types of fuel cells, SOFC’s require a negligible amount of precious metals and instead can be made out of ceramics. Besides SOFC’s, Acumentrics is an industry leader in selling rugged, uninterruptible power supplies for military, transportation and industrial applications.

Ensyn
http://www.ensyn.com/
Ensyn is a producer of renewable liquid fuels and renewable chemical products from wood residues. Rapid Thermal Processing, or RTP, converts residual biomass from the forest and agricultural sectors, as well as cellulosic-based, post-consumer wastes, to high yields of light liquids.

Inventys
https://svanteinc.com/
Inventys is the developer of energy and capital-efficient technology for capturing carbon dioxide from industrial flue gas streams. Inventys’ proprietary VeloxoTherm™ process is less than one-third the cost of existing post-combustion carbon dioxide capture technologies and will enable the widespread adoption of enhanced oil recovery and carbon sequestration.

Information technology

Maama
https://www.maana.io/
Maana has developed a novel approach to representing and analyzing industrial knowledge mathematically. Maana’s patented Computational Knowledge Graph™ enables industrial companies to encode human expertise and data from across silos into digital knowledge that helps employees make better and faster decisions.

Moblize
https://moblize.com/
Moblize provides “Ready to Analyze” data from exploration to production compliant with new E&P standards to aide your decision making. Moblize’s data quality solution coupled with its “Factory drilling” analytics (used to manage wells by exception) ensures actionable information is available to decision-makers anytime, anywhere.

NSS Labs
https://www.nsslabs.com/
NSS Labs helps clients achieve a forward-looking perspective on IT security and manage cyber risk more effectively. With NSS Research, enterprises can make rapid business decisions about competing vendors, products and technologies. NSS Labs’ unique perspective and expertise are based on more than 2 million work-hours of real-world security product testing and provide crucial visibility into future market and technology trends.

Panzura
https://panzura.com/
Panzura delivers innovative products that take an application-centric rather than a network-centric approach to storage, termed Application Network Storage. By combining application logic with storage technology, Panzura is able to provide solutions that are faster, cheaper and more secure than traditional approaches to Tier 1 Storage. This architecture allows enterprises to save costs, significantly increase performance and secure mission-critical data via public or private cloud environments.

Veros Systems
https://verossystems.com/
Veros Systems is a company that is commercializing a new type of enterprise software to improve the reliability of assets powered by electric motors. The Veros technology will enable operators to monitor the health of assets and make key decisions regarding “just in time” service scheduling.

Oil & gas

Airborne
https://airborneoilandgas.com/
Airborne is the manufacturer of thermoplastic composite pipe. The company provides oil and gas operators and service companies with premier composite pipe systems. It provides products such as downlines, hoses, offshore flowlines and risers.

Arisdyne
http://www.arisdyne.com/
Arisdyne specializes in designing small footprint devices that utilize controlled hydrodynamic cavitation. Controlled flow cavitation generates energy in the form of a shockwave creating a highly efficient and elegant way to reduce particle size, disrupt cell structures, and disperses agglomerates. Arisdyne applies this technology to increase yield for ethanol production, reduce catalyst consumption for biodiesel production, and change viscosity of heavy crude oil.

Foro Energy
http://www.foroenergy.com/
Foro Energy is commercializing high-power lasers for the oil, natural gas, geothermal and mining industries. Their hardware platform transmits high-power lasers over long distance using fiber optic cables to drill, complete and workover wells.

Halfwave
http://www.halfwave.com/home
Halfwave is a company that develops piping inspection tools using Acoustic Resonance Technology, an ultra-wide band acoustic technology utilizing acoustic half-wave resonances. The non-contact measurement technology offers deep penetration of coatings, high resolution, and high speed.

HiCor
Hicor has developed a unique multiphase compression technology that reduces initial and ongoing operating costs for natural gas producers through an efficient and cost-effective compressor package solution. Hicor’s technology reduces compression costs and economically enhances hydrocarbon production and also has future applications in compressed natural gas-refueling, pipeline stations, offshore platforms and compressed-air energy storage.
Hicor Technologies is now Reach Production Solutions. For details, please visit the new Reach website.
https://www.reachps.com/

Lux Assure
https://luxassure.com/
Lux Assure is a provider of chemical monitoring technologies for both offshore and onshore use in oil and gas industry. The company focuses on developing technology for the oil and gas industry to monitor difficult-to-detect chemicals used by the oil industry.

MezurX
https://www.mezurx.com/
MezurX has developed a new generation of real-time flow and mud monitoring systems. By providing processed information from advanced sensors, a new level of assistance can be offered to the drilling crew to help better manage Non Productive Time events while drilling.

MicroSeismic, Inc.
https://www.microseismic.com/
MicroSeismic, Inc. has proprietary technologies which enable passive surface-based microseismic monitoring and imaging for the exploration and production of hydrocarbons. Passive seismic makes use of existing, often naturally occurring, sound sources, rather than dynamite or vibrators. Passive seismic can go where conventional seismic cannot and sees not only the structure in 3-D but also detects fluid movement, fracturing and fault movement.

PanGeo Subsea
https://www.pangeosubsea.com/
PanGeo Subsea delivers high resolution subsea imaging solutions using 3-D and 4-D acoustic technology; these technologies are utilized primarily to characterize the area beneath the seafloor prior to construction of offshore infrastructure or pipelines.

Seikowave
http://www.seikowave.com/
Seikowave has developed a new 3-D imaging solution using structured light which brings a cost-effective, rapid visualization system to market using developments in optics and processing algorithms. Instead of scanning one point at a time, structured light scans multiple points or the entire field of view at once. The technology is used for the non-destructive evaluation of anomalies (e.g., corrosion, gouges, dents, etc.) commonly found in pipelines, tanks, pressure vessels, and other structures.

Silixa
https://silixa.com/
Silixa has developed the next generation of distributed fiber optic sensing with applications in the energy and security industries.

Target Intervention
http://www.targetintervention.no/
Target Intervention is the manufacturer of fracture and intervention tools for oil and gas industry. The company offers a fully electric coiled tubing conveyed isolation tool for fracking applications. It's device has electric downhole motors that operate packing elements, anchors, valves and allows for real-time monitoring of pressure, temperatures, mechanical force and tool performance.

Ziebel
https://www.ziebel.com/
Ziebel has developed a unique conveyance system based upon metal-encased fiber optics for measurement combined with carbon-fiber sheathing for strength and reduced weight. The Ziebel intervention technology can be used for continuous well-integrity monitoring, waste water disposal monitoring, detecting casing and packer failures, detecting water incursion, and perforation performance.

Zi-Lift Ltd.
https://www.zilift.com/
Zi-Lift Ltd. is developing innovative downhole pumps for the oil and gas production industry based on Permanent Magnet Motors coupled with the latest pumping and monitoring technology, which will deliver smaller size and higher efficiency than competitive technologies.

contact us
Chevron Technology Ventures
1500 Louisiana, 39th Floor
Houston, TX 77002
email: techventures@chevron.com
https://www.chevron.com/technology/technology-ventures
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Shell Ventures | Shell Global
https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/new-energies/shell-ventures/portfolio.html

Our portfolio
We invest in companies to find and develop leading technologies and disruptive business models in strategic areas of interest.

Renewable power and thermal

Asperitas
https://www.asperitas.com/
   Asperitas is a clean and high-tech company, that developed the award-winning Immersed Computing® technology solution. This plug and play liquid cooling solution helps datacentres become more energy efficient.

AutoGrid
https://www.auto-grid.com/
   AutoGrid organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data

Axiom Exergy
https://www.axiomexergy.com/
   Axiom enables supermarkets and cold-storage facilities to intelligently store and deploy refrigeration, reducing costs by up to 40 percent during peak hours.

Corvus Energy
https://corvusenergy.com/
   Corvus Energy is the world's leading supplier of safe, innovative and reliable energy storage solutions for all segments in the maritime industry.

d.light
https://www.dlight.com/
   A firm that provides small to medium-sized solar home energy systems, including solar products, across more than

Geli
https://geli.net/
   End-to-end software platform streamlines the energy storage development process, offering the industry’s only solution for design, automation, and management.

GlassPoint Solar
https://www.glasspoint.com/
   Designs and manufactures solar steam generators that use solar thermal technology to generate steam for enhanced oil recovery.

Husk Power Systems
https://huskpowersystems.com/
   Husk is one of the world’s leading off-grid utilities that provides reliable power to rural communities and businesses entirely from renewable energy sources.

Innowatts
https://www.innowatts.com/
   Energy technology platform providing advanced analytics, predictive customer intelligence and AI to digitalize utility operations and personalize the end-to-end customer energy experience.

LO3 Energy
https://lo3energy.com/
   Developing blockchain based innovations to revolutionize how energy can be generated, stored, bought, sold and used, all at the local level.

PowerGen
https://www.powergen-renewable-energy.com
   An innovative company that develops, builds and operates mini-grids in Africa, typically powered by a combination of solar PV and batteries.

Sense Labs
https://sense.com/

SolarNow
https://www.solarnow.eu/
   A for profit social business, passionate about transforming lives by providing high quality solar energy and financing solutions in East Africa.

Sonnen
https://sonnengroup.com/
   A German company producing intelligent, clean, home energy storage systems for private households and small businesses. You can become more energy independent and avoid energy price hikes.

SteamaCo
https://steama.co/
   Generation and storage points that work in challenging technical environments - off-grid Africa, Asia and Latin America, offering advanced consumer management, payment control and data analytics.

Sunfunder
https://www.sunfunder.com/
   Is a solar energy finance business with a mission to provide financing for solar assets in emerging economies, including inventory, working capital, construction, and structured finance loans.

Sunseap
https://www.sunseap.com/SG/
   By integrating technologies, services and expertise across the entire solar value chain, Sunseap delivers bankable solar energy solutions.

Oil and gas

Airborne Oil and Gas
https://airborneoilandgas.com/
   The world’s first manufacturer of fully bonded, light, strong and corrosion resistant Thermoplastic Composite Pipe. Benefits subsea and production applications.

Bluware
https://www.bluware.com/
   a global leader in high-performance Platform-as-a-Service computing innovation for E&P.

Halfwave
http://www.halfwave.com/home
   Cost-effective tools and services using ultra-wideband acoustic inspection technology. Halfwave gives penetration and measurement capabilities exceeding industry norms.

Magseis
https://magseisfairfield.com/
   Ocean Bottom Seismic Acquisition. Fully automated system provides cost effective and efficient operations. The use of robots enables safe, no-hands operations.

Quantico Energy Solutions
http://www.quanticoenergy.com/
   An artificial intelligence platform providing data-driven solutions that lower costs and improve quality across subsurface-related oilfield services.

Osprey Informatics
https://osperity.com/
   Provides cloud-based intelligent visual monitoring solutions for industrial operations
   Osprey Informatics

Salamander Solutions
https://www.salamandersolutions.com/
   Uses latest advancements in heater cable technology to boost production in heavy oil wells and deepwater developments.

WellDog
https://www.welldog.com/
   Pioneered the development of Raman spectroscopy to geochemically characterise oil and gas reservoirs.

Fuels and mobility

Ample
https://www.getample.com/
   Ample has developed an alternative to traditional charging that uses autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology, making it feasible for anyone to own an electric car regardless of driving needs, economic means, or geographic location.
 
Aurora
https://aurora.tech/
   Aurora, an autonomous vehicle technology company (software, hardware and services), delivers the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly and broadly.

Connected Freight
https://www.connectedfreight.com/
   Connected Freight digitises and optimises logistics by providing customers with transparency of B2B logistics data, optimisation of delivery routes and outsourcing to third party drivers.

HyET Hydrogen
http://hyet.nl/hydrogen/
   Safer, faster and more efficient mechanical and electrochemical hydrogen purification and compressors for hydrogen vehicle refueling and industrial applications.

Nordsol
https://www.nordsol.com/
   Nordsol is a BioLNG production and technology company, that uses its unique technology to offer a cost competitive net zero emissions solution to the heavy duty transport sector.

Ravin
https://www.ravin.ai/
   Ravin uses computer vision and deep learning to monitor, detect and assess vehicle condition, offering trust and transparency to the often stressful process of a car changing hands.

Openbay
https://www.openbay.com/
   ***An award-winning online marketplace for automotive repair and service, and provider of SaaS-based offerings for the automotive care industry in the United States.

Revel
https://gorevel.com/new-york/
   Revel provides shared electric mopeds that help people who live and work in cities get where they need to go in a safe, reliable and fun way.

Sense Photonics
https://sensephotonics.com/
   Building the next generation of LiDAR and 3D sensor solutions for autonomous vehicles, industrial equipment and other applications

Tiramizoo
https://www.tiramizoo.com/en/
   SAAS platform for logistics solutions to individual retailers or regional trade associations managing large delivery quantities and optimising same day delivery logistics.

TRAVIS Road Services
https://www.yourtravis.com/en/home/
   The TRAVIS booking platform enables data-driven road services, allowing fleet owners to find, book, and pay for road services at the right place and time.

WhoCanFixMyCar
https://www.whocanfixmycar.com/
   The quick, simple way to compare the prices and reputation of garages and mechanics near you.
Multi-industry solutions

Akselos Oil & Gas
https://akselos.com/
   The creator of the world's most advanced digital twin technology to protect critical infrastructure today and tomorrow

Cumulus
https://www.cumulusds.com/
   Connecting workers, tools and data with the industry’s first connected operations and maintenance management platform.

Kespry
https://www.kespry.com/
   Leading aerial intelligence platform using industrial drones to transform the way data is captured in the field.

Maana
https://www.maana.io/
   Represents knowledge in the form of models. The Maana Knowledge Platform™ organises and optimises assets and decision flows three times faster than any technology.

MachineMax
https://machinemax.com/
   Wireless telematics solution that helps companies maximise the profitability of off-highway fleets, using Internet of things (IoT) technologies, cloud computing and machine learning to cut fuel, maintenance and rental costs, reduce carbon emission and improve a site’s productivity.

Rocsole
https://www.rocsole.com/
   Unparalleled multiphase and deposition visualisation applications for reducing deferred production.

Veros Systems
https://verossystems.com/#section-2
   Industrial asset monitoring system that provides a dashboard with real-time operating metrics and clear, early warnings, with zero false alarms.

Funds/incubators

Autotech Ventures
http://autotechvc.com/
   Specialising in early & growth-stage and start up investments, primarily investing in ground transportation, information technology, software and electronics.

Chrysalix
https://www.chrysalix.com/
   A technology focused venture capital company that builds, mentors and connects high-growth companies.

Congruent Ventures
https://www.congruentvc.com/
   Builds companies addressing sustainability challenges. Invest early across hardware, software, enterprise, consumer, deep technology, fin-tech, and business model innovation.

EV Private Equity
https://www.evprivateequity.no/
   An independent growth equity firm applying its specialised expertise to build world-class companies and uncover new technologies in the oil and gas sector.

Energy Environment Investment
http://ee-investment.jp/en/
   Leading venture capital based in Tokyo, focused on the energy & mobility markets in Japan and beyond.

G2VP
https://www.g2vp.com/
   Invests in exceptional companies applying emerging technologies to traditional industries in novel, sustainable ways.

ProVenture
http://www.proventure.no/home
   Based in Norway, invests in early stage technology companies with international potential, providing capital and competence to accelerate growth for investments.

SET Ventures
http://www.setventures.com/
   Invests in European early growth-stage companies that can impact the future of the energy markets worldwide.

About Shell Ventures
Shell Ventures helps companies reach the next level. Established in 1996 as one of the first corporate venture funds in the oil and gas industry, we act as an investor and partner in the commercialisation of innovation.
https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/new-energies/shell-ventures/portfolio.html

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Starting Down the Startup Path: TOC – Table of Contents
If you enjoyed this post, you might like some of the others in this series. Here is a convenient way to find them.
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Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 1 of a series)
How do you find emerging technology? One way is to focus on startups.
OK, fine, but how do you discover the startups that offer a technology of interest to you? One way is to focus on venture capital firms that focus on the areas of interest to you.
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2019/12/starting-down-startup-path-part-1-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 2 of a series)
Anyone involved in venture capital or its variants is interested in identifying potential candidates for investment opportunity. Finding these candidates is not easy. But a place to start on startups is to see what companies other venture capital firms have identified.
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2019/12/starting-down-startup-path-part-2-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 3 of a series)
Panning for Google® gold: startups with promising new technologies
The previous post in this series featured the List of Top Oil and Gas Private Equity Firms discovered as the result of a Google® search. The list focuses on companies pursuing acquisition and development of existing resources. While the list will be useful to many, this series of posts focuses on techniques you can use to identify startups with promising new technologies.
So, on to the next step in the quest to find new technology on the cusp of successful deployment.
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/01/starting-down-startup-path-part-3-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 4 of a series)
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Follow the Lead of the Oil Majors
How do you identify startups that fit your corporate goals? One way is to set up and advertise a venture capital unit, which enables young companies to pitch their technology to your corporation.
And that is just what several oil majors have done.
Studying their portfolios can provide a wealth of helpful information, whether you are a venture capitalist, a startup, or simply interested in identifying emerging technology.
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/01/starting-down-startup-path-part-4-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 5 of a series): Searching Patents
Patents: Emerging Tech
Patents are a rich source of cutting-edge research. And much of the research reported in patents never appears in peer reviewed journals. So, to identify emerging technology in your field, consider searching the patent literature on a regular basis.
TIP: Read Tips for reading patents: a concise introduction for scientists for an excellent overview on this topic.
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/02/start-up-startdown-path-parti-5-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 6 of a series): Reviewing Patents
Searching for patents is iterative. You type in some keywords. Results reveal more keywords. You type in those keywords. And repeat.
This can be really tedious, irksome even. Sometimes it is hard to figure out whether a given patent is even relevant to your needs.
Fortunately, a number of experts have offered tips to make it easier to read a patent quickly.
TIP: Google® how to read a patent for more tips on efficient ways to review a patent
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/03/starting-down-startup-path-part-6-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 7 of a series): Patents and Run On Sentences
Per USPO rules, the Claims in a patent must be stated in a single sentence. In many cases, the “single sentence” can be, thanks to colons, commas, semicolons, et al., several hundred words long.
But remember that, as difficult as it may be to wrap your head around any given claim, it still is faster than reading the whole patent.
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/03/starting-down-startup-path-part-7-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 8 of a series): Mining Patents for Keywords
Mining patents for useful information can be tedious. One thing you can do is to look for keywords to use in Google® searches. For example, in a previous post I listed a Breakthrough Technologies LLC patent with the following claim …
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/03/starting-down-startup-path-part-8-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 9 of a series): PTQ Catalysis 2020
PTQ Catalysis 2020 is ready to view at www.eptq.com. As always, it is rich in useful information. In the context of our Startdown the Startup Path series of posts, one article in particular caught my eye …
Pilot plant studies of hydrotreating catalysts
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/03/starting-down-startup-path-part-9-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 10 of a series): The Bigness of Machine Learning
Big data is a big deal. We humans generate so much data that our puny brains are unable to process it. So we have created machines to do that for us.
There is a whole discipline called machine learning designed to train these machines to process massive amounts of data in useful ways.
“Machine learning,” as Serdar Yegulalp notes in an InfoWorld article, “is a complex discipline. But implementing machine learning models is far less daunting and difficult than it used to be, thanks to machine learning frameworks—such as Google’s TensorFlow—that ease the process of acquiring data, training models, serving predictions, and refining future results.”
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/03/starting-down-startup-path-part-10-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 11 of a series): Thread the Needle
In a horse race, the goal is to bet on the winning horse. Common sense tells us that if we knew for a certainty which horse would win the race, racing them would be pointless. The same logic applies to new technologies, and the companies that create them.
That’s why it can be useful to look at companies that have been examined by investment funds like the Columbia Seligman Communications and Information Fund.
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/04/starting-down-startup-path-part-11-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 12 of a series): Patent Prior Art Search
Prior Art Search: Everything you need to know
If you’re looking to understand everything about prior art search, you’ve landed on the right page. By the time you finish reading this guide, you’ll likely have built a solid understanding of what can be included in the prior art, how you can use this knowledge to conduct a patent search all by yourself and avoid spending valuable resources on the non-patentable subject matter.
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/04/starting-down-startup-path-part-12-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 13 of a series) Dibenzothiophene Patents 2020
What’s the quickest way to determine if a patent is of interest to you? Depends on your purpose. This tip sheet may help you decide which section of a patent to focus on.
Read full post at:
https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/05/starting-down-startup-path-part-13-of.html

Starting Down the Startup Path (Part 14 of a series)-Google Patents Find Prior Art Link
Patent research is important in any area of research you are engaged in ... especially if you are a startup, or are considering investing in a startup.
Prior art is an important concept in patent research.
In this regard, Google® Patents Prior Art Link is useful. When you find a patent of interest, in the upper right of the screen you will find a link labeled Prior Art.
Read full post at:
http://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/05/starting-down-startup-path-part-14-of.html

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