Upcoming Events:

August 5-6, 2008 - Nanotechnology and the Environment, Purdue University.

Past News and Events

Winter 2008 - Dr. Pearl Chin is featured in her alma mater's alumni magazine, At Cooper Union.

January 2008 - Dr. Pearl Chin has stepped down as President of the Foresight Nanotech Institute but remains a Research Fellow with them.

Fall 2007 - Dr. Pearl Chin is being interviewed for by The Cooper Union's alumni magazine for the Fall/Winter edition.  The Cooper Union is Dr. Chin's alma mater where she received her Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering.

November 3-4, 2007 - Foresight Nanotech Institute's Vision Weekend will be held at Yahoo! headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.

October 26, 2007 - Dr. Pearl Chin has been invited to give a keynote dinner lecture at the nanoUtah07 conference in Salt Lake City, UT.

October 9-10, 2007 - Dr. Pearl Chin will be moderating a panel from Motorola and IBM on near, long and visionary term applications of nanotechnology at the Conference sponsored by Foresight Nanotech Institute and Society of Manufacturing Engineers on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap in Arlington, Virginia.  Deadline for early registration is September 17, 2007.

October 5, 2007 - Dr. Pearl Chin met with a Russian delegation visiting from the International Visitor Leadership Program of the U.S. Department of State rduring their 2 week visit to the U.S. to study "Innovation and the Market Place: Bridging the Gap Between Scientific Discovery and Profitable Applications".

October 3, 2007 - Dr. Pearl Chin participated as a panel member speaking about business plans to students at her alma mater, The Cooper Union, at their very first student Cooper Union Venture Network panel speakers series meeting.

August 2007 - Dr. Pearl Chin will be joining the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Nanomedicine.

August 15, 2007 - Dr. Pearl Chin participated in an invitation-only focus group in Boston to speak about "Barriers to Commercialization of Nanotechnology" for a report to be done by the U.S. Department of Commerce to be submitted to Congress in September for public policy recommendations regarding how the U.S. government can facilitate nanotechnology benefits to the American public.

June 4, 2007 - Dr. Pearl Chin has just been appointed President of the Foresight Nanotech Institute.  The Foresight Nanotech Institute was founded in 1986 and is the leading nanotechnology think tank in the U.S.  She will temporarily suspend writing on Nanotech Investing.

Febuary 22, 2007 - "For a Discussion on the Outlook for Nanobiotechnology in 2007" at the Nanotechnology and Business Forum at Greenberg Traurig in Boston, MA.

Febuary 7, 2007 - Dr. Charles Brumlik, Esq., will be speaking on "Current Trends in Nanotechnology Investment and Technical Partnering" at the Nano2007 Conference in Montréal, Canada.

January 19, 2007 - Dr. Pearl Chin is starting again as monthly contributing guest writer on Nanotech Investing for Nanotechnology Now.  Check out her first article on "Nanotech Going "Public". Christine Peterson, one of the founders with Eric Drexler of the Foresight Institute commented on the article. Click here for the comments.

October 2006 - We have moved into a new office in Athens in Syntagma Square.  Please note the change of address.

June 2006 - The interview with Dr. Pearl Chin on the state of nanotechnology, "Nanotech: not just for Star Wars anymore" is on page 13 of Cornell Enterprise magazine Spring 2006.

April 1, 2006 - Seraphima Ventures has moved its New York office.  Please note the change of address to Park Avenue on our website.

March 15, 2006 - Dr. Pearl Chin was interviewed for InvestorIdeas.com for her views on green and clean technology for an article on valuing clean nanotechnology investments, "Nanotechnology, Valuing Clean Nanotechnology is No Small Matter."

Feb 2006 - Dr. Pearl Chin was interviewed for an article on nanotechnology for Cornell Enterprise magazine.  The issue is due out this Spring.  Cornell University has 4 federally funded nanotechnology R&D centers, the most federally funded nanotechnology centers in the U.S.

January 31, 2006 - President Bush mentions in his State of the Union address the need to support and fund nanotechnology. PDF File

December 29, 2005 - Seraphima Ventures opens its Athens office.

November 21, 2005 - Charles Brumlik, PhD, JD is organizing and speaking at the New Jersey Greater Garden State Nanotechnology Alliance's "Commercializing Nanotechnology in Energy Storage and Conversion". Dr. Brumlik spent 6 years with ExxonMobil.

October 27, 2005 - Dr. Pearl Chin enters into a formal arrangement with Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) to help them commercialize their technologies.

October 4, 2005 - Dr. Pearl Chin joins the Board of Directors of Biophage Pharma (TSX-BUG), a Canadian biotech firm focusing on phage therapy.

September 12, 2005 - Professor Morinobu Endo, a discoverer of carbon nanotubes joins our Advisory Board.  He was recently profiled in Small Times in August 2005.

August 16, 2005 - Professor Roald Hoffmann, 1981 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry joins Seraphima's Advisory Board making Seraphima the only firm with two Nobel Prize winners on its Board.

July 6, 2005 - Dr. Pearl Chin was profiled in Business Week Online,"Nanotech's Multidisciplinary Challenge".

May 12, 2005 - Prof. Jackie Ying becomes the youngest elected member of Germany's Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, the world's oldest natural sciences academy.  Click here for the press release.

April 18, 2005 – Dr. Nick Bateman spoke at the Spring 2005 meeting of the American Physical Society on a panel about alternative careers for physicists.

March 2005 - Professor Yuan Tseh Lee, a 1986 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry agrees to join our Advisory Board.

Feb 2005 - Article "Accessing Venture Capital Returns for Efficient Investing in Nanotechnology" authored by Dr. Pearl Chin is published in the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal, Vol. 2 Issue 1.  The same article then also appears in AltAssets, a European private equity e-newsletter put out by Almeida Capital which is backed by the Bank of Scotland.

December 2004 - The Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technology has released its 2004 Strategic Plan for the Federal R&D program in nanotechnology. This report, which was developed with the support of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, updates the original strategic plan of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) for the next 5 to 10 years. The document contains the vision, goals and plans for specific activities by which the goals will be accomplished by the 22 agencies participating in the NNI. The budget for these activities was about $1 billion in 2004.

December 17, 2004 - Seraphima Ventures welcomes Prof. Mark Welland, Director of the Nanoscale Science Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, England.

October 27, 2004 – Seraphima Ventures launches Boston Nanotechnology Business Forum as featured speaker with Professor Robert Westervelt, Director of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at Harvard University.  Strategic partners are Seraphima Ventures, Merrill Lynch, British Consulate, Harvard nanotech centers, etc.  The forum is organized by Greenberg Traurig.