Become a Sponsor:
At YES, we're always looking for strategic partnerships that will help spread the spirit and benefits of entrepreneurship to as many as possible. If your group is interested in becoming a sponsor of YES, please get in touch with us via our listed contact information.
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
Citigroup
The Citigroup Corporate & Investment Bank has emerged as the premier organization for meeting all the financial services needs of corporations, governments, and institutional and individual investors. Citibank's Global Relationship Bankers and Salomon Smith Barney's Investment Bankers work together to meet the needs of our clients around the world.
Website: www.citigroup.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
Connecticut Innovations
Connecticut Innovations provides strategic capital and operational insight to push the frontiers of high-tech industries such as energy, biotechnology, information technology, and photonics. Over the years, CI has helped over 100 emerging companies research, develop, and market new products and services. This activity has attracted over $1 billion dollars in additional investments from private equity providers. CI has brought the State of Connecticut over $510 million in Gross State Profit and over 5,000 additional job-years.
Website: www.ctinnovations.com
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
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net-worth individuals.
Website: www.gs.com
Corporate Executive Board
The Corporate Executive Board (CEB) is the premier executive network for leaders of the world's largest public and private organizations to solve their most urgent shared concerns. We serve our members by building cross-industry memberships of seniormost peer executives in charge of major functional areas.
Website: www.executiveboard.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 headquartered 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
Orbimed
OrbiMed is a preeminent asset management firm focused on the global health sciences industry, with over $5 billion in assets under management across a family of venture capital funds, hedge funds and other investment vehicles. OrbiMed's investment advisory activities were founded in 1989 by Samuel D. Isaly with a vision to invest across the spectrum of healthcare companies: from small privately-held firms to large multinational companies.
Website: www.orbimed.com
Office of Cooperative Research
The Yale University Office of Cooperative Research (OCR) was founded in 1982 and charged with extending and expanding Yale University's interaction with the private sector. The duties of the OCR include oversight for patenting and licensing activities, university inventions, and contractual relationships between faculty and industry. OCR staff work with Yale researchers to identify inventions that may ultimately become commercial products and services useful to the public. OCR staff also engage in industrial partnerships to license Yale inventions. An important goal for the Yale OCR is to identify new ideas, cultivate venture funding for them, and facilitate their development into companies that become part of the New Haven economy.
Website: www.yale.edu/ocr
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 spearheads 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