Funding opportunity for semiconductors, displays, and solar PV startups

Looking to raise capital? This comes from our allies over at Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association:

Invitation for Funding Submissions – two days left!

The Canadian Consulate in San Francisco/Silicon Valley, in partnership with the Canadian Venture Capital Association, CVCA, wants to bring an opportunity to your attention. We have been working with Applied Ventures LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., which has expressed interest in receiving information from early-stage Canadian companies in the technology sectors described below.

Applied Ventures invests in or partners with early-stage technology companies which promise to deliver high growth and exceptional returns with technologies that can advance or complement Applied Materials’ areas of core expertise. Its objective is to help to develop technologies and markets which stimulate the growth of applications for semiconductors, displays, solar PV, and related products and services. Applied Materials is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions for the electronics industry with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service, and software products.

Applied Ventures is accepting submissions from Canadian VC portfolio companies which would benefit from strategic association with Applied Materials. All submissions should fit the technology sectors described below and should be by way of a 2-page profile document which provides basic company information along with a clearly defined value proposition for the technologies and business models involved. Submissions should not contain any confidential or proprietary information. Upon conclusion of the submission period, September 9, 2010, Applied Ventures will undertake a review process, and companies/VC’s will be advised accordingly.

Applied Ventures would like to receive submissions from companies in the following technology sectors:

1. Solar Technologies – Thin film PV, crystalline PV, wafering, metrology, materials, products and equipment in the solar value chain

2. Solid state lighting – LEDs, substrates, metrology, novel device designs, thermal management, light engines

3. Energy conservation technologies and software – Commercial-scale energy efficiency, smart buildings, smart materials, sensing, software controls and analytics

4. Novel memories – Next-generation data storage devices, novel materials, novel architectures

5. Lithography technologies – Advanced lithography solutions

6. Energy storage – Advanced batteries and energy storage systems

7. Displays – Next generation display technologies, front planes, back planes, equipment, materials

Please send all submissions to submissionsappliedventures@cvca.ca by close of business Thursday, September 9, 2010.

**Note: This communication is not an offer to buy any securities nor a solicitation of offers to sell any securities.**

MRM