Investors and Partners
Our ventures have received more than $5 billion in investments from these strategic, institutional, and corporate partners.
The Spencer Trask Edge: Our brand and record attract people with big discoveries, so we see the future first.
How Can We Do That – Consistently?
Our Brand
The unforgettable brand of Spencer Trask embodies exactly what we do. The light bulb represents the “Aha!” moment of discovery. Our mission is to radiate and magnify great ideas, just as electricity energizes the filament and lasers power the global Internet. We get talent, investors, and partners on the same wavelength—to make the impossible practical, salable, and scalable.
A Record of Being First
From the first electric grid to the first mass capacity optical networks, from the first sequencing of gene mutations to the first evidence-based healthcare, from the first AI for making semiconductors. AI for the law, and AI for supply chain monitoring, the first FDA-approved Cell-based immunotherapy, and the first approved Stem cell drug — Spencer Trask has been first in what matters. This legacy of being first draws the next generation of revolutionary thinkers and doers to us.
Giants Inspire the Best and the Brightest
Edison, Salk, Gilbert, and Gould didn’t just alter history—they did it with Spencer Trask. The most ambitious innovators see themselves reflected in our pantheon of greats.
“If you’re good enough for Thomas Edison, you’re good enough for me.” – David Huber, Internet pioneer
The Virtuous Cycle
The entrepreneurs of tomorrow bring world-changing ideas to us. Great talent, investors, and partners follow.
Listen to Other GIANTS on Spencer Trask
Nobel prize winner Walter Gilbert on launching the first human genome company
CEO of the world’s first cell phone venture
Bain co-founder George Bennett on starting the evidence-based medicine revolution
Peter Sprague: Chairman of National Semiconductor, the first analog chip company, on Nolan Bushnell, who launched the video game industry
Ciena CTO explains the Internet
Dave Huber on the Dawn of the Internet
Leonard Kleinrock, father of the Internet, and Kevin Kimberlin kick off the Internet Anniversary
Charlotte Jacobs, the definitive biographer of Dr. Jonas Salk
