Investors and Partners
Our ventures have received more than $5 billion in investments from these strategic, institutional, and corporate partners.
Forge Your Legacy Among Giants
Big ideas don’t just happen—they’re uncovered by those bold enough to look deeper. At Spencer Trask & Co., we’ve spent over a century supporting the game-changers: the Edisons, Salks, and Gilberts who see what others miss. We discovered the potential in the first cancer vaccine, the first AI-driven semiconductor factory, and the fiber optics that built the internet. Our mission is finding those rare, world-shifting concepts and giving them the fuel—capital, expertise, connections—to grow. Discovering big ideas isn’t just what we do; it’s who we are—partners to the pioneers rewriting tomorrow.
Imagine standing shoulder-to-shoulder with innovators who reshaped our world, and with our support, changed the course of history. By choosing Spencer Trask & Co., you’re not just gaining a partner—you’re tapping into the spirit and accumulated wisdom of geniuses spanning the past century.
Stories from the Titans of Innovation:
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
