Venture Pitch Spotlight

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The Spotlight is essentially a condensed version of your presentation or your Executive Summary that highlights your strong points. It provides an overview, touches on what makes you unique, and can cover your market, product, technology, and management.

Spotlight format requirements:

• It should be easy to read, use bullet or numbered points, and include contact info.
• It must be less than 500 total words
• At this time our newsletters are straight text. You must use capital letters to highlight sections and spaces for indentation as below. Do not use HTML, Word, or other formatting. This includes but is not limited to graphics, fonts, styles (bold, italic, etc.), bullet characters (use regular text characters), paragraphs, tabs, indents, borders, boxes, shading, or tables.

An example:

MICRO FOUNDRY INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS
The medical diagnostic and point of care markets are changing with the development of microfluidics, a micro-machined technology enabling automation and miniaturization of laboratory functions into portable fluid processors. Many diagnostic functions, including blood analysis, AIDS detection, and gene research can now be done on a lab the size of a dime.

These new processors require the adoption of unique and innovative micro-machine technologies in order to support industry growth. However, there are many barriers companies face in order to obtain this technology including the lack of specifically designed equipment to manufacture microfluidics, limited availability of small volume rapid prototype services, and inflexible manufacturing technologies.

This diagnostic market as of 2007 is a $34 billion dollar market with expected growth of 4% - 5% per year with the point of care diagnostics leading the way. (Source: Yole Development)

COMPANY OVERVIEW
Micro Foundry specializes in bringing innovative micro-machining technology to emerging applications in medical diagnostics. Our mission is to provide customer-driven solutions for development and fabrication of microfluidic devices. We do this by providing the following:

SERVICE: Flexible, fast turn-around foundry service for microfuidic devices
BENEFIT: No need to commit long-term research dollars to development and designing of new devices in-house

SERVICE: Innovative, flexible, turnkey process tools for the production of microfluidic devices
BENEFIT: Accelerated and flexible product development compared to current technologies

SERVICE: Expert micro-machining service
BENEFIT: No need to build in-house expertise in micro-machining

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Micro Foundry’s approach to building microfluidic devices is unique and innovative. The secret is the design of our process tools, which provide the basis for superior foundry services and equipment.

     1. Our process tools enable us to build microfluidic devices cheaper, faster, and with greater flexibility than our competitors.
     2. Our process tool technology enables us to help our customers accelerate development and commercialization of microfluidic diagnostic applications.
     3. Our unique tool designs allow us to produce low volume pieces at very reasonable pricing.

CURRENT STATUS
     > Developing prototype fabrication line for microfluidic production. Conceptual CAD drawings completed.
     > Negotiating with potential customers to develop first equipment / production line around. (Ex. Nanosphere, Johnson & Johnson, Biosite, Academia, Codon Devices, Helicos Biosciences, and others.)
     > Core team identified, business established.
     > Seek $990K capital required for proof of concept prototype line and facility rental.

MANAGEMENT
Bryan S. Presley, Co-Founder & President, Micro Foundry L.L.C.
Mr. Presley has over 17 years of experience in the semiconductor and MEMS industries with focus on equipment, process, implementation, and start-up functions.

Jeffrey N. Miller, Co-Founder & Senior Vice-President, Micro Foundry L.L.C.
Mr. Jeffrey Miller has over 14 years of experience in the semiconductor and MEMS industries with focus on process, technology applications, and IP.

CONTACT:
Bryan Presley
bpresley@company.com
214-123-4567