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Non-Tech : Harris & Harris Group (TINY) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DiB who wrote (89)	10/30/2003 1:04:37 AM
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Summary of recent investment news: biz.yahoo.com NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2003--Harris & Harris Group, Inc. announced today that it has invested $525,900 as part of a convertible preferred financing of privately held Chlorogen, Inc. (www.chlorogen.com). ... Chlorogen, Inc. is focused on developing plant-made drugs and vaccines for the treatment and prevention of human diseases. Its patented chloroplast technology permits the expression of foreign proteins only within plant chloroplasts. According to Chlorogen, this provides two significant benefits. First, the chloroplast technology dramatically enhances the protein production of a cell. Second, because chloroplast DNA is not inherited through pollen, Chlorogen's technology can prevent foreign genes from being transferred to other crops through pollen. Chlorogen's initial focus will be on developing pharmaceutical proteins in tobacco. biz.yahoo.com NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2003--Harris & Harris Group, Inc. announced today that it invested $323,000 as part of a $10.5 million Series B Convertible Preferred financing of privately held Nantero, Inc. (www.nantero.com). ... Nantero is developing NRAM(TM), a high-density, nonvolatile random access memory chip using nanotechnology. Including its initial investment in August 2001, Harris & Harris Group has invested $813,000 in Nantero. biz.yahoo.com NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2003--Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (NASDAQ/NMS SYMBOL: TINY - News) announced today that it has made a follow-on investment in privately held NanoOpto Corporation (www.nanoopto.com) as part of a $7 million round of financing. Harris & Harris Group made its initial investment in NanoOpto in April of 2002. The investors in the current round of financing include Morganthaler Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Gotham Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) New England Ventures and U.S. Trust's Excelsior Venture Partners III, LLC. NanoOpto is creating and commercializing novel classes of optical components for a broad range of markets, including optical data transfer, telecommunications, sensors and displays.