CMEA Capital is a venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 firm located in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Tom Baruch with New Enterprises Associates in 1989 as a $40M fund entitled “Chemical and Materials Enterprise Associates”. CMEA’s early focus was on investing in startup enterprises that commercialized new applications of specialty chemicals and materials technologies. Twenty-one years later, CMEA Capital has raised six additional funds
and currently has $1.1 billion under management. CMEA Capital provides capital to entrepreneurs in the energy & materials, information technology, and life science sectors. Tom Baruch

Tom Baruch

Tom Baruch is a leading venture capitalist based in San Francisco. He founded CMEA Capital in 1989 with New Enterprise Associates , to focus on venture capital investments in companies applying materials science to innovations that have the ability to transform or create new industries .-Early...

now heads up the firm’s Energy and Materials team and Jim Watson serves as General Managing Partner.

Investments

The company has been an investor in more than 120 energy & materials, information technology and life sciences companies over the past twenty one years including: Aclara Biosciences (which merged with Monogram Biosciences, Biomimetic Therapeutics, Cadabra Design Automation (acquired by Synopsys), Everest Design Automation (acquired by Synopsys).