South Dakota Innovation Partners, LLC executes a disciplined investment approach for identifying, evaluating, and developing early-stage investment opportunities.  We focus our resources on the opportunities that provide the greatest visibility to the most promising outcome for our constituents. 

Good early-stage investment opportunities will exhibit the following characteristics:

• Market development strategy that is aligned with a large market ("pull-oriented"), competitively positioned, and leverages existing distribution channels.
• Intellectual property strategy that supports the market development strategy, provides an 'order of magnitude' improvement, establishes a defensible market position, and is unique.
• Technology development strategy that supports the intellectual property strategy and technology scale-up, with milestones, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Talent required to execute all aspects of a successful investment opportunity.

These characteristics provide the best opportunity for the region, the research institution, the researcher, and our investors to leverage the capital investment and services we provide.