South Dakota

Innovation Partners, LLC

815 Medary Avenue, Suite 201 Brookings, SD 57006
201 S. Phillips Avenue, Suite 110 Sioux Falls, SD 57104

ph: 605.366.3151

Investment Focus

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.

  • Our industry focus is based on our regional areas of strength in research, such as energy, health sciences, and engineering-based technology.  We look to invest in regional start-up or early-stage companies requiring $100,000 to $500,000 preceding a subsequent capital round or exit strategy.  As the lead investor in most cases, we look to establish good strategic and capital partnerships to share and manage early-stage investment risk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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815 Medary Avenue, Suite 201 Brookings, SD 57006
201 S. Phillips Avenue, Suite 110 Sioux Falls, SD 57104

ph: 605.366.3151