Motorola Ventures, or MotVentures, helps turn great new ideas into thriving businesses. Motorola Ventures is not a lab, but like one, it's about discovery. MotVentures focus on opportunities that complement Motorola's total business strategy. It evaluates "new idea companies," the people and technologies behind them and the vision they bring. Further, it identifies cutting-edge technology investments that will help Motorola achieve the best solutions to fit its customers' needs. Every investment is a strategic alliance encapsulated by vision, creativity, and business acumen. Bringing together talent and sharing dreams allows us to achieve more together than we can alone.

Motorola Ventures represents a diversified portfolio with a typical investment ranging from US$3 million to US$5 million. The primary purpose is to nurture a venture company through its critical phases of start-up, growth and expansion. In addition to providing financial support, MotVentures offers business and technology expertise, market leadership and brand recognition to growing companies with compelling business plans. In turn, the companies invested in introduce Motorola to new ideas, new technologies and new markets. The result — strategic and financial value and, ultimately, competitive advantage.

Motorola Ventures takes a hard look at technology. It looks for ideas and innovations based on sound business fundamentals that satisfy a market need. Companies that fulfill a Motorola Ventures profile also demonstrate a defensible intellectual property position, a proven business model, customer interest and a reasonable time to profit.

From the many companies evaluated by MotVentures, it selects only those that represent a true alliance — one that will strategically benefit both sides. Most of all MotVentures looks at the people behind the ideas, and helps make each other's dreams happen. And in turn, we contribute to each other's success.

If you would like to have your company and products considered by Motorola Ventures, we invite you to contact us.

Please feel free to submit your non-proprietary and non-confidential business plan or executive summary to Motorola Ventures; one of our expert investment managers will review the material. If the plan or summary is of interest to Motorola Ventures, an investment manager will contact you within 3 weeks. If the plan or summary is not of interest, the materials will be destroyed, and you will not hear from us. Please do not seek to contact Motorola Ventures for an update on the status of submitted materials.

Please DO NOT send confidential or proprietary information to motorolaventures@motorola.com, or to any Motorola Ventures mailing address. Motorola Ventures DOES NOT accept unsolicited confidential or proprietary information from third parties. All such information sent to this email address or to any Motorola Ventures mailing address will be destroyed unreviewed.

If you would like more information about Motorola Ventures, please email us at motorolaventures@motorola.com.