Houston is the home for three leading industries information technology, medicine and energy.  Vesalius Ventures is currently in the position to exploit these emerging technology markets.  Vesalius Capital Group brings together an experienced management team with substantial expertise in IT, healthcare and energy.  The company focuses on early – mid stage diversified investments, utilizing specialized financing strategies to bring these technologies to the market. 

From a technology commercialization standpoint, they are not dissimilar.  For example, Energy technology is often device, software, communications and chemical process oriented, which is not that different from healthcare ventures.  All are enabled by information technology.  There is the opportunity for Vesalius to lead investments along with large corporate and institutional VC’s, to create new ventures for the marketplace.

Vesalius Capital Group was created for diversified investments, targeting large but unmet market needs, compelling technologies, exceptional management teams.  The key areas of initial interest are: 

• Energy

• Clean tech – greener methods of production, better remediation, more efficient technologies (emissions control, CO2 mitigation, water filtration

• Renewables – energy derived from renewable sources (bio fuels, bio lubricants, ie. Butanol, ethanol, enhanced geothermal systems)

• New process technologies – chemical process reaching economic viability because of high energy prices (coal gasification, coal to liquids, geothermal mineral extraction, brine filtration)

• Production optimization

  • Improvements to production technology

• Intelligent Technologies

• Information technologies

  • Use of informatics in demand side management (monitoring, billing, customer relations, etc.)

• Healthcare IT (HCIT)

• Bioinformatics