Illinois Partners is a venture advisory and investment firm specifically focusing on commercializing technologies emanating from major research universities and federal laboratories in the Midwest. Illinois Partners works with seed-stage companies in complex or advanced technologies. Examples of some of the technologies that the firm works with are: Nanotechnology, MEMS, Bio-chemical sensors, Advanced materials, Human-computer interfaces, Optoelectronics, Pho-tonics, Lasers, and complex Software.