Gaule: Introduce yourself and New Venture Partners (NVP).
Socolof: I am one of the managing partners of NVP, a venture capital frm focusing on corporate spin-outs. I am a founder, a member of the investment committee, and I lead deals in a broad range of areas from semiconductors to networking technologies to consumer products and medical devices.
We were a venture incubator for Bell Labs within Lucent Technologies from 1996-2001. In 2001, with the challenges facing the telecoms industry,…