Founded in 1993 and based in Sarasota, Florida, Alliance Technology Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in private company investments in the semiconductor, communication component and life science industries. They help companies grow through strategic alliances, joint ventures, consortiums, and partnerships with other businesses to access complementary strengths. They have assisted companies of all sizes in diverse industries in the USA, Asia, and Europe, either as a fee-based advisor or facilitator, or more actively as the managing partner of the formation and ongoing operations of the arrangement in a shared risk/shared reward relationship.