Mohr Davidow Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments. The firm typically invests in information technology, energy and materials, and life sciences companies. Within information technology it invests in Internet services including developing and marketing web-enabled applications and services; semiconductors including semiconductor design, process technology, tools and related hardware, and software infrastructure; and software and systems including systems and applications development and systems engineering. Within energy and materials it invests in cleantech, nanotechnology, computational techniques, device technologies, processing, and manufacturing. Within life sciences it invests in molecular biology, chemistry, computer science, optics, signal processing, and MEMs companies. It invests in the Silicon Valley, Mid-Atlantic, and Pacific Northwest regions in the U.S. Mohr Davidow Ventures was founded by Mr. Lawrence Mohr and Dr. Bill Davidow in 1983 and is based in Menlo Park, California.