Frank Demmler

About

Frank Demmler is Innovation Works’ Vice President of The Entrepreneurial Services Team, the internal group that assists early-stage companies’ efforts to commercialize and market new technologies and generally provides business assistance to promising start-up companies. The Team also manages IW’s Innovation Investment Fund that invests in about 12 new companies per year, as well as appropriate, follow on investment in existing portfolio companies. Mr. Demmler has more than 25 years of experience advising both entrepreneurs and angel investors having worked with over 2,000 entrepreneurial efforts, leading to the formation of over 400 companies. These companies have gone on to create more than 10,000 jobs and raise more than $1 billion dollars of investment capital. Before coming to Innovation Works, Mr. Demmler served as Associate Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University, where he remains an adjunct profe

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Location

Pittsburgh, US