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CommerceNet is an

entrepreneurial research institute.

We invest in exceptional people with bold ideas, freeing them to go beyond the domain of traditional research labs and venture funds. We use the power of the Internet to transform existing processes—making them better, faster, and more efficient.

Initiatives

Over our long history, CommerceNet has invested in many types of endeavors, often taking an equity stake in companies in return for the resources we supplied.

Companies

Most of our portfolio companies have moved through stealth mode to early stage to launched (to acquired!).

Community

CommerceNet has sponsored and enabled communities to promote collaboration, standards, and idea pollination.

Projects

CommerceNet has funded a number of projects that utilized the Internet to introduce novel approaches to long-standing problems in healthcare, Internet security, and other fields.

Featured Initiative

Cancer Commons is a new patient-centric paradigm for translational medicine, in which every patient receives personalized therapy based upon the best available science, and researchers continuously test and refine their models of cancer biology and therapeutics based on the resulting clinical responses.