Primary Job Title Managing General Partner Primary Organization 
Phoenix Venture Partners
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Nobi Kambe is a Partner and co-founder of Phoenix Venture Partners (PVP). He is a distinguished inventor and serial entrepreneur with deep expertise in nanomaterials. Nobi Kambe has over 50 issued patents and is the founder of three successful start-ups, Nanogram Devices (acquired), Neophotonics (IPO), and Nanogram Corporation (acquired). Earlier
in his career, Nobi Kambe was a Research Manager in semiconductor and carbon nanomaterials and devices at Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT) where he became Senior Manager of New Business Strategy with management oversight of thousands of patents and hundreds of commercialization and R&D partnerships. Nobi Kambe was also a Managing Director at the International Center for Materials Research (ICMR) in Japan and was the founder of ICMR-USA. He earned his BS and MS from Keio University and his PhD from MIT. Nobi Kambe is a frequent lecturer at the University of Tokyo, Kagawa University, and Keio University, and has been a member of the Evaluation Committee for Nanotechnology at AIST, a major national laboratory in Japan.
