Third Millennium Venture Capital Limited
Los Altos, California
Third Millennium Venture Capital Limited will consider providing advice and
capital for start-up and early-state business enterprises that have
exceptionally well-qualified people and promising market-driven products in
areas such as computers, electronics, artificial intelligence, and other areas
of computer technology.
Third Millennium generally makes initial investments in the range of $100,000
to $500,000. All investments to date have been made in conjunction with other
venture capital investors; however, Third Millennium is prepared to function as
lead investor in locating additional sources of venture capital funding when
necessary in a particular situation.
The principals of Third Millennium Venture Capital Limited, Drs. John R. Koza
and Martin A. Keane, believe their experience and expertise can be brought to
bear to increase the probability of success for the ventures being funded.
- Dr. John R. Koza
received his PhD in Computer Science in the area of induction (machine
learning) from the University of Michigan in 1972. In 1973, he co-founded
Scientific Games Inc. Between 1973 and 1982, he was Chairman, Chief
Executive Officer, and majority stockholder of Scientific Games in
Atlanta, Georgia. After the sale of the company in 1982, he continued as Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer until 1987. Scientific Games (with 1986 sales
of $86,000,000) is known for introducing the rub-off instant lottery game
to the state-operated lottery field in 1974; for producing over 20 billion
such tickets (up to that time) for almost every U. S. state lottery and
numerous foreign lotteries; for being start-up consultant and supplier of
computerized accounting, validation, and marketing systems for numerous U.
S. state lotteries; and for operating on-line networks of lottery game
terminals and player activated lottery machines for various states.
Scientific Games is now called Scientific Games Holdings and is on the New York Stock Exchange. Visit John Koza Consulting
Professor at Stanford University in the Section on Medical Informatics
in the Department of Medicine and School of Medicine and in the Electrical
Engineering Department in the School of Engineering. Since 1988, he has
taught a course on genetic algorithms and genetic programming at Stanford
University. He co-teaches a course on computational aspects of molecular
biology and taught a course on artificial life in the Computer Science
Department in the past. He is author of over 125 scientific papers and of
two books from the MIT Press, Genetic Programming: On the Programming
of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (MIT Press 1992) and Genetic
Programming II: Automatic Discovery of Reusable Programs. (MIT Press
1994). He is co-author, with Forrest H Bennett III, and David Andre, and
Dr. Martin A. Keane of Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and
Problem Solving (Morgan Kaufmann, March 1999). Koza has been chair of
the 1996, 1997, and 1998 Genetic
Programming Conferences. Koza is also president of Genetic Programming Inc., a
company that operates a large parallel computer for research and
development on genetic programming.
- Dr. Martin A. Keane
received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1969. Between l972 and
l976, Dr. Keane supervised the Operations Research group in the
Mathematics Department at General Motors Research Laboratory in Warren,
Michigan. He joined Bally Manufacturing Corporation of Chicago in l976 as
Vice-President of Engineering for the amusement game division. He became
Vice-President-Technology for the entire corporation in 1980, supervising
over 200 engineers. In this capacity, after the sale of Scientific Games
Inc. to Bally in 1982, Dr. Keane also designed and manufactured various
products for Scientific Games, Inc., including video player-activated
lottery game machines, interactive laser disk games, and on-line
clerk-activated lottery game terminals with distributed fault-tolerant
computer processing. Keane has also designed specialized equipment for the
high-speed computer-controlled imaging operations used in printing instant
lottery game tickets. Drs. Keane and Koza have received numerous patents
in various areas of computers, electronics, printing, gaming technology,
and, most recently, on use of genetic programming to synthesize the design
of analog electrical circuits.
Third Millennium Venture Capital Limited is willing to informally discuss
concepts with interested individuals. Thereafter the investment evaluation
process typically begins with a detailed written business
plan.
Dr. John R. Koza
Third Millennium Venture Capital Limited
Box 1123
Los Altos, California 94023 USA
FAX: 650-941-9430
URL at Stanford University: http://www.smi.stanford.edu/people/koza/
E-Mail at Stanford University: koza@stanford.edu
URL at Genetic Programming Inc.: http://www.genetic-programming.com
E-MAIL at Genetic Programming Inc.: koza@genetic-programming.com
URL for Genetic Programming Conferences: http://www.genetic-programming.org
Dr. Martin A. Keane
Third Millennium Venture Capital Limited
5733 West Grover
Chicago, Illinois 60630 USA
Phone: 773-777-1524
FAX: 773-777-0195
E-MAIL: makeane@ix.netcom.com
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