Today, we highlight one of the earliest private equity investors in HZO, Harris & Harris, a publicly traded company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol TINY. H&H follows a distinctive investment approach, described as BIOLOGY+, the intersection of biology and interdisciplinary innovation from other technical fields, including materials science, chemistry, physics, engineering, and electronics.
The H&H team spends significant time tracking and discussing promising new technologies. In HZO’s case, H&H foresaw the emergence of wearable technology and realized that for wearables to go mainstream, they needed to be safe when exposed to sweat and water and their resulting corrosion.
HZO is a good company in the H&H portfolio, including investments in other electronics-related companies, including semiconductors, telecommunications and data communications, and metrology and test measurement.