Stephen A. Costantino

Ben Franklin Technology Partners /Ventures/ (Ben Franklin Tech Partners) is a venture Capital firm founded in 1982. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Oxane Materials, Inc. manufactures and markets ceramic proppants. It offers products in the areas of sour gas abatement technologies, PEM fuel cell membranes, and composite agents. The firm’s advanced ceramic proppants, travel more deeply and more uniformly into oil and gas formations than conventional proppants while also affording a more conductive channel for oil and gas to flow to the wellbore. The company was founded by Mark Wiesner, Christopher E. Coker, Gregory P. William and Andrew Barron in 2002 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

PaceControls LLC designs and develops energy efficiency devices. It specializes in developing eco-smart, easy-to-install, energy-saving HVACR solutions. The firm designs variety of commercial, industrial and residential heating, cooling and refrigeration equipment. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Blue Square Energy, Inc. develops and manufactures silicon solar cells. It commercializes proprietary silicon solar cell technology called Bright Point, which utilizes impurity enriched silicon to deliver solar electricity. The company was founded by Jeffrey Barnett in November, 2003 and is headquartered in North East, MD.