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Alta Partners
Alta Partners is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco which invests primarily in biotechnology and life science companies.
History.
The company was founded in 1996 by Dr. Jean Deleage, Ph.D., who was also a founder of the venture capital firms Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. (BEDCO) and Sofinnova, together with Guy Paul Nohra, Marino Polestra, and Garrett Gruener, all former general partners at BEDCO. 
Alta Partners is actively investing out of its latest early stage fund called Alta Nextgen
3-D seismic applications such as velocity estimation, wavefield-continuation prestack migration, multidimensional image estimation, and 4-D (time-lapse) reservoir monitoring.
History.
SEP was founded by Jon Claerbout as a partnership between the Stanford University School of Earth Sciences Department of Geophysics and various industry partners who fund for SEP activities. SEP pioneered developments in migration imaging, velocity estimation, dip moveout and slant stack analysis.
External links.
- SEP Home Page