Eon Research Ventures

Leveraged Seed Venture Capital
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Eon Research Ventures focuses on early stage technology development - delivering innovative revolutionary technologies to market leaders.


Eon Research Ventures has active investments in biotech, energy, materials, and informatics.  Our focuses has been on developing novel technologies from inception through licensed implementation. Eon Research Ventures catalyzes the development of revolutionary, high risk technologies aimed at improving and extending the human condition.

The Eon Research Ventures Team:


Owen Hughes, Ph.D., Managing Director

  • Focus: Life Sciences, Nanotech, Materials, SBIR Grants, Business Development;
  • Managing Director EON Research (a technology develco that leverages his extraordinary ability with SBIRs);
  • Former Seed VC, and serial entrepreneur in the life sciences and high-tech;
  • Winner MIT Business Plan Competition (with technology subsequently SBIR funded then sold); and
  • MIT BS and MBA, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)  Ph.D. (Genetics)

Reed M. Benet, Managing Director
  • Focus: CleanTech (Fuels, Vehicles, and Energy), LifeSci, Operational Management, Business Development;
  • Former Detroit based Booz Allen Hamilton Strategy and Technology Consultant for TACOM/TARDEC;
  • Former Director CleanTech at UT Austin’s Technology Incubator;
  • Founder UCSF spin-off drug delivery company (UCSF licensed, VC funded, then sold); and
  • Princeton BA, Harvard MBA, A.B.D. University of California Davis Ph.D. (Transportation Technology and Policy);

Joah Gonzalez, Principal
  • Focus: Materials, Manufactures, SBIRs, Operational Support;
  • Research Engineer, Texas Research Institute Austin (Led $1.42M of SBIRs);
  • SBIR Review Committee Member;
  • Intern for Mr. Benet at University of Texas Austin’s Incubator;
  • UT Austin MS (Engineering Management) and BS (MechE).