Education
Tufts University.
Tufts University.
Ben duPont began working for the DuPont corporation in 1986, a company founded by the du Ponts in 1802. He held various management positions in the company over 13 years. In 1999, he left DuPont to cofound yet2.com with Phillip Stern, a United States. patent distribution firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ben duPont currently serves as the company"s president and a founding partner.
After a year of development the firm had raised $24 million in financing, and was described as a "quasi-clearinghouse for technology developed by corporations" by Forbes Magazine, where both inventors and companies can post their patents for sale or lease to other firms. In December 2002, yet2.com was acquired by Scipher, but the next year duPont acquired yet2.com back from Scipher and became its executive director
The website had grown into the world"s largest open innovation platform. A venture capital firm, yet2Ventures, remained independent after being incubated at yet2.com. yet2Ventures has specialized in investments in medical devices, electronics, materials science, clean technical and other technology.
The company has offices in Liverpool, Boston, Tokyo, and Wilmington, Delaware.
In 2010, yet2Ventures completed a transaction with the Japan Asia Investment Corporation relating to its United States. venture portfolio. Over the years his firm has invested in more than 40 United States. companies. and has also since invested in a number of secondary direct and primary transactions. DuPont has served as a director of Vianix, Speakman, Longwood Gardens Incorporated., Gigsky, Incorporated, and Bessemer Trust Delaware.
He is also chairman of the board for Mobeam Incorporated., headquartered in California"s Silicon Valley. and a board observer of Ecrio.
Benjamin Franklin duPont was born in 1964. His father is Pierre South. du Pont IV, Republican United States. Representative and Governor of Delaware from 1977 to 1985.
He graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering in 1986. They have two children.
He is a member of the prominent Du Pont family. Since 2008 he has been a member of the board of the directors for Morgan Stanley Capital International.