An incubator of unique and significant ideas
NxGen Partners is an incubator of unique and significant ideas that are consequential in transforming industries. The ideas we invest in are first demonstrated in the lab, and then protected by unique patents resulting in technologies that are impactful to society at large.
An Independent Technology Development Company
The team at NxGen have backgrounds in technology, engineering, science, telecom, tower and real estate infrastructure. They have held executive positions in telecom vendors as well as telecom operators and wireless tower companies. We are looking for Accelerator partners or commercial partners who may be interested to take the incubated ideas to the next step. In all cases we ensure that there is a patent portfolio behind the technology. The significant advantages of NxGen’s model include:
Lab demonstration • Rapid product development • Valuable product enhancements • Lower initial and long-term costs to potential users of the technology
History of NxGen
NxGen Partners was founded in 2013 by Roger Linquist and Solyman Ashrafi. Roger, a pioneer in telecommunications, started his career at Texas Instruments in 1966 where he served as manager in the central research laboratories applying new technologies to advanced product systems. In 1976 Roger became a management consultant with McKinsey and Company. Roger then became the founder and CEO of PageMart, one of the largest publicly traded paging companies in the country. In 1994 Roger left PageMart to start MetroPCS. MetroPCS became the fifth largest facilities based wireless communications company in the US. At Metro Roger recruited Solyman Ashrafi to design and build the world’s first 4G network. Solyman also launched the first Rich Communications Services (RCS) with VoLTE is a subsystem. In 2013 T-Mobile acquired MetroPCS and Roger and Solyman left to start NxGen Partners to incubate transforming telecommunication technologies that they felt would be critical for 5G.
Patents
This page is intended to serve as notice under 35 U.S.C. § 287(a).
“Marked products are covered by one or more of the patents listed below.”
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