Alex Taussig

Alex Taussig is a Principal at Highland focused on businesses that use high technology to solve significant problems in the enterprise， as well as those that leverage the power of the internet to connect and engage communities around new forms of digital media. He is actively involved in Highland’s investments in 2tor， Bit9， Heartland Robotics， QD Vision， RentJuice and VYou. You can read Alex's blog， or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ataussig.

Prior to joining Highland， Alex worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant with the Magnetic Materials & Devices Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology （MIT）. At MIT， he synthesized and characterized a new class of magneto-optical perovskites capable of growth on semiconductor-compatible substrates. His results were published in several notable peer-reviewed journals.