Harris & Harris Group Continues Its Blog Series to Highlight Most Impactful Portfolio Companies With Metabolon, Inc.

NEW YORK, April 7, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TINY), an investor in transformative companies enabled by disruptive science, released its blog post on Metabolon and why it is on the cutting edge of healthcare analytics and personalized medicine. This is the second in our series of detailed postings that will provide current and future investors an opportunity to take a deeper look into the potentially most impactful companies in our portfolio (http://www.hhvc.com/blog/blog-details?BlogPostID=f0aa3d92-d75d-4eff-94a3-d8d51116fd03). The first blog in this series focused on D-Wave Systems, Inc. (http://www.hhvc.com/blog/blog-details?BlogPostID=605642b6-a290-4be5-8200-6769192c1300).

This series of blogs is an opportunity to provide a practical view of the companies and the technologies that we believe are important to the future of Harris & Harris Group. We have now released blogs on D-Wave Systems, Inc. and Metabolon, Inc. We plan to release future stories on Champions Oncology, Inc., HzO, Inc., Produced Water Absorbents, Inc., and Adesto Technologies Corporation. We may expand this series to include other companies in our portfolio as these companies mature and based on feedback from shareholders.

This blog can be viewed at http://www.hhvc.com/blog. Detailed information about Harris & Harris Group and its holdings can be found on its website at www.HHVC.com and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/harrisharrisvc.

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Released April 7, 2014