- Allegis Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 that invests in early stage technology and software companies serving emerging markets.
- It focuses on seed and early-stage startups developing enabling technologies for emerging IT markets, primarily in the western US.
- The firm was originally formed within AVI Capital, another early-stage VC firm dating back to 1982, and its managing directors have decades of experience investing in technology startups.
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83North 5
ABS Capital Partners 6
Accel Partners 7
Accel-KKR LLC 8
Accelerate-IT Ventures 9
Activant Capital Group 10
Allegis Capital 11
AME Cloud Ventures 12
Andreessen Horowitz 13
Arboretum Ventures 14
Ascent Venture Partners 15
August Capital 16
Axel Springer 17
Azure Capital Partners 18
B Capital Group 19
Bain Capital Ventures 20
Balderton Capital 21
Battery Ventures 22
Beanstalk Ventures 23
Benchmark Capital 24
Beringea LLC 25
Bessemer Venture Partners 26
Blumberg Capital 27
Breton Capital Management 28
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Burch Creative Capital 29
Campfire Capital 30
Canaan Partners 31
Capital One Growth Ventures 32
Castanea Partners 33
Catalyst Investors 34
Cathay Capital 35
Celero Capital 36
Centana Growth 37
CenterView Capital 38
Cipio Partners 39
Comcast Ventures 40
Commerce Ventures 41
Consumer Equity Partners 42
Costanoa Venture Capital 43
Cowboy Ventures 44
Cross Link Capital 45
DFJ Venture 46
Docomo Innovations 47
E. Ventures 48
Edison Partners 49
Emergence Capital 50
Felix Capital 51
First Round Capital 52
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Forerunner Ventures 53
Foundation Capital 54
Freestyle Capital 55
Fung Capital USA 56
General Atlantic 57
General Catalyst Partners 58
Geodesic Capital 59
GGV Capital 60
Google Ventures 61
Great Hill Partners 62
Greycroft Partners LLC 63
Greylock Partners 64
GS Capital Partners 65
Harmony Partners 66
Hearst Ventures 67
Highland Capital Partners 68
Ignition Venture Partners 69
Index Ventures 70
iNovia Capital 71
Insight Venture Partners 72
Intel Capital 73
Iris Capital Management 74
JMI Equity 75
KKR & Co. 76
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Kennet Partners 77
KPCB 78
Lead Edge Capital 79
Lightspeed Ventures 80
Lumia Capital 81
Luminate Capital Partners 82
March Capital Partners 83
Mainsail Partners 84
Marker LLC 85
Matrix Partners 86
Maveron 87
Mohr Davidow Ventures 88
Mousse Partners Limited 89
New Enterprise Associates 90
Northbridge Equity 91
Northzone Ventures 92
Norwest Venture Partners 93
Notion Capital 94
Novel TMT Ventures 95
Oak HC/FT 96
Palladin Consumer Retail Partners 97
Partech Ventures 98
Primary Venture Partners 99
Radar Partners 100
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Redline Capital Management 101
Redpoint Ventures 102
Rembrandt Venture Partners 103
Revolution Ventures 104
Rho Ventures 105
Riverwood Capital 106
Rocket Internet 107
RPM Ventures 108
RRE Ventures 109
Safeguard Scientifics 110
SageView Capital 111
Salesforce 112
Sapphire Ventures 113
Scale Venture Partners 114
Sequoia Capital 115
Shasta Ventures 116
Sigma Partners 117
Simon Equity Partners 118
Simon Venture Group 119
Stripes Group 120
Summit Partners 121
Susquehanna 122
Sycamore Partners 123
Symphony Technology 124
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Technology Crossover 125
Tengelmann Ventures 126
Tengram Capital Partners 127
Tenaya Capital 128
Thrive Capital 129
Toba Capital 130
Trident Capital 131
Trinity Ventures 132
True Capital Partners 133
True Ventures 134
TSG Consumer Partners 135
Tugboat Ventures 136
US Venture Partners 137
Union Square Investors 138
Upfront Ventures 139
US Venture Partners (USVP) 140
Venrock Capital 141
Verisk Analytics 142
Vista Equity Partners 143
Warburg Pincus 144
Windcrest Partners 145
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Laurel Bowden
Partner
• Currently serves at company
boards and investments include
Workable, Mirakl,
NotontheHighStreet, Wonga,
Wandera, iZettle, BlueVine,
Ebury and Investec PLC & Ltd.
Arnon Dinur
Partner
• Before joining Msystems, Arnon
was the co-founder of Contact
Networks, a California based
Software Company with
worldwide operations.
Tilli Klisky
Venture Partner
• Previously, Tilli was a Project
Manager at Emblaze Systems.
Prior to that, Tilli worked at
VocalTec Communications.
83North
Fund Overview Management Team
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2006 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Herzliya, Tel Aviv
Company Overview: 83North (formerly Greylock IL) is a global
venture capital firm with more than $550 million under management.
83North, formerly Greylock IL, is a global venture capital firm with
more than $550 million under management. The fund invests in
exceptional European and Israeli entrepreneurs, across all stages of
consumer and enterprise companies. With offices in London and Tel-
Aviv, 83North is the sum of the latitudes of these two main hubs of
operation. 83North started as Greylock IL, and remains deeply
rooted in the main US tech hubs, with over half of its portfolio
companies having operations in the US.
Target Geographies Europe, Israel, United Kingdom
Target Sectors Curated Web, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Fund 83North III Limited Partnership
Greylock Israel II Limited Partnership
Greylock Israel Limited Partnership
Company Stages Early Stage Venture and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size $10-50m
AUM $550.00M
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Don Hebb
Founder &
Chairman
• Don is the Chairman and
Founding Partner of ABS
• Prior to ABS , he spent more
than 20 years with Alex. Brown
& Sons Incorporated, where he
was President and CEO.
Phil Clough
Managing
General Partner
• He currently represents ABS
Capital on the boards of
eFashionSolutions, Liquidity
Services and others
Tim Weglicki
Founding
Partner
• His investment interests and
experience span the business
services, health care, media &
communications and technology
sectors.
ABS Capital Partners
Fund Overview Management Team
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1990 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Baltimore, MD
Company Overview: An American venture capital firm focused on
investments in companies across a range of industries, including
business and education services, information and communications
technology and health care.
The company has invested in over 100 growth companies over the
past two decades. With over $2 billion raised since inception,
including $500 million in its latest fund, ABS Capital continues to
build on its strong reputation for teaming with CEOs and market
leaders to deliver strong returns to investors.
It typically invests in companies based in the United States. The firm
typically invests between $10 million and $50 million in a company. It
seeks to invest in companies with revenues between $20 million and
$60 million.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Software, Advertising, Finance
Fund Fund VII
ABS Capital V
ABS Capital VI
ABS Capital Partners Fund IV
Company Stages Early Stage Venture and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size $10-50m
AUM $2.50B
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Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
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Accel Partners
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1983 Status: Private
Employees: 51-200 HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Company Overview: Accel is a early and growth-stage venture
capital firm that backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build
a world-class, category-defining business
The company has offices Bay Area, New York, London and
Banglore. It seeks to take minority stake in portfolio companies. The
firm also seeks to invest in China where it targets to invest in light-
emitting diodes, the smart grid, clean transmission, and solar
photovoltaic materials. The firm also seeks to invest in Brazil and
Latin America.
In 2015, the company launched a new $305m fund to invest in early
stage Indian startups and to work closely with the Indian
entrepreneurs to help build their businesses from the earliest days.
Target Geographies Global
Target Sectors Enterprise & SaaS, Cloud & IT, Internet &
consumer, services and healthcare
Fund Accel India I, II, III & IV; Accel Partners III,
IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX & X; Accel London II, III
& IV; Accel Big Data Fund, Big Data Fund 2;
Accel Telecom, Accel Europe Fund, Accel
Capital, Accel Kelretsu and others
Company Stages Incubation to late stage
Investment Size Invest up to $50m
AUM $10.34B
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Kobie Fuller
Principal
• Previously served as Chief
Marketing Officer at REVOLVE.
Its investments in Campaign
Monitor, UserTesting, Invoca
and AdRoll.
Andrew Braccia
General Partner
• Braccia currently serves as
Director at Slack, lynda.com,
Squarespace, Vox Media,
MyFitnessPal, 99designs and
Cloudera.
Brian O'Malley
Partner
• Leads Accel's work with next-
generation marketplaces and
consumer-focused companies.
• Previously at Battery Ventures
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Accel-KKR LLC
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2000 Status: Private
Employees: 51-200 HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Company Overview: Accel-KKR is a technology-focused
investment firm with $4.0 billion in capital commitments to its current
funds. The firm invests in software and IT enabled businesses well-
positioned for topline and bottom-line growth.
At the core of Accel-KKR’s investment strategy is a commitment to
developing strong partnerships with the management teams of its
portfolio companies and a focus on building value through significant
resources available through the Accel-KKR network. Accel-KKR
focuses on middle-market companies and provides a broad range of
capital solutions from minority-growth investments to buyouts,
recapitalizations, divisional carve-outs and going-private
transactions. The firm has offices in Menlo Park, Atlanta and
London.
Target Geographies United States, EMEA, Asia-Pac
Target Sectors Software, Enterprise Software, Consulting
Fund Tech-Focused Fund IV
Accel-KKR Capital Partners V
Accel-KKR Structured Capital Partners II
Company Stages Private Equity Investments
Investment Size $10-200m
AUM $4.00B
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Tom Barnds
Founder &
Managing
Director
• Tom is a Director of Accellos,
Applied Predictive Technologies,
KANA Software, Layered
Technologies, and North Plains
Systems.
Jim Breyer
Co-Founder
• Jim led Accel’s investment in
Facebook in 2005 and served as a
Member of the Board of Directors
Jim was also founding chairman of
the Facebook Compensation
Committee.
Ben Bisconti
Managing
Director
• Prior to joining Accel-KKR, Ben
was a Managing Director in the
Credit Suisse First Boston
Technology Group.
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Accelerate-IT Ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2013 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: Accelerate-IT Ventures Management, LLC
operates as a venture capital firm. The Company invests in
information technology and software companies. Accelerate-IT
Ventures Management serves clients in the United States.
Founded in 2013, AITV is a US-based venture capital firm with
offices in San Francisco, La Jolla and London. They invest in early-
stage and medium-growth IT software companies that demonstrate
tremendous opportunities for growth. With the sole purpose of
altering the traditional approach to venture investing we are
intentionally singular in our focus around IT Software. We apply a
thriving engagement engine to our portfolio companies and we’ve
developed a strategic ecosystem to ensure US and EMEA
commercialization, revenue and exit pathways.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors SaaS, Enterprise Software, Wireless
Fund Tech-Focused Fund IV
Accel-KKR Capital Partners V
Accel-KKR Structured Capital Partners II
Company Stages Early Stage Venture and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size $10-200m
AUM $606.40M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Bill Malloy III
Founding
General Partner
• Bill currently holds board positions
in a number of portfolio companies
including Penrose, LE TOTE,
HyTrust, LiveAction, Zanbato, and
Addepar.
Brian Nugent
Founding
General Partner
• Brian is currently active as the
Board Chairman of Zephyr
Photonics and most recently with
Brightcloud.
• He is a member of the ‘Alliance of
CEOs’, Compensation Committee.
Darius Sankey
General Partner
• Darius Sankey is general
partner at Accelerate-IT
Ventures Management
Portfolio Companies
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Activant Capital Group
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2010 Status: Private
Employees: 1-10 HQ: Greenwich, CT
Company Overview: Activant Capital invests in growth stage
technology businesses, globally.
The company specializes in software and tech enabled services. Its
team of growth experts is composed of both technology investors
and operating executives with experience scaling technology
companies. After investing, the company work closely with
management teams on anything from sales strategies, and product
management, to recruiting. It assist its portfolio companies in
achieving their long term goals.
To date, the company has deployed of over $350m of equity into the
companies portfolio, with well over $1bn in exits. It can invest as
little as $3m or over $100m in each company, utilizing its network.
Target Geographies Global
Target Sectors Technology enabled and software business
It specialize in software, internet, M2M and
data driven businesses
Fund Activant Ventures I ($55.3m)
Company Stages Late stage
Investment Size $3m or over $100m
AUM $106.40M
Strategy In 2015, raised $250m for two funds for
investments in retail technology and e-
commerce companies
Steve
Sarracino
Founder and
Partner
• Sarracino currently serve as
Director at ShoKeep, RetailNext,
WellAware.us, and Upland
Software,
• Steve has invested more than
$2bn of equity across a broad
range of technology companies.
• Previously, he served as
Business Partner at hybris
software
Trent Herren
Member,
Investment
Team
• Previously founder of Green
Street Partners, and VP of
commerce group at AOL
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Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
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Robert
Ackerman
Founder &
Managing
Director
• Bob currently sits on the Boards
of Apprion, PureWave Networks
and DriverSide.
• His renown prior investments
include LGC Wireless, IronPort,
iBeam Broadcasting etc.
Nawaf Bitar
Venture Partner
• Nawaf joined Juniper Networks,
in April 2011 and today is
Senior VP and General
Manager of the Security
Business Unit.
Pete Bodine
Managing
Director
• Mr. Bodine sits on the Boards of
AdventureLink, Axcient, and
iBAHN.
Allegis Capital
Fund Overview Management Team
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1982 Status: Private
Employees: 51-200 HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Company Overview: Allegis Capital invests in early stage
companies developing technology and software to serve emerging
markets.. Allegis Capital was originally formed within AVI Capital, a
well-established high-technology seed and early-stage venture
capital firm dating to 1982. AVI Management III was a sponsor and
member of the General Partner in the original Media Technology
Ventures, L.P. fund.
Allegis invests in seed and early-stage startup companies developing
enabling technology and infrastructure which serve emerging
information technology markets.
The firm prefers to invest in the western region of United States and
selected investments in Asia. It seeks to invest between $3 million
and $5 million.
Target Geographies United States and selected investments in
Asia
Target Sectors Mobile, Security, Software
Fund Media Technology Ventures III
Allegis VI
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, and Private Equity Investments
Investment Size $3-5 million initial investment
Target 20% ownership of the company at
first investment
AUM $700.00M
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AME Cloud Ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2012 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Palo Alto, California
Company Overview: AME Cloud Ventures is a venture capital firm
specializing in making growth capital investments across early and
late stage companies in technology-heavy sectors, including Big
Data, compute, mobility, sensors and cloud ecosystems. AME Cloud
Ventures is based in Palo Alto, California.
AME Cloud Ventures is the venture fund led by Jerry Yang, co-
founder of Yahoo!
AME Cloud Ventures focuses on seed to later stage companies
building infrastructure and value chains around data. We love
technology heavy companies gathering or creating unique data at
every stage of the data stack — from infrastructure all the way to
applications, mobile, and sensors.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software,
Enterprises
Fund N/A
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM N/A
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Nick Adams
Managing
Director
• Prior to AME Cloud, Nick spent
5 years in China and India,
where he founded a web travel
company and a software-
services company.
Chihyu "Wretch"
Chien
Principal
• Chien led the team serving 6
billion pageviews/month before
selling the company to Yahoo!.
At Yahoo! he led teams located
globally for user-generated-
content products.
Jeff Chung
Principal
• Prior to AME, Jeff covered
growth technology investments
in software and internet at Silver
Lake.
Portfolio Companies
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Steve McDermid
Partner
• Previously, he served as
Director of Internet & New
Media Investment Banking at
Stifel Nicolaus
• Prior, he served as VP at
Thomas Weisel Partners
Jamie McGurk
Partner
• Previously, he served as
Director of Investment Banking
at Thomas Weisel Partners
Ana Mostarac
Partner
• Corporate development at a16z
• Previously at Goldman Sachs
and KPMG
Andreessen Horowitz
Fund Overview Management Team
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2009 Status: Private
Employees: 51-200 HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Company Overview: a venture capital firm specializing in seed,
start-ups, early, mid stage, growth and late stage. The company has
$2.7bn funds under management.
The firm seeks representation in its portfolio companies. Plans to
invest $200 million in software companies involved in biology and
healthcare. The company plans to invest in plans to invest in three
areas including digital therapeutics, cloud biology, and computational
medicine.
The company plans to invest in four Series A deals (the first round of
financing after a business's initial seed capital round) and eight
Series C deals (a third round of investment for businesses that have
typically advanced further along) during 2016.
Target Geographies North America
Target Sectors Social media business and technology
sector such as It focuses on software, back-
end infrastructure. Cloud computing,
enterprise software, business Internet,
Mobile Internet and others
Fund AH Bio Fund, Andreessen Horowitz Seed
Fund, Andreessen Horowitz II, III & IV
Company Stages Seed to growth stage
Investment Size $0.01-100m
AUM $4.70B
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Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
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Arboretum Ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2002 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Ann Arbor, MI
Company Overview: Arboretum Ventures LLC is a venture capital
firm specializing in seed-stage, early-stage, and mid-stage
investments. It seeks to invest in healthcare sector with a focus on
services, medical devices, diagnostics; healthcare information
technology, therapeutics, technology based healthcare services and
life science tools. The firm invests throughout the United States, with
an emphasis on Midwest and Michigan.
It seeks to invest in companies with equity investment between $5
million and $15 million. Arboretum Ventures was founded in 2002
and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Target Geographies US
Target Sectors Health Care, Biotechnology, Health and
Wellness
Fund Arboretum Ventures IV, L.P.
Fund III
Company Stages Early Stage Venture, Later Stage Venture,
and Private Equity Investments
Investment Size $5-15m
AUM $4.74M
Jan Garfinkle
Founder &
Managing
Director
• Jan currently serves on the board
of directors for HandyLab and
NXThera Inc., and as an
observer for Aptus Endosystems,
Esperion Therapeutics and
Uptake Medical.
Tim Petersen
Managing
Director
• Previously, Tim spent nine years
at Industrial Economics, Inc.,
Peter Kahng
Portfolio
Manage
Peter Kahng currently serves as
Portfolio Manager at Arbortum
Ventures.
Previously, he spent two years at
Fred Alger Management
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Christopher W.
Dick
General Partner
• Portfolio companies that have
benefited from Walter’s depth of
experience and perspective
include eCopy, Sensitech,
Phoenix Controls, Harvard
Bioscience and Tidalwire.
Brian J. Girvan
General Partner
• Before joining Ascent, Brian
worked at Argo Global Capital,
Fidelity Investment’s operating
unit, FPIBG and Affiliated
Managers Group.
Luke Burns
Partner
• Currently Luke works closely
with CloudLock, Knoa Software,
Verivo and V.i.Labs.
Ascent Venture Partners
Fund Overview Management Team
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1985 Status: Private
Employees: 1-10 HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
Company Overview: Ascent Venture Partners (www.ascentvp.com)
is dedicated to investing in innovation for the enterprise. In backing
more than 100 early-stage, emerging technology companies since
1985, Ascent has remained committed to its mission of partnering
with exceptional entrepreneurs striving to build innovative market
leaders. Ascent’s investments have yielded powerful results
generating more than $10 billion in enterprise value, which speaks to
the firm’s deep knowledge, experience, commitment, and networks.
The Ascent investment team manages five venture funds with total
commitments of more than $450 million, and is located in Boston,
Mass.
Ascent invests in early stage companies in the east coast with initial
investment ranging from $2 million to $5 million.
Target Geographies United States,
Target Sectors Enterprise Software, Software, SaaS
Fund Ascent Venture Partners V
Ascent Venture Partners VI
Ascent Venture Partners IV
Company Stages Early Stage Venture, Later Stage Venture,
and Debt Financing Investments
Investment Size $2-5m
AUM $450.00M
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Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
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August Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1995 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Company Overview: August Capital manages over $2.5bn in
committed capital and have invested in a mix of companies across
the IT spectrum. It invest in companies differentiated by technical
innovation and entrepreneurial excellence.
It is a private equity and venture capital firm investing in growth
capital and start-up independent of stage. The firm invests in all
stages with a particular focus on early & late stages, management
buyouts and PIPE’s.
The company have invested in over 75 companies across the
technology spectrum. The companies that August Capital's partners
have backed represent an aggregate market capitalization of over
$250bn and generate in excess of $75bn in annual revenue
Target Geographies Global
Target Sectors Information technology spectrum including
IT infrastructure, data center technologies,
system management, storage, software and
cloud computing
Fund August Capital I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII; August
Capital V Special Opportunities; August
Capital Strategic Partners
Company Stages Seed stage, early venture, mid venture, late
venture and emerging growth
AUM $2.79B
Eric Carlborg
General
Partner
• Previously, he served as Partner
at Continental Investors and an
Executive in Residence at
Golden Gate Capital.
• Current investment include
Avant, Fastly, HouseCall, Integral
Ad Science & others
Howard
Hartenbaum
General
Partner
• Previously, he served as General
Partner at Draper Richards
• Prior, he served at Hughes
Electronics
David Hornik
General
Partner
• Hornik current investments
include Bill.com, DataTorrent,
Fastly, LiveOps & Others
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Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
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Axel Springer
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 1985 Status: Public
Employees: 15023 HQ: Palo Alto, California
Company Overview: Axel Springer's early-stage investment arm in
the US, focusing on companies in the digital publishing space.
Drawing upon the network and resources of Europe's leading news
publisher, ASDV Inc. wants to be a value-add partner to companies
that are complementary or disruptive to Axel Springer's business.
Axel Springer, founded in 1946, is Europe’s largest digital publishing
house with leading positions in the European print and digital content
as well as in the digital marketing and classifieds segments.
Based on the strong positions of BILD and DIE WELT in the German
newspaper segment, Axel Springer has embarked on a determined
growth strategy to digitize and internationalize its business already
more than a decade ago.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Consumer Products including retail,
apparel, home furnishings, hospitality,
mobile device and technology industries
Fund N/A
Company Stages Early Stage Venture and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM N/A
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Christopher
Burch
Founder and
CEO
Burch is chairman of Burch
Creative Capital, a private
investment company based in New
York City.
Burch is an active investor in a
variety of businesses spanning a
wide range of industries and is the
co-founder of the luxury fashion
brand, Tory Burch.
Sam Kaplan
Associate
Sam Kaplan is associate at Burch
Creative Capital
Portfolio Companies
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Azure Capital Partners
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2000 Status: Private
Employees: 15023 HQ: San Francisco, , California
Company Overview: Founded in 2000, Azure is a San Francisco-
based venture capital firm with over $750 million under
management.
Azure have served as trusted advisors to some of the most
successful and important technology companies created in the last
20 years, including VMware (NYSE: VMW), Bill Me Later (acquired
by PayPal), Calix (NYSE: CALX), Cyan (NYSE: CYNI, acquired by
Ciena), Top Tier (acquired by SAP), TripIt (acquired by Concur) and
World Wide Packets (acquired by Ciena), and have helped to
generate billions of dollars of value in these companies for
entrepreneurs and investors. Based in San Francisco, California
additional offices in Calgary, Canada and Menlo Park, California.
Target Geographies United States and Canada
Target Sectors Software, Internet, IT and technology
industries
Fund N/A
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM $750.00M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
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Paul Ferris
Founder &
General
Partner
• Prior to founding Azure, Paul
worked at investment banks,
including Credit Suisse First
Boston, and at Deutsche Bank
Securities and Morgan Stanley.
Mike Kwatinetz
Founder &
General
Partner
• Mike s’ current board
memberships are BlogHer,
Breaktime Studios, Chairish,
JumpStart, Medsphere, Open
Road and Rooftop Media.
Paul Weinstein
Founder &
General
Partner
• Paul is currently representing
Azure on the boards of Broadlight
Coraid, Fonality and NeoNova
Network Services.
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B Capital Group
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2015 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Manhattan Beach, CA
Company Overview: B Capital Group invests in growth-stage
companies headquartered in centers of innovation around the world.
The B Capital team partners with companies to meaningfully
accelerate their growth, and connects entrepreneurs to drive
collaborative innovation and success.
To realize this vision, B Capital builds upon its entrepreneurial,
operational and investment expertise through its exclusive
partnership with The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. and BCG Digital
Ventures to provide unparalleled access to global market leaders.
B Capital Group invests in growth-stage companies headquartered in
new centers of innovation around the world.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Technology Startups, Consumer &
Ecommerce, Financial Services, Health &
Wellness, Travel & Transportation
Fund N/A
Company Stages Growth stage
Investment Size N/A
AUM $143.60M
Raj Ganguly
Co-founder &
Managing
Director
• Additionally, he has served as a
Managing Partner of Velos
Partners, board observer for
Hopscotch and Bilna, and is a
Senior Advisor to BCG. Prior to
co-founding Velos Partners,
Ganguly spent 6 years at Bain
Capital
Mike
Fernandez
Principal
• Prior to B Capital , Mike was
Senior Associate at Velos
Partners. He has also worked at
Silvercar, Wilshire Axon, Bain &
Company and UBS Investment
Bank.
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Bain Capital Ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2001 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Boston, MA
Company Overview: Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) provides seed
through growth capital for companies focused on technology and
technology-enabled services primarily for enterprise customers. BCV
invests across sectors including infrastructure software, application
software, FinTech and healthcare.
BCV is the venture capital affiliate of Bain Capital, a global
alternative assets firm. BCV has partnered with over 200 companies
since 1984 to start, build, commercialize and grow their businesses.
BCV has approximately $3bn of assets under management and has
offices in the Bay Area, New York City and Boston.
The company with investments ranging from $1m of seed capital
through $100m. of growth equity.
Target Geographies US
Target Sectors Infrastructure software, application software,
FinTech and healthcare
Fund Bain Capital Venture Fund 2005, 2007,
2009, 2012 & 2014; Bain Capital Venture
Coinvestment Fund; Bain Capital Venture
Partners 2000; BCV 2014 Private Investors;
Bain Capital Integral Investors 2006
Company Stages Early stage, mid venture, expansion, late
Investment Size $3-5m
AUM $3.00B
Ajay Agarwal
Managing
Director
• Agarwal previously served as
Head of Sales and Marketing at
Trilogy.
• Prior, he served as Consultant at
McKinsey & Company
Scott Friend
Managing
Director
• Joined Bain Capital Ventures in
2006 after selling the company
he co-founded, ProfitLogic, to
Oracle
• Previously at IBM
Steve Anastos
Associate
• Previously supported seed-stage
entrepreneurs at Blueprint Health
in NYC, and strategy consultant
at Altman Vilandrie & Company
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Balderton Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2000 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: London, UK
Company Overview: Balderton is Europe's leading Venture
Capital fund focused on early-stage investments.
Balderton backs breakthrough technology businesses in Europe. Our
partnership consists of some of Europe's most successful
entrepreneurs and venture investors. By bringing their combined
experience to bear, we enable our portfolio companies to access an
unrivalled array of knowledge, skills and capital. Our focus is on
ambitious entrepreneurs, disruptive technology and sustainable .
It makes investments in the range of $100,000 to in excess of $50
million. The firm’s typical initial investment is approximately $5
million. On an average the firm invests about $15 million over the
lifecycle of a company. It considers investments between $3 million
and $5 million in startups.
Target Geographies Europe
Target Sectors Mobile, Software, Fintech, Curated Web,
HealthTech
Fund Benchmark Capital III, IV and V
Benchmark Europe II
Benchmark Europe I,
5th venture fund
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, Private Equity, and Debt Financing
Investments
Investment Size $1 million to in excess of $50 million
AUM $2.30B
Suranga
Chandratillake
Partner
• Suranga founded blinkx,
theintelligent search engine in
2004. Before founding blinkx,
Suranga was an early employee
at Autonomy Corporation
Lars Fjeldsoe-
Nielsen
Partner
• Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a
Partner at Balderton Capital, one
of Europe’s most successful
venture funds.
James Wise
Partner
• Prior to joining Balderton, James
helped build one of the UK’s first
social venture funds, and have
worked as a consultant with
McKinsey & Company.
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Battery Ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1983 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Boston, MA
Company Overview: Battery Ventures is a technology-focused
investment firm that makes venture-capital and private equity
investments.
The company has offices in Boston, Silicon Valley and Israel. The
company’s investments span across technology sectors and
investment stages ranging from seed to growth. Its market include
application software, IT infrastructure and consumer Internet/mobile.
The private equity focuses on helping technology companies in the
US, Europe and Israel grow organically and through acquisitions. It
work primarily with businesses in the IT and industrial-technology
sectors and partner with teams to accelerate growth, tap new
markets, re-orient existing businesses and build platforms through
acquisitions.
Target Geographies Global
Target Sectors Application software, IT infrastructure,
Consumer Internet / Mobile, Industrial
technology and Tech-enables services
Fund Batter Ventures II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX,
X, XI; Batter Opportunity Fund; Batter
Investment Partners IV, V, IX, X; Battery
Convergence Fund; & others
Company Stages Start-up to late stage
Investment Size $5m-100m
AUM $3.62B
Neeraj Agrawal
General
Partner
• Agrawal current investments
include AppDynamics, Brightree,
Catchpoint, Chef, Cohesity,
Coupa, Glassdoor.com, Nutanix
and others
Michael Brown
General
Partner
• Brown current serves as Director
at IDI Direct Insurance, J.
Hilburn, Joor, KeyMe, Mendix,
Nitro Software, Panjiva,
Q2ebanking, RiskIQ, TradeKing,
Vidyard and Xenex
Jesse Feldman
General
Partner
• Feldman currently serves as
Director at James Heal; Noise &
Vibration Technologies, & others
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Beanstalk Ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2013 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: New York, NY
Company Overview: Beanstalk Ventures is a venture capital firm
specializing in start-up and seed investments.
Beanstalk Ventures look to partner with the next generation of retail
tech entrepreneurs and aim to help them successfully design and
build the product, recruit teams, raise the right capital, close sales
and build effective marketing programs.
The firm primarily seeks to make investments in e-commerce
retailers, marketplaces, and retail technology sector. Beanstalk
Ventures is based in the United States.
Target Geographies US
Target Sectors E-commerce retailers, marketplaces, and
retail technology sector
Fund N/A
Company Stages Early stage, mid venture, expansion, late
Investment Size $200k - 1M
AUM $4.00M
Ken Seiff
Managing
Partner
• Prior to this ken was EVP of
Direct and OmniChannel at
Brooks Brothers, America's
oldest retailer.
• In 2012, Ken co-founded Simply
Gum, the first premium and
Andrew Fine
General
Partner
• Prior to joining the Beanstalk
Ventures, Mr. Fine was in Novel,
Merchant Banking Group and
Real Estate Investment Group of
Lehman Brothers in New York.
Luis Chou
General
Partner
• Luis currently serves as partner
at Novel TMT Ventures and
General Partner at Beanstalk
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Benchmark Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1995 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Company Overview: Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm
that seeks to invest in technology driven companies in the areas of
enterprise software and services, communications and security,
semiconductors, mobile, social and cloud computing, consumer
services, financial services, Internet retail, online services,
infrastructure services, systems software, and optical devices.
Benchmark is an early stage venture capital firm focusing in social,
mobile, local and cloud companies that disrupt various industries.
The company also has an office in San Francisco, California;
London, UK; and Herzliya Pituach, Israel. It has invested in more
than 250 early stage startups with a market value exceeding $100bn.
It seeks to be the first investor in the portfolio companies.
Target Geographies Israel, US
Target Sectors Software, Games, Enterprise Software
Fund Benchmark Capital II, III, IV, V, VI, VII;
Benchmark Capital Partners VIII;
Benchmark Capital LP; Benchmark Founder
Fund LP, II, IV, V, VIII and others
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, Private Equity, and Debt Financing
Investments
Investment Size Initial investments between $3-$5m, with
investments between $5-$15m
AUM $2.05B
Peter Fenton
General
Partner
• Fenton currently serves as
Director at Twitter, Yelp!,
Zendesk, Hortonworks, Docker,
ElasticSearch, Quip, Zuora,
Optimizely and others
Bill Gurley
General
Partner
• Gurley currently serves as
Director at Vessel, HackerOne,
Stitch Fix, Sailthru, Brighter.com,
DogVacay, Uber Technologies,
Scale Computing, Nextdoor.com,
Linden Lab and others
Matt Cohler
General
Partner
• Cohler currently serves as
Director at Greenhouse Software,
Tinder, Xapo, Edmodo & others
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Beringea LLC
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1988 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Farmington Hills, MI
Company Overview: Beringea is a private equity firm dedicated to
finding, funding and nurturing exceptional companies in growth
industries. Founded in 1988, the firm's portfolio companies operate
in a range of emerging sectors, including media, health care and life
sciences, Internet technologies, advanced manufacturing, clean tech
and specialized consumer goods.
With capital, experience and offices in the U.S. and U.K., Beringea
seeks to invest between $2 million and $25 million in companies with
enterprise value between $10 million and $200 million, turnover
between £1 million ($1.67 million) and $100 million, and maximum
EBITDA of $50 million.
Beringea is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan and London, UK
Peter Fenton
General
Partner
• Fenton currently serves as
Director at Twitter, Yelp!,
Zendesk, Hortonworks, Docker,
ElasticSearch, Quip, Zuora,
Optimizely and others
Bill Gurley
General
Partner
• Gurley currently serves as
Director at Vessel, HackerOne,
Stitch Fix, Sailthru, Brighter.com,
DogVacay, Uber Technologies,
Scale Computing, Nextdoor.com,
Linden Lab and others
Matt Cohler
General
Partner
• Cohler currently serves as
Director at Greenhouse Software,
Tinder, Xapo, Edmodo & others
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Target Geographies United States and United Kingdom
Target Sectors Exceptional companies in Media, health
care and life sciences, internet technologies,
advanced manufacturing, clean tech and
specialized consumer goods.
Fund MGCP FUND I & II
MGCP SBIC FUND
UK-BASED FUNDS
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, and Debt Financing Investments
Investment Size $2-100m
AUM $505.00M
Mark Donnelly
Principal
• Mark currently serves as board
member of InContext Solutions,
Montage, Ranir, ULCO and
Detroit Institute of Music
Education.
Michael Gross
Managing
Director
• Prior to Beringea, Michael was a
VP investment banking in P&M
Corporate Finance (PMCF).
• He is a CFA charterholder
Shane Elliott
Partner
• Shane is responsible for
ProVen’s VCT fundraising and
investor relations.
• Prior to joining Beringea, Shane
worked at the Noble Group
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
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Jeremy Levine
Partner
• Currently, he serves as Board
of Director at Pinterest, Wikia,
Yelp, KupiVIP, Onestop
Shopify, MindBody Parallels,
Intego and others
Alex Ferrara
Partner
• Currently, he serves as Director
of Shopify, Dashlane,
NewVoiceMedia, Wandera,
Yodle, Quadriserv, Pipedrive,
Social Tables and others
Byron Deeter
Partner
• Deeter focuses on investments
in the cloud-computing, mobile
& Internet sectors.Previously he
served as an Executive at IBM
Bessemer Venture Partners
Fund Overview Management Team
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1911 Status: Private
Employees: 51-200 HQ: Larchmont, NY
Company Overview: a venture capital firm specializing in seed,
early stage, start-up companies, early-venture, and hyper-growth
start-ups. The firm also includes incubates companies.
It invest in applications, B2D (D=developer), cloud/SaaS, mobile,
data center, infrastructure, networking, security, Space technology,
storage, mobile, marketplaces, video, social, finance, commerce,
services, healthcare and related technology & services.
The company’s track record includes 116 IPOs. The current fund has
$1.6b asset under management. It manages more than $4 billion of
venture capital invested in over 130 companies. The company has
additional offices in the US and Asia. The firm seeks to acquire a
seat on the Board of Director of the portfolio companies.
Target Geographies Globally with a focus on India, US, Brazil,
Israel and Russia
Target Sectors Enterprise, consumer and healthcare
technology startups
Fund Bessemer India Capital Holdings II,
Bessemer Venture Investors II, II & IV,
Bessemer Venture Partners V, VI, VII & VIII,
Bessemer Venture Partners IX, Vi, VII, VIII
Institutional
Company Stages Seed, A, B and growth
Investment Size $100k-75m
AUM $6.17B
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Blumberg Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 1991 Status: Private
Employees:11-50 HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture
capital firm that specializes in providing the seed or series A round
funding to technology companies in the software, digital and social
media, mobile and consumer Internet industries.
It invests between $0.5 million and $3 million and can participate in
follow-on rounds up to $6 million per company. The firm seeks to
invest at least for 12 to 18 months. It prefers to be an active board
member on its portfolio companies. Blumberg Capital was founded in
1991 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices
in Tel Aviv, Israel and New York, New York.
Target Geographies United States, Israel, Germany, Canada
Target Sectors Financial Services, Security, Enterprise
Software, SaaS, Digital Media, Social
Media, Mobile, Consumer Internet
Fund Blumberg Capital III, Blumberg Capital II LP
and Blumberg Capital IV
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, and Debt Financing Investments
Investment Size $0.3m - $3.0m
AUM $432.30M
Keren Admon
Principal
• Previously, Keren was legal
counsel at the Afcon Holding
Group, traded on the Tel Aviv
Stock Exchange.
Chris
Gottschalk
Principal
• Prior to Blumberg, Chris worked
at Menlo Ventures , at PlayPhone
and worked as an investment
banking analyst in the TMT group
at Cowen and Company
David
Blumberg
Founder &
Managing
Partner
• Prior to Blumberg Capital, David
managed technology investments
with Claridge Investments, Adler
& Co., Apax, and T. Rowe Price
Associates
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Breton Capital Management
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2010 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Boston, MA
Company Overview: Breton Capital Management is a private equity
firm specializing in investing in special situations.
Breton Capital Management, LLC is based in Boston,
Massachusetts.
We are special situation private equity investors. This website is for
the exclusive use of our investors and authorized guests.
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
James P.
Palermo
Founding
Partner
• Previously, Jim served as
managing member of Step
Partners, LLC and retired vice
chairman of BNY Mellon.
Palermo holds a Master's
degree in Business
Administration from Babson
College.
Douglas M.
Suliman Jr.
President
• Douglas is the founder Island
Partners Ltd. He has been
President of Breton Capital
Management, and Managing
Member of Breton Funding.
• Suliman is a Co-Founder of
Phoenix Rental Partners and
serves as its Managing
Member.Portfolio Companies
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Startups, Restaurants, Office Space
Fund N/A
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, and Equity Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM N/A
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Burch Creative Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2011 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: New York, NY
Company Overview: Burch Creative Capital is a Creative Capital
Firm that was founded by Christopher Burch with a decidedly
different approach to creating value.
The company’s investment philosophy is an expression of
Christophers' entrepreneurial values and his vision for new market
opportunities, using a creative skill set along with sound financial
practices to create, incubate, support, and scale disruptive brands
and businesses.
The firm is based in New York, New York. Burch Creative Capital
was formerly known as J. Christopher Capital.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software,
Enterprises
Fund N/A
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM N/A
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Portfolio Companies
Christopher
Burch
Founder and
Managing
Director
• In his 30-year career as an
investor and entrepreneur,
Christopher Burch has
participated in the rise of more
than 50 companies.
Sam Kaplan
Venture
• Sam is a passionate about
startups, investing, e-
commerce, fashion, retail,
consumer products,
professional soccer, and Maine.
Valerie Martinez
Senior Director
Finance
• Prior to Burch , Valerie served
as Vice President at WWE,
Tommy Hilfiger and other
famous companies.
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Campfire Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2014 Status: Private
Employees: 1-10 HQ: Vancouver, Canada.
Company Overview: Campfire Capital is a venture capital firm
specializing in startup and early stage investments. The Fund.
Campfire Capital was founded and funded by a collective of
investors with deep expertise in all key retail functions. The fund is
the first step towards truly organizing how the retail industry invests
in, and supports, the most compelling and innovative startups in its
space.
The firm seeks to invest in consumer and retail sector. Campfire has
a distinctive ownership culture in which its Core Retail Network is
financially invested in each of Campfire’s investments.
Target Geographies North America
Target Sectors Retail, Food and Beverage, Tech (Retail
Related), Beauty
Fund N/A
Company Stages Early Stage Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM N/A
Brooke Harley
Partner
• Prior to Campfire, Brooke served
as lululemon athletica’s Director
of Business Development
• Brooke founded Campfire Capital
in 2014 and is the fund’s
Managing Partner.
Manica
Gautam
Partner
• Most recently, Manica was a
Director in Onex’s Funds Group
and she played a lead role in
successfully raising Onex
Partners IV, a $5.2 billion fund.
John Currie
Partner
• Guha currently he serves as
Chief Financial Officer at
Lululemon
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Canaan Partners
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 1987 Status: Private
Employees: 1-10 HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Company Overview: Canaan Partners is a private equity, venture
capital firm specializing in buyout investments in all stages of
development, seed financings, start-ups, growth and early stage
investments, typically Series A and B financings.
It seeks to invest globally with a focus on Asia including Israel, and
United States. The firm typically invests between $0.05 million to $80
million in its portfolio company. It prefers to exit its investments
within seven to 10 years.
Canaan Partners was founded in 1987 and is based in Menlo Park,
California with additional offices in Westport, Connecticut; Herzliya
Pituach, Israel; and New York City, New York.
Target Geographies Israel, United States
Target Sectors IT, Adv and Mktg, Big Data-Cloud,
Consumer, Enterprise-SaaS, FinTech
Healthcare, BioPharma, Digital Health,
MedTech
Fund Fund IX, Fund X, Fund VIII, Canaan Equity
III and Canaan VII
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, Private Equity, and Debt Financing
Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM $4.20B
Eric Young
Co-Founder
• Prior to Canaan, Eric was a
Senior VP of GE Venture Capital.
Eric currently sits on the boards
of EnStorage, Cortina Systems,
Ebates Shopping and Xirrus
Daniel Ciporin
General
Partner
• An was the former Chairman and
CEO of Shopping.com. At
Canaan, Dan sits on the board of
Lending Club, OpenSky, Style &
Beauty, Gemvara, borro and
ShopKeep POS
John Balen
General
Partner
• John currently serves on the
boards of Blurb, Cardlytics,,,
Switchfly, and UrbanSitter.
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Capital One Growth Ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2014 Status: Public
Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: Capital One Growth Ventures is a principal
investment specializing investments in fintech, big data technologies,
payments and commerce, and security and authentication sectors.
The Capital One Growth Ventures approach to investing centers on
partnership. Capital One Capital One Growth Ventures give startups
an edge and help strengthen the impact of innovative technologies.
Growth Ventures is based in San Francisco, CA, United States.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Big Data Technologies, Payments &
Commerce, Security & Authentication, Small
Business
Fund N/A
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, and Debt Financing Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM N/A
Adam Boutin
Principal
• Prior to Capital One, Adam led a
number of technology
investments at Menlo Ventures
and Summit Partners.
Lauren
Connolley
Venture
Partner
• Lauren is a venture investor in
the fintech startup community.
She also leads Capital One’s
anchor partnership with Plug and
Play, Silicon Valley.
Don
Kingsborough
Managing
Director
• Prior to joining Capital One
Growth Ventures, he served as
Vice President and General
Manager of retail and prepaid
products at PayPal.
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Castanea Partners
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2001 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Newton, MA
Company Overview: Castanea Partners is a middle market
consumer-focused private equity firm founded by operating
executives and private equity veterans.
It seeks to invest in United States and Canada based companies.
The firm seeks to invest between $5 million and $75 million in equity
per deal, enterprise values between $2 million and $250 million,
sales over $10 million, and EBITDA between $3 million and $30
million. It prefers to acquire a controlling stake in its portfolio
companies but can also consider minority investments, and share
control with a private equity sponsor as well.
Castanea Partners, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in
Newton, Massachusetts.
Target Geographies United States and Canada
Target Sectors Consumer Brands, Multi-Channel Retail,
And Marketing Services Companies
Fund N/A
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, Private Equity, and Debt Financing
Investments
Investment Size $20 - 70m
AUM $1.43B
Steven T. Berg
Managing
Partner
• Prior to Castanea, Steve served
at Bain Capital and Bain &
Company,
• Steve received an MBA from The
Wharton School of business
Robert Smith
Managing
Partner
• Currently, Robert Smith is an
operating partner at Castanea
Partners.
Gerald Hughes
Operating
Partner
• Prior to Castanea, Gerald served
at School Specialty Inc. ,
Houghton Mifflin Holdings and
HM Publishing Corp. Hughes has
J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.
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Brian Rich
Managing
Partner &
Co-Founder
• Serves as Director at National
Venture Capital Association and
at Reputation Institute. Also
Board Observer at Xplornet
Communications.
Ryan McNally
General Partner
& Co-founder
• Currently, he serves as
Director at PresenceLearning,
Videology Group, Jobvite,
WeddingWire and many more.
Chris Shipman
Partner & Co-
founder
• Currently, he serves as Director
at Xplornet Communications
and at Ascentis Corporation.
Catalyst Investors
Fund Overview Management Team
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1999 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: New York, NY
Company Overview: a private equity and venture capital firm
specializing in late venture, expansion, growth capital, acquisition,
buyouts, PIPES, roll-ups, growth equity, recapitalizations, and
consolidation transactions in middle market and emerging growth
companies.
It makes both minority and majority investments of up to $70 million
in rapidly growing technology, media and communications, digital
media, cloud computing, internet media and infrastructure, data,
software services, business services, software-as-a-service,
hosting/managed services, ecommerce and other rapidly growing IT
companies.
Investing its fourth fund, Catalyst draws on its deep sector expertise
to work in partnership with management to create long-term value.
Target Geographies Primarily North America and Europe
including United States and Canada
Target Sectors Technology-enabled businesses including
cloud computing, wireless infrastructure and
digital media.
Fund Catalyst Fund III
Catalyst Investors IV
Catalyst Investors QP IV, L.P.
Catalyst Fund Limited Partners V
Company Stages Seed, A, B and growth
Investment Size $10-60m
AUM $590.00M
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Ming-Po CAI
Founder and
President
• Prior to Cathay Capital, Mr. CAI
founded and managed several
companies in various sectors.
• Ming-Po is director of GLEvents
and sits on the board of several
Cathay portfolio companies.
Edouard Moinet
Managing
Partner & Co-
founder
• Edouard co-founded Cathay
Capital after 12 years of private
equity experience, investing in
Western European companies.
Hervé
Descazeaux
Managing
Partner
• Prior to joining Cathay, Hervé
was a Partner and member of
Investment Committee at Apax
Partners France since 2005.
Cathay Capital
Fund Overview Management Team
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2006 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Paris, France
Company Overview: Cathay Capital Private Equity is the first
French-Chinese private equity firm focused on France-China growth
capital approved by the AMF, the French Securities Association.
Cathay Capital PE aims to support international growth, and be a
long term partner for mid-size French companies faced with a
booming Asian economy; as well as a partner for an increasing
number of Chinese companies seeking a European foothold.
It invests in companies with revenues between €5 million ($6.84
million) and €400 million ($547.57 million) and turnover between €20
million ($27.37 million) and €400 million ($547.57 million).
Target Geographies North America, China and Europe
Target Sectors Technology-enabled businesses including
cloud computing, wireless infrastructure and
digital media.
Fund Sino-European Small Cap Fund
Sino-European Mid Cap Fund
North-American Sino Strategy
Cathay Innovation Fund
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, and Debt Financing Investments
Investment Size €10-25m
AUM $1.37B
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Celero Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Founded: 2014 Status: Private
Employees: 1-10 HQ: Luzern, Switzerland
Company Overview: Celero Capital is an investment firm focused
on rapidly growing revenue-stage financial technology, SaaS and
other technology-enabled services companies.
Celero Capital provides consulting services in the following areas:
Trading systems
Electronic trading
Time-series analysis
Machine learning
Backtesting
Risk management
Alex
Scherbakovsky
General
Partner
• Scherbakovsky was a Principal at
New Enterprise Associates,
where his investments include
Braintree, Boku, Box and SAY
Media. Previously, he invested in
technology-enabled services
companies at Silver Lake, 3i and
FTV Capital.
• Prior he held operating roles at
Microsoft and Trilogy, and was a
management consultant at
Monitor Group.
• He received an MBA from
Harvard and holds an MS in
Engineering
Key Facts
Target Geographies North America, China and Europe
Target Sectors Technology-enabled businesses including
cloud computing, wireless infrastructure and
digital media.
Fund Sino-European Small Cap Fund
Sino-European Mid Cap Fund
North-American Sino Strategy
Cathay Innovation Fund
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, and Debt Financing Investments
Investment Size €10-25m
AUM N/A
Portfolio Companies
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Centana Growth
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2015 Status: Private
Employees: 51-200 HQ: New York, NY
Company Overview: Centana Growth provides capital to accelerate
or sustain growth for growing companies in financial services,
financial technology or related enterprise technology.
The company have a seat in the board of directors. It can invest in
rapidly growing companies where the application of capital can help
sustain or accelerate the growth. The capital can be used for working
capital, to fund acquisitions, or to de-risk an entrepreneur's balance
sheet.
The company invest across various sectors such as financials,
diversified financials, diversified financial services and information
technology. It has established office in New York, NY with an
additional office Menlo Park, California.
Target Geographies North America
Target Sectors Financial services, financial technology and
enterprise technology
Fund Centana Growth Partners Fund I – A pooled
investment fund
Others The average investment offering size is
$24.76 million for companies in the Pooled
Investment Fund industry sector.
The total amount raised is 100.00% smaller
than the average for companies in the
Pooled Investment Fund sector.
AUM N/A
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Eric Byunn
Co-founder &
Managing
Partner
• Previously, he served as
Partner at FTV Capital
• Currently, he serves Director at
Catalyst Repository Systems
and Cloudmark
Ben Cukier
Co-founder &
Managing
Partner
• Previously he served as Equity
Partner at FTV Capital
• He has spent over 20 years in
growth equity and finance.
Steven Swain
Co-founder &
Managing
Partner
• Swain has spent 23 years
focused on launching, operating
and advising financial services
firms. Previously, he served as
President of Global X Mgt
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CenterView Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1965 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Company Overview: CenterView Capital is a private investment
firm that provides capital to high potential companies to help
accelerate growth through operational transformation.
CenterView Capital Consumer is an operationally-oriented private
equity firm focused on the U.S. consumer middle- and upper-middle
market. It has $500m in committed capital. The company has made
majority and minority investments in companies with EBITDA in the
range of $10m to $1.5bn
CenterView Capital Technology partners with the companies that
have management teams with potential to accelerate growth through
operational transformation. Its aim is to create customer-centric
businesses and enduring technology brands.
Target Geographies US and Canada
Target Sectors Consumer such good & beverage,
household & consumer products, personal
care/health & wellness, and consumer
services sectors and Technology
Fund CenterView Capital LP ($850m)
CentervVew Capital Technology ($106.9m
Company Stages Middle Market
Investment Size Consumer: Equity range $50-$150m
AUM $481.00M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Sandhya
Venkatachalam
Founding
Partner
• Previously she served as VP /
GM and Head of Advertising
and Monetization for Skype
• Prior, she served as Director,
Corporate Development at
Cisco
Dave Dorman
Founding
Partner
• Previously he served as
Chairman and CEO of AT&T
• Prior, he served as CEO and
Chairman of Pacific Bell
Ned Hooper
Founding
Partner
• Previously, he served as SVP
and Chief Strategy Officer at
Cisco
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Cipio Partners
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2003 Status: Public
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Munich, Germany
Company Overview: Cipio Partners is a leading international
secondary direct investment management and advisory firm. We
make direct investments in private high-quality growth businesses in
Europe, Israel and North America.
It seeks to invest companies based in Europe, Israel and North
America. Typically, it invests between €2 million ($2.70 million) and
€6 million ($8.10 million) per company. It invests in companies with
revenue between €10 million ($13.83 million) and $27.56 million.
Cipio Partners was founded in June 2003 and is based in Munich,
Germany with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; and
Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Target Geographies Europe, Israel, United States
Target Sectors Software, Semiconductors, Wireless
Fund N/A
Company Stages Later Stage Venture and Secondary Market
Investments
Investment Size €2m ($2.7m) and €6m ($8.1m) per company
AUM $340.08M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Werner
Dreesbach
Managing
Partner
• Prior to joining Cipio, Werner
was Senior Principal of Atlas
Venture. Before, he was VP
Strategic Development for
NASDAQ-listed Viasoft Corp.,
Roland Dennert
Managing
Partner
• Roland started his private equity
career at 3i Group doing
technology and mid-market
buyout deals.
Diana Meyel
Managing
Partner
• Prior to Cipio, Diana served at
Wellington Partners, and
worked as a Senior Risk
Analyst for Dresdner Bank
group nka Commerzbank
Portfolio Companies
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Comcast Ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 1999 Status: Public
Employees: 51-200 HQ: Philadelphia, PA
Company Overview: Comcast Ventures is the private venture
capital affiliate of Comcast Corporation. It consists of the recently
combined Comcast Interactive Capital and NBCUniversal Peacock
Equity Fund.
Comcast Ventures invests in innovative businesses that represent
the next generation of entertainment, communications and digital
technology by partnering with entrepreneurs who have the vision,
passion and tenacity to succeed.
Its primary goal is to generate superior financial returns through the
success of its portfolio companies by applying the unique resources,
contacts, experience, and insight of Comcast's family of companies.
Target Geographies Europe, Israel, United States
Target Sectors Mobile, Advertising, Software
Fund N/A
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM $770.00M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Matt Carbonara
Principal
• Prior to joining Comcast
Ventures, Matt served at Cisco
Systems, TeleSoft Partners and
Terayon Communication
Systems,
Andrew Cleland
Managing
Director
• Andrew sources, evaluates and
executes consumer Internet
deals for Comcast Ventures,
particularly in the areas of
digital media, ad tech, gaming
and big data.
Amy Banse
Managing
Director and
Head Of Funds
• Amy is Managing Director and
Head of Funds for Comcast
Ventures.
Portfolio Companies
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Commerce Ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2003 Status: Private
Employees: 1-10 HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: Commerce Ventures is a new venture capital
firm with a sector focus at the intersection of mobile, payments and
retail technology. The firm will primarily invest in product-stage start-
ups and add value through a network of strategic relationships in the
retail, marketing, payments and mobile industries.
Commerce Ventures is focused on investing in companies that
enable new commerce models, direct financial services and the
transformation of physical retail.
In addition to providing capital, Commerce Ventures partners are
committed to helping their portfolio companies succeed in scaling
their commerce-related innovations.
Target Geographies US
Target Sectors Commerce sector including Retail
Innovation, FinTech, Payments, Digital
Marketing
Fund Debut investment fund
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM $20.00M
Dan Rosen
Partner
• Prior to creating Commerce
Ventures, Dan was a Principal at
Highland Capital and invested
primarily in mobile and payments
startups.
Dan Raveh
Principal
• Prior to Wharton Dan worked at
Viola Private Equity, Israel's
largest technological growth
equity fund. Dan served 5 years
in an elite intelligence unit in the
Israeli Defense Forces
Nikhil Raj
Venture
Partner
• Nikhil is a Venture Partner with
particular focus on Commerce,
Retail and Digital Marketing
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Consumer Equity Partners
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2009 Status: Private
Employees: 1-10 HQ: Seattle, WA
Company Overview: Consumer Equity Partners is a venture capital
and venture development firm founded with the mission to build the
companies that will drive the next generation of consumer marketing
and commerce.
The firm seeks to invest in franchising, lifestyle brands, multi-unit
consumer centric businesses primarily in the restaurant, food, retail,
and leisure industries with a focus established restaurant concepts;
retail; Internet-based liquor, wine, and spirits; leisure-based
consumer and real estate; consumer focused financial services;
consumer related publishing, and information services; and retail.
Target Geographies US
Target Sectors Franchising, Lifestyle Brands, Multi-Unit
Consumer Centric Businesses Primarily In
The Restaurant, Food, Retail, And Leisure
Industries
Fund Debut investment fund
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM N/A
Tom Furphy
CEO &
Managing
Director
• Prior to CEP, Tom was at
Amazon.com as Vice President,
Consumables and AmazonFresh.
• He was the founder and CEO of
Notiva, a SAAS platform.
Bobby Martyna
Managing
Director
• Previously, Bobby served as
Managing Partner of Bay Area
Principal Management
Consultants. He founded
Quintessent Communications.
Justin Leigh
Managing
Director
• Justin Leigh is a Founder and
CEO of IdeoClick to provide
online marketing and ecommerce
services.
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Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
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Costanoa Venture Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2012 Status: Private
Employees: 1-10 HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Company Overview: Costanoa Venture Capital is an early stage
investor in cloud-based services for businesses and consumers
leveraging data and analytics. The firm's name originates from the
first inhabitants of Silicon Valley, the Costanoans, and harkens back
to the origins of entrepreneurship and venture capital in Silicon
Valley. Costanoa provides early stage entrepreneurs with a
combination of "right-sized" amounts of capital and value-added
support from a high-quality institutional partner.
An early stage investor in cloud-based services leveraging data and
analytics to solve real problems for businesses and consumers.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Software, SaaS, Enterprise, Infrastructure,
Mobile, Data
Fund N/A
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size $0.5-3m
AUM $328.00M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Greg Sands
Founder and
Managing
Partner
• Prior to Costanoa Venture,
Greg was a Managing Director
at Sutter Hill Ventures , where
he was an investor in important
companies such as Merced
Systems, QuinStreet, Youku,
Feedburner and Return Path.
Neill
Occhiogrosso
Partner
• Prior to Costanoa, Neill served
at Highland Capital and
Sandbox Industries, a Chicago
incubator.
Mark Selcow
Venture Partner
• Mark has served as President
and co-founder of Merced
Systems, BabyCenter.com, and
Consumer Health Interactive.
Portfolio Companies
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Cowboy Ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2012 Status: Private
Employees: 1-10 HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Company Overview: Cowboy Ventures is a seed-stage focused fon
und investing in digital startups. It seeks to invest in digital and
technology companies and in Life 2.0 products.
The firm prefers to invest across United States of America. Cowboy
Ventures was founded in 2012 and is based in Menlo Park,
California.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors E-Commerce, Games, Hardware + Software
Fund Cowboy Ventures Fund I
Cowboy Ventures Fund II
Company Stages Seed and Early Stage Venture Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM $97.00M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Aileen Lee
Founder &
Partner
• Prior to Cowboy, Aileen joined
Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
in 1999.
• She was also founding CEO of
RMG Networks,
Noah
Lichtenstein
Venture Partner
• Noah was also a founding
member of HomeRun, worked
at the Climate Corporation and
the Co-Founder & President of
Annuvia
Joanne Yuan
Associate
Partner
• Prior to joining Cowboy, Joanne
was on the investment team at
private equity firm Hellman &
Friedman.
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David Silverman
Partner
• Currently, he serves as Director
at BrightFunnel, ServiceMax,
Vungle, BuildingConnected,
RadiumOne, RichRelevance
Gary Hromadko
Partner
• Currently, he serves as Director
at 365 Data Centers, Equinix.
• Previously, he served as
Partner at Merrill, Pickard,
Anderson & Eyre
Eric Chin
Partner
• Currently, he serves as Director
at DataStax, Descartes Labs,
Hired, NodeSource, Scripted,
PowerToFly, ProtectWise,
TakeLessons
Cross Link Capital
Fund Overview Management Team
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1989 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: Crosslink Capital is a stage-independent
venture capital and growth equity firm with approximately $1.6bn in
assets as of September 30, 2015
It invest in both earliest stage companies and well-established public
corporations. It invests in companies in various formats such as
venture capital, long / short hedge and hybrid crossover.
The company has invested in 243 private companies including 88
seed investments. It has 103 board seats, 56 acquisitions and 29
IPOs.
The firm prefers to be a lead investor in transactions and takes a
board seat in portfolio companies. The asset under management are
approximately $1.6bn.
Target Geographies US, Canada and Europe
Target Sectors Alternative energy, big data & cloud
services, connected hardware, digital
marketing, fintech, internet services, lighting,
next-generation market places and SaaS
Fund CrossLink Bayview V & VII; CrossLink
Ventures IV, V, VI, VII; CrossOver Fun II, III,
IV, V; Omega Ventures I, II, III; Omega
Bayview IV, CrossLink Seed Fund & others
Company Stages Seed, Early, Mid venture, Late venture
Investment Size $0.1-10m
AUM N/A
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DFJ Venture
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1985 Status: Private
Employees: 51-200 HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Company Overview: DFJ helps entrepreneurs trailblaze new
markets and build iconic companies.
It plans to invest in companies that are seeking to raise $1m through
initial investment. During the early stage, the investment size varies
from $1-$10m, and typical investment is in the $3-$5m range. s The
company plan raising $10M or more that are scaling revenues
rapidly, addressing very large market opportunities, and poised for
category leadership.
The company has additional in Shanghai, China and Bangalore,
India. It also Specializes in financing emerging companies that
enable large businesses to become more scalable & more efficient
such as Box and Yammer
Target Geographies Global
Target Sectors Consumer & application services, enterprise
& infrastructure apps, big-bet disruptive
technologies
Fund DFJ DragonFund China, DFJ Forise II, DFJ
Incube Venture, DFJ VinaCapital, Draper
Associates V, DFJ Fund XI, Draper Fisher
Associates II & III and others
Company Stages Seed, early and growth Stages
Investment Size $1-20m
AUM $3.150B
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Mark Bailey
Co-founder &
Partner
• Currently, he serves as Director
at Cylance and Simplivity
• He has over 29 years of
experience with entrepreneurial
deal making in both investment
and operating roles.
John Fisher
Partner
• Currently, he serves as Director
at SolarCity, CafeMom,
Pulsepoint, and Renovate
America. Previously, he served
as ABS Ventures
Randy Glein
Co-founder &
Partner
• Currently he serves as Director
at Anaplan, Avant, Box,
DataStax, Fonality, Kajeet
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Docomo Innovations
Fund Overview
Key Facts
Founded: 2012 Status: Private
Employees: 51-200 HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Company Overview: DOCOMO Innovations collaborates with
business partners, research laboratories, start-ups, and engineers in
order to develop innovative products and services globally. We exist
as a gateway between Japan and Silicon Valley in the mobile market
space to foresee and develop future opportunities through
technology development, investment, and collaboration with our
parent company.
The business development and investment group works with
innovative startups to structure a commercial deal with NTT
DOCOMO headquarters. To support a commercial deal, we provide
strategic investment concurrently or for a future commercial
collaboration. Our mission is to help startups enter or accelerate
growth in the Japanese market.
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Nobuyuki
Akimoto
EVP, COO
• Mathias is co-founder and
Managing Partner of e.ventures.
He currently oversees the firms’
investments in Groupon, Yume,
Angie’s List, Sonos, AppFolio,
Eucalyptus and many others.
Christopher
Hermanowicz
VC, Experienced
Startup
• Currently serves on the board of
NGINX, Playhaven, Pulse News
(Alphonsolabs) and
Gamersfirst.
Byron Haigh
principal
• Currently, he is working out of
the Hamburg and Berlin offices,
leading European Internet
Consumer investments.
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Target Geographies United States, Japan
Target Sectors Internet, E-Commerce, Retail, Retail
Technology, mobile applications, networking
technologies.
Fund N/A
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size N/A
AUM $100.00M
Selected investors
Portfolio Companies
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e. ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1989 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: E.ventures is a global venture capital platform
with an investment focus on early-stage consumer internet and
mobile companies. The firm invests out of funds in five geographies,
namely e.ventures US, e.ventures Europe, e.ventures Russia,
Infinity e.ventures, and Redpoint e.ventures.
Its client base is comprised of many companies, including Angie’s
List , Groupon, Delicious, Sonos, Sapato, and Nginx. The firm’s team
has been investing in Internet companies for more than 17 years and
operates as one team by combining a global investment strategy and
philosophy with local presence and insights.
Founded by Mathias Schilling and Thomas Gieselmann, e.ventures
was launched in 1997.
Target Geographies United States, Europe, China, Japan, Brazil
Target Sectors Consumer Internet, SaaS, Mobile
Fund Redpoint e.ventures Brazil Fund
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size $8-20m
AUM $683.00M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Mathias Schilling
General Partner
• Mathias is co-founder and
Managing Partner of e.ventures.
He currently oversees the firms’
investments in Groupon, Yume,
Angie’s List, Sonos, AppFolio,
Eucalyptus and many others.
Thomas
Gieselmann
General Partner
• Currently serves on the board of
NGINX, Playhaven, Pulse News
(Alphonsolabs) and
Gamersfirst.
Christian
Leybold
General Partner
• Currently, he is working out of
the Hamburg and Berlin offices,
leading European Internet
Consumer investments.
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Edison Partners
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1986 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Princeton, NJ
Company Overview: For 29 years, Edison Partners has been
helping CEOs and their executive teams navigate the
entrepreneurial journey to becoming successful companies
Edison employs a holistic approach to nurturing invention and
creating value for growth-stage businesses ($5 to $20 million in
revenue) in financial technology, healthcare IT, interactive marketing,
and enterprise IT industries. Edison investment objectives also
include: buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts and secondary stock
purchases.
Its long-tenured team, based in Lawrenceville, NJ, New York, NY,
McLean, VA and Cleveland, OH, currently manages more than $850
million in active investments throughout the eastern United States.
Target Geographies United States specifically eastern United
States.
Target Sectors Financial Technology, Interactive Marketing,
Digital Media, Healthcare IT, Enterprise
Software
Fund Edison Venture Fund V
Fund VII
Company Stages Seed, early and growth Stages
Investment Size $8-20m
AUM $1.00B
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Chris Sugden
Managing
Partner
• Serves as Director at
OptionsCity Software,
Compliance Science, PHX,
Trader Tools, Business
Financial Services, Billtrust,
Gain Capital and Operative.
Ryan Ziegler
General Partner
• Currently, he serves as Director
at TripleLift, Tracx, Offerpop,
Magnetic, MediaBrix, Operative
and Lifebooker LLC.
Michael
Kopelman
General Partner
• Currently, he serves as Director
at Xplornet Communications
and at Ascentis Corporation.
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Emergence Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2003 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Mateo, CA
Company Overview: a venture capital firm focused on early and
growth-stage enterprise cloud companies.
The company has invested in over 40 companies that are leveraging
the cloud to build business software industry. The company has
defined and developed the key metrics and go-to-market strategies
for enterprise cloud software. The company was one of the first
investors in companies using the freemium model.
The company makes an initial investment of $1m to $10m in its
portfolio companies with typical first check size of $4m to $10m. In
2015, the company issued its fourth fund to focus on enterprise
technologies, particularly software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud
technologies, mobile tech, and tools.
Target Geographies US and Canada
Target Sectors Technology-Enabled services sector
including SaaS, cloud services, enterprise
cloud services and mobile services
Fund Emergence Capital Partners I ($125m),
Emergence Capital Partners II ($200m),
Emergence Capital Partners III ($250m),
Emergence Capital Partners IV ($335m),
Emergence Capital Partners SBIC
Company Stages Early and growth-stage
Investment Size initial capital of $1-10m
AUM $790.00M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Gordon Ritter
Co-founder and
General Partner
• Currently, he serves as a
Director of Textio, High Alpha,
Insightly, Lithium, Navera,
Salesforce.com, Top Hat and
Veeva
Brian Jacobs
Co-founder and
General Partner
• Currently, he serves as a
Director of Bill.com, Donuts,
Drivewyze, Eversight, Hightail,
InsideView, Intacct, Jainrain
and Mede / Analytics
Jason Green
Co-founder and
General Partner
• Currently, he serves as a
Director at Box, Cotap,
EchoSign, Lotame, Replicon,
SalesLoft, Yammer, Gusto
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Felix Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2015 Status: Private
Employees: 1-10 HQ: London, UK
Company Overview: Felix Capital is a venture firm for the creative
class, at the intersection of technology and creativity, focused on
opportunities in digital lifestyle.
The company focus on digital commerce, digital media and
connected life (including technology & well-being). The company
plans to partner with the best entrepreneurs, the creative agents of
change of digital lifestyle.
The company plans to meet founders early, build a relationship, long
before any transaction, and set common goals. It aims to invest in
companies with a global ambition, including the ability to conquer the
EU & US markets, where the company can provide the required
assistance.
Target Geographies US, Canada and Europe
Target Sectors Digital commerce, digital media and
connected life (including technology & well-
being)
Fund Felix Capital Fund I
Company Stages First or second rounds, or even later in
breakout companies
Investment Size $100k-$10m
AUM $120.00M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Frederic Court
Founder & Managing
Partner
• Court has experience of over 18 years
in the technology industry
• Previously, he served with General
Partner with Advent Ventures. At
Advent, he led investments mainly in
digital lifestyle start-ups.
Antoine
Nussenbaum
Principal
• Previously, he served as Partner at
Atlas Global,.
• Prior, he served as ABN AMRO as
an M&A investment banker
Les Gabb
Finance Partner
• Previously he served as Finance
Partner at Advent Ventures, holding
responsibility for the accounting and
administrative function of the Group
• Prior, he served as the Managing
Director at Bank of Bermuda.
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First Round Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 20074 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: First Round Capital is a venture capital firm
specializing in growth capital investments in seed, startups, and
early stage companies.
The firm seeks to invest in advertising, distribution, technology-
based, and marketing focused companies with an emphasis on
consumer-facing business. Within technology, it prefers to invest in
internet-enabled businesses including both consumer and enterprise
with a clear distribution strategy. It typically invests in companies
based in the United States including Philadelphia.
The firm makes an initial investment of $0.5 million and also invests
between $0.1 million and $0.2 million.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Advertising, Mobile, E-Commerce
Fund First Round Capital III, First Round Capital
IV, First Round Capital V LP and First
Round II
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size $0.1-0.2m
AUM $633.40M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Howard Morgan
Co-Founder &
Partner
• Howard began working with
Idealab in 1996 and serves on
their board.
• He serves on the boards of
Fab.com, Single Platform,
GumGum, Energy Innovations
and other private companies.
Josh Kopelman
Founder &
Partner
• For the last 5 years, Josh has
consistently ranked in the top 20
on the Forbes “Midas List”.
Chris Fralic
Partner
• Chris was most recently VP of
Business Development at
del.icio.us, (acquired by Yahoo )
in 2005.
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53. ComCap, LLC
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Forerunner Ventures
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2007 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: Forerunner Ventures is an early-stage VC firm
dedicated to partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs who are
meeting the challenges and opportunities of today’s rapidly evolving
digital commerce landscape. The Forerunner team uniquely pairs
deep domain expertise and an understanding of consumer
behaviors, brand building and product, to successfully identify
leaders and participate in their efforts to build meaningful companies.
Representative investments include: Birchbox, Bonobos, Dollar
Shave Club, Joor, Threadflip, Wantful and Warby Parker.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Internet, E-Commerce, Retail, Retail
Technology
Fund Fund I
Forerunner Partners II LP
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size $0.1-0.2m
AUM $115.50M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Kirsten Green
Founder,
Managing
Partner
• With nearly 2 decades of
investment experience, Kirsten
combines an experience and
thesis driven approach, to
identify visionary entrepreneurs
and compelling brand platforms.
Melissa Grillo
Aruz
Principal
• Melissa joined Forerunner
Ventures as a Principal in
September 2014.
Eurie Kim
Partner
• Eurie Kim joined Forerunner
Ventures as a Principal in May
2012.
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54. ComCap, LLC
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Foundation Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1995 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Company Overview: Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm
that invest in early-stage and growth stage information technology
companies.
The firm plans to invest in startups in their formative stage. It prefers
to act as a lead investor and takes a seat in portfolio companies. The
company has additional offices in Menlo Park, CA and San
Francisco, CA.
Within clean-tech sector, the company invest in energy efficiency &
intelligence, green building materials & industrial processes, mar-
tech, digital energy, cloud applications, cloud infrastructure &
security, food quality, clean water, alternative energy & storage,
advanced materials, carbon capture and others
Target Geographies US, Canada, India
Target Sectors Consumer, fintech, martech, applications,
enterprise, energy, seed, public / acquired
Fund Foundation Capital LP, Foundation Capital
II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII, Foundation
Capital Leadership Fund and Foundation
Capital II Entrepreneurs Fund
Company Stages Seed / start up, early venture
Investment Size The company invest an initial amount of
$1m to $10m and participates in each
subsequent round
AUM $2.80B
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Charles Moldow
Founder and
General Partner
• Previously, he served Tellme
Networks and was a member of
the founding executive team.
• Prior, he was a member of the
founding team at @Home
Network.
Ashu Garg
General Partner
• Currently, he serves as Director of
TubeMogul, Localytics, Conviva,
ZeroStack, Yozio, FundsIndia.com,
and IndiaHomes.com
Sonya Brown
General Partner
• Currently he serves as Director
at AdRoll, auxmoney, BTCJam,
DogVacay, Finxera, Lending
Home, LendingClub, On Deck
Capital and Refresh
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55. ComCap, LLC
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Freestyle Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 2007 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: Freestyle Capital is a venture capital firm
specializing in seed and early stage investments. The firm seeks to
invest in internet software and consumer and web-based enterprise
technology companies.
It primarily invests between $0.1 million and $0.8 million in rounds of
about $1.5 million. It seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies.
Freestyle Capital was founded in 2009 and is based in San
Francisco, California with an additional office in Mill Valley,
California.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Internet, Software, E-Commerce,
Fund Fund I
Fund II
Fund III
Company Stages Seed and Early Stage Venture
Investment Size $0.1-0.8m
AUM $127.2M
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
David Samuel
Founding
Partner
• Prior to Freestyle, Dave co-
founded Crackle.com (acquired
by Sony Pictures
Entertainment) and founded
Spinner.com in 1996.
Josh Felser
Founding
Partner
• Prior to Freestyle, Josh started
two successful Internet
companies, Spinner and
Grouper, which were acquired
by AOL Time Warner and Sony.
Jenny Lefcourt
Partner
• Jenny founded
WeddingChannel.com (sold:
KNOT) and Bella Pictures (sold:
CPI).
Portfolio Companies
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56. ComCap, LLC
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Fung Capital USA
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts
Founded: 1987 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco, CA
Company Overview: Fung Capital is the investment arm of the
Fung family in Hong Kong which separately controls the Fung Group
that sources, distributes, and retails consumer products globally.
The Fung Group of companies include Li & Fung, Global Brands
Group, and Fung Retailing, with over US$22 billion in total revenues
and 45,000 employees in over 40 countries.
Fung Capital invests in B2B technology companies that enable omni-
channel retailing and improve supply chain efficiency.
Investment Focus - Ecommerce - Mobile Commerce - Social
Commerce - Data Analytics - Marketing Solutions - Loyalty -
Augmented Reality - Supply Chain
Target Geographies Europe United States
Target Sectors E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Social
Media, Commerce, Social Commerce, Data
Analytics, Supply Chain
Fund N/A
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Growth
Stage
Investment Size N/A
AUM N/A
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Michael Hsieh
President
• Mike started Fung Capital 25
years ago. He was formerly with
R.H. Chappell Co., Merrill
Lynch's Corporate Finance and
at Sun Hung Kai Securities
John Seung
Partner
• Seung has held various
positions within Li & Fung
Group including CIO of the
Americas
Janie Yu
Partner
• Janie focuses on sourcing deals
and conducting due diligence on
prospective investments. Prior
to joining Fung Capital, she was
with Burt’s Bees
Portfolio Companies
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57. ComCap, LLC
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General Atlantic
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 1980 Status: Private
Employees: 201-500 HQ: New York,, NY
Company Overview: General Atlantic is a leading global growth
equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth
companies.
It typically invests between $50 million and $500 million as either a
minority or majority investors, preferably between 20 percent and 40
percent, in private and public companies and between $1 billion and
$2 billion per year in growth opportunities globally. The firm typically
invests for a period of five to seven years and seeks to hold a board
seat in its portfolio companies.
General Atlantic has more than 100 investment professionals based
in New York, Amsterdam, Beijing, Greenwich, Hong Kong, London,
Mexico City, Mumbai, Munich, Palo Alto, São Paulo and Singapore
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
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Target Geographies United States, Europe, India and Southeast
Asia, China, Latin America
Target Sectors Business Services, Retail & Consumer,
Financial Services, Healthcare, Internet &
Technology
Fund GGV Capital VI, GGV Capital
Entrepreneurs, GGV Capital Discovery,
GGV Capital VII, GGV Capital Plus etc.
Company Stages Early Stage Venture, Later Stage Venture,
and Private Equity Investments
Investment Size $50.500m
AUM $17.40B
Anton Levy,
Managing
Director
• Anton is currently a director of
Squarespace, Acumen Brands,
Klarna, and Red Venture. Also
servers as a board observer for
Airbnb, Meituan and Uber.
Andrew Ferrer
Principal
• Currently, Andrew Ferrer serves
as principal at General Atlantic.
• Prior to General Atlantic, he
was a Principal at Sycamore
Partners.
John Bernstein
Managing
Director, London
• Before joining GA, John served
as a partner at Advent
International, where he led the
European telecom and
technology investment practice.
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General Catalyst Partners
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2000 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Cambridge, MA
Company Overview: General Catalyst Partners is a venture capital
firm that makes early-stage and transformational investments.
It specializes in investments in incubation, seed, start-ups, early
stage, mid venture, growth stage, middle market, later stage, mature,
organic expansion or acquisitions, leveraged recapitalizations,
XIR/growth equity, leveraged buyouts, special situations,
management buyouts or corporate carve-outs, take-privates of public
companies, and industry consolidations.
It has offices in Cambridge, MA, Palo Alto, CA and New York City.
The General Catalyst partnership leverages its broad experience to
help founders build market-leading businesses. It seeks to make
minority and majority growth equity investments between 10% and
90% in the portfolio companies.
Target Geographies US & Canada and Asia-Pacific
Target Sectors Consumer and Enterprise Software, Mobile
Fund General Catalyst Group Fund I, II, III, IV, V,
Vi, VII; GC Entrepreneurs Fund V, General
Catalyst Entrepreneurs Fund II & III, General
Catalyst Stripe Platform Fund
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage
Venture Investments
Investment Size Makes seed investment of $0.05-0.25m and
equity investment of $10-50m
AUM $3.75B
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
Hemant Taneja
Managing
Director
• Currently, he serves as Director
at ClassDojo, Fractyl, Gridco
Systems, Gusto, Highfive,
Livongo, SnapChat, Stripe,
TuneIn, and Virtual Instruments
Joel Cutler
Managing
Director
• Currently, he serves as Director
at Airbnb, Cadre, Chloe +
Isabel, GoButler, Handy, Jet,
M.Gemi, Oscar Insurance,
Warby Parker and Wildcard
Larry Bohn
Managing
Director
• Currently he serves as Director
at Altiscale, Bigcommerce,
Black Duck Software,
Clarabridge, Demandware
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59. ComCap, LLC
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Geodesic Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2015 Status: Private
Employees: 1-10 HQ: Palo Alto, California
Company Overview: Geodesic Capital is a venture capital firm
specializing in late venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in
enterprise and consumer technology companies. Geodesic Capital
was founded in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
Target Geographies United States
Target Sectors Enterprise and consumer technology
companies
Fund Google Europe Venture Capital Fund,
Google Ventures, Google Ventures 2001,
Thoughtful Things Fund
Company Stages Late Stage
Investment Size N/A
AUM $335.00M
Ashvin
Bachireddy
Co-founder and
General
Partner
• Ashvin is a Senior Advisor at
Centerview Partners. He served
as the Chief Executive Officer of
Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich &
Rosati until August 2009. Mr.
Roos joined Wilson, Sonsini,
Goodrich & Rosati in 1985.
John Roos
Director of the
General
Partner
• John served as a Principal of
Tokyo at Greenhill & Co., Inc.
and previously served as Vice
President of Tokyo. Mr. Rezneck
served as an Associate at
Greenhill & Co Inc., which he
joined in 2004.
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Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn
60. ComCap, LLC
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GGV Capital
Fund Overview Selected investors
Key Facts Portfolio Companies
Founded: 2000 Status: Private
Employees: 11-50 HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Company Overview: GGV Capital is a venture capital firm based in
Silicon Valley and China that has been successfully partnering with
leading technology entrepreneurs since 2000. The firm was founded
with the unique idea to have one team investing in both China and
the US - the two largest economies in the world.
GGV Capital is a $3.8 billion multi-stage venture capital firm based in
Silicon Valley and China.
27 GGV portfolio companies have completed IPOs in the last 10
years, including 8 China-based companies who have gone public on
US exchanges.
Five of the firm’s partners have been recognized on the Forbes
Midas List of top venture capitalists,
Ashvin
Bachireddy
Co-founder and
General
Partner
• Ashvin is a Senior Advisor at
Centerview Partners. He served
as the Chief Executive Officer of
Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich &
Rosati until August 2009. Mr.
Roos joined Wilson, Sonsini,
Goodrich & Rosati in 1985.
John Roos
Director of the
General
Partner
• John served as a Principal of
Tokyo at Greenhill & Co., Inc.
and previously served as Vice
President of Tokyo. Mr. Rezneck
served as an Associate at
Greenhill & Co Inc., which he
joined in 2004.
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Target Geographies China, United States
Target Sectors Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce, M-
Commerce, Digital Media, SaaS, Enterprise,
Internet of Things, Social, Marketing, Travel,
Music, Gaming, Cloud, Security
Fund GGV Capital VI, GGV Capital
Entrepreneurs, GGV Capital Discovery,
GGV Capital VII, GGV Capital Plus etc.
Company Stages Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage
Venture, Private Equity, and Debt Financing
Investment Size $5.0-25m
AUM $3.80B
Hany Nada
Co-Founder &
Managing
Partner
• Currently, Hany serves on the
Board of Directors for Draft
Kings, PlayHaven, Vocera
Communications, BandPage,
Glu Mobile, and Wild Tangent.
Jixun Foo
Managing
Partner
• Prior to joining GGV Capital, Mr.
Foo was a Director at Draper
Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet
Ventures .
Jenny Lee
Managing
Partner
• Jenny also serves on the board
of other private companies,
including Ali Animation,
Chukong Technologies etc.
Source: Company website, CapIQ, LinkedIn