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Venture capital
Venture capital (also known as VC or Venture) is a type of private equity capital typically provided for early-stage, high-potential, growth companies in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realization event such as an IPO or trade sale of the company. Venture capital...
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Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is a major Sand Hill Road venture capital firm, one of the most widely known in Silicon Valley. The name comes from the four senior partners: Eugene Kleiner (emeritus), Tom Perkins ...
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- 1972
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3i
3i Group PLC (LSE: III) is a leading private equity firm. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
The company was formed in 1945, as the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC), by the Bank...
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Trireme Partners LLP
Trireme Partners LLP was a limited partnership venture capital company that invested in technology, goods, and services related to Homeland Security. The name "Trireme" was taken from a Greek warship designed with three banks of rowers.
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Draper Fisher Jurvetson
About Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson is the pre-eminent venture capital firm with global presence
through a network of affiliated funds, with offices in more than 30 cities around the world
and over $5 billion in capital...
Date founded:
- 1985
In-Q-Tel
In-Q-Tel of Arlington, Virginia, United States is a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency equipped with the latest in information technology in support...
Date founded:
- Sep 29, 1999
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Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Randy L. Ditzler, Greg McAdoo, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Gaurav Garg, Michael Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Roelof Botha, and...
Date founded:
- 1972
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Atlas Venture
We invest in technology and life sciences businesses in the U.S. and Europe through our offices in Boston, London, Munich, and Paris. We don’t just invest in companies. We partner
with them. Our team’s purpose is to apply our operational...
Date founded:
- 1980
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Benchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups. In 1997, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999. Other high profile...
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- May 1, 1995
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Softbank Capital
SoftBank Capital was formed to make U.S. based venture capital
equity investments in technology companies benefiting from the wide
scale deployment of broadband and mobile technologies. We believe these
technologies create an incredibly rich market...
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Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a seed-stage startup funding firm, started in 2005 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, and Jessica Livingston. Y Combinator provides seed money, advice, and connections at two 3-month programs a year in Cambridge and...
Date founded:
- 2005
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Fidelity Ventures
Fidelity Ventures brings resources to portfolio companies that go
far beyond capital. Our experience, track record and unique business
relationships propel new products and services into the marketplace. Powerful NetworkWe leverage our...
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New Enterprise Associates
Every entrepreneur knows the thrill of a great idea. They’ve felt
the pride of nurturing a vision and watching it grow. So, when it comes
time for them to fly, they want a venture partner who shares that
spirit and knows what it takes to make a...
Date founded:
- 1978
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Fourth Block
Fourth Block is a global strategic management firm and a leading provider of venture capital, private equity, subordinated debt and private wealth management services.
Founded in 2003, Fourth Block specializes in financing and guiding start-ups,...
Date founded:
- 2003
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Sigma Partners
Sigma Partners was founded in 1984 on the principle that people are
the essential element of success. That is why Sigma focuses on
identifying exceptional entrepreneurs with creative ideas and
supporting them in building great companies. Unlike some...
Date founded:
- 1984
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Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, Israel, and India.
Bessemer Venture Partners is the longest-standing venture capital practice in the United States. Between 1911 and...
Date founded:
- 1911
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital or MUCAP is one of Japan's largest venture capital firms. Its parent company is the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group or MUFG, the Japan's largest bank in terms of assets.
MUCAP was formed on October 6, 2005 by the merger of...
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Venrock Associates
Because Venrock was founded in 1969 as the
venture capital arm of the Rockefeller Family and we have $2 billion
under management. Because Venrock provides funding and services for entrepreneurs with
breakthrough ideas in technology, healthcare,...
Date founded:
- 1969
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Sevin Rosen Funds
Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a venture capital firm that was established in 1980 by L. J. Sevin and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Electronic Arts, Lotus Development Corporation, Silicon Graphics, and...
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Noventi
Noventi is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Giacomo Marini and was previously known as CIR Ventures (or Cypress Ventures).
The Noventi team includes: Giacomo Marini, James Horn, Masa Ishii, Pierluigi Zappacosta.
Noventi funded Teltier...
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- 2002
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VenFin
VenFin is an active private equity and venture capital investor focusing on high growth investment opportunities. The company has assets in excess of $1.1 billion spanning the telecommunications, software, energy and media sectors. VenFin also has...
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Wolverine Venture Fund
Wolverine Venture Fund is a student run venture capital at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Founded in 1997, WVF is the first and largest student run VC in the United States of America. WVF invests in early stage technology...
Date founded:
- 1997
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Golden Gate Capital Partners
Golden Gate Capital Partners is a private equity firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm makes investments primarily in mature technology companies, as well as other select industries, through leveraged buyout transactions as well as...
Date founded:
- 2000
Mayfield Fund
Mayfield Fund is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the US, focusing on early-stage to growth-stage investments in information technology companies with a focus on enterprise software, Internet consumer & media services, and communications....
Date founded:
- 1969
Enterprise Partners
Enterprise Partners is a venture capital firm with over $1.1 billion in capital under management. It was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in La Jolla California. Enterprise focuses on seed, early stage and promising later stage companies across...
Date founded:
- 1985
Oak Investment Partners
Oak Investment Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm with a
total of $8.4 billion in committed capital. The primary investment
focus is on high growth opportunities in communications, information
technology, internet new media, financial...
Date founded:
- 1978
Mizuho Capital Co.
Mizuho Capital Co., Ltd. (みずほキャピタル株式会社, Mizuho Kyapitaru Kabushiki-gaisha) is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.
The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY...
Date founded:
- 2002
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Matrix Partners
We have built a diverse experience base among the general partners of
Matrix to achieve a unique combination of significant operating and
industry talent. We have worked successfully together for many years,
differentiating us from many...
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Valhalla Partners
Valhalla Partners, based in Vienna, Virginia, is a venture capital firm which seeks to build world-class technology companies. Valhalla assists the companies it invests in by offering both seasoned advice and best practices which have been developed...
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- 2002
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The Founders Fund
The Founders Fund is a San Francisco, California venture capital firm that has led several early stage funding rounds for well known Web 2.0 start-up companies.
The firm was organized by Managing Partners Peter Thiel and Ken Howery in early 2005,...
Date founded:
- Jul 2005
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Accel Partners
Accel Partners is a leading global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.
The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai.
Founded in 1983,...
Date founded:
- 1983
Redpoint
Redpoint Ventures was
formed in 1999 with partners from Brentwood Venture Capital and
Institutional Venture Partners, two firms that have been successfully
investing in technology since the early days of venture capital. This
gives the company ...
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Greylock Partners
Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $2 billion under management. The firm focuses on early stage companies in the consumer, enterprise software and infrastructure as well as...
Date founded:
- 1965
Granite Ventures
Granite Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, California. Granite's predecessor H&Q; Venture Associates, founded in 1992, was the venture capital investment arm of Hambrecht & Quist, a leading technology oriented...
Date founded:
- 1992
ITU Ventures
ITU Ventures, based in Los Angeles, California, is a private venture capital company operating primarily on developing businesses around technologies emerging from research institutions and university laboratories. The company provides investment...
Date founded:
- 2000
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Quicksilver Ventures
Quicksilver Ventures is a primary and secondary venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley (Saratoga). Quicksilver Ventures acquires existing venture capital portfolios from corporations and other venture capital funds. They invest in early-stage,...
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Azione Capital
Azione Capital Pte Ltd is a venture capital firm based in Singapore, and focuses on early stage investments in the Digital Media, Cleantech, and Social Economy sectors as well as the Telecommunication and Maritime industries. The portfolio companies...
Date founded:
- 2006
HighBAR Ventures
HighBAR Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by noted Sun Microsystems co-founders Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim together with entrepreneur and former Sun executive Roy Thiele-Sardiña. The firm's name references an acronym of the first name of...
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Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners (Canaan) is a global venture capital firm focusing on investments in early stage companies in the technology and healthcare sectors.
The firm's technology group focuses on digital media, communications, enterprise software,...
Date founded:
- 1987
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Second avenue partners
Second Avenue Partners is a venture capital firm based out of Seattle, Washington focused on emerging Internet businesses in the high-tech field.
Second Avenue Partners was founded in February 2000 by former Starwave CEO Mike Slade, former Microsoft...
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CMGI, Inc.
ModusLink Global Solutions, formerly CMGI Inc., is an American technology and venture capital company, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company supplies a range of internet and communications services, mostly to computer companies, its...
Date founded:
- 1986
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J.H. Whitney & Company
J.H. Whitney & Company is the oldest venture capital firm in the U.S., founded in 1946 by John Hay Whitney and his partner Benno Schmidt. Today the firm focuses primarily on leveraged buyouts, turnarounds, acquisitions, and recapitalizations of more...
Date founded:
- 1946
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ETF Venture Funds
ETF Venture Funds is a private equity firm focusing on venture capital investments in the United States. ETF invests primarily in early stage, high growth technology-enabled companies in the financial services, healthcare services, business services...
Date founded:
- 1999
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Carmel Ventures
Carmel Ventures, established in 2000, is an Israeli venture capital fund with over $600 million under management. Carmel is focused on early stage companies in the fields of Software, Internet, Media, Communications, Semiconductors, and Consumer...
Date founded:
- 2000
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VantagePoint Venture Partners
VantagePoint Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused on making venture capital investments. The firm focuses on cleantech, information technology and healthcare investments.
Founded in 1996, by Alan E. Salzman and Jim Marver, the firm has...
Date founded:
- 1996
Alta Partners
Alta Partners is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA. The company was founded in 1996 by Dr. Jean Deleage, Ph.D., who was also a founder of the venture capital firms Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. (BEDCO) and Sofinnova, together with...
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Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co.
Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. (BEDCO) was a venture capital firm which focused on investments in information technology, communications, and healthcare/biotechnology companies.
BEDCO was one of the first venture capital firm to set up a bi-coastal...
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U.S. Venture Partners
U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), is a venture capital investment firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley focusing on investments in an array of segments including semiconductors, software as a service, communications, storage, wireless,...
Date founded:
- 1981
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GED Sur Capital, SGECR, SA
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GED Eastern Fund I
Spannish Investment Fund making aquistitions (and selling on investments at a later date) in Romenia and Bulgaria.
Date founded:
- 2006
