Investors
Atlas Venture
Atlas Venture is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies. Since inception in 1980, its partners have helped build over 350 companies in more than 16 different countries. The firm is currently investing in its eighth fund and manages over $2 billion in committed capital. For more information, please visit www.atlasventure.com.
.406 Ventures
Founded in 2006, .406 Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in innovative early stage Information Technology (IT) and services companies founded by the finest entrepreneurs. The .406 Ventures team is comprised of industry entrepreneurs, operators and investors who apply real world experience, deep industry knowledge and networks, and strong company-building skills to create value for our entrepreneurs and investing partners. .406 Ventures is typically the lead, first institutional investor in early-stage and de novo investments in market-changing IT Security and Infrastructure, Technology-Enabled Business Services, and Next-Generation Software companies.
Highland Capital Partners
Highland Capital Partners was founded with the mission of helping great people build great companies. Since its inception in 1988, the firm has taken a sector-focused approach to investing in exceptional communications, consumer, digital media, healthcare and information technology companies. With over $3 billion of committed capital and offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, Shanghai and Geneva, Highland has invested in and worked to create such firms as Ask Jeeves, Avid Technology, CheckFree, Conor Medsystems, Continental Cable, Helicos BioSciences, lululemon athletica, Lycos, MapQuest, Navic Networks, Ocular Networks, Odyssey Healthcare, P.A. Semi, Quigo, Starent Networks, Sybase, Telica and VistaPrint. For more information, visit Highland's web site at www.hcp.com.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Since its founding in 1972, KPCB has backed entrepreneurs in more than 450 ventures, including AOL, Align Technology, Amazon.com, Citrix, Compaq Computer, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Genomic Health, Google, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Intuit, Juniper Networks, Netscape, Lotus, LSI Logic, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, VeriSign, and Xilinx. More than 150 of the firm's portfolio companies have gone public. Many other ventures have achieved success through mergers and acquisitions.
Top Tier
Top Tier Capital Partners, formerly Paul Capital Investments, began in 1999 as a private-equity asset management firm that invests in funds that support innovative products and business models. Top Tier focuses on venture capital, growth capital and co-investments with skilled management teams that make traditional private equity fund investments and secondary purchases of targeted fund managers. Their investors include public and private pensions, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, and family offices. As an SEC-registered investment advisor, Top Tier’s custom solutions generate private equity opportunities their investors cannot efficiently source or manage directly. For more information, please visit: http://www.toptiercp.com/.