Partners
Charles River VenturesCharles River Ventures is a venture fund with more than 30 years of history focused on early-stage investments. Commonly serving as the first investor in its portfolio companies, CRV selects visionary entrepreneurs with innovative ideas, and provides the support they need to build great companies from the ground up. The firm’s recent areas of focus include:
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Clearstone Venture PartnersClearstone Venture Partners excels at leading early-stage investments in technology-based innovative and transformative companies. Since its inception as pioneering investors in the early internet, Clearstone has continued to support investments across numerous sectors including Internet and New Media; Wireless and Communications; Software; and Technology-enabled Services. With a strong presence in Southern California as well as offices in Northern California and Mumbai, India, Clearstone is particularly strong at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment both in the US and globally. Clearstone seeks out founders with a passion for building game changing companies and insights into large existing or potential markets. |
Fenwick & West LLPEstablished in 1972, Fenwick & West LLP is a full service law firm with a primary focus on technology and life sciences clients ranging from start-ups to established companies of national and international prominence. The firm’s litigation and tax groups service clients from a wide range of additional industries. They have over 250 attorneys providing services from offices located in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California.Fenwick & West is committed to providing innovative, cost-effective and practical legal services and solutions that focus on global technology industries and issues. The firm believes that technology will continue to drive our national and global economies and we look forward to partnering with our clients to create the products and services that will help build great companies. |
Founders FundThe Founders Fund is a non-traditional investment group led by a team of four managing partners, who themselves are founders and entrepreneurs. Founders Fund Partner Sean Parker is one of this year's TechCrunch50 experts. |
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Mayfield FundMayfield Fund provides “venture capital with impact” by partnering with exceptional individuals to create industry-leading companies. Mayfield brings a global view to investing, with dedicated local teams in China and India who invest in early to growth stage companies in the IT and other sectors. In the U.S., the firm’s investment sectors include communications/wireless, consumer/media, enterprise software and semiconductors. Mayfield has over $2.7 billion under management and a team of twelve investing professionals. Since its founding in 1969, Mayfield has raised 12 funds, invested in more than 470 high-growth companies, taken more than 100 public, and more than 150 have merged or were acquired. |
MicrosoftWith over 640,000 software and service partners worldwide, Microsoft has a proven record of helping businesses increase profitability by delivering the tools, technologies, and programs that increase market reach. The Microsoft StartUp Zone helps entrepreneurs and start-ups get the most from Microsoft's programs and resources. Select companies from Microsoft's Accelerator Program also receive customized engagement plans to support their software and market development efforts. |
MSN MoneyMSN Money is a premier online financial resource, providing great original editorial content plus the tools and community to empower investors and engage spenders and savers. Taxpayers can find helpful tax tips, checklists, a tax estimator and the Deduction Finder to help them make informed decisions about filing. MSN Money also helps users stay informed with in-depth and up-to-the-minute data, investment recommendations, valuable tracking tools, and opportunities to connect with other active investors to make smart financial decisions. |
MySpaceMySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc. is the premier lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, discovering popular culture, and making a positive impact on the world. MySpace has created a connected global community by integrating web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, e-mail, music streaming, music videos, photo galleries, classified listings, events, groups, college communities, and member forums. MySpace's international network includes more than 25 localized community sites. Fox Interactive Media is a division of News Corp. |
Perkins CoiePerkins Coie is a leading international law firm offering a full spectrum of legal services. With more than 650 lawyers in 14 offices across the United States and in China, the firm serves great companies ranging in size from start-ups to FORTUNE 100. Many of the firm's clients are leaders in traditional industries as well as emerging technology markets, including internet, software, digital media, hardware and telecommunications. The firm's Emerging Companies attorneys have extensive experience in working with technology companies at all stages of development, from start-up planning to all aspects of capital formation. |
SalesforceSalesforce.com is the market and technology leader in software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). The company's portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM, revolutionized the ways customers manage and share business information. With the company's Force.com PaaS, customers, developers, and partners build, deploy, and share powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise. Applications build on the Force.com platform can be easily shared, exchanged, and installed with a few clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace. |
SeesmicSeesmic provides anyone with an innovative way to communicate and connect with each other online through video conversation. See and hear people share their experiences straight from their webcams and mobile phones, join in active conversations, and engage in real interactions with real people. The Seesmic platform also enables video conversations on more than a thousand sites, blogs and broadcasts them to other social software such as Twitter and FriendFeed thanks to its roust API. Seesmic also operates twhirl, a social desktop client that enables Seesmic video comments. twhirl represents 12% of Twitter messages being sent and has over 400,000 downloads. |
Sequoia CapitalSequoia Capital provides startup venture capital for very smart people who want to turn ideas into companies. As the “Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs”, Sequoia Capital’s Partners have worked with innovators such as Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Bob Swanson of Linear Technology, Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Jen-Hsun Huang of nVIDIA, Michael Marks of Flextronics, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of YouTube, Steve Goldman and Sujal Patel of Isilon Systems, Dominic Orr and Keerti Melkote of Aruba Wireless Networks and Jit Saxena of Netezza. |
SymantecSymantec's mission is to deliver next generation security solutions with protection that revolves around you, not just your computing device. Combining industry-leading security features with more than 300 new improvements, the newest versions of the company's flagship Norton products - Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton AntiVirus 2009 - have been designed with a "zero-impact" performance goal, setting a new industry standard for speed and performance. Featuring innovative new technologies and features, the products are being engineered to deliver a superior customer experience that is light on system performance and strong on protection. |
Thomson ReutersThomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minn., Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. |
YahooYahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. |
