Investors
Benchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital, a leading international venture capital firm, was founded in 1995 to help talented entrepreneurs with original ideas build successful technology companies. Benchmark’s general partners take a team-oriented, labor-intensive approach to venture investing to deliver a superior level of service to the firm’s portfolio companies. Benchmark’s portfolio includes high-profile start-ups like Infinera, MySQL, OpenTable, Second Life, Tellme, Yelp, and Zillow, and franchise companies such as eBay, Juniper Networks and Red Hat. The firm manages more than USD 2.4 billion in committed venture capital. For more information on Benchmark Capital, visit its website at www.benchmark.com.
Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners is an early stage venture investor. The firm catalyzes the development of innovative technology and healthcare companies to build next-generation market leaders. Founded in 1987, Canaan Partners has $2.2 billion capital under management and has invested in more than 210 companies, completed 52 mergers and acquisitions, and brought 45 companies public. Canaan invests in Internet and consumer technology, communications, semiconductor and energy, enterprise software and services, biotechnology, and medtech. Canaan was an early investor in DoubleClick (DCLK), CommerceOne (CMRC), Copper Mountain Networks (CMTN), Immunicon (IMMC), ONI Systems (ONIS), and Peninsula Pharmaceuticals, along with dozens of other market-leading companies. Canaan has offices in Menlo Park, California, Westport, Connecticut and Herzliya Pituach, Israel. For more information visit: www.canaan.com.
GrandBanks Capital
GrandBanks Capital invests in early stage companies located primarily in the eastern part of the United States. With headquarters outside of Boston, the firm was established in partnership with SOFTBANK Corp and has proven investment expertise in information technology, software, Internet and communications, media and financial services, and wireless technologies. The GrandBanks Capital portfolio currently includes; Colubris Networks, Coradiant, Ember Corporation, Enpocket, First Coverage, GlassHouse Technologies, Incipient, OutStart, uLocate Communications, and Vivox. For more information on GrandBanks Capital, visit: www.grandbankscapital.com.
IDG Ventures SF
IDG Ventures SF is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in New Media and IT companies in the US. The fund is part of IDG Ventures, a global network of technology venture funds with over $2 billion under management and 10 offices across Asia and North America. The fund works closely with International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform - an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources - with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, IDG Ventures helps its portfolio companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition. Leading technology companies that IDG has invested in include Netscape, Excite, Infoseek, Epiphany, F5 Networks, BabyCenter, Service Metrics, and Spinner.com in North America and Vinagames, Ctrip and Baidu in Asia. For more information on IDG Ventures SF, visit: www.idgvsf.com.
