Canaan Partners invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides them the networks, insights and operational guidance required to build high-performance technology and healthcare companies. Founded in 1987, the firm has raised eight funds and completed more than 78 acquisitions and 53 IPOs. With $3 billion under management and a worldwide footprint, the firm is committed to catalyzing the growth of innovative digital media, communications & mobility, enterprise, clean tech, biopharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics and healthcare infrastructure companies. Among its successes are Associated Content, the people’s media company; VOIP equipment supplier Acme Packet; CommerceOne, the company that pioneered B2B ecommerce; DoubleClick, the leading online advertising solution; Match.com, the most popular online dating site in the world; and SuccessFactors, the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions. Other Canaan investments include 3Crowd, Active Networks, blip.tv, Blurb, iYogi, Lending Club, ON24, OpenSky, Prime Sense, SOASTA, Tremor Media, TweetPhoto and Zoosk. Canaan has offices in California, Connecticut, India and Israel. For more information visit www.canaan.com.
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New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is one of the industry's premier venture capital firms. Founded in 1978, NEA has grown to 11 partnerships managing $5 billion of capital.
The company typically invests in 20 to 30 new companies each year and generally supports companies through multiple rounds of financing. Classic venture capital investors, NEA concentrates on early stage companies in the areas of information technology and medical and life sciences.
NEA has a long and successful track record of finding, funding, and growing private companies, and has a broad range of contacts and relationships that can help portfolio companies. NEA acts as a partner with the firms in which it invests, sharing a company's vision and usually working with the company for five to seven years to achieve long-term success.
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Columbia Partners Private Capital is the private investment group of Columbia Partners L.L.C. Investment Management. Private Capital invests both directly in mid to later stage, privately-held growth companies and in select private equity and venture funds. Our Private Capital Management Team has over 80 years of collective private investment and transactional experience.
Columbia Partners Private Capital creates tailored programs for our clients to invest their allocations in the private equity asset class. Through these efforts, we make growth capital available to high quality mid to later stage companies and to premier private equity fund managers. www.columbiaptrs.com/privatecapital/