Canaan Partners

Canaan is a private investment firm managed by individuals with a history of providing assistance, guidance and capital to entrepreneurial companies. Founded in 1987, Canaan currently manages approximately $2.0 billion in investment capital. The company is committed to helping companies grow over time, and has invested in more than 100 organizations.

Canaan focuses on organizations with innovative ideas, strong management teams, and intriguing business models, and provides talented entrepreneurs and ambitious companies with the resources, experience, and teamwork needed to create successful, lasting businesses.

Canaan invests more than money in a company; it invests time, experience, knowledge, connections, and a team-oriented approach. Canaan places tremendous value on creating working partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams who have the drive to succeed.

Cardinal Venture Capital

Cardinal Venture Capital focuses on investments in early-stage software companies.

Cardinal Venture Capital is comprised of an experienced team of investors, entrepreneurs and operational managers, enabling the firm to provide new entrepreneurs with the strategic counsel, financial resources, recruiting and business development contacts needed to build a successful business.

New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

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.

Outlook Ventures

Established in 1995, Outlook™ Ventures actively invests in promising seed and early stage next-generation software companies in the Western United States. The company works with high-potential entrepreneurs toward a shared vision. The firm applies its depth of experience and resources, unique among seed and early stage firms, to building each individual portfolio company. As a result, Outlook Ventures has delivered returns in the top quartile of all venture funds and, more importantly, has helped those entrepreneurs to achieve profound impact on their industry sectors.

Outlook Ventures' investing approach is to be the first institutional investors in a company and then to support its growth over its life. Outlook Ventures was founded on the principle that the willingness to take risks on very early stage ventures results in opportunities to contribute to the growth of the winning companies of the future.

The company invests capital exclusively in software companies including communications and enterprise applications as well as software infrastructure. Over the life of the company, Outlook Ventures continues providing capital and introductions which has resulted in subsequent investments by leading later-stage investors.

This approach has has proven valuable in helping launch and accelerate the growth of companies such as Overture (NASDAQ: OVTR), Impulse Networks (acquired by Inktomi - NASDAQ: INKT), Kinecta (acquired by Stellent - NASDAQ: STEL), and Soundview Technology (NASDAQ: SNDV).