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Canaan Partners
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.
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).
