Austin Ventures

Austin Ventures (“AV”) has worked with talented entrepreneurs to build valuable companies for over 25 years. With $3.9 billion under management, AV is the most active venture capital and growth equity firm in Texas and one of the most established in the nation. With an investment focus on business services and supply chain, financial services, new media, Internet, and information services, software, and Texas special situations, AV invests at all stages of company development, from $100,000 “planned experiments” in early stage ideas to $100+ million investments in expansion rounds, minority recapitalizations, and buyouts of lower middle market growth companies. AV’s strategy is to partner with talented executives and entrepreneurs through its CEO-in-Residence and Entrepreneur-in-Residence programs.

Arch Venture Partners

Arch Venture Partners, L.P. is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on life sciences, advanced materials, specialty semiconductors, physical sciences, and information technology. It invests conservatively at first to reduce or extinguish risk and then leads or co-leads additional rounds of financing all the way to liquidity. It maintains its presence in geographical areas that are typically underserved by seed investors but contain great centers of basic research and an active community of technologists.

Benchmark Capital

Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in technology driven companies in the areas of enterprise software and services, communications and security, semiconductors, mobile computing, consumer services, and financial services. It mainly seeks to invest in companies based in U.S. and Europe. The firm typically seeks to make initial investments between $3 million and $5 million, with investments between $5 million and $15 million over the life of its portfolio companies. Its investments can range between $100,000 and $10 million or $15 million. Benchmark Capital was founded in 1995 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and Herzliya Pituach, Israel.

Canaan Partners

Canaan Partners is a global venture capital firm that invests in people who turn visionary ideas into valuable and significant technology & healthcare companies. We were early investors in some of the world’s leading technology companies, including Acme Packet, CommerceOne, DoubleClick and Match.com and as well as healthcare giants Cerexa, Dexcom, Northstar Neuroscience and Peninsula Pharmaceuticals.

Charles River Ventures

Charles River Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in startup and early stage investments. It also seeks to participate in seed financings and can invest across all stages. The firm typically invests in companies engaged in the communications and technology, enterprise software and services, and media and entertainment sectors. It seeks investment opportunities in system and software solutions that scale the enterprise information technology infrastructure while investing in the datacenter infrastructure industry.

DAG Ventures

DAG Ventures is a venture capital partnership investing in and helping outstanding entrepreneurs create leading, long-term companies across a range of markets. With roots from the 1980’s in cable TV, infrastructure, media, and wireless industries, the partnership today is privileged to work with world-class entrepreneurs as they build tomorrow’s leaders in the information technology, energy, and life science sectors.

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

DFJ Gotham Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City focused primarily on investments in information technology startups based in the Northeast U.S. and Israel. The firm also invests in Israeli companies when their plans involve the development of a U.S. presence. It typically invests between $1 million and $2 million in a company initially, and makes larger follow-on investments. The firm prefers a board seat in its portfolio companies.

First Round Capital

First Round Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia. As seed-stage investors, we often provide a company’s first outside capital – and typically invest alongside angel investors.

Flagship Ventures

Flagship Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on creating, financing, and building innovative companies in the Life Science and Technology sectors. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Flagship Ventures was founded in 1999 and manages $700 million in capital. Prior to its founding, Flagship’s principals were involved as founders or investors in over 100 firms including: Adolor, AltaVista, Anesta, Antigenics, Aspect Medical, Astral Point, Celera Genomics, ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals, Color Kinetics, Chantry Networks, Cytyc, DataSage, Exact Sciences, IDEXX, PerSeptive Biosystems, Somatogen, Telecorp PCS and TripAdvisor.

Highland Capital Partners

Highland Capital Partners was founded with the mission of helping great people build great companies. For twenty years, the firm has taken a sector-focused approach to investing in exceptional seed through later stage growth companies in the healthcare, internet & digital media and technology markets. Highland has invested in and worked to create such firms as Ask Jeeves, Avid Technology, CheckFree, Conor Medsystems, Continental Cable, Generation Health, lululemon athletica, Lycos, MapQuest, Ocular Networks, Odyssey Healthcare, Quigo, Starent Networks, Sybase, Telica and VistaPrint.

Intel Capital

Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, semiconductor manufacturing and cleantech.

InterWest Partners