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Since 1989, the founders of Crosslink have dedicated themselves to helping build companies. From very early on, seed stage financings through last stage private investments and into the market, Crosslink specializes in growth equities and today manages over $700 million.
Meritech is a late-stage venture capital firm dedicated to building technology companies of lasting value by providing efficient access to expansion stage capital for rapidly-growing companies with differentiated technology. Meritech leverages a broad network of individuals and the network of companies within our portfolio to create strategic and business opportunities for our investments.
Since inception in 1999, Meritech has raised $2.3 billion in several funds, and has invested in more than 80 companies including Salesforce.com, Topspin Communications, IntraLase, Corvis, 2Wire and many other category and technology sector leaders.
Morgenthaler Ventures is a leading, national venture-capital firm with a 36-year track record of helping build industry leaders. The firm has funded more than 200 companies, and currently has $2 billion under management. Morgenthaler focuses its investments in the information technology and life sciences sectors. Key IT investment areas include: systems, software, services, semiconductors and components, and materials and devices. Some of their portfolio companies include:
Catena Networks
Illustra
Inkra Networks
Nuance Communications
Synopsys
NanoOpto
NexTag
Stargen
Voltage Security
Wave7 Optics
New Enterprise Associates(NEA) is one of the country's largest professional venture capital firms and is the largest investor in the Communications and Networking areas. Since 1978, more than 100 of the companies that NEA funded have gone public, and NEA consistently ranks among the top venture firms based on portfolio company IPOs each year. Some of their portfolio companies include:
Ascend Communications
3 Com Corporation
Bay Networks
Silicon Graphics
Tandem Corporation
Juniper Networks
Alteon Networks
Berkeley Networks
Accelerated Networks
Cirrus Logic
Pacesetter Capital Group ("PCG") is a diversified family of private equity funds that manages assets exceeding $200 million. PCG is comprised of one diversified private equity fund and three SBICs. PCG has developed a strategic technology infrastructure portfolio, which includes investments in networking systems and hardware, semiconductors, and enterprise software.
U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) invests in a broad range of early-stage information technology companies, including those involved in wireless, IT infrastructure, semiconductors, and enterprise and technical software. Representative USVP public companies are: Sun Microsystems, SanDisk, AMCC, Verity, CheckPoint, MMC Networks, 3Dfx, Leadis, Nuance Communications, Centillium, Crescendo Communications (Cisco), Elantec (Intersil), StrataCom (Cisco), Xylan, Blue Coat Systems and Concur.
Worldview Technology Partners is an established venture capital firm with a strong track record of investing in and helping build leading information technology companies. Their investment focus is in telecom equipment, telecom services and Internet companies. Some of their portfolio companies include:
Ciena
C-Cube Microsystems
TollBridge Technologies
Assured Access Technologies
Com21
PSINet
Tivoli Systems
Advanced Fibre Communications