Venture capital is a type of private equity capital typically provided by professional, outside investors to new, growth businesses. Generally made as cash in exchange for shares in the investee company, venture capital investments are usually high risk, but offer the potential for above-average returns. A venture capitalist is a person who makes such investments. A venture capital fund is a pooled investment vehicle that primarily invests the financial capital of third-party investors in enterprises that are too risky for the standard capital markets or bank loans. Venture capital can also include managerial and technical expertise. Most venture capital comes from a group of wealthy investors, investment banks and other financial institutions that pool such investments or partnerships. This form of raising capital is popular among new companies, or ventures, with limited operating history, who cannot raise funds through a debt issue. The downside for entrepreneurs is that venture capitalists usually get a say in company decisions, in addition to a portion of the equity.
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Name |
Location |
Managing Partners/Directors |
Specialty |
Capital managed |
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John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) |
Life Sciences |
$200M [1] |
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Bryan J. Jakovcic, RIA,CFA (Chief Partner) |
Technology, Manufacturing. Invests in all industry |
$350M [2] |
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Paul Klingenstein (managing partner) |
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology |
$ ?? |
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Bruns Grayson (managing partner), Bill Burgess (managing partner) |
Healthcare, IT |
$320M [3] |
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Sage Givens and David Heer (managing directors) |
Healthcare Technologies |
$ ?? |
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Joel Adams, William Frezza, Martin Neath, Jerry Sullivan, N. George Ugras (general partners) |
IT, Networking Infrastructure, Semiconductors |
$700M [4] |
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Craig Taylor; John Shoch; Douglas Kelly, M.D.; Leighton Read, M.D.; Daniel Rubin; Michael Hunkapiller; Ammar Hanafi; Tony Di Bona (general partners) |
Early stage Information Technology and Life Science Technology |
$1B [5] |
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Han Kim, Brendon Kim, Anthony Lee, Ho Nam |
Technology |
$ ?? |
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Barry Fidelman |
Technology and Life Sciences |
$2.0B [citation needed] |
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Stephen Campbell, David Wilson |
Healthcare, Business Services, Energy, Technology |
$ ?? |
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Neel Das (executive officer) |
Technology & Financial Services |
$2.3B [citation needed] |
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Andrew Clapp, Fred Morris, Ned Williams, Walter Beinecke |
Information Technologies and Medical Technologies |
$ ?? |
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Bill Elkus, Jim Armstrong, Erik Lassila, William Quigley, Sumant Mandal (managing directors) |
Internet, consumer, communications, software |
$650M [citation needed] |
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Patrick Reeve, Will Fraser-Allen, Emil Gigov, Henry Stanford |
Leisure & Tourism, Healthcare, Technology, Business Services |
$ ?? |
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Mike Fitzgerald, Jeff Hurst, Elliot Katzman,Steve McCormack, Justin Perreault |
Software and software-based services, Internet and digital media, communications technology, and instrumentation and systems |
$580M |
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Jonathan Silver, Tom Wheeler, Pascal Luck, William Dunbar, Mark Levine |
Internet, consumer, communications, software, adv manufacturing |
$ 370M [citation needed] |
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Jamie Magnon (executive officer) |
Real Estate, Construction and other assorted investments. |
$ ?? |
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Timothy C. Draper |
Technology and Technology Services |
$ 3.5B |
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Jim Berglund, Bob Conn, PhD, Carl Eibl, Drew Senyei, Kleanthis Xanthopoulos, PhD (managing directors) |
Technology and Life Sciences |
$750M |
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Information Technology |
$1.5B |
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Paul Torres |
Finance, Technology, Media & Entertainment |
$1B |
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Medical Technologies, Health & Wellness, Clean Tech |
$?? |
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DR Bessant |
Finance, Technology, Medical, Mining, Construction, Hotels, Media & Entertainment |
$ ?? |
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Larry Bohn, Joel Cutler, David Fialkow, David Orfao, John Simon |
Communications, Internet, Software, Systems |
$ ?? |
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Igor Sill |
On-Demand Software as a Service, Communications, Internet, Systems |
$ ?? [6] |
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Sean Dalton, Bob Davis, Bob Higgins, Paul Maeder, Dan Nova (managing partners) |
Communications, Consumer, Healthcare, IT |
$2.6B |
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Larry Handen, Jeff Horing, Jeff Lieberman, Ben Levin, George McCulloch, Jerry Murdock, Deven Parekh, Peter Sobiloff, Mike Triplett (managing directors) |
Software and Internet; growth and buyouts |
$ 3B [1] |
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Dennis Dougherty, Mitch Mumma, Kip Frey, John Glushik, Garheng Kong, Don Rainey, David Pierson |
IT, Life Sciences |
$ ?? |
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Chad Browstein, Jonah Schnel, Steve Schneider, Dr. Cahit Akin |
Semiconductors, Communications |
$80M [citation needed] |
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Caley Castelein, Anupam Dalal, Jim Shapiro, Dick Spaulding (general partners) |
Healthcare |
$ 330M[7] |
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Brook Byers |
Technology & Life Sciences |
$ 1.5B[8] |
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Larry Kubal, Stuart Davidson, Sean Foote |
Software, Communications/Networking, Messaging, Semi-conductors and Information services |
$200M |
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Timothy A. Barrows, Nicholas F. Beim, Paul J. Ferri, Bob Lisbonne, Stan J. Reiss, Shirish S. Sathaye, David R. Skok, Rob L. Soni, Andrew W. Verhalen, Avnish Bajaj, Rishi Navani |
Software, Communications equipment, Semiconductors, Storage, Internet and wireless |
$ ?? |
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James Beck, Navin Chaddha, Yogen Dalal, Kevin Fong, Raj Kapoor, David Ladd, Allen Morgan, Janice Roberts, Robin Vasan (managing directors) |
Wireless, Consumer, Software, Semiconductors |
$1B |
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Diego Berdakin, Michael Talei |
Technology, Internet & Marketing |
$ ?? |
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Naren Gupta, Sandeep Singhal, Suvir Sujan,Manoj Gupta |
Internet and Mobile application, Technology Related |
$100M |
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Peter Barris |
Information Technology and Healthcare |
$ 6B |
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Peter Schiff, Hal Wilson, Paul Homer |
Communications and Consumer/Retail |
$100M [citation needed] |
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Bandel Carano, Ed Glassmeyer, Fred Harman, Ann Lamont (managing partners) |
Information Technology and Healthcare |
$ 8.4B |
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Ted Mott, David Mott, Richard Hepper, Victor Christou, Richard Marsh, Rebecca Todd |
Sustainability Engineering, Information Technologies, Biomedical Engineering, Advanced Technologies |
£50m |
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Maury Domengeaux, Randall Meals, Steve Schlossareck (Managing Directors) |
Secondary Venture Capital (acquire existing corporate and venture portfolios). Investment Focus: Emerging Technologies such as Video and Imaging; Networking and Mobility; Data Management, Services and Security; Storage Components and Systems; Enterprise Applications |
$ Evergreen, portfolio acquisition value from $1m - $250m |
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Glen Mayfield, Ted Robinson, Dan Fleming, Murray Wilson, Ed McCarthy, Carter McNabb (managing directors) |
IT, Healthcare and Business Services |
$ 350M |
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Kate Mitchell, Lou Bock, Rory O'Driscoll, Mark Brooks, Sharon Wienbar, Jim Jones (managing directors) |
Healthcare, Technology |
$ ?? |
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Jon Bayless, Steve Domenik, Steve Dow, Dave McLean, Al Schuele, Charles Phipps, John Jaggers, Jackie Kimzey, John Oxaal, Nick Sturiale (general partners) |
Technology |
$1.6B [citation needed] |
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Kui Zhou (principal), Donald Valentine (founder), Neil Shen (founding managing partner) |
Components, Systems, Software and Services |
$4B [citation needed] |
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Robert Davoli, Lawrence Finch, Gregory Gretsch, Clifford Haas, John Mandile, Mark Pine, Peter Solvik, Bob Spinner, Wade Woodson (managing directors) |
IT: Software, Hardware, Semiconductors |
$1.733B [citation needed] |
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Ben Brooks (Founding Partner) |
e-Commerce, Software, Digital Media, Wireless and Healthcare IT |
$ ?? |
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