Investors
Since 1972, Sequoia Capital has provided startup venture capital for very smart people who want to turn ideas into companies. As the “Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs,” Sequoia Capital’s Partners have worked with innovators such as Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Gaurav Garg of Redback Networks, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, Max Levchin and Peter Thiel of PayPal (eBay), T.J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor, Lou Tomasetta of Vitesse Semiconductor, Steve Jobs of Apple Computer and Larry Ellison of Oracle. The companies organized by Sequoia Capital now account for about 10% of the value of NASDAQ.
TeleSoft Partners is a venture capital firm focused on next generation communications and information technology companies. Based in Silicon Valley, TeleSoft manages capital commitments of $625+ million. The team’s track record includes 50+ companies including Catamaran (acquired by Infineon), Cerent (acquired by Cisco), ConvergeNet (acquired by Dell), Internet Photonics (acquired by Ciena), Kymata (acquired by Alcatel), Lara (acquired by Cypress), Promatory (acquired by Nortel), Versatile (acquired by Vitesse), VxTel (acquired by Intel), as well as the IPOs of Omnipoint (OMPT), OSI (OSII), Provide Commerce (PRVD), and SigmaTel (SGTL). TeleSoft’s Corporate Partners include T-Venture (the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom), Bechtel, Comverse, and Vodaphone/Mannesmann.
Founded in 1996, Worldview Technology Partners combines a focused investment strategy in emerging IT technologies with international business development services. Worldview’s unique international business development team enables Worldview’s portfolio companies to more easily penetrate global markets for customer, channel, supplier, and manufacturing relationships. It also serves as a valuable source of market information and customer feedback. Worldview has an investment office in Palo Alto and business development offices in Tokyo, Shanghai, and Frankfurt. Worldview has more than 75 companies in its portfolio with $1.4 billion under management.
Since 1982, Invesco Private Capital and our predecessor firms have developed a reputation for excellence in private equity investing, backing industry-leading venture, buyout and other private equity funds within fully discretionary funds-of-funds products. Over the past two decades, we have committed over $4 billion in capital to more than 450 private equity partnerships and have gained extensive experience with a diverse group of underlying managers. As the growth of the private equity industry creates further complexities for investors, identifying the best investment opportunities has become increasingly difficult. There are a growing number of new private equity funds brought to market each year, and returns are widely dispersed between the top and bottom performance quartiles. For these reasons, joining forces with an experienced private equity funds-of-funds manager offers the greatest potential for success.
Focus Ventues
Focus Ventures, located in Palo Alto, California, was founded in 1997 and currently has over $830 million under management. Focus Ventures invests in privately held, expansion stage technology companies that have previously received backing from a leading early stage venture capital firm. We seek communications and software companies that have completed initial product development and have begun the marketing of their products and/or services. Most of the technical risk is behind them, and they are seeking additional capital to further expand their sales and marketing efforts.
