Venrock Associates



Venrock is a premier venture capital firm with offices in Menlo Park, New York, Cambridge, MA, and Israel. Originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, Venrock continues a seven-decade tradition of partnering with entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. Having invested $1.8 billion in 400 companies resulting in over 120 IPOs over the past 38 years, Venrock’s investment returns place it among the top tier venture capital firms that have achieved consistently superior performance. With a primary focus on technology, healthcare, and energy, portfolio companies have included Apple Computer, Centocor, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, Gilead Sciences, Idec Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Intel, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Sirna Therapeutics, and StrataCom. For more information, please visit Venrock’s website at
www.venrock.com


Accel Partners



Founded in 1983, Accel Partners is one of the world’s leading venture capital firms. The firm is dedicated to partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs to build world-class Internet, software and networking companies. Accel Partners has more than $4bn under management from its offices in Palo Alto, London, and China, and its portfolio companies have completed IPOs that have created well over $150 billion in market capitalization. Representative current and former investments include Brightcove, Comscore, Double Fusion, Facebook, Glam, Macromedia, RealNetworks, and The Cloud.
www.accel.com


Grazia Equity GmbH



Founded in 1996, Grazia Equity is a leading European venture capital firm specialising in early-stage investments in innovative and high potential companies, either as principal or co-investor. With offices in Stuttgart and Munich, Grazia actively supports businesses over several development stages and financing rounds on the way to becoming a leading player in their respective markets. Its experienced investment team combines highly successful entrepreneurial, operational and investment backgrounds, and has secured significant stakes in pioneers such as MFD (Germany´s first mobile TV company) and Conergy (the world´s largest independent solar system integrator). As a result, the Grazia team has had the good fortune to be an investor in a longer list of successful growth stage companies which have completed successful IPOs and trade sales in both Europe and the US.
www.grazia.com


About Bridge Capital Fund L.P./Nikko Antfactory K.K.



Nikko antfactory K.K., established in 2001, is a leading Private Equity and Venture Capital firm in Japan with $1.2 billion under management and a broad portfolio of investments. Bridge Capital Fund (BCF) is an affiliate fund of Nikko antfactory that specialises in investments in technology-driven international companies and in Japanese companies that commercialize such technologies. BCF generates value by helping companies to bridge the gap between the limited availability of venture technology funding in Japan and the high appreciation of publicly listed technology companies on the Japanese stock market. Past investments include CIMA Nanotech, IGS and OnionNetworks.

The fund is managed by Mr. Yoav Keidar and Mr. Christian Wilhelm.
www.antfactory.jp/english/