Investors

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. www.venrock.com


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, located in Stuttgart and Munich, is one of the leading European VC companies focussing on young and highly innovative companies. Grazia's success relies on a partnership with extraordinarily strong entrepreneurial teams to turn them into international market leaders. Since Grazia does not depend on institutional investors it is known for pragmatic and quick decisions.
Grazia's portfolio companies profit from the wide entrepreneurial background of its partner team as well as a far-reaching international network.
That's why some of America's best VC companies trust in Grazia's expertise by making common investments.
Grazia's partner team has supported so far more than 40 companies. www.grazia.com


Crescent Point Group is an investment management and advisory group with a geographic concentration on the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. The Group makes and manages proprietary, private equity related investments on behalf of sophisticated individual and institutional investors from around the globe. The Group operates professionally staffed offices in Singapore, Shanghai and Jeddah and employs senior executives of the firm in London, New York and Kuala Lumpur. www.cgcm.com