Morgenthaler Ventures

Morgenthaler Ventures is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that invests in emerging technology companies. Its mission is to partner with and support industry leading entrepreneurs as they build their companies, with a primary focus on communications components & systems, software infrastructure, and health care enterprises. Morgenthaler manages more than $1 billion in assets, including $570 million from its Partners VI Fund, which was capitalized in early 2000. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with satellite offices in Boston and New Jersey.

U.S. Venture Partners

Since its inception in 1981, USVP has raised more than $2.5 billion in eight funds, including a $1 billion fund that closed in January 2001. To date, the venture firm has invested over $1.1 billion in more than 271 companies. Many of these companies – especially those where USVP was the "founding" lead investor, such as Sun Microsystems, New Focus, Check Point Software Technologies, Nuance Communications, Blue Martini Software, AMCC, MMC Networks, Centillium Communications, Stratacom/Cisco, and CacheFlow - have become leaders in their respective fields. In fact, 68 USVP portfolio companies are now publicly traded, generating aggregate annual revenues of more than $26 billion and employing over 83,000 people.

First Analysis

First Analysis is a leading private growth-equity investor. It has one of the longest records (20 years) in private capital investing. It has invested over $590 million, has created over $1.4 billion in fund liquidations, and has over $180 million in active portfolio investments. First Analysis focuses on its three sectors of expertise: outsourced services, information technology, and chemistry-enabled businesses, investing for expansion and growth in small and mid-size companies with established business models, high internal growth rates, and large-market leadership potential. Its goal is to help these companies establish highly profitable leadership positions in their markets, assisting with strategy, recruitment, sales and marketing, and corporate development. First Analysis applies a research-driven approach to private capital investing, encompassing private and public companies. Relative to traditional approaches, this approach results in superior understanding of our ind ustries, broader and deeper networks of industry contacts, better understanding of the institutional investor community, and a longer-term perspective on company development -- well beyond the IPO. First Analysis is typically the lead or sole investor in its portfolio companies, investing up to $10 million, and it has a number of established co-investor relationships.