Investors
www.accel.com
Accel Partners is a venture capital firm that has been dedicated for over 25 years to supporting entrepreneurs who possess the unique insight to define new categories and build world-class technology companies. These entrepreneurs have led fundamental industry transformations rather than followed predefined market trends. Accel shares its entrepreneur's passion for change and their courage to break new ground.
This emphasis on leadership has engendered category defining companies that have reshaped their industries and in many cases created entirely new sectors. Accel-backed companies have sparked many of the most significant revolutions in technology businesses, such as: Veritas Software, RealNetworks, UUNet, Macromedia, PictureTel, Foundry Networks, Walmart.com, and many others.
www.indexventures.com
Index Ventures is a leading European venture capital firm dedicated to working with entrepreneurs who have the drive and ability to build world-class Information Technology and Life Science companies. With offices in Geneva, London and Jersey, Index focuses its investment activity primarily on Europe and Israel and invests in both early stage and growth stage deals. Investments include Spotrunner, the world's first Internet based advertising agency, MySQL, the world's most popular open source database (acquired by Sun) and Skype (acquired by eBay).
www.firstround.com
First Round Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping talented entrepreneurs build remarkable companies. We are not afraid of investing in pre-revenue companies - and often provide a company's first outside capital. As former entrepreneurs, we understand the challenges of launching a new enterprise. We look to take an active role in most of the companies we invest in. We believe our insight and expertise are far more valuable than our capital -- and we look for entrepreneurs who feel the same.
www.mangrove-vc.com
Mangrove Capital Partners "Mangrove" provides venture capital with a punch to entrepreneurs looking to build world class companies. Our mission is to help turn visions into realities by providing financing, thoughtful advice, relevant experience and deep industry relationships to our portfolio companies.
Mangrove Capital Partners has been the first institutional investor to invest in many of the following portfolio companies: Skype, Securewave, Dialcom Networks, Piczo, Nimbuzz, Quintura, Properazz, Brickfish, and Jambaz.
www.oreilly.com
O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) is in the business of funding disruptors, innovators, and hackers of the status quo. From open source to the early days of the web and its recent resurgence, O’Reilly Media has played a key role as trend spotter and advocate for putting world-changing technologies on the map. OATV is our effort to bring the legacy, resources, and relationships of O’Reilly to each investment we make.