Investors

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm with over $2 billion of committed capital under management. Lightspeed’s investment professionals and advisors are located in Silicon Valley, China, India and Israel. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed more than 150 companies, many of which have become leaders in their respective markets, including Blue Nile, Brocade, Calista, Ciena, DoubleClick, eHealth, Galileo Technology, Growth Networks, Informatica, Kiva Software, LightLogic, Maker Communications, Metasolv, Openwave, Quantum Effect Devices, Riverbed, Sirocco, Virsa Systems and Waveset.

Greylock Partners was founded in 1965. With offices in Boston and San Mateo, Greylock is one of the nation's largest early-stage venture capital firms with over $2.2 billion in committed capital. The firm focuses on early stage investments in enterprise information technologies, enterprise applications, and managed services; and communications technologies. Greylock's early stage investments in recent years include Red Hat, DoubleClick, RightNow Technologies, CheckFree, Legato, and Ascend Communications.

Venture Tech Alliance was founded in 2001 as a venture investment management company targeting early-stage business investment in the semiconductor industry and other emerging technology areas. Venture Tech currently manages funds totaling $165 million.

Pinnacle Ventures is a private venture capital fund focused on providing debt and equity financing to early-stage companies. Pinnacle differentiates itself through the strength and diversity of its team, its broad range of investment alternatives, its creative and flexible structures, its thoughtful responsiveness, and by taking a long-term perspective with respect to its investments and by helping its portfolio companies achieve success.

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