Founded in 1984, Sigma Partners is a leading early-stage venture capital firm. The Sigma team uses their deep operational experience to provide entrepreneurs with practical strategic counsel through every phase of company growth. With over $1.5 billion under management and bicoastal offices, Sigma invests in innovative technology startups across the United States. Some of the market leading companies Sigma has invested in include Atria, Cascade, Clarify, Internet Security Systems, KLA-Tencor, Octel, VeriFone, Vermeer, and Vignette.
www.sigmapartners.com
Horizon Ventures is a venture capital partnership responsible for $150M in private and SBIC leveraged capital, with exclusive focus on early stage private companies. Offering the benefit of 60 years of operating experience and more than 25 years making seed and early stage venture capital investments, the Managing Directors have been helping entrepreneurs for the past 15 years turn startup ventures into successful companies. With headquarters in Los Altos, California, they invest predominantly in Northern California, with consideration given to investments elsewhere in California or other western US areas.
www.horizonvc.com
Artemis Ventures helps entrepreneurs build successful companies. They focus on emerging enterprise software and infrastructure companies whose products can be applied to most industries. The Artemis team provides business issue guidance such as financial and marketing strategies to help attain the right partnerships necessary in today’s marketplace. The partners have extensive operating and investing experience and have been successfully building businesses for over twenty years.
Founded in 1994, Novus Ventures is a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) that invests in early stage information technology companies. Working side by side with entrepreneurs, Novus Ventures’ partners, combine active board participation with early stage venture investing. They use their expertise and experience to enhance the capabilities of the management team, clarify the strategy, forge customer alliances, fundraise and add reporting discipline. The partners have extensive backgrounds as technologists, financial executives, operating executives, CEOs, entrepreneurs and venture capital investors. With $148 million under management and offices in Cupertino, California, the firm’s portfolio is comprised of investments in enterprise software and infrastructure, information technology and semiconductor technology.
www.novusventures.com
Established in 1995, Outlook Ventures actively invests in promising seed and early stage next-generation software companies. We are passionate about working with high-potential entrepreneurs toward a shared vision of success. The firm applies its depth of operating experience and resources, unique among seed and early stage firms, in helping to build each individual portfolio company. As a result, Outlook has delivered returns in the top quartile of all venture funds and, more importantly, has helped those entrepreneurs to achieve profound impact on their industry sectors.
www.outlookventures.com
Compass Technology Partners was established in 1988. They invest in emerging, high-growth potential, public and private companies with a focus on science and technology, innovation and intellectual property. Compass Technology Partners consists of an experienced team of technology investors and managers. As such, they possess the key development skills required for successful venture investment in companies, including technology assessment, financial experience, valuation knowledge, marketing strategy, and high-growth management. As a group, they have a full complement of relevant corporate, investment and venture management expertise.
www.compasstechpartners.com
