Lightspeed Venture Partners combines extensive venture capital and operating experience to assist entrepreneurs in creating industry leading technology companies. Lightspeed manages over $2 billion in funds and focuses on early stage investments in software, communications, enterprise infrastructure, semiconductors and electronic design automation software. Lightspeed contributed to the success of over 250 companies including Adaptec, Brocade, Ciena and FedEx.
Morgenthaler is a premier venture capital and buyout firm. We have worked with outstanding entrepreneurs to build world-class companies for over 36 years. Today, we have $2 billion under management, including $850 million in our current fund (capitalized in the summer of 2001). Our passion for company building has earned us the respect of our partners and exceptional results for our investors.
Morgenthaler manages its investments through two teams:
Morgenthaler Ventures
Its Silicon Valley-based venture capital team focuses on life sciences and information technology companies. The team is headquartered in Menlo Park , CA , with offices in Boulder , CO ; Boston , MA ; and Princeton , NJ.
Morgenthaler Partners
Its Cleveland-based buyout group focuses on traditional management buyouts and leveraged recapitalizations, industry build-ups and later-stage investments. The team invests in profitable, stand-alone middle-market companies, and divisions or subsidiaries of larger corporations. It focuses on industrial manufacturing (specifically highly-engineered content and component manufacturing) and business and industrial services.
New Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital fund with a primary focus on corporate information technology spinouts. Founded in 2001, it now has approximately $700 million under management. Headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, it also has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, England and the Netherlands. Its many corporate partners include Lucent Technologies, British Telecom, Philips Electronics, IBM, and Intel.
New Venture Partners' original team came out of Lucent's Bell Labs. Its interest in digital radio dates back to the formation of Lucent Digital Radio (LDR) in 1998, based on pioneering Bell Labs technology. New Venture Partners remains the largest shareholder in LDR's successor, Ibiquity Digital, whose HD Radio technology is endorsed by the FCC as the sole standard for digital terrestrial radio broadcast in the U.S.
Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment program, focuses on making equity investments and acquisitions to grow the Internet economy in support of Intel's strategic interests. Intel Capital invests in hardware, software and services companies in several market segments, including computing, networking, and wireless communications.
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