Investors
Egora Ventures
Egora Ventures is the venture capital operation of Egora Holding. Active in both the European and American markets for over 20 years, Egora Ventures offers its portfolio companies a unique combination of capital, know-how, and synergies. Headquartered in Munich Germany, Egora has approximately 54 million Euros under management. For additional details, visit www.egoraholding.com.
JAFCO Ventures
JAFCO Ventures is the U.S. venture capital operation of JAFCO Co, Ltd. and invests from JAFCO Technology Partners I, a $100 million venture capital fund. With a new team of highly experienced venture capital investors, the fund's charter is to invest in U.S. based early expansion-stage technology companies sponsored by top-tier venture capital firms. The goal is to invest in venture opportunities of true "breakout" potential where JAFCO Ventures can meaningfully add value with capital, the experience of seasoned venture capital investors, and the deployment of our Asia business development team." Visit www.jafco.com for more details.
Mohr, Davidow Ventures (MDV)
Mohr, Davidow Ventures (MDV) has built a reputation among entrepreneurs as a partner by taking a hands-on approach to investments and working skillfully to architect and build successful companies. MDV possesses an extended team of experts, including the firm's partners and an active network of seasoned entrepreneurs. Together, they focused on early stage investments while bringing years of real world experience to accelerate each company's time to market and optimize its long term success. Category-leading companies funded by MDV include Agile, Auspex, Brocade, Epigram (BRCM), FormFactor, Ipsilon Networks (NOK), Kalpana (CSCO), Numerical Technologies (SNPS), ONI Systems (CIEN), Pivotal Technologies (BRCM), Rambus, Vantive and Vitesse. Founded in 1983, MDV has $1 billion under management. For more information, visit www.mdv.com.
Telesoft Partners
Telesoft Partners is a venture capital firm focused on next generation communications and information technology companies. Based in Silicon Valley, Telesoft manages capital commitments of $625+ million. Over the past decade, Telesoft and its principals have funded and helped build 54 portfolio companies resulting in 21 acquisitions and IPOs to date. Example portfolio companies include Bombay Cellular (acquired by Hutchison), Catamaran (acquired by Infineon), Cerent (acquired by Cisco), Internet Phototonics (acquired by Ciena), iWitness (acquired by Zantaz), Kymata (acquired by Alcatel), Lara (acquired by Cypress), Promatory (acquired by Nortel), VxTel (acquired by Intel), as well as the following companies which have initial public offerings: Omnipoint, OSI, Provide Commerce, and SigmaTel. Telesoft's Corporate Partners include T-Venture (the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom), Bechtel, Comverse, and Vodafone/Mannesmann. For more information, visit www.telesoftvc.com.