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Overview
The Team
Partners
- Application Development
- Marketing Agencies
- Mergers & Acquisition
- Strategic Consulting
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Venture Capital
Accelent has established relationships with several leading Venture Capital firms in the technology sector. We are a trusted resource for strategic consulting or interim management assignments for their portfolio companies and look to them as potential investors in our early stage companies.
We have relationships with venture partners at the following firms:
3i is a leading international venture capital company that invests across Europe, Asia and North America in both established and emerging companies. Typically they invest up to €250m in businesses with enterprise values ranging from €100m to €1bn. Over the last five years, 3i has invested over €1.2bn in technology businesses in the areas of software and services, Telecom and IT Services, and Electronics and Semiconductors.
Accel Partners is a leading global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage. It offers a team of professionals knowledgeable and active in their industry, as well as an extensive network of highly relevant executives and companies. Accel has raised a series of nine funds, with $3 billion dollars under management and helped build over 200 companies.
BlueStream Ventures is a venture capital partnership that focuses on technology companies in communications, enterprise and infrastructure software, storage and wireless markets. The team brings over 60 years of collective venture investing, research, banking, operations, mergers and acquisitions, and advisory experience to its portfolio companies. The team has a collaborative style, agility, and extensive network.
Blumberg Capital is a classic, early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in innovative and disruptive information technology companies in the US and Israel. They have had success investing in companies that have grown to become market leaders such as Check Point Software, Creo, DSP Group, Electronics for Imaging and Teva, among others. They have made 33 investments and have had 16 acquisitions and IPOs.
FirstMark Capital was previously named Pequot Ventures. Pequot was the $2 billion venture arm of hedge fund Pequot Capital Management, but in March 2008 it was spun off as a separate business and renamed. Over the past dozen years, the venture firm has opened seven funds, and it currently has $1 billion in actively managed and unallocated capital. The fund focuses on emerging media and advertising, data and analytics, and infrastructure startups.
Foundation Capital prides itself on being entrepreneurs first and foremost. They focus on enterprise software, clean technology, consumer Internet and fabless semiconductors. Typically, they invest $1 to $10 million and participate in each subsequent round. The partners prefer to work with startups in their formative stages, and look for entrepreneurs with a clear sense of purpose and vision, and clarity in communicating them.
Kennet has a proven a track record of building global market leaders and achieving high-value exits in Europe and North America. It likes businesses with real customers and strong revenue growth, especially those that have been bootstrapped. Sectors include business services, digital media, e-commerce, consumer Internet, enterprise software, telecoms software and infrastructure, semiconductors and IT services.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm that manages over $2 billion of capital commitments; its hallmark is early-stage investing. They like to be the first institutional investors in and see company through successful exit. It closed $800 million fund in early 2008. The team has invested in 150 companies in the U.S. and internationally, with people located in Silicon Valley, China, India, and Israel
Novus Ventures helps build technology-based companies and position them for success in the digital economy. Its principal business is early-stage investing in enterprise software and infrastructure that include core technologies and applications that support the extended enterprise and intellectual property intensive technologies that support the demand for connectivity and bandwidth. Initial funding is around $1 million to $10 million.
Outlook™ Ventures invests in promising early and growth stage information technology companies on the West Coast. They typically take a leadership role in every financing and for a Series A deal, this often means they are the first institution investor. They also have an extensive angel network. Sectors include software infrastructure, applications, and Internet companies addressing both consumer and business markets.
Partech International is a leading global venture capital firm with offices in the U.S., Europe and Israel. With $800M under active management, our investment team focuses exclusively on Information Technology. Investment sectors are Software & Internet, specifically infrastructure, data management, SaaS, Open Source and Communications & Components including software, systems, and material processing companies.
The Redpoint team has 100 collective years of experience and over $2 billion under management—including 34 IPOs and 54 upside acquisitions. Investment sectors include broadband Infrastructure; enterprise systems & software; interactive media, content & advertising; consumer Internet services & applications; mobile platforms and applications; semiconductor materials and devices and energy companies.
Red Rock Ventures specializes in seed and early-stage information technology investments. Their record in successfully founding and/or financing high-technology companies has created substantial market value and investor returns for the past 20 years. Red Rock currently manages $220 million in committed capital. They like B2B companies in enterprise software, applications or infrastructure or SaaS.
Sierra Ventures focuses on early and pre-public communications, software, and internet related content and infrastructure companies. The General Partners are industry veterans with operations, engineering, financial, and management experience in software, telecommunications, and internet industries. They have $1.5B capital raised, funded 200 companies, had 25 IPOs and 50 acquisitions, and returned $1B to LPs.
Trinity Ventures is a boutique firm that invests and builds consumer and technology startups in the San Francisco Bay Area; they are not a global mega fund and want to keep it that way. It focuses on early-stage technology investment opportunities with a particular emphasis on the digital media, Internet services, mobility, security and software markets. Trinity has more than $1 billion under management and has invested in more than 100 companies.
Woodside Fund invests in an average of four to six companies per year and 15 to 20 companies over a fund's lifetime. They expect to invest $5 to 10 million in each portfolio company, with an initial commitment of $2 to 5 million. Invest in early-stage companies but will look at seed or later stage deals. Sectors are semiconductors, networking and communications infrastructure, and applications and infrastructure software.
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“ To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines”.
— Steve Jobs
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