Investors
Accel Partners
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For nearly 25 years, Accel Partners has been dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs who possess the courage and insight to create unique, category-defining companies. These entrepreneurs do more than follow market trends, they lead fundamental industry transformations.
With over $3B under management and offices in Palo Alto, London, and China through our partnership with IDG-Accel, Accel has made initiating, early-stage investments in companies that have sparked many of the most significant recent transformations in digital media and information technology, such as: RealNetworks, Macromedia, Facebook, BitTorrent, MetroPCS, Riverbed, Veritas Software, UUNet, Foundry Networks, Walmart.com, and many others.
Tenaya Capital
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Tenaya Capital is a leading venture capital firm with offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachussetts. Founded in 1995 as Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Tenaya became an independent company in 2009. Over the years, Tenaya has raised five funds representing over $1 billion of committed capital, investing in a wide range of high-growth technology companies including software, consumer internet, communications, semiconductors, electronics, and clean tech.
Shasta Ventures
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Shasta Ventures provides capital and business guidance to early-stage technology companies serving consumers and enterprises. Our investment sectors are Consumer and marketing services, business services, software and infrastructure. Shasta focuses on early stage investing with a $210M fund. The firm was formed in 2003 by venture capital veterans from NEA, Trinty Ventures and Battery Ventures where they were investors including Blue Nile, LoopNet, BabyCenter, NextCard, FatBrain, and Xyros. Shasta believes strongly in the combination of technology and marketing to build strong companies. Our investment team has decades of experience in consumer marketing and technology to draw up on in helping our portfolio companies.
Board
Ben Boyer
Managing Director, Tenaya Capital
Kevin Efrusy
General Partner, Accel Partners
Hari Menon
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Tumri
Jason Pressman
Partner, Shasta Ventures
Gokul Rajaram
Former Product Management Director, Google AdSense