About Highland Capital Partners
Highland Capital Partners was founded with the mission of helping great people build great companies. Since its inception in 1988, the firm has taken a sector-focused approach to investing in exceptional communications, consumer, digital media, healthcare, and information technology companies. With more than $3 billion of committed capital and offices in Geneva, London, Silicon Valley, Boston and Shanghai, Highland has invested in and worked to create such firms as Ask Jeeves, Avid Technology, CheckFree, Conor Medsystems, Coremetrics, lululemon athletic, Lycos, MapQuest, Navic Networks, P.A. Semi, PhotoBox, Privalia, Qihoo 360, Quattro Wireless, Quigo, Spartoo.com, Starent Networks, Sybase, Vertica and VistaPrint.
About Balderton Capital
Balderton Capital is one of the leading venture capital firms in Europe. Based in London, Balderton manages $1.9 billion in committed venture capital, and has invested in more than 100 companies, principally in Europe but also in the US and Asia. Balderton focuses on the technology sector, and notable investments include SCVNGR (the US location-based gaming platform), Big Fish Games (the global online games innovator), The Hut Group, World Stores and KupiVIP (Europe’s fast-growing online retailers), MOG (the US digital music site), YOOX Group (the online retailer of leading fashion brands, listed in December 2009), bebo (acquired by AOL for $850m), Betfair (floated on the LSE in October 2010), LOVEFiLM (sold to Amazon in January 2010) and MySQL (acquired by Sun Microsystems for $1 billion).
About Tenaya Capital
Tenaya Capital is a leading venture capital firm that invests in mid to late stage venture-backed technology companies, with exceptional entrepreneurs that are addressing growing markets with proprietary, market-leading technology. The firm is managed by a cohesive group of partners that have worked together for over a decade. The team is an equal partnership that works together to evaluate investments and support portfolio companies in executing their strategies. Tenaya has offices in Woodside, California and Waltham, Massachusetts.
About HV Holtzbrinck Ventures
HV Holtzbrinck Ventures was founded as a corporate vc in 2000 and became a fully independent vc investor in 2010 by setting up its fourth fund. HV Holtzbrinck Ventures has invested in more than 90 companies and focuses on early stage investments in consumer internet, mainly commerce, gaming, mobile, “social” businesses and related topics. Its current portfolio includes companies like Groupon, Zalando, GameDuell and Experteer, Brands4Friends (sold to ebay for $200m), Parship (sold to Holtzbrinck Group) and Audible (sold to Amazon), were among its successful exits.