Meet the VCs

Dealmaker Media, producers of the Under the Radar conference, works closely with our community of Venture Capital Firms to share information about startups and innovators who are emerging on the horizon. The 2009 VC Circle Members Include:

Battery Ventures
Since 1983, the Battery team has prided itself on avoiding the herd and on operating a little differently than other investors. We have been fortunate to back some very big thinkers who have also carved their own paths, and we continue to seek out new visionaries every day. Our firm was founded on a set of principles that remain the pillars of our investment philosophy: a concentration on technology and related sectors; a research-centric methodology for identifying and understanding large, emerging market opportunities; a proactive approach to finding driven entrepreneurs and compelling businesses; and daily involvement with every portfolio company. This approach has helped us to build lasting, market-leading companies while delivering leading returns for investors. We have been fortunate to work with individuals who have set out to push technology boundaries at companies such as: Akamai Technologies, Allegiance Telecom, FORE Systems, HNC Software, Infoseek, LIFFE, MetroPCS, Neoteris, Nextel, Pixelworks, Qtera, SigmaTel, Vastera, and Witness Systems. Battery has raised nearly $3B since inception, and we are currently investing BV VIII, a $750M fund. www.battery.com

BlueRun Ventures
BlueRun Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital fund focused
on Internet, mobile, software and services. For the last 10 years, BlueRun Ventures has worked with early stage companies to build lasting businesses and successful exits in the crossroads of technology, ideas and global markets. In partnership with entrepreneurs, BlueRun has helped to create markets and technology such as PayPal and Widerthan. Our longstanding global presence has given us valuable insight into today’s local market needs and tomorrow’s global trends. With over $1 billion of capital under management, we continue to look for passionate entrepreneurs and market changing ideas. Bluerun Ventures has offices in Menlo Park, Beijing, Shanghai, Helsinki, Seoul, and Mumbai. For more information, please visit www.brv.com www.brv.com

Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners is an early stage venture investor. The firm catalyzes the development of innovative technology and healthcare companies to build next-generation market leaders. Founded in 1987, Canaan Partners has $2.4 billion capital under management and has invested in more than 235 companies, completed 63 mergers and acquisitions, and brought over 50 companies public. Canaan invests in Internet and consumer technology, communications, semiconductor and energy, enterprise software and services, biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals and medical device technology. Canaan was an early investor in Acme Packet (APKT), Combinatorx (CRXX), CommerceOne (CMRC), Copper Mountain Networks (CMTN), Dexcom (DXCM), DoubleClick (DCLK), Immunicon (IMMC), Northstar Neuroscience (NSTR), and ONI Systems (ONIS), along with dozens of other market-leading companies. Canaan has offices in Menlo Park, California; Westport, Connecticut; Gurgaon, India; and Herzliya Pituach, Israel. www.canaan.com

First Round Capital
First Round Capital is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to helping talented entrepreneurs build remarkable companies. We are seed-stage investors, often providing a company’s first outside capital, and are not afraid of investing in pre-revenue companies. As former entrepreneurs, we understand the challenges of launching a new enterprise. We look to take an active role in most of the companies we invest in. We believe our experience, insight and expertise are far more valuable than our capital — and we look for entrepreneurs who feel the same. www.firstround.com

Gabriel Venture Partners
Gabriel Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with cross-border expertise committed to building industry leaders by actively partnering with entrepreneurs to build the market leaders of tomorrow in technology and technology-enabled businesses. Gabriel has offices in Silicon Valley and India, and manages over $260 million. Gabriel’s investment team consists of seasoned technology entrepreneurs and industry executives, each with international operating experience and strong domain expertise. Representative investments include Placeware (acquired by Microsoft), NetScaler (acquired by Citrix), and Iridigm (acquired by Qualcomm), as well as India investments such as Allsec (IPO), IL&FS Investsmart (IPO), and Provogue (IPO). www.gabrielvp.com

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through our history, we’ve had the opportunity to invest in the pioneers and leaders of several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods and business models. We’ve helped entrepreneurs build companies in desktop software, embedded systems, client-server, distributed network computing, internet, and software as a service. Our earliest portfolio companies started shipping software on floppy disks and today we’re investors in pioneering companies in on-demand computing. We’ve seen everything from shrink-wrap licenses to enterprise-wide “big deals” to subscription pricing; from direct sales to highly-leveraged channel strategies. In other words, because software is all we do, we bring tremendous value to highly talented people who want to build great software companies. We hope our website tells you a lot about us, but please feel free to contact any of us directly. www.humwin.com

Mayfield Fund
Mayfield Fund provides “venture capital with impact” by partnering with exceptional individuals to create industry-leading companies. Our investment sectors include communications/wireless, consumer/media, enterprise software and semiconductors. We have over $2.8 billion under management and a team of ten investing professionals. Since our founding in 1969, we have raised 13 funds, invested in more than 500 companies, taken more than 100 public, and nearly 100 have merged or were acquired.

We offer entrepreneurs a team of partners with operating experience and results-driven venture capital expertise virtually unmatched in the industry. We’ve learned over the last four decades that unless you constantly adapt – you will die. We’re used to the pace and especially realizing the importance of iteration. In fact, our vision, curiosity, financial strength and commitment helped build Silicon Valley. www.mayfield.com/

Morgenthaler Ventures
Morgenthaler is a leading, national venture-capital and buyout firm with offices in Menlo Park, CA; Boston, MA; Princeton, NJ, Boulder, CO., and Cleveland, OH. Our venture-capital team focuses on information technology and life sciences. Morgenthaler’s Internet-services investments include: imeem, NexTag, Rhythm New Media, SNOCAP, and Orb Networks. Our software investments include: Nominum, Voltage Security, Netli, MuleSource, and JasperSoft. The firm has approximately $2.5 billion under management and has invested in more than 250 companies over its 38-year history. They have just closed their ninth fund at $400M. www.morgenthaler.com/

Scale Venture Partners
Scale Venture Partners employs a thesis-based strategy to identify innovative development-stage technology and healthcare investments in emerging markets. Based in Foster City, California, the Scale team collectively offers decades of technology and venture industry experience to development-stage companies in hardware, software, healthcare and medical devices. Representative portfolio companies include Alimera, Frontbridge (acq: MSFT), Glu Mobile, Good Technology (acq: MOT), Monolithic Power Systems (NASDAQ: MPWR), Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR), Orexigen, Placeware (acq: MSFT), Scansafe, Seattle Genetics (NASDAQ: SGEN), Somaxon (NASDAQ: SOMX), Wayport and Xceive. For more information, visit www.scalevp.com

About the VC Circle

The VC Circle is an annual membership designed exclusively for VCs to give them access to what matters most: deal flow, priority consideration for speaking opportunities, free conference passes, selection committee participation, private dinners, and networking events.

To learn more about participation, contact us at — vccircle @ dealmakermedia [ dot ] com.