Walden Venture Capital

With $7 billion of committed capital, IVP is one of the premier later-stage venture capital and growth equity firms in the United States. IVP is a hard-working team of experienced investors who have advised a large number of technology executives over the past few decades. We are a dedicated group of investment professionals who specialize in later-stage company growth, typically companies above $100 million valuation. Growth is our doctrine: we truly believe it is the key catalyst that separates the ultimate winners from the rest of the pack. We know that it takes persistence, experience, vision, and agility to achieve true greatness. Our firm works hard to help CEOs mitigate the daunting risks and challenges that inevitably appear during the rapid growth phases of a company's life. We hope we get to be a part of your journey as a growth company. IVP was founded by Reid Dennis in 1980. Since then, IVP has invested in over 300 companies, 106 of which have gone public. IVP is one of the top-performing firms in the industry and has a 36-year IRR of 43.2%.

Venrock is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto that focuses on disruptive early-stage technology startups. Venrock partners with entrepreneurs who have grand ambitions and want to tackle big, hard problems that most think impossible. Venrock today consists of two separate programs: a traditional venture capital program, focused on early stage investing in healthcare and technology companies; and a later-stage healthcare program, which implements a venture capital-like long-term approach to investment opportunities in small capitalization public companies and late-stage private healthcare companies. Venrock was formed in 1969 as a venture arm of the Rockefeller family (the name Venrock being a compound of Venture and Rockefeller), who have a long history of venture-style investing dating back to the early 20th century.

FirstMark Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York that primarily invests at the seed or Series A stage. We are proud to back the ambitious founders of the most iconic companies in the world. We provide our investee companies access to the FirstMark platform and resources, which we believe is powered by the largest network in venture capital. FirstMark was founded in 2008 as a spinoff of Pequot Ventures, owned Pequot Capital Management.

Lux Capital is a venture fund that invests in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what is possible. We partner with bold entrepreneurs who are challenging the status of quo - and we are willing to bet on them when no-one else can or will. Our team is comprised of neuroscientists, chemists, data scientists, computational biologists, economists, electrical engineers, machine-learning hackers and philosophers. Lux Capital was founded by Peter Hebert, Robert Paull and Josh Wolfe in the year 2000 and has its headquarters in New York with an additional Silicon Valley office.

Benchmark Capital is a US-based venture capital firm that has invested in some of the most successful startups in the last twenty years. Benchmark Capital is one of the most recognized, successful, and unique venture firms in Silicon Valley. we focus on social, mobile, local and cloud startups. It has a flat hierarchy with no CEO, and an equal ownership and compensation structure among its six full-time partners. It remains primarily focused on American technology startups. Benchmark Capital was founded in 1995 by four partners: Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff and Kevin Harvey.

Aspect ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in the United States. We invest primarily at the Series A, and occasionally Seed, stage, and continue to back our entrepreneurs. We have deep investment expertise, having invested and worked alongside entrepreneurs across several market cycles and having backed founders who have created enduring companies and generated billions of dollars of returns. We believe in surrounding an entrepreneurial team with more than one set of insights, experiences, perspectives, and networks to maximize founder success. We are not limited by a particular check size or ownership percentage when we invest in a company. We are focused on getting the right team around the table for our entrepreneurs at every step of their company's growth - from seed to maturity.