Bay Partners

Bay Partners is an early stage Venture Capital firm located in Silicon Valley. Bay has been building successful technology companies since 1976, funding over 350 startups. Bay leverages the operating backgrounds of its partners and its extensive network of executives and advisors to help outstanding entrepreneurs create the leaders in new high growth market segments. Notable successes from Bay's portfolio include Brocade, Concord Communications, Exodus, Sonicwall, Placeware, Informatica, Web Logic(BEA) and NetScaler. Bay is currently investing its eleventh venture fund and has over $1 billion under active management. Bay Partners is on the web at http://www.baypartners.com.


Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (Special Investments)

Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (Special Investments), or GIC Special Investments, is the private equity arm of GIC. GIC is a global investment management company established in 1981 to manage Singapore's foreign reserves. With a network of six overseas offices in key financial capitals around the world, GIC invests internationally in equities, fixed income, money market instruments, real estate and private equity. Since inception, GIC has grown from managing a few billion dollars to more than US$100 billion today. Amongst GIC Special Investments' successful venture investments include Cisco, Amber Networks, Placeware and Spinnaker Networks. For more information, visit http://www.gic.com.sg.


GGV CAPITAL

GGV Capital is a leader in expansion-stage venture capital investments in the United States and Asia. Focused on driving expansion-stage innovation worldwide, GGV Capital’s highly diverse team manages over $1 billion from its offices in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm invests across a range of sectors in information technology, services and healthcare, as well as the consumer growth sector in China. GGV Capital has provided capital and helped accelerate international expansion for its worldwide portfolio of high-growth companies, particularly in the U.S. and China. For more information, please visit www.ggvc.com.


Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a leading European venture capital firm active in technology venture investing since 1996. The firm is dedicated to helping top entrepreneurial teams in the Information Technology and Life Science sectors build their companies into market defining global leaders. The firm has offices in Geneva, London and Jersey and focuses its investment activity primarily on Europe and Israel. Landmark investments include Skype (the pioneering communications company acquired by eBay); MySQL (the world's most popular open source database); Betfair (the world's largest betting exchange); Genmab (one of the largest antibody companies in the world) and Last.fm (the world’s largest social music platform, acquired by CBS). For more information, please visit www.indexventures.com.

 

Mangrove Capital Partners

Mangrove Capital Partners "Mangrove" provides venture capital with a punch to entrepreneurs looking to build world class companies. It’s mission is to help turn visions into realities by providing financing, thoughtful advice, relevant experience and deep industry relationships to our portfolio companies.

It looks to invest in companies operating Internet or Software businesses as early as possible in their development. Mangrove is particularly comfortable investing prior to product launch and view their role as an accelerator of growth and a partner for the journey to success. For more information, visit http://www.mangrove-vc.com.


Scale Venture Partners

Scale Venture Partners employs a thesis-based strategy to identify innovative development-stage technology and healthcare investments in emerging markets. The Scale team helps technology and healthcare companies accelerate their growth and become more valuable. Based in Foster City, California, Scale Venture Partners collectively offer decades of technology and venture industry experience. For more information, visit www.scalevp.com.