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August Capital
August Capital was founded in August of 1995 by David Marquardt and John Johnston, both formerly of Technology Venture Investors (TVI). The firm currently has over $1.3 billion under management and focuses on investing in early stage technology companies. Early stage investments of the firm's partners include Microsoft, Adaptec, Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Seagate, Intuit, Sybase, Visio, Actel and ViewLogic. In addition, members of the August team have been founders of numerous companies including Wired Digital, MMC Networks, Cobalt Networks and Transmeta. Together, the partners bring over 60 years of investment experience and their investments have created in excess of $400 billion dollars in equity value.

www.augustcap.com

3i is a global leader in private equity and venture capital, with 25 offices across the US, Europe, and Asia. 3i manages over $12 billion and invests over $2.6 billion annually across Venture Capital, Growth Capital, and Buyouts. In the past 5 years alone, 3i has backed more than 40 companies that have gone public on the world's leading exchanges and has executed over 500 M&A transactions. In the US, we focus on opportunities in the following sectors: technology, consumer, media, healthcare, software, business services, energy, semiconductors and telecommunications. www.3i.com

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. BlueRun Ventures' proven approach is to invest globally as a single fund in best-of-breed technologies and teams with the drive and ability to build leading global companies. The adoption of consumer and mobile technologies for entertainment and communications is driving innovations in components, systems, software, material science, and services. Collectively, we have a long history in these markets and are uniquely qualified to foster innovation in these areas. Launched in 1998, BlueRun Ventures is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with offices in Helsinki, Herzelia (Israel), Mumbai, Seoul, and Shanghai. For more information, visit 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
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

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, Digital Railroad, NexTag, IGA Worldwide, 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. www.morgenthaler.com

Norwest Venture Partners
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a global venture capital firm that has partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 45 years. NVP focuses on investments in IT including: consumer Internet, media, software, services, systems, and semiconductor/components. The firm currently manages more than $2.5 billion in venture capital out of its office in Palo Alto, California and has funded 400+ companies since inception. Select recent investments and transactions include Airespace (acquired by Cisco Systems), deCarta, DoubleFusion, Jigsaw, mBlox, Mercora, Spinnaker Networks (acquired by Network Appliance), TURN, Wallop and Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola). For more information, visit www.nvp.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.

Shasta Ventures

Shasta Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that serves as a value-added partner to both entrepreneurs and investors. The principals have over thirty years of venture experience and have invested in over 45 companies. The team possesses a rare combination of core technology expertise and deep experience in marketing to consumers. By combining these skills in an integrated, collaborative approach, Shasta helps entrepreneurs build companies that address the growing demand among consumers and enterprises for new technology products and services. The fund pursues investment opportunities in the Internet, infrastructure, software, mobile and technology-enabled service sectors. www.shastaventures.com

Sierra Ventures

Sierra Ventures is a private venture capital firm focused on investments across all areas of Information Technology. We work with entrepreneurs and management teams to originate and build new companies into large, profitable businesses. Since 1982 Sierra has raised nine venture funds with over $1.5 billion in committed capital. Our most recent fund Sierra IX closed in 2006 at $400M. Our Limited Partners include established financial institutions, university endowments, and pension funds. They also include prominent individual investors, many of whom were founders, CEOs, or board members of major publicly traded technology companies. www.sierraventures.com/

Storm Ventures

Storm Ventures was founded by a seasoned group of industry veterans with the common vision of sharing our collective experience, passion and energy to help talented and driven entrepreneurs build great companies of enduring value. Storm Ventures focuses on seed and early stage information technology companies which best leverages our operational perspective and experience and enables us to add value in the critical early stages of a company's development. With over $500 million under management, we build value through direct involvement and close relationships with entrepreneurs, advisors, and public companies. At Storm Ventures, our view is that fundamental value creation takes patience, determination and hard work.