Investors
The Galleon Group is a New York-based group of alternative investment advisers that has approximately $7 billion under management and focuses on long/short equity and late-stage
private equity strategies in the U.S. and emerging market sectors. Galleon has offices in
New York, California, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and India.
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With a focus on Information Technologies (IT), the ATA Ventures team makes capital
investments in opportunities where the combined backgrounds of the ATA Ventures
professionals can provide an extraordinary positive influence on the portfolio company
management team. The firm’s investment professionals offer an average of over 25 years
of related experience (per Managing Director) to support their portfolio companies as they
grow.
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The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm. Since its
organization in 1988, the firm has earned an international reputation for financial
innovation, technological leadership, and an extraordinarily distinguished staff. The
D. E. Shaw group encompasses a number of closely related entities with approximately 1,000 employees, $25 billion in aggregate investment capital, and offices in New York, London,
Silicon Valley, Houston, Kansas City, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Bermuda, and
Hyderabad and Gurgaon, India.
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DuPont Capital Management (DCM) has managed institutional pension assets for over 31 years.
DCM applies value-based global investment capabilities that combine valuation and risk control disciplines to produce risk-efficient excess returns that satisfy our clients' investment objectives.
DCM currently manages portfolios across a diverse spectrum that spans capitalization, geography and asset classes. We have built a capable professional investment team to manage our parent corporation's pension plan assets and since 1999 we have offered our investment capability to
other institutional investors.
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Founded in 1989, Labrador Ventures is one of the oldest, premier seed stage funds in
Silicon Valley. With over $200 million under management, Labrador has invested in
more than 75 companies over the last 17 years, helping transform the way we work,
communicate and transact business.
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Kinetic Ventures is a leading provider of capital to entrepreneurial companies addressing
growth markets related to communications, the Internet, and customer service
opportunities. The firm focuses on investments in segments critical to the transition
underway in the deregulating utility industry. The company’s strong track record
includes Ciena, Cerent, Corvis, NetCore, Peace Software, PlaceWare, Ramp Networks and
VerticalOne. Kinetic Ventures has offices in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Atlanta, Georgia.