Investors

Ascent Venture Partners is a Boston-based venture capital firm that provides early stage and growth financing to outstanding entrepreneurs located on the East Coast. Founded in 1985, Ascent manages almost $250 million across three funds. Ascent principally focuses on information technology related markets, including network & systems management, communications technology, enterprise software and specialized IT services. With over 80 years of combined private equity experience and an extensive network of professional resources, the Ascent investment team provides committed, strategic support to the firm's portfolio companies.

 

Boulder Ventures has more than $250 million in capital under management and investments in 35 companies. The firm manages venture capital partnerships, making equity investments in start-up, early-stage and emerging-growth companies. Boulder Ventures primarily seeks opportunities in communications infrastructure and services, and Internet-based business applications and services. Boulder Ventures works in partnership with entrepreneurs, providing easily accessible, active support to develop novel business concepts and grow ideas into important companies. The company is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland with offices in Boulder, Colorado and San Francisco.

Intel Capital, Intel’s strategic investment program, focuses on making equity investments and acquisitions to grow the Internet economy in support of Intel’s strategic interests. Intel Capital invests in hardware, software and services companies in several market segments, including computing, networking, and wireless communications.

 

Ironside Ventures LLC is a venture capital firm, based in Waltham, MA, focused on making multi-stage equity investments in rapidly growing companies participating in the information technology and telecommunications industries. Particular areas of concentration include enterprise software, networking technologies and integrated circuits. The firm has guided many of its portfolio companies from their expansion stages through initial public offerings and successful strategic sales. Ironside Ventures has approximately $200 million of capital under management at this time.

Since 1976, Menlo Ventures has helped visionary leaders turn technical innovations into world-class companies. Menlo has over $2.7 billion under management in nine venture capital funds, and currently focuses their investments in the areas of communications, software, Internet, semiconductors and computer hardware. The Menlo Ventures team is a group of investment professionals with more than one hundred years of collective experience in technology, marketing, sales and general management. Their combined knowledge and expertise support emerging growth companies in achieving their maximum potential. For more information, please visit www.menloventures.com.

 

Founded in 1998, Osborn Capital LLC is one of the East Coast's leading angel investment firms. The firm invests primarily in the areas of Internet infrastructure and related Internet-based technologies. Osborn has offices in Boston and Northern Virginia. As a true seed-capital investment firm, Osborn usually comes in at the basement level of an organization, providing capital ranging from $25,000 to $150,000. The goal is to assist its portfolio companies with sharpening business plans, proof of concepts and strategies to attract additional early stage or first round funding.

Since its founding, Osborn Capital LLC has invested in over 30 start-up companies including: Arrowpoint; Aptis Systems; Astrum Software; Bluesocket, ChannelWave; Compatible Systems Gold Wire; iCatcher; Mindset; NetWhistle; Plurimi; and USPower Solutions. Two of these companies were acquired by Cisco Systems; and one by Nortel Networks.

Ridgewood Capital is a technology venture capital firm with nearly $300 million in committed capital across three venture funds. Comprised of former executives from leading technology companies and investment banks, the investment team brings operational, technical and financial expertise to our portfolio companies. Ridgewood Capital’s highly focused investment strategy is to build a diverse portfolio of premier technology companies in sectors where the partners have direct, relevant experience and that promise the most growth over the next several years: Communications, Semiconductors, Software and Optical Networking. Ridgewood Capital, part of the Ridgewood Companies founded in 1982, has a proven track record over multiple industries for close to 20 years. Ridgewood has offices located in Ridgewood, New Jersey and Palo Alto, California.

 

Vesbridge Partners thrives on helping early-stage; leading-edge networking and IT infrastructure companies bring their software and service platforms to enterprise and carrier market. Vesbridge Partners, headquarters in Boston, Mass. has a long history as part of St. Paul Venture Capital (SPVC), a well established early-stage venture capital firm with a strong track record over the past 15 years of helping finance some of the industry’s most successful technology companies. Additional information can be found at the firm's website at www.vesbridge.com