Corporate venture arms in United States
Every corporate venture arm we hold for United States, with stage focus, sector focus, cheque range and website.
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Dev C. Ittycheria
Mr. Dev Ittycheria serves as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Board Member at MongoDB. He also serves as an Operating Avisor at Red Oak Growth Partners. He serves as Advisor at Lead Edge Capital. He also serves as Executive Advisor at OpenView Venture Partners. He also serves as the Board Member and an Advisor at ActionIQ. He is an entrepreneur, operator, and investor who recently joined MongoDB as the company's CEO. He was previously Managing Director at OpenView and, prior to that, a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners, where he got exposed to the inner workings of the venture capital business. Earlier, he was the President of BMC Software, where he was responsible for a business with $1.4 billion in annual revenue and over 4,000 employees. During his tenure at BMC, Dev and his team radically transformed a mature software business to deliver superior financial results that far outperformed its competitors. Previously, Dev was the co-founder and CEO of BladeLogic, one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies of the last decade. After co-founding the business in 2001, he went on to take the company public in 2007, and then sold it to BMC in 2008 for approximately $900 million. Earlier in his career Dev was a pioneer in cloud computing. He co-founded and served as the CEO of Applica, one of the first venture-backed cloud companies. He eventually merged the business with Breakaway Solutions and the combined company went public in 1999. Dev began his professional career at large and growth-stage telecom companies developing advanced broadband services for large enterprise customers. Dev is an investor and a member of the board of directors of AppDynamics, athenahealth (Nasdaq: ATHN), Bazaarvoice (Nasdaq: BV), Datadog, and Signpost. Dev received a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, was awarded the Medal of Excellence, and was recognized by the School of Engineering as its 2010 Alumnus of the Year.
T-Mobile Ventures
Mr. John Legere serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at T-Mobile. He has served as a director of our Company since April 30, 2013 and is a member of the Executive Committee of our Board of Directors. Mr. Legere joined T-Mobile USA in September 2012 as President and Chief Executive Officer and became our President and Chief Executive Officer on April 30, 2013 upon the consummation of the Business Combination. Mr. Legere has over 34 years' experience in the U.S. and global telecommunications and technology industries. Prior to joining T-Mobile USA, Mr. Legere served as Chief Executive Officer of Global Crossing Limited, a telecommunications company, from October 2001 to October 2011. Before joining Global Crossing, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Asia Global Crossing; as president of Dell Computer Corporation's operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; as president Asia-Pacific for Dell; as president of AT&T Asia Pacific; as head of AT&T's outsourcing program and as head of AT&T global strategy and business development. Mr. Legere serves on the CTIA Board of Directors. Mr. Legere received a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, a Master of Science degree as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University and he completed Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development.
Noosphere Ventures
Mr. Watt serves as a President & CFO at Noosphere Ventures. He is also an Angel Investor. He joined William Blair & Company in 2010 as the head of Internet and digital media investment banking. Prior to joining the firm he was a Partner in America’s Growth Capital’s Menlo Park investment banking group. Before joining AGC, Mr. Watt was a Director in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch, where he was a leading member of its Global Internet and Digital Media investment banking practice. He joins AGC with 10 years of investment banking experience, having advised on over $10 billion of equity and debt financings, as well as over $20 billion of mergers and acquisitions for clients including Blue Nile, eBay, eHealth Insurance, FTD, InterActiveCorp, HP, Move.com and Research in Motion. Previously, Mr. Watt was a member of Merrill Lynch’s European Financial Sponsors Banking Group, based in London, UK, where he focused on strategic advisory and debt financing assignments for leading European and US private equity funds. A native of Scotland, Mr. Watt began his career at Ernst & Young. Immediately prior to joining AGC, he was a Managing Director at TriplePoint Capital, a global specialty finance company, where he focused on later stage venture investing. Mr. Watt holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (CA).
GV
Ms. Shernaz Daver serves as Advisor at GV. She is a leading marketing, business, and communications executive. She has over 20 years of experience building brands and consumer perception; advising executive management; scaling operational teams; and developing global businesses to take companies to the next level in marketing and mind share. Over her tenure, she has worked with numerous companies on a range of areas from brand building to crisis communication. These companies include Netflix, Walmart, Udacity, Motorola, Polyvore, Khan Academy, Zynga, Groupon, Kosmix, 3DO, PlayerScale (Yahoo), MetaPlace (Disney), Red Hot Labs (Google), Truveo (AOL), Savvis (CenturyLink), Orbital Data (Citrix), Indiegogo, and Baidu. She serves as an advisor to several companies including Spritz and Zettata. Previously, Shernaz served as the chief marketing officer and head of investor relations at Inktomi. Under her leadership, Inktomi became one of the hottest Internet names reaching a $37 billion valuation, and received numerous media and Wall Street accolades. Shernaz started her career at Sun Microsystems where she built a brand name for Solaris, the Sun operating system, and spearheaded the company’s European software initiatives from Paris. Shernaz holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa, and a master’s degree from Harvard University.
Agilent Technologies
Herman Verrelst serves as General Manager - Clinical Applications Division at Agilent Technologies. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at Cartagenia. He also serves as Board Member at icoMetrix. Herman Verrelst is an experienced entrepreneur and business manager, with a specific background in the set up and management of high-tech companies and university spin-offs. In the past, he has been CEO, director and business unit manager in a number of software/bioinformatics based ventures, in the areas of gene expression based cancer biomarkers, medical imaging and pre-operative planning software and financial crime and compliance solutions. He received a master’s degree in engineering from the K.U.Leuven in 1996 and spent 4 years as a researcher and project coordinator at the same university focusing on artificial intelligence and various applications of advanced data analytics. He served as Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Data4S. He served as the CEO of Medicim. He graduated from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Workday Ventures
Mike Frandsen is vice president at Workday and oversees product management, quality assurance and product delivery. Prior to joining Workday, he was CEO at Potenco, a green energy startup. Before Potenco, Mike was CEO at TradePoint Solutions, a provider of SaaS-based retail promotion management applications. He led TradePoint from delivery of a successful product prototype to the sale of the company to DemandTec in 2006. Preceding TradePoint, he was at PeopleSoft for seven years in various leadership roles, including vice president and general manager of supply chain management. He began his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) specializing in software strategy, product planning, development and customer support. He holds a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Colorado. He is also certified in planning and inventory management and resource management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products. The company specializes in integrated circuits, networking, wireless power and display technology. It also supplies system software based on code division multiple access, orthogonal frequency division multiple access and other technologies for use in voice and data communications and networking. Qualcomm also offers products for implementation of small cells, wireless operators and data centers. It was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. The company has a strategy of accelerating its mobile technology services segment into robust new opportunities so that it can be well positioned to lead by delivering integrated semiconductor services.
Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce Ventures is the global investment arm of Salesforce and is focused on partnering with the most results-oriented enterprise technology companies at every stage in their journey. Since 2009, Salesforce Ventures has invested over $3 billion in over 400 leading companies including Auth0, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, http://monday.com/, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, Twilio, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures provides portfolio companies with unparalleled access to Salesforce, one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in the world, including strategic advisory, customer introductions, and the strongest cloud ecosystem.
GXP Investments
GXP Investments is the non-regulated investment affiliate and wholly owned subsidiary of Great Plains Energy Incorporated. The firm focuses on opportunities in the customer energy solutions and energy infrastructure industries, and is open to attractive investments outside of these sectors within the energy value chain. Other areas of focus include energy marketing, environmental remediation, infrastructure security and renewables services. It primarily targets growth equity investments in revenue generating businesses that are primed for expansion and that can benefit from a well-capitalized, industry experienced, strategic partner.
WARF Ventures
Since its founding in 1925, WARF has served the University of Wisconsin-Madison scientific community by patenting the discoveries of UW-Madison researchers and licensing these technologies to leading companies in Wisconsin, the United States and worldwide. In this way, WARF also facilitates the use of UW-Madison research for the maximum benefit of society. WARF distributes the income from commercial licenses to the UW-Madison, the inventors and their departments. Each year, WARF contributes over $45 million to fund additional UW-Madison research. The university refers to WARF's annual gifts as its "margin of excellence" funding.
IBM Ventures
Mr. Karan Bajwa serves as a Managing Director, IBM India at International Business Machines. He had joined IBM last year as executive for strategy and transformation in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this, he was managing director at Microsoft India. Bajwa will be responsible for all strategic and operational matters related to IBM India's sales, marketing, services and delivery operations in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Bajwa is also an angel investor and had backed hyperlocal services marketplace FindYahan, which was acquired by on-demand home services platform Zimmber last year.
Symantec Ventures
Symantec is a provider of cyber security services. The company helps businesses, governments and people secure their data. It operates the business on a global civilian cyber intelligence threat network and track a number of threats across the internet from millions of mobile devices, endpoints and servers across the globe. Founded in 1982, Symantec has operations in more than 35 countries and principal office at Mountain View, California. The company's acquisitions are designed to enhance the features and functionality of existing products and extend the product leadership in core markets.
HubSpot Ventures
Mr. Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at HubSpot. He also serves as Mentor at Rough Draft Ventures. Prior to HubSpot, he was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions. Prior to Pyramid Digital Solutions, he held a number of technology management and development positions. He also runs OnStartups.com. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama and an M.S. in the Management of Technology from MIT. He is author of a book entitled Inbound Marketing, Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs.
Second Century Ventures
Second Century Ventures (SCV) is a strategic investment fund that is verticalizing venture investing by launching its companies into the world's largest industries including real estate, financial services, banking, home services and insurance. SCV seeks investment opportunities in proven enterprises that will drive industry growth, enable new usage models and advance industry standards. SCV prefers SaaS companies generally focused on big data applications, digital media, fin tech and business services that can span multiple verticals.
UPS Ventures
UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund is the private equity strategic investment arm of United Parcel Service. It is a corporate venture capital group which focuses on developing partnerships and acquiring knowledge returns from its investments in information technology companies and emerging market spaces. It invests early stage private companies operating in retail, warehousing, distribution, alternative fuel, wireless and bio metric sectors. It was founded in 1997 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
SAP.io Fund
http://sap.io/ helps innovators start-up and scale with SAP. We deliver new partnerships and products for SAP by accelerating and scaling startup innovation as well as incubating employee ventures. http://sap.io/ brings together innovators from every region, industry, and line of business to transform how businesses run. Since 2017, http://sap.io/ has helped 300+ startups and ventures accelerate their growth while enabling thousands of SAP customers to access innovation.
Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments
Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments is an investment arm of The Goldman Sachs Group. The firm seeks to invest in the trading technology, market infrastructure, enterprise technology, information services, big data, advanced analytics software and services, security software and services, mobile technology, technology-enabled specialty finance, social financial technology and payments sectors. It makes investments via equity and convertible instruments.
Sesame Ventures
Sesame Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Sesame Workshop and is based in New York, New York. It seeks to partner with emerging companies operating in the education, health and social welfare sectors. The firm's portfolio companies will have access to Sesame Workshop's expertise in early childhood development, research, kid-centric design thinking and whole-child curriculum accumulated over nearly five decades of child-focused advancement.
ICG Ventures
ICG Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in La Vergne, Tennessee. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Ingram Content Group. ICG is a full-service concept-to-manufacture product development firm that looks for rapidly growing markets with differentiated products and services. They fund, develop and assists innovators, entrepreneurs and companies to conceive, design, produce, market and manage revolutionary new products.
Sinclair Digital Ventures
Sinclair Digital Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Sinclair Broadcast Group, formed to develop and enhance Sinclair's digital capabilities through strategic investments and acquisitions. The firm provides growth equity via seed and series A round investments in companies operating in the mobile, content, distribution, ad-technology, SaaS, data and analytics media, e-commerce, social media, advertising and marketing sectors.
Kiersten Stead
Monsanto Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Monsanto. The firm seeks to invest in the new traits, genotyping technology, point-of-care diagnostics, RNA platforms, seed treatments, microbial, biologic treatments, chemical and biological delivery. The firm also invest in IT systems to support agriculture including analytics, data storage and compression, cloud technologies, image analysis, robotics and communications.
Transamerica Ventures
Transamerica Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Transamerica and Aegon investing in innovative enterprise companies. The firm is based in New York, New York and prefers to invest in the U.S. and around the world. The firm invests in financial technology/financial services, big Data/analytics, digital marketing and sales, social media, enterprise IT, content and publishing, mobile and other B2B and B2B2C companies.
Nvidia GPU Ventures
NVIDIA GPU Ventures is a corporate venture arm of Nvidia. The firm provides marketing, operational, financial and other support to young ambitious companies founding their businesses around NVIDIA technologies. It invests in companies operating the video and image enhancement, scientific discovery, financial analysis, visualization, high performance computing, automotive, cloud computing, mobile applications and others.
Samsung Next
Samsung Global Innovation Center is a venture capital firm which invests in entrepreneurs and startups to create software and services. The team of entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, strategists, business developers and experts work together to empower the global community of startups. the firm is based in Silicon Valley, California with additional offices in New York, New York; Tel Aviv, Israel and Japan, Seoul.
Tyco Ventures
Tyco Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Tyco International which invests in early-stage companies in frontier tech (augmented reality, drones, robotics), internet of things, big data, analytic and mobility technologies and solutions relevant to Tyco's core markets in security, fire protection, retail and first respondents. The firm was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
Amgen Ventures
Amgen Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Amgen based in San Francisco, California. It serves patients by transforming the promise of science and biotechnology into therapies that have the power to restore health or save lives. The firm seeks to invest in the biotechnology companies focused on human therapeutics, oncology, inflammation, hematology, metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases.
Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures
Sanofi-Genzyme Bioventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Sanofi and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm specializes in early stage and growth investments. It seeks to invest in healthcare sectors; including rare diseases, oncology, vaccines, integrated health solutions and therapies. It prefers to invest globally with a focus on North America and Europe. The firm was founded in 2001.
Kaplan Ventures
Kaplan Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Kaplan, Inc. The firm seeks to invest in the education, educational book publishing, professional training, information services, online training and education, mobile and information technology sectors. It focuses on supporting innovative companies that are pioneering new learning technologies and business models in education around the world.
DuPont Ventures
DuPont Ventures is a venture investment arm of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the agriculture, transportation, construction, clean-tech, electronic materials, nutrition and health, safety technology, performance materials and coatings, and color technologies sectors. It is based in Wilmington, Delaware and was founded in 2003.
Xilinx Technology Ventures
Xilinx Technology Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Xilinx. The firm invests in early-stage companies with innovative new technologies. In addition to funding, its portfolio companies often benefit from access to Xilinx products, technology, engineering talent and business relationships that can help validate their solutions and accelerate success in the market.
Echo Health Ventures
Echo Health Ventures is a strategic collaboration between Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions. The firm aims to act as a platform for investing in transformative healthcare companies by supporting them with capital and strategic advice. Both Mosaic and Cambia Health Solutions' existing venture capital and private equity portfolios will be managed by Echo.
Mayo Clinic Ventures
Mayo Medical Ventures is a Minnesota based corporate venture arm of Mayo Clinic. It is responsible for commercializing Mayo Clinic's advancement of health-related technologies. The firm makes seed, startup, early and later stage investments in companies operating in the medical technology, medical devices, bio-pharmaceuticals and diagnostic sectors of Unites States.
Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center is headquartered in Menlo Park, California and seeks to invest in the digital health, core display, internet of things, computer human interface, data center, power, semiconductor, sensors and mobile sectors. The firm's catalyst fund focuses on supporting the entrepreneurs, academics and artists. It was established in 2013.
Arizona Technology Enterprises
Arizona Technology Enterprises is a corporate venture arm, intellectual property management and technology transfer organization for Arizona State University (ASU). The firm was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the information technology, software, agriculture and healthcare sectors.
Aetna Ventures
Aetna Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Aetna. The firm makes investments in companies engaged in developing innovative health care products and technologies. They seek to invest in and partner with entrepreneurial companies which share Aetna's goals of advancing affordability and simplicity in health care and enhancing the quality of care.
Ascension Health Ventures LLC
Established within Ascension Health in 2001, AHV is a strategic healthcare venture fund focused on the medical device, technology and service sectors. Ascension Health is the nation's largest Catholic and largest nonprofit health system serving patients through a network of hospitals and health facilities in 20 states and the District of Columbia.
Astellas Venture Management LLC
Originally established in 2000 as Yamanouchi Venture Capital, Astellas aims to reinforce Astellas Pharma's assets by supporting companies that can become Astellas Pharma's collaboration partners in R&D. Astellas Venture invests in companies that are dedicated to: developing new pharmaceutical seeds, or constructing a new drug discovery platform.
Maumee Ventures
Maumee Ventures is the venture capital arm of The Andersons and was founded in Maumee, Ohio in 1947. The firm seeks to invest in the agriculture sector including fuel, fertilizers, plant nutrients, crop protection, grain supply chain, precision science and agriculture, freight logistics, food safety, field tracing and renewable energy sectors.
Steamboat Ventures
Steamboat Ventures is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, early stage and later stage investments. It prefers to invest in companies operating in the technology, media, and consumer sectors. The firm was founded in 2000 and is based in Glendale, California with additional offices in Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Shanghai, China.
Bloomberg Beta
Bloomberg Beta is a corporate venture capital arm of Bloomberg. The firm's goal is to expand Bloomberg's horizons by backing extraordinary entrepreneurs or creating companies, who have something to teach the world. I t was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an additional office in New York, New York.
Hickory Venture Capital
Hickory Venture Capital is a corporate venture arm of First Tennessee Bank National Association. The firm prefers to invest in the healthcare services, medical devices, information technology, telecommunications, non-technology, basic manufacturing and service sectors. It was founded in 1985 and is based in Huntsville, Alabama.
SAIC Capital
SAIC Capital is the corporate venture arm of SAIC Motor. The fund's strategy is to invest in transportation related startups. Its purpose is to establish SAIC as a major player in developing leading-edge technology for the transportation industry. It was formed in 2014 and is located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California.
Ascension Ventures
Ascension Ventures is an investment arm of Ascension Health Alliance which was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Clayton, Missouri. The firm primarily focuses on investing into the healthcare sector which includes medical devices, diagnostics, medical information and technology and various other healthcare services.
Nationwide Ventures
Nationwide Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Nationwide, based in Woodland Hills, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the application services, infrastructure services, internet retail, internet services, consumer products, mobile and wireless internet services and software sectors.
Kaiser Permanente Ventures
Kaiser Permanente Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente and is based in Oakland, California. The firm focuses on investing in companies operating in the medical devices, health care services and health care information technology, therapeutics and diagnostics sectors. It was founded in 1945.
Nemariam Mesfin
Kaiser Permanente Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente and is based in Oakland, California. The firm focuses on investing in companies operating in the medical devices, health care services and health care information technology, therapeutics and diagnostics sectors. It was founded in 1945.
Eastven Ericsson Venture Partners
Eastven Venture Partners is a venture capital firm which focuses primarily on the communications technology in European and North American companies which have proprietary technology. The firm specializes in the seed, early stage and later stage investments. EVP is based in Darien, Connecticut and was founded in 2000.
BMW i Ventures
BMW i Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of BMW Group, that prefers to invest in start up companies. The firm seeks to invest in the automotive and mobility service sectors. It was founded in February 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York with an additional office in Garching bei München, Germany.