Venrock continues a tradition of partnering with entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. With a primary focus on technology and healthcare, portfolio companies have included Apple Computer, Athenahealth, Centocor, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, Endeca, Gilead Sciences, Idec Pharma, Imperva, Illumina, Intel, Nest, SlideShare, and Tudou.

Venrock

Vulcan Capital invests across all stages of corporate development through leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed/turnaround, and early-stage venture capital as well as public equity value investing. The firm's portfolio spans a range of industry sectors, including media and communications, energy and natural resources, financial and information services, technology, and life sciences. Vulcan Capital is the private investment group of Vulcan Inc., the organization founded by Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.

Vulcan Capital

Ascent is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage, emerging technology companies.  At Ascent, they don’t jump on the latest trends in general technology. Instead, they remain dedicated to investing in a singular space with enormous market potential -- enterprise IT innovation.  Their singular focus on enterprise IT, combined with their 28 years of experience and over 100 early stage investments, has yielded powerful results that speak to their deep knowledge, expertise, commitments and networks.   Today, enterprise IT is in the midst of tremendous disruption. Between the shift to the cloud, mobility, consumerization of IT, data analytics and entirely new security architectures, both major challenges and tremendous opportunities abound. Over the next decade, the enterprise IT market will be transformed by these disruptive trends, providing lucrative opportunities for innovative early stage companies to emerge, develop new markets, and become the dominant IT companies of the future.  They have a firm-wide commitment to backing companies that have courageous ideas about how technology can transform business and create market-leading companies along the way. Their partners, funds and extensive network are dedicated entirely to supporting companies in the enterprise IT arena, and helping them to be the best they can be.  Ascent invests in early stage companies in the east coast with initial investment ranging from $2 million to $5 million.

Ascent Venture Partners

Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category ventures to transform human health and sustainability. The company accelerates Flagship Pioneering’s advances in biology, engineering, medicine, energy, and beyond. The firm harnesses science and entrepreneurialism to envision alternative futures, beginning with seemingly unreasonable propositions and navigating to transformational outcomes through an evolutionary methodology. Flagship Pioneering combines innovative capacity, entrepreneurial leadership, and professional capital management in a single enterprise that systematically produces first-in-category companies.

Flagship Pioneering

Commonwealth Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers capital with a view toward long-term success. The firm's partners have invested in around 140 high-growth companies, with more than $580 million in committed capital under management.

Commonwealth Capital Ventures

TA Associates is a growth private equity firm. Focused on targeted sectors within five industries technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer, and business services. The firm invests in profitable, growing companies with opportunities for sustained growth.

TA Associates

The Carlyle Group is a private equity firm that caters to early and later-stage companies.  The firm operates four fund families, focusing on leveraged buyouts, venture & growth capital, real estate, and leveraged finance investments.

The Carlyle Group

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Ren generates actionable and timely insights about key contacts to help you cut through the noise and win deals. By understanding your objectives and syncing with your CRM, calendar, and contacts, Ren automates research, meeting prep, and high-impact outreach.

Bizo is how B2B marketers identify and reach their target audiences online. Fueled by Bizo’s audience of more than 120 million professionals around the world, including more than 85% of the U.S. business population, the Bizo Marketing Platform can precisely target business people by specific business demographic criteria.  Bizo’s customers use the platform’s data management and targeting capabilities to reach audiences anywhere they travel online and engage those that come to their websites, landing pages, and social channels. Bizo has earned the confidence of more than 600 SMB marketers and large global brands including AMEX, Mercedes Benz, Monster, Salesforce.com, Porsche, Microsoft, AT&T, and UPS who use Bizo to impact every stage of their sales and marketing funnels.

ZoomInfo provides access to more direct dials and email addresses than any other B2B contact provider. Verified professional and business profiles come fully loaded with detailed information about prospects, including web mentions, employment history, and direct access to colleagues, people can engage ideal buyer personas and accounts in a more meaningful way.  ZoomInfo uses its diverse portfolio of proprietary technology, a community of 300,000+ users, and third-party integrations to collect, organize, validate, and publish a comprehensive directory of business data in the marketplace. ZoomInfo's mission is to provide every company with a 360-degree view of their ideal customer, empowering each phase of their go-to-market strategy, and driving their ability to hit their number.

<div>  <p>    ZoomInfo provides access to more direct dials and email addresses than any other B2B contact provider. Verified professional and business profiles come fully loaded with detailed information about prospects, including web mentions, employment history, and direct access to colleagues, people can engage ideal buyer personas and accounts in a more meaningful way.  ZoomInfo uses its diverse portfolio of proprietary technology, a community of 300,000+ users, and third-party integrations to collect, organize, validate, and publish a comprehensive directory of business data in the marketplace. ZoomInfo\'s mission is to provide every company with a 360-degree view of their ideal customer, empowering each phase of their go-to-market strategy, and driving their ability to hit their number. ZoomInfo was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.  </p></div>

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Artificial intelligence is helping sales teams manage relationships and optimize the customer lifecycle.

Sales Engagement Platforms

All in one platform which offers a variety of tools for sales collaboration and for optimizing the entire sales process.

Tools for recording & analyzing live sales calls over voice & video.

Tools used for automating routine sales functions to improve the efficiency of sales teams.

Tools for preparing & automating sales campaigns via email, SMS & other channels.

Tools for discovering & building customer and company databases to generate sales leads.

Tools for discovering & analyzing customer interactions for improving customer success.

Tools for preparing sales content & coaching sales teams to improve performance.

Tools used to continuously  improve the product experience by understanding customer pain points.

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