U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) is a venture capital partnership, helping entrepreneurs transform their ideas and efforts into world-changing companies. The firm focuses on early-stage ventures in information technology and health care, where innovation is unbridled and has led to the creation of economic wealth and millions of jobs over the past thirty-plus years of the firm's existence.  Areas of particular interest to our investment professionals include enterprise software, IT security, consumer internet, mobile, and e-commerce, healthcare, and IT-enabled healthcare services. The USVP team consists of former entrepreneurs, technologists, corporate executives, financial professionals, and industry domain experts.

U.S. Venture Partners

Inventures Group is not a VC firm. They have no limited partners' expectations to attend to — all of the funds are their own — they have skin in the game and, for better or worse, the skin is all theirs.  They are not simply advisors. They will join your board of directors and do the heavy lifting whether it is glamorous or not.  And being outside of the management team lets them provide a perspective free from day-to-day constraints. What Inventures Group does may be hard to describe, but it seems to be working.

Inventures Group

Daher Capital is a privately owned family office. Daher Capital invests in a wide range of asset classes including developed equities, emerging market equities, small cap equities, real estate, private equity and venture capital.

Daher Capital

In January 2017, Mark Mullen and Jim Andelman, founders of Double M Partners and Rincon Venture Partners, respectively, joined forces to create Bonfire Ventures, through which all new investments will be made. To learn more, advance to the Bonfire Ventures page.  Double M Partners is a venture capital and investment company that specializes in seed and early stage investments. It seeks to invest in the internet, media, and communications companies whose core offering is in business to business infrastructure, software, infrastructure, security, management platform and/or hardware. The company invests between $0.1 million and $0.50 million in its portfolio companies.  Double M Partners was founded by Mark Mullen in 2012 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Double M Partners

Karlin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Los Angeles. They are value-add partners helping entrepreneurs who take contrarian approaches to create impactful solutions to big, interesting problems. Karlin Ventures is an affiliate of Karlin Asset Management, a private investment firm managing over $1.4 billion of unleveraged equity capital.  Focus on enterprise software, eCommerce, marketplaces, advertising technology, and education technology but are open to exciting ideas in other verticals. Typical investments range from $100,000 to $2,000,000. Prefer co-investor roles and will participate in follow-on rounds.

Karlin Ventures

Plus Capital is a venture infrastructure trusted by elite artists and athletes from film, television, music, and sports for their venture capital investing and equity for endorsement opportunities.

Plus Capital

Core Ventures strives to find and support founders of character and integrity. They primarily invest in seed stage b2b companies with advanced technological capabilities. They invest in relatively few companies and work as closely as possible with the founders to support the company in any area it needs.

Core Ventures

Digital Ventures (“digi.”) is the personal investment vehicle of Michael Pierce. We invest in early and later stage seed companies and are both based in Southern California. They invest across a spectrum of sectors and geographies. They are equally excited about consumer and enterprise focused solutions. They are drawn to businesses at have light capital costs requirements to get to demonstrable market validation (think <$3m). Accordingly, all their companies leverage the Mobile Web or Native Mobile Apps to scale. And, of course, they expect the markets our companies are transforming to be BIG (think >$10b) but they also need to feel confident that the solutions and products being developed can create meaningful and repeatable revenue at sustainable, industry leading gross margins.

digi Ventures

Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for business software solutions company founders transforming the industries they target.

Bonfire Ventures

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

Forgepoint is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with transformative cybersecurity and infrastructure software companies. With the largest sector-focused investment team, over $1 billion in AUM, and an active portfolio of nearly 40 companies, the firm brings over 100 years of collective company-building expertise and an Advisory Council of nearly 100 industry leaders to support exceptional entrepreneurs. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Forgepoint is proud to cultivate a diverse, global community dedicated to backing builders of the digital future. Learn more at https://www.forgepointcap.com and https://www.linkedin.com/company/forgepoint-capital/.

Forgepoint Capital

Meritech Capital provides late-stage venture capital to technology companies. It specializes in the fields of finance, venture capital, and late-stage investment management.  It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Meritech Capital Partners

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a business.  Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others.

Accel

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies. The firm invests in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Apptio, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Pandora (NYSE: P), Pure Storage, and Workday (NYSE: WDAY). It was founded in 1965 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Greylock

Elliott Management Corporation is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to large institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and families. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in alternative markets. It primarily makes its investments in companies undergoing bankruptcy, reorganization, or corporate restructuring. The firm invests in stocks; corporate, real estate, and sovereign debt; bonds; foreign exchange; warrants; options; and futures to create its portfolio mix. It employs a conservative approach with multi hedge fund strategies to make its investments. Elliott Management Corporation was founded in 1977 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan; and Hong Kong.

Elliott Investment Management

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 Axis Security provides a cloud security platform that uses a zero-trust approach to manage (validation, authorization) access to important resources in remote working infrastructures for employees, contractors, and supply chain partners. Axis Security Splunk integrates real-time data from Axis Security Application Access Cloud to get insights about users and applications.
 
 
 The company has also expanded its agentless model to include Git, databases and Kubernetes deployments for developers alongside support for TCP and UDP-based applications for call center and customer service clients. The company has partnered with Splunk, Okta, and CrowdStrike and it is currently developing an endpoint security feature for its Axis Application Access Cloud.
 
 
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 In March 2021, the company raised USD 50 million in a Series C funding round led by Spark Capital to fund product development, expand its direct sales team, and increase go-to-market initiatives.
 
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Axis Security is a cybersecurity company that specializes in providing Zero Trust Network Access solutions. The company's platform focuses on secure remote access to applications, aiming to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources within a network. It utilizes a context-aware approach to security, which evaluates various factors before granting access, enhancing overall data protection.

Imperva provides activity monitoring, real-time protection, and risk management solutions for critical business data and applications. Imperva is a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions that protect business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises It was founded by Shlomo Kramer, Amichai Shulman and Mickey Boodaei in 2002 and is based in Redwood Shores, California.

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