Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is the only venture capital firm with global presence through a network of affiliated funds, with offices in more than 30 cities around the world and approximately $3.5 billion in capital commitments. DFJ's mission is to identify, provide capital for, and serve extraordinary entrepreneurs anywhere who want to change the world. Over the past twenty years, DFJ has been proud to back approximately 300 companies across a myriad of sectors including such industry changing catalysts as Hotmail (acquired by MFST), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), United Online (UNTD), Overture (acquired by YHOO), Interwoven (IWOV), 411 (acquired by YHOO), Parametric (PMTC), and Digidesign (acquired by AVID).
Innovacom
For over fifteen years, Innovacom has invested in the entrepreneurs building the telecom and information technologies of tomorrow. We work with some of the brightest minds in the business, the early stage companies focused on the components, hardware, software and content that improve the ability of telecom carriers to deliver services.
As the venture subsidiary of France Telecom, we are uniquely positioned to help our portfolio companies not only with capital, but with connections to the best research and deployment facilities in Europe and North America.
RPM Ventures
RPM, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and founded in 2000, is an early-stage venture capital firm with a unique investing strategy and core platform that deliver repeatable, consistent value to our portfolio companies and our investors. RPM has two primary types of investments:
1 Companies with principal customers that are the Midwest Fortune 500 manufacturing base.
2 Startups based on technology developed at one of the Midwest’s premier research centers.
In making these the investing focus of the fund, we take advantage of one of the globe's largest IT customer bases and a world-class research base that produces proprietary and revolutionary technologies. In doing so, we leverage what we are the best in the world at in "our own back yard."
