Investors

Lehman Brothers, an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private investment management, asset management and private equity. The Firm is headquartered in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Tokyo, and operates in a network of offices around the world. Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, established in 1995, targets mid- to later-stage venture capital investments in companies capable of turning innovative technology and management solutions into successful businesses.

Clearstone Venture Partners is an independent venture capital firm with offices in Santa Monica and Menlo Park. A leader in early stage venture financing, Clearstone works closely with high-potential technology companies to help them become leaders in their industries. Their $100 million first fund and $350 million second fund have invested in dozens of successful technology companies. All of the partners have substantial operating backgrounds and at least five years of successful VC experience.

NeoCarta Ventures is a leading venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA with an East coast presence in Boston, MA. NeoCarta has $300 million under management and focuses on technology infrastructure companies with tremendous market potential. Entrepreneurs choose to partner with NeoCarta because of our strong technology understanding, operations experience, relevant relationships with major corporations, and proven track record. We separate ourselves from other venture capital firms by creating real strategic value for our portfolio companies.

Evercore Ventures (EV) is an early-stage venture fund. Evercore's venture investing benefits from Evercore's proven investment discipline, analytical capabilities, and relationships. They couple this with technological experience and company building expertise derived from a team that embodies diverse experience and skill sets.

BrainHeart Capital is a Stockholm-based industrial venture capital firm. The fund was founded in 2000 and is one of the largest in Europe dedicated to investments in the wireless sector. Investments are made primarily within five segments believed to have the most interesting development in the coming years; industrial wireless applications, virtual operators (MVNOs), wireless Internet service providers (WISPs), mobile messaging/email and vertical applications.

Established in July 2000, JumpStartUp Venture Fund is a $45m VC fund uniquely focused on investing in early stage information technology companies that leverage the rapidly emerging US-India technology corridor. The fund is largely backed by leading international financial institutional investors from Asia, the US and Europe. In addition, top professionals from Silicon Valley (a mix of entrepreneurs, corporate executives and VCs) have committed capital, time and their expertise.

Monitor Ventures provides a blend of funding and services to early stage start-ups that use technology to deliver value to their customers. Monitor Ventures delivers differentiated value to its portfolio companies by leveraging four key assets of the Monitor Group: deep knowledge in a diverse set of industries, which range from telecommunications to consumer branded products, industrial products to financial services; cross-industry functional approaches to strategy development, marketing, sales and operations; global presence; and an outstanding pool of highly talented and motivated professionals. Monitor Ventures works in close partnership with other companies that have complementary skills, and believes strongly that this delivers the best value to portfolio companies.

Dot Edu is a university based network of friends, spanning computer science and engineering faculty, students, and alumni at various US universities. Founded in March 2000 by Asha Jadeja, Dot Edu began as a small core group of entrepreneurial friends at Stanford and UC Berkeley. It is now an extensive network of computer science and engineering faculty at various universities, including CMU, MIT, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, U Penn, Princeton, Washington University, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara. Dot Edu consists of three components: A modest fund to allow seed stage investment in cutting edge ideas and technologies built around doctoral and post-doctoral research; a network of pro-active limited partners, with a strong commitment to mentoring the companies in our portfolio; and regular workshops for exchange and promotion of ideas for future research.

BlueStream Ventures, a ventures capital partnership was founded in April 2000. Their focus is exclusive to networking hardware and software. They bring over 40 years of collective research, banking and advisory experience to their portfolio companies. They recognize the value of a strong team.

Sierra Ventures is a private venture capital firm focusing its investments across all areas of the Information Technology sectors from semiconductors to enterprise software. We work with entrepreneurs and management teams to originate and build new companies into large, profitable businesses.

Sierra Ventures manages eight venture capital partnerships, which together have more than $1.1 billion of committed capital. Following the successful launches of the Sierra Ventures I (1982), II (1985), III (1988), IV (1991), V (1995), VI (1997), and VII (1999) partnerships, we raised $500,000,000 of new committed capital with Sierra Ventures VIII (2000).

The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm. Since its organization in 1988, the firm has earned an international reputation for financial innovation, technological leadership, and an extraordinarily distinguished staff. The D. E. Shaw group encompasses a number of closely related entities with approximately 1,000 employees, $25 billion in aggregate investment capital, and offices in New York, London, Silicon Valley, Houston, Kansas City, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Bermuda, and Hyderabad and Gurgaon, India.

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