Investors
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. The company's Salesforce suite of on-demand CRM applications allows customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. Apex, the world's first on-demand platform, enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications that extend beyond CRM to deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy and The Business Web across the enterprise. All Apex components and applications can be easily shared, exchanged and installed via salesforce.com's AppExchange directory, available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.
http://www.salesforce.com
Morgenthaler
Morgenthaler is a leading, national venture capital and private equity firm with offices in Boston, MA; Boulder, CO; Cleveland, OH and Menlo Park, CA. It has funded more than 300 companies over 40 years and currently has approximately $3 billion under management. Morgenthaler has three distinct investment teams: the Life Science Team, the Information Technology Team and the Private Equity Team. Morgenthaler closed MVP IX, a $400-million venture capital fund, in November of 2008.
http://www.morgenthaler.com
Band of Angels
The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. The formal group includes more than 120 former and current high tech executives who are interested in investing their time and money into new, cutting edge, startup companies. Band of Angels has seeded over 200 companies in our history with 40+ profitable M&A exits and 9 Nasdaq IPOs. Band members have founded companies such as Symantec, Logitech, and National Semiconductor and been senior executives at the likes of Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, and Intuit.
http://www.bandangels.com
Felicis Ventures
Felicis Ventures combines angel investing, active mentoring and advisory services to offer a more beneficial approach for the entrepreneur. Led by Aydin Senkut, Felicis Ventures focuses mainly on early stage, consumer internet start-ups based on the following fundamentals:
- Original ideas combined with world-class technology
- Founding teams with excellent track record or big vision
- Highly infectious, solid growth potential
- Significant addressable potential market
- Highly capital efficient
Mark Goines
Mark Goines is an active technology investor and advisor based out of Silicon Valley. Mr. Goines was most recently the chief marketing officer at PassMark Security, now a unit of RSA/EMC. He serves on the board, and as an investor for Credit Interlink, Mint.com, Nolo Press and Trackvia. Previously, Mark was senior vice president and general manager of Intuit's Consumer Division, (Quicken) and Consumer Tax Division (TurboTax). Prior to Intuit, he held senior marketing roles and product strategy positions for Crocker Bank (now Wells Fargo) and Charles Schwab, innovating software and services that formed the foundation for today's online trading industry.
