VantagePoint Venture Partners

VantagePoint Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused on making venture capital investments. The firm focuses on cleantech, information technology and healthcare investments.

Founded in 1996, by Alan E. Salzman and Jim Marver, the firm has raised approximately $4.5 billion with $1 billion dedicated specifically to CleanTech. VantagePoint is based in San Bruno, California with offices in Montreal, Beijing and Hong Kong and employs approximately 40 investment professionals globally.

Strategic Partners

VantagePoint has established strategic relationships with a number of important global corporations, including BP, IBM, DuPont, Best Buy and Proctor & Gamble.

Portfolio Companies

The VantagePoint portfolio represents companies who will solve many of the problems facing the world today, and who are defining the technologies of the 21st Century.

  • CleanTech Managing Directors: Stephan Dolezalek, David Fries, Alan E. Salzman and Marc van den Berg
  • Information Technology Managing Directors: Tom Bevilacqua, Bill Harding, Richard Harroch, Jim Mills and Geoff Mott
  • Healthcare Managing Director: Annette Bianchi
  • Asia Managing Directors: Melissa Guzzy, Alan E. Salzman

Sector

Portfolio Companies Include

CleanTech

  • Adura Technologies
  • Angstrom Technologies
  • Better Place
  • Bridgelux
  • BrightSource Energy
  • Chemrec
  • Cobalt BioFuels
  • iWatt
  • Mascoma
  • MiaSolé
  • New Energy Capital
  • Ostara
  • Premium Power
  • Senergen
  • SolarCentury
  • SuperBulbs
  • Tesla Motors
  • Ze-gen

Information Technology

  • 3VR Security
  • AllBusiness.com
  • Allvoices
  • Axsun Technologies
  • Bluepulse
  • Cbeyond Communications
  • Datran Media
  • Entrisphere
  • FANIQ
  • GAIN Capital Group
  • Grocery Shopping Network
  • iBahn
  • InnoPath Software
  • IntelePeer
  • Inxight Software
  • Kagoor Networks™
  • Klipsch Audio
  • Livescribe
  • Meriton Networks
  • Mobile 365
  • Multiply
  • MySpace.com/Intermix Media - Acquired by News Corporation in 2005
  • Nexsan Technologies
  • Oxford Semiconductor
  • ProtoStar
  • Pure Digital Technologies - Acquired by Cisco Systems in 2009
  • ReachLocal
  • Santur Corporation
  • Savvion
  • TouchTunes
  • VeriSilicon
  • WageWorks
  • Widevine Technologies
  • YouMail
  • Zvents

Healthcare

  • Anthera Pharmaceuticals
  • CGI Pharmaceuticals
  • Conceptus
  • Definity Health
  • Direct Flow Medical
  • GeminX Pharmaceuticals
  • Healthline Networks
  • LifeMasters
  • Metabolex Inc
  • Neuraltus
  • Safe Life Corp
  • TergeGen
  • TransMedics
  • WageWorks
  • Xcellerex

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