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Windspeed Ventures
Offices: Lexington, Massachusetts
Windspeed Ventures was founded in 1999 to
offer a different private investment experience.
The Windspeed partners have known one another
and worked together for nearly a decade.
Over the years, as each was involved in
starting and building new businesses, planning
began to create a private equity investment
firm that could offer more than money to
companies at early stages of formation.
Windspeed Ventures is the culmination of
this planning. |
Windward Ventures
Offices: San Diego-Thousand Oaks, California
Windward Ventures is a classic venture capital
partnership organized in 1997 to produce
superior investment returns by providing
capital and management assistance to early
stage, high growth companies in Southern
California. The Limited Partners of Windward
Ventures include corporate pension funds,
university endowments, professional money
management firms, and wealthy individuals.
Their Limited Partners also include current
and former executives from some of the leading
technology companies in Southern California. |
Wolf Ventures
Offices: Denver, Colorado
Wolf Ventures provides equity capital for
early stage technology companies located
in the Rocky Mountain region (Colorado,
Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico). The firm
is comprised of a series of funds and manages
more than $50 million. The firm's investment
strategy emphasizes development and expansion-staged
technology companies with business-to-business
sales models. Their typical investment size
ranges between $500,000 and $3 million over
time. |
Wolverine Venture Fund (WVF)
Offices: Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Wolverine Venture Fund is a multi-million
dollar venture capital fund operated directly
out of the Ross School of Business at the
University of Michigan, enabling entrepreneurs
to realize their business dreams. The Fund
invests with the active involvement of MBA
students, faculty assistance, and an advisory
board composed of professional venture capitalists
and entrepreneurs. Launched in 1997, the
WVF is the oldest University-based venture
fund in the country. The Fund's contributions
have been featured in numerous professional
publications, including Business Week. |
Woodside Fund
Offices: Redwood Shores, California
Woodside Fund is investing their fourth
fund. They invest in an average of six to
eight companies per year, and approximately
20 companies over its lifetime. They expect
to invest $5 to 15 million in each portfolio
company, with an initial commitment of $3
to 8 million. Their portfolio is predominantly
comprised of early-stage companies. However,
they may strategically balance their investments
with a small combination of seed and later-stage
companies. |
Worldview Technology Partners
Offices: Palo Alto, California; Tokyo,
Japan; Shanghai, China & Frankfurt,
Germany
Worldview Technology Partners is a leading
venture capital firm focused on investing
in and building leading US technology companies.
Their comprehensive, industry-leading business
development services help their portfolio
companies succeed in US and international
markets. With a 12-year track record of
successful technology investing and close
to $1.4 billion under management, the Worldview
team—now on their fourth fund—has both the
experience and the resources to invest in
a broad range of information technology
markets, including communications, semiconductors,
enterprise infrastructure and software. |
WRF Capital
Offices: Seattle, Washington
WRF Capital manages Washington Research
Foundation's seed venture fund by creating
and investing primarily in technology-based
start-up companies that have strong ties
to the University of Washington and other
non-profit research institutions in Washington
State. WRF Capital invests in two types
of companies: WRF Founded Company—WRF
Capital and an entrepreneur create a business
concept and start a company; and non-WRF
Founded Company—WRF Capital invests in a
company opportunity presented by an entrepreneur. |
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