Investors

With more than $580 million of committed capital under management, the firm’s partners have invested in roughly 140 high-growth companies, many of which are leaders in their respective industry categories. Their limited partners are highly sophisticated venture investors and include leading educational and financial institutions, pension funds, and family offices. Commonwealth Capital Ventures is aligned with their investors in providing patient capital with a view toward long-term success. Their current $250 million fund closed in early 2007 and is appropriately sized to focus on early stage opportunities and later stage venture growth enterprises. Commonwealth Capital Ventures is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

For more information visit www.commonwealthvc.com.

Their goal is to find talented entrepreneurs and then partner with them to build exceptional and valuable companies. They focus on providing guidance and perspective in a complementary way to the entrepreneurs in whom they invest, and help them build connections to soar to the next level.

For more information, visit www.flybridge.com.

There’s a simple premise behind General Catalyst, which was founded in 2000: entrepreneurs are best served by those who've been in their shoes. All of GC’s managing directors are accomplished entrepreneurs in their own right, familiar with the challenges entrepreneurs face and able to use their own entrepreneurial experience to assist, guide, and nurture entrepreneurs on their journey. General Catalyst has approximately a billion dollars under management and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

For more information, visit www.generalcatalyst.com.

They manage a main fund that supports early- and late-stage investments and a seed fund for developing very early-stage experiments, focusing on next-generation energy projects, new materials, mobility, the Internet and silicon technology. The firm was established in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, who helped turn a computer science project into Sun Microsystems, a multibillion-dollar phenomenon. Khosla Ventures is based in Menlo Park, California.

For more information, visit www.khoslaventures.com.