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| About
Vanguard Ventures: |
Vanguard Ventures is a venture
capital firm specializing in seed and early stage high
technology investments, with offices in Palo Alto, California
and Houston, Texas. The Managing Directors, Jack Gill,
Bob Ulrich, Don Wood, Dan Eilers and Tom McConnell have
extensive and successful backgrounds as technologists,
operating managers, entrepreneur-founders and venture
capital investors. Since 1981, Vanguard has funded 120
startups; more than 30 of these have already become major
corporate successes and many others in this Vanguard portfolio
are destined for success. In aggregate, these companies
created over $70 billion in market value, and returned
approximately $1 billion to investors.
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| Year
Founded: |
1981
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| Locations: |
Palo
Alto, California
Houston, Texas
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| Managing Directors: |
Dan Eilers
Jack Gill
Tom McConnell
Bob Ulrich
Don Wood
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| CFO: |
Ken Shilling
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| Portfolio Companies Since
1981: |
120 |
| Capital under Management:
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$500 million |
| Focus: |
Communications,
Life Sciences,
Information Technology
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| Stage: |
Seed or A Round
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| Investment per Company:
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Up to $10-12 million |
| Geographic Preference:
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United States
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| Notable "Firsts": |
Network Appliance Corp. (NASDAQ:
NTAP), pioneered the network attached storage (NAS) industry
Cobalt Networks (NASDAQ: COBT), developed the first Linux
web server appliance
Ciena (NASDAQ: CIEN), pioneered dense wave division multiplexing
(DWDM)
Aldus (merged into Adobe, NASDAQ: ADBE), created the desktop
publishing marketplace
ZipRealty.com (NASDAQ: ZIPR), the first internet-based
residential real estate brokerage
Endotherapeutics, (merged into US Surgical Corp./Tyco,
NYSE: TYC), the pioneer in creating minimally invasive
surgical systems
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