OUR TEAM GET TO KNOW US
Entrepreneurial investing should provide more than just money. A start-up venture capitalist becomes a company's financial strategist, headhunter, investment banker and corporate therapist, providing support and confidence to a team. As board members, we are active and have the energy, experience and contacts to help take the company to the next stage and beyond.
John Backus
Managing Partner
Thanasis Delistathis
Managing Partner
Todd Hixon
Managing Partner
Scott Johnson
Managing Partner
Tim Rowe
Venture Partner
Geoff Mamlet
Principal
Mel Davidson
CFO
Eryn Lampe
Operations Manager
Natalie Ravech
Office Manager
- Why Us?
- Speaking your language: We have been founders or co-founders of 14 companies
- Experienced operators: We have 105 years of collective operating experience in public and private companies
- Seasoned investors: We have made investments in 68 early stage companies since 1999
- Contacts: We leverage over 18,000 first-degree professional contacts that span Fortune 100 to small and medium sized businesses
- VC Network: We worked closely with our companies to close $400 million in follow-on financing from other top-tier funds
- Finding talent: We helped our founders and CEOs attract 30 senior executives to join their teams
- Thinking big: Led and/or participated in three IPOs and nine acquisitions
- Building value: Our active portfolio of companies generated revenue of $600 million in 2008 and employed several thousand employees worldwide
