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August Capital is a private venture capital firm with offices on Menlo Park, California's famous Sand Hill Road. It has backed such companies as Tumbleweed Communications, PayCycle, Seagate, Splunk, Six Apart, PacketTrap, Postini, VideoEgg, DotNetNuke and Evite. August Capital raised its fifth fund in March 2009 totaling $650 million.
The investment professionals are: Howard Hartenbaum, David Hornik, John Johnston, David Marquardt, Vivek Mehra, and Andrew S. Rappaport. Investments made by these partners before the founding of August Capital include: Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Adaptec, Skype, and Grand Junction Networks (acquired by Cisco).
Entrepreneurs supported by August Capital include: Michael Baum (Splunk), Steve Goodman (PacketTrap), René Lacerte (PayCycle), Jeff Smith (Tumbleweed, Aardvark).
External links
- One of the firm's partners, David Hornik, maintains Venture Blog, with greater than 50,000 subscribers this is one of the more popular venture oriented blogs on the Web.[citation needed]
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