August Capital
August Capital is a private venture capital firm with offices on Menlo Park's famous Sand Hill Road. It has backed such companies as ATC-Onlane, Tumbleweed Communications, PayCycle, Seagate, Splunk, Six Apart, PacketTrap, VideoEgg, Evite, and Westbridge Technology.
The investment professionals are: 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, and Grand Junction Networks (acquired by Cisco).
Entrepreneurs supported by August Capital include: Michael Baum (Splunk), Kerry Champion (Westbridge), René Lacerte (PayCycle), and Jeff Smith (Tumbleweed).
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]
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
