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| Founded | 1981 |
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| Founder(s) | Bill Bowes, Stu Moldaw, Bob Sackman |
| Headquarters |  Menlo Park, CA |
| Industry | Venture Capital |
| Total assets | $2.4 billion[1] |
| Employees | 40+ |
| Website | www.usvp.com |
U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), is a venture capital investment firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley focusing on investments in an array of segments including semiconductors, software as a service, communications, storage, wireless, Internet 2.0, Cleantech, Medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
Since its inception USVP has invested more than $2.4 billion in over 420 companies across a broad range of industries. Seventy-four of these companies have completed an initial public offering.
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History
Founded by Bill Bowes, Stuart Moldaw and Robert Sackman in 1981, U.S. Venture Partners was an early entrant to the burgeoning venture capital industry in Silicon Valley in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Bill Bowes, who is the last remaining founding partner at USVP had worked as a venture capitalist prior to USVP working with companies including Cetus, Raychem Corporation and Dymo Industries. At USVP Bill led the firm's investments in Sun Microsystems, Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Applied Biosystems, Devices for Vascular Intervention, Glycomed and Ventritex. Bill was also the founding shareholder of Amgen and the company's first Chairman. He had previously worked for investment banking Blyth Eastman Dillon & Company and later Blyth Eastman Paine Webber from 1978 until 1980.
Stuart Moldaw was best known for founding Ross Dress for Less.[2] Robert Sackman was best known for his role in the founding of Sun Microsystems
In 2008, USVP closed its $640m tenth fund (USVP X), which the firm currently investing out of.
Investments
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Current Portfolio Companies
The firm's current investment portfolio is active in a number of market segments including cleantech, medical devices, biotechnology, internet, semiconductors, software, communications and the datacenter.
- Cleantech - Solyndra, CFX Battery and Superprotonic.
- Medical Devices - Sinexus, Devax, Atheromed, Apnicure, Atricure, Cardikinetix, Aptus Endosystems, Simpirica Spine, SentreHeart and Lutonix.
- Biotechnology - Oncomed, Proteolix and Altus Pharmaceuticals.
- Internet/Mobile: 4info, myYearbook, Savings.com, Box.net, TotalBeauty, Dotomi and ON24.
- Semiconductors - Maxlinear, SiBEAM, Kleer Semiconductor, Intermolecular, Pivotal, Maskless Lithography and Neoconix.
- Software - Guidewire, Trusteer, Imperva, Electric Cloud and MontaVista Software.
- Communications - Force10, Teknovus, Dilithium Networks, Xirrus, Occam Networks, Stratalight, Megapath, Dune Networks, Optichron and Sierra Monolithics.
- Datacenter - Teranetics, GearSix, Clustrix and Intransa.
Sample List of Historical investments
Among the firm's most notable investments are Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, Restoration Hardware, Ross Stores, Ask Jeeves, PetSmart and SanDisk.
Other former portfolio companies include @Road, 3dfx Interactive, 3ware, Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC), Artisan Components, Avenue A, Blue Martini Software, Brion, CacheFlow, Cadmos, CardioThoracic Systems, Centillium, Checkpoint Software Technologies, Concur Technologies, Crescendo Communications, Cryovascular, EPIC Design Technology, GetThere, Gymboree, Ilypsa, Leadis Technology, Lynx, Mellanox, MMC Networks, Microvention, NeoMagic, NetDynamics, Netro, New Focus, Nuance, PDF Solutions, QuickLogic, Rasna, Sagent Technologies, St. Francis Medical Technologies, StrataCom, TelCom Semiconductor, Ventritex, Verity, Vical, Vontu, Xylan.
Notes
- ^ Capital raised since inception in 1981
- ^ Ross Stores Founder and Chairman Emeritus Stuart Moldaw Dies at 81
External links
- U.S. Venture Partners (company website)
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