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We have invested $2.5 billion in 442 companies over the past 41 years, resulting in 125 IPOs and 128 M&A exits.  Our returns place us among the top tier venture capital firms that have achieved consistently superior performance.

Venrock currently oversees 117 portfolio investments across the technology, healthcare, and energy sectors.

2Wire, Inc.

Active Investment: Technology, Communications, Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
2Wire provides integrated broadband solutions engineered for the carrier and optimized for the subscriber, creating intuitive, reliable user experiences throughout the connected home.
Year Funded: 1998
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3Dfx Interactive, Inc. IPO/Acquired by Nvidia

Alumni Investment: Technology, Semiconductors & Components, Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
3Dfx Interactive developed a family of high-performance graphics subsystems for real-time 3-D images.
Year Funded: 1995

ADiFY Acquired by Cox Enterprises

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
ADiFY is an online advertising service provider and network focused on web publishers.
Year Funded: 2006
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Aha Mobile

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile

Aha Mobile makes drivers smarter by keeping them informed about the world around them.


Year Funded: 2008
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Anchor Bay Technologies, Inc.

Active Investment: Technology, Semiconductors & Components, Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
Anchor Bay Technologies is developing a new class of components and systems, based on high-performance Digital Video and Audio format-conversion technologies, for the Digital A/V market.
Year Funded: 2003
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ApaceWave Technologies, Inc.

Active Investment: Technology, Communications, Semiconductors & Components, Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
ApaceWave develops technologies for access solutions by developing WiMAX chips for the broadband wireless market.
Year Funded: 2006
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Apple Computer NASDAQ: AAPL

Alumni Investment: Enterprise infrastructure, Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
Apple Computer develops and markets computer and software for the Macintosh platform.
Year Funded: 1978
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AppNexus

Active Investment: Technology, Enterprise infrastructure, Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers

AppNexus builds high-performance cloud computing services and applications.


Year Funded: 2008
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Bizo

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
Bizo is an online B2B advertising and targeting network.
Year Funded: 2008
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BlogHer

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer

BlogHer provides the number-one community for and guide to blogs by women, via annual conferences, a Web network, and an advertising network of more than 500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates.


Year Funded: 2007
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Bungee Labs

Active Investment: Technology, Applications Software, Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
Bungee Labs provides a Web services integration platform that allows the capability to integrate enterprise applications with its Web-based corporate messaging offerings.
Year Funded: 2005
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CrossLoop

Active Investment: Technology, Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
CrossLoop is an Internet company that enables people to get technical support and training on their computers from over 11,000 user-rated professionals through a free desktop sharing software - the software can be used for personal and commercial use for free. 
Year Funded: 2008
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Crunchyroll

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
Crunchyroll is a content and community site focused on anime and Asian content.
Year Funded: 2008
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Digex, Inc. IPO/Acquired by Intermedia Communications, Inc.

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
Digex was a business-to-business Internet access and Web hosting management provider.
Year Funded: 1995

DoubleClick, Inc. NASDAQ: DLCK/Acquired by Google

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
DoubleClick is the leader in building online, one-to-one relationships between brands and consumers.
Year Funded: 1997

ExtendMedia, Inc.

Active Investment: Technology, Applications Software, Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
ExtendMedia provides software that enables content providers and distributors to launch secure online content to businesses that support a variety of business models, via a licensed or hosted offering.
Year Funded: 2006
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Fogdog Sports NASDAQ: FOGD/Acquired by GSI Commerce

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
Fogdog Sports is an e-commerce merchant of sporting equipment, athletic footwear and apparel offering over 16,000 products from over 300 major sporting goods brands in more than 30 sports.
Year Funded: 1999
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FutureDial, Inc.

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
FutureDial provides mobile phone software. The company's solutions allow end users and corporate clients to manage all aspects of their mobile phones, PDA, and data cards through a simple user interface.
Year Funded: 2001
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HelloSoft, Inc.

Active Investment: Technology, Communications, Semiconductors & Components, Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
HelloSoft licenses high-performance DSP and protocol software to semiconductor vendors and OEMs in the Cellular Wireless, Wireless LAN, and VoIP markets.
Year Funded: 2002
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Imaginova Corp.

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
Imaginova is a branded multimedia company that captures people's fascination with space, science and technological innovation.
Year Funded: 1999
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INRIX

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
INRIX addresses the need for nationwide, real-time, predictive traffic information across a variety of platforms, devices and distribution channels.
Year Funded: 2005
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Kenet, Inc. Acquired by Intersil

Alumni Investment: Technology, Semiconductors & Components, Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
Kenet is developing innovative mixed-signal solutions for portable consumer and communications applications.
Year Funded: 2002
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Kineto Wireless, Inc.

Active Investment: Technology, Communications, Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
Kineto Wireless is the key innovator and leading supplier of UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) Technology, the 3GPP mobile standard for Cellular/Wi-Fi convergence.
Year Funded: 2001
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Live Gamer

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
Live Gamer is the global leader of total commerce solutions delivering software and services to enable micro‐transaction‐based businesses for a wide range of clients in the online game, social network and digital entertainment categories.
Year Funded: 2009
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Martini Media Network

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
Martini Media Network connects premier advertisers with leading internet sites targeted to affluent pursuits.
Year Funded: 2008
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Media6Degrees

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile
Media6Degrees provides major brand marketers with targeted audiences using the power of social graph data.
Year Funded: 2009
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MediaMetrix NASDAQ: MMXI/Acquired by ComScore Networks

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
MediaMetrix pioneered the Internet audience measurement business.
Year Funded: 1997

National Banana

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
National Banana, Inc is an emerging comedy content company that specializes in syndicated short form, branded entertainment, e-commerce, and traditional film & television.
Year Funded: 2007
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Newport Media, Inc.

Active Investment: Technology, Semiconductors & Components, Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
Newport Media is a fabless semiconductor company that develops highly integrated receiver solutions for emerging digital mobile TV broadcasts standards.
Year Funded: 2005
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PodTech Network

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
PodTech is a global Internet media network of original technology, business and entertainment video and audio programming.
Year Funded: 2006
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Qpass, Inc. Acquired by Amdocs

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
QPass provided commerce solutions for wireless carriers.
Year Funded: 1997

Second Rotation

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
Second Rotation is the destination for simplified selling of consumer electronics and gadgets online.
Year Funded: 2008
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Simple Star Acquired by Sonic Solutions

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
Simple Star provides consumer software and services to help people manage and share their memories to PCs and TVs.
Year Funded: 2005
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SlideShare

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world.
Year Funded: 2008
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Smartling

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile

Smartling provides Internet based businesses with affordable, real-time, crowdsourced and professional website translations.


Year Funded: 2010
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Spyglass IPO/Acquired by OpenTV, Inc.

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
Spyglass developed and marketed embedded software components for Internet and intranet application development.
Year Funded: 1991

Tapioca Mobile

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
Tapioca Mobile enables publishers and advertisers to deliver rich multimedia ubiquitously to mobile users.
Year Funded: 2007
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Threadbox

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile

Threadbox is a simple and pragmatic collaboration platform that helps workgroups effortlessly increase productivity by harnessing the group's conversations, files, tasks, dates, and opinions.


Year Funded: 2009
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Tudou.com

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
Tudou.com is a multimedia podcasting web site that allows average Internet users to share original audio and video clips.
Year Funded: 2008
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TurnHere, Inc.

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
TurnHere, Inc. is the leading platform for online video production and leverages its 3,200 member global filmmaker network to provide studio-quality Internet video advertising and Web distribution for companies in a wide range of industries including media, publishing, travel, local and real estate.
Year Funded: 2008
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Twofish Acquired by Live Gamer

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer, Enablers
Twofish is broadly working in commerce-enabled on-line entertainment.
Year Funded: 2007
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Virgin Money

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
Virgin Money USA is a financial services company that manages private loans and mortgages, allowing consumers to take major steps toward achieving their personal dreams with help from friends and family.
Year Funded: 2006
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Vocera Communications

Active Investment: Healthcare IT & Services, Technology, Enterprise infrastructure, Communications, Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers
Vocera provides VoIP over WiFi systems for instant voice communication among workers.
Year Funded: 2002
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WHERE, Inc.

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Enablers

WHERE is a leading local search and recommendation service in mobile and the web.


Year Funded: 2007
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WhoWhere?, Inc. Acquired by Lycos

Alumni Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
WhoWhere provided a free online email directory searched for people and companies on the Internet.
Year Funded: 1996
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Winery Exchange Position acquired by financial buyers

Alumni Investment: Technology, Applications Software, Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
Winery Exchange is the first complete B2B portal for the global wine industry, offering an array of products, services, and information to wine professionals throughout the industry's value chain.
Year Funded: 2000
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ZoomInfo

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
ZoomInfo provides the most comprehensive information on business professionals available.
Year Funded: 2004
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