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We have invested $2.5 billion in 442 companies over the past 41 years, resulting in 124 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, media, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Mail Room Fund

Active Investment: Digital Media and Mobile, Consumer
The Mail Room Fund is a seed level investment consortium formed by Accel, AT&T, Venrock and the William Morris Talent Agency.  The Fund focuses on discovering, funding, and building high impact companies focused on innovation in the internet consumer arena.
Their first investment is Sometrics, a fast-emerging leader in analytics tracking and measurement for publishers and developers of applications and services deployed on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and others.
Year Funded: 2008
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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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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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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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