PARTNERS

Accel Partners

Founded in 1983, Accel Partners has a long history of excellence and innovation in venture capital, and is dedicated to partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build world-class businesses. Accel today invests globally using dedicated teams and market-specific strategies for local geographies, with offices in Palo Alto, California, London, UK, New Delhi and Bangalore, India as well as in China via the IDG-Accel Partnership.
With over  $7 billion under management, Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful companies, many of which have defined their categories, including Actuate, Acopia, AdMob, Agile Software, Alfresco, AMCC, Arrowpoint, Atlassian, BBN, Brightcove, Check24, ComScore, Etsy, Facebook, Foundry Networks, Gameforge, GlamMedia, Groupon, Imperva, Infinera, Interwoven, IronPlanet, JBoss, Kayak, Macromedia, Maven Networks, metroPCS, NextG Networks, Polycom/PictureTel, Playfish, Portal Software, QlikTech, Rapt, Real Networks, Redback Networks, Responsys, Riverbed, SupportSoft, UUNet, Veritas, Walmart.com, Webroot, Wily Technology, XenSource and Zimbra. For more information, please visit the Accel Partners web site at www.accel.com, or find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/accel.


Hellman & Friedman LLC, founded in 1984, is a private equity investment firm well respected for its distinctive investment philosophy and approach. Our offices are located in San Francisco, London, and New York. We raised our first institutional private equity fund in 1987. During our 24-year investing history, we have raised over $25 billion of committed capital and have invested in over 75 companies. We are currently investing our seventh fund, Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners VII, L.P. (HFCP VII), with over $8.9 billion of committed capital.

Our objective is to invest long-term equity capital to support the strategic and financial objectives of outstanding management teams operating businesses with defensible positions in growing markets. Over our lifetime, we have distinguished ourselves as a flexible source of capital and a value-added partner.

Our team consists of over 50 investment professionals, including 15 managing directors with an average tenure with the Firm of over twelve years. This allows us to spend substantial time working with the companies in which we invest.

For more information please visit our website at www.hf.com


Index Ventures is a leading global venture capital firm active in technology venture investing since 1996. The firm is dedicated to helping top entrepreneurial teams in the Information Technology, Life Science and Clean Tech sectors build their companies into market defining global leaders. The firm has offices in Geneva, London and Jersey and focuses on investments from seed through growth stage companies. Recent exits of note include MySQL (the world’s most popular open source database recently acquired by Sun) and Last.fm (the world’s largest social music platform, recently acquired by CBS). For more information, please visit http://www.indexventures.com


Summit Partners

Founded in 1976 and led by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, KKR is a leading global investment firm with $61.0 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2011. With 14 offices around the world, KKR manages assets through a variety of investment funds and accounts covering multiple asset classes. KKR seeks to create value by bringing operational expertise to its portfolio companies and through active oversight and monitoring of its investments. KKR complements its investment expertise and strengthens interactions with investors through its client relationships and capital markets platforms. KKR is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: KKR). For additional information, please visit KKR’s website at www.kkr.com.


Summit Partners

In 1984, we started Summit Partners with a vision of helping profitable companies realize their full growth potential. As a fast-growing company, we learned firsthand about the value of hard work and innovation, striving against odds and following a dream. Today, we are a leader in growth equity for rapidly growing companies. Our investment team is one of the largest and most experienced in the business. We employ more than 90 investment professionals across our three offices in Boston, Palo Alto and London. In total, we employ more than 160 people.

Since our founding in 1984, Summit Partners has raised more than $11 billion in growth capital, and has invested in more than 320 growing businesses across North America, Europe and Asia. These companies have completed 125 public offerings and more than 130 strategic sales or mergers.

Whether we take a minority or majority ownership position, our approach is the same. We view ourselves as a growth investor that provides strategic and operational guidance to help proven, existing management teams reach their companies’ full potential.

Summit Partners has built an extensive record of helping entrepreneurs identify and execute expansion strategies that build long-term value. Our senior investment professionals serve on the boards of directors and assist the management teams of our portfolio companies, providing them with direct points of access to our entire firm.


Founded in 1968, TA Associates is one of the largest and most experienced private equity firms. We invest in private companies in exciting industries, with the goal of helping management teams build their businesses into great companies. This mission has been at the heart of TA’s approach to investing, and our more than 400 current and former portfolio companies illustrate our commitment to provide steady support through the cycles of the global economy.

With four decades of experience, we offer our portfolio companies financial support, strategic guidance, and a significant network of contacts. We help our portfolio companies navigate the complicated paths of public offerings, debt financings, and mergers and acquisitions, and since 1995 have helped them raise more than $15 billion.

With more than 75 investment professionals in Boston, Menlo Park, London, Mumbai and Hong Kong, we possess the knowledge and the ability to act decisively in a wide array of industries. While we have deep expertise in technology, financial and business services, healthcare, and consumer industries, we will consider investments in other areas.

We are here to help you build a thriving business and create substantial value for the future.