Investors

Sequoia Capital is the venture investor behind well-known Internet brands such as Yahoo!, Google and PayPal. Outside of the Internet space, Sequoia was also a key venture investor in the early stages of Cisco, Apple and Oracle. The companies funded by Sequoia Capital now account for about 10 percent of the value of NASDAQ.

Greylock Partners is one of the world’s leading early-stage venture capital firms. For 40 years, Greylock has teamed with entrepreneurs to fund and help build several hundred successful companies in the US, Israel and Europe. Companies Greylock has funded include DoubleClick, Phone.com (now OpenWave), Red Hat, Ascend Communications, Legato, Continental Cable, Internet Security Systems, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Tellabs, Trilogy, and Sungard.

Bessemer Venture Partners is the oldest venture capital practice in the United States and manages more than a billion dollars of venture funds, carrying on a tradition of hands-on, active venture investing that started in 1911. More than 100 Bessemer companies have gone public, including American Superconductor, Ciena, Gartner Group, Ingersoll Rand, International Paper, Maxim, Parametric, Perseptive Biosystems, Staples, VeriSign and W.R. Grace. BVP is located in Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Bain Capital Ventures is the Boston-based venture capital group of Bain Capital, whose affiliates manage over $50 billion of assets. Founded in 1984, Bain Capital and its affiliates have invested in over 230 companies with such notable successes as Doubleclick, Gartner Group, Taleo, Profitic Logic, m-Qube and Staples. Bain Capital’s history of investing in early stage companies dates back to 1984, having made over 120 venture-stage investments since inception.

European Founders Fund focuses on early stage internet and wireless technologies and is a highly selective investment company run by brothers Marc, Oliver and Alexander Samwer. The Samwer brothers founded alando (which became eBay Germany), and Jamba! (today part of News Corp). The Internet companies they created have achieved combined sales of more than 1 billion EUR. With EFF, the Samwers are focused on investing in young technology companies, including European market leaders Leadpoint and LokaListen, to which they can bring their direct experience and extensive network of partners.

The Goldman Sachs Group is a bank holding company and a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Goldman Sachs provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

The McGraw-Hill Companies is a leading global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands such as Standard & Poor’s, McGraw-Hill Education, BusinessWeek and J.D. Power and Associates. The Corporation has more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Sales in 2007 were $6.8 billion.

SAP Ventures invests in innovative and disruptive software and services companies globally. We pursue opportunities across all stages for outstanding financial return. Our goal is to bring substantial benefit to all parties by facilitating interaction between portfolio companies and SAP and its ecosystem of customers and partners. SAP Ventures has a successful track record of building industry-leading companies by partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and top-tier venture capital firms since 1996.