Engineering New Markets and Strong Businesses
We invest in early-stage and breakthrough ventures that have the promise to create new market opportunities.
Public Companies
March 12, 1993Intuit
Personal financial software and services.
Menlo Park, CA
February 5, 1993Molecular Dynamics (acquired by GE Healthcare)
Bio-instrumentation.
Sunnyvale, CA
January 27, 1993Biosurface (Genzyme Tissue Repair)
Products and services are focused on rare inherited disorders, kidney disease, orthopaedics, transplant and immune disease, cancer, and diagnostic testing.
Cambridge, MA
March 25, 1992Walker Interactive Systems (acquired by SSA Global Tech)
High-end financial application software.
San Francisco, CA
March 19, 1992America Online
Online services.
Vienna, VA
February 3, 1992Univax (acquired by NABI)
(NABI)
Infectious Disease Drugs. Richardson, TX
November 7, 1991Athena Neurosciences (acquired by Elan Corp)
Central nervous system therapeutics.
So. San Francisco, CA
September 17, 1991IDEC Pharmaceuticals (merged with Biogen)
Immune odulation.
San Diego, CA
August 13, 1991Sybase
Relational database software.
Emeryville, CA
August 23, 1990Radius (Acquired by Digital Origins)
Multimedia eripherals.
Sunnyvale, CA
June 12, 1990Xilinx
Programmable semiconductors.
San Jose, CA
March 1, 1990Verifone (merged with HP)
Point-of-sale systems and services.
Redwood City, CA
September 1, 1989Electronic Arts
Entertainment software.
San Mateo, CA
June 1, 1989Symantec
Software enabling businesses and consumers to protect their infrastructure, information and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance and performance.
Cupertino, CA
April 1, 1987Sequent (acquired by IBM)
High-performance servers.
Beaverton, OR