Rembrandt Venture Partners (RVP) was established as a formal venture fund in 2003 to provide private equity capital to early stage technology companies. The firm is focused on actively managing the portfolio's risk, duration and liquidity and dynamically pursuing investments in a variety of sectors including enterprise software and services, Internet infrastructure, communications equipment, next generation wireless sectors and new media convergence companies.
ONSET Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that combines substantial financial resources, business building, operating skills and a long-term personal commitment to help entrepreneurs build and grow world-class companies. Founded in 1984, ONSET is focused on early-stage and select, later stage enterprises in business-to-business markets. With more than $500 million under management, ONSET Ventures invests in information and medical technology companies in the following sectors:
Enterprise applications and infrastructure software
As Chairman, CEO, and co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid drives the company’s vision and strategy. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal where he was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. During his tenure at PayPal, Reid was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in significant technology companies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. In addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart, Kiva.org, and Mozilla Corporation. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in philosophy and a Marshall scholarship.
SoftTech VC is an early stage venture capital firm managing a $12M seed stage fund, SoftTech VC II. Jeff Clavier, one of the most active Web 2.0 angel investors, announced the fund and its four initial investments, at the TechCrunch40 conference in September 2007. SoftTech VC II is backed by a mix of institutional and private investors. In its 18 months of activity, the fund has invested in 30+ companies, most of them still operating in stealth/pre-launch mode.