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USVP
U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) is a venture capital investment firm specializing in early-stage ventures in enterprise software, cybersecurity, consumer, e-commerce, healthcare, and IT-enabled healthcare services. The venture capital partnership is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Since its inception in 1981, USVP has invested over $4.3 billion across a wide range of sectors. Out of the 524 companies financed by USVP, 93 have completed an initial public offering. History Founded by Bill Bowes, Stuart Moldaw, and Robert Sackman, U.S. Venture Partners was an early entrant to the burgeoning venture capital industry in Silicon Valley in the late 1970s and early 1980s. As of 2022, the firm was investing out of its thirteenth fund, USVP XIII. Composed of former venture investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, technologists, corporate executives, financial professionals, and industry domain experts, USVP has a combined 150 years of investment and operating experience with backgrounds acro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Bowes (venture Capitalist)
Bill Bowes (July 5, 1926 – December 28, 2016) was a venture capitalist, philanthropist, and co-founder of U.S. Venture Partners. He co-founded U.S. Venture Partners in 1981. Early life and education Bowes was born in 1926 in San Francisco. He graduated from Lowell High School in 1942. He has a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University, an M.B.A. from Harvard University. Career Bowes worked with the investment bank Blyth & Co. Inc. He was also involved with Cetus, a biotechnology company and was a member of its board from 1972 to 1978. He was the founding shareholder, first Treasurer and Chairman of Amgen. He also invested in Leroy Hood's protein sequencer, and served on the board of directors for Raychem from 1961 until the late 1970s. Bowes is also the founding partner at U.S. Venture Partners. Philanthropy Bowes contributed to the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and also served on the advisory committee for the Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics. He also donate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zerto
Zerto provides disaster recovery, ransomware resilience and workload mobility software for virtualized infrastructures and cloud environments. Zerto is a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise company which is headquartered in Spring, Texas, USA. History Ziv Kedem, Zerto's founder and CEO, previously co-founded Kashya. Zerto has received investments from venture capital firms such as 83North (formerly Greylock IL), Battery Ventures, Harmony Partners, RTP Ventures, IVP, and USVP. In 2016, the company was ranked #45 on the Deloitte Fast 500 North America list. Zerto was bought by Hewlett Packard Enterprise The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an American multinational information technology company based in Spring, Texas. It is a business-focused organization which works in servers, storage, networking, containerization software and ... in 2021 for $374 million. Products Zerto simplifies the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pluto TV
Pluto TV is an American free ad-supported streaming television service owned and operated by the Paramount Streaming division of Paramount Global. Founded by Tom Ryan (business executive), Tom Ryan, Ilya Pozin and Nick Grouf in 2013 and based in Los Angeles, California, Pluto is available in the Americas and Europe. It primarily offers content through digital broadcast programming, linear channels designed to emulate the experience of traditional broadcast programming. The service's revenue is generated from Advertising, video advertisements seen during programming within commercial breaks structured similarly to those found on conventional television. Pluto licenses its content directly from providers; as of March 2020, it had deals with 170 content partners providing approximately 425 channels and 100,000 unique hours worth of programming. In October 2020, Pluto TV became part of the newly created ViacomCBS Streaming (renamed Paramount Streaming in February 2022), both to be le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intersect ENT
Intersect ENT, a subsidiary of Medtronic, is a health care equipment company based in Menlo Park, California. It manufactures drug-delivery devices used by Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) clinicians in the treatment of sinusitis. Intersect ENT is best known for developing the first bioabsorbable drug-eluting sinus stent PROPEL, which delivers anti-inflammatory medication directly to the sinuses. The company holds over 20 issued patents in the United States and more than 80 patents and patent applications worldwide. The company was named on the Forbes list of ''America's Most Promising Companies'' and was also on the ''Fierce 15'' list of ''Most Promising Companies'' in 2013. History Intersect ENT was founded in 2003 by Don Eaton who conceived of the product over dinner with ENT surgeon, Mary Lynn Moran, MD. The company received its Series A funding in 2006, prompting the hiring of a team to develop the product. It was originally headquartered in Palo Alto, California, then moved to M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Stores
Ross Stores, Inc., operating under the brand name Ross Dress for Less, is an American chain of discount department stores headquartered in Dublin, California. It is the largest off-price retailer in the U.S.; as of July 2024, Ross operates 1,795 stores in 43 U.S. states, Washington, D.C. Puerto Rico and Guam, covering much of the country, but with no presence in New England and Alaska. The company also operates DD's Discounts, a discount department store chain with over 353 locations across the United States, most of which are located in Sun Belt states. History Ross Department Store was first opened in San Bruno, California, in 1950 by Morris "Morrie" Ross. Morris would work 85 hours a week doing all of the buying and bookkeeping for his department store. In 1958 Ross sold his store to William Isackson to become a residential and commercial real estate developer. Isackson built the company to six stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, located in San Bruno, Pacifica, Nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ask Jeeves
Ask.com (known originally as Ask Jeeves) is an answer engine, e-magazine, and former web search engine, operated by Ask Media Group. It was conceptualized and developed in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen (based in Berkeley, California), and implemented a new engine based on a large language model in 2025. The original software was designed and implemented by Gary Chevsky. Warthen, Chevsky and Justin Grant then lead the GUI development team, leading to the initial launch under the brand name of AskJeeves.com. In 2006, the "Jeeves" name was discontinued, and the company emphasised the Ask.com web search engine, which had its own webcrawler and algorithm. In late 2010, faced with insurmountable competition from larger search engines, the company outsourced its web search technology, and revived its function as a question and answer site. In 2025, Ask Media Group withdrew from the web search engine market entirely after 27 years. Shortly after the search engine w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PetSmart
PetSmart Inc. is a privately held American chain of pet Big-box store, superstores, which sell pet products, services, and small pets. It is the leading North American pet company, and its direct competitor is Petco. Its indirect competitors are Amazon (company), Amazon, Walmart, and Target Corporation, Target.Thau, Barbara"Why Bed Bath And Beyond, PetSmart Should Fear Showrooming More Than Best Buy" ''Forbes''. March 1, 2013. As of 2020, PetSmart has more than 1,650 stores in the United States and Canada."About PetSmart" Retrieved August 25, 2020. PetSmart stores sell pet food, pet supplies, pet accessories, and small pets. Stores also provide services including grooming, dog daycare, dog and cat boarding, veterinary care via in-store third-party clinics, and dog training. They also offer dog and cat adoption via in-store adoption centers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park ( ) is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, California, San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, California, East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California, Palo Alto, and Stanford, California, Stanford to the south; and Atherton, California, Atherton, North Fair Oaks, California, North Fair Oaks, and Redwood City, California, Redwood City to the west. It had 33,780 residents at the 2020 United States census. It is home to the corporate headquarters of Meta Platforms, Meta, and is where Google, Roblox Corporation, and Round Table Pizza were founded. The train station holds the record as the oldest continually operating train station in California. It is one of the most educated cities in California and the United States; nearly 70% of residents over 25 have earned a bachelor's degree or higher. Toponym "Menlo" is derived from Menlo, County Galway, Menlo (th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Check Point
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli multinational provider of software and combined hardware and software products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, cloud security, mobile security, data security and security management. History Check Point was established in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1993, by Gil Shwed (CEO ), Marius Nacht (Chairman ) and Shlomo Kramer (who left Check Point in 2003). Shwed had the initial idea for the company's core technology known as stateful inspection, which became the foundation for the company's first product, FireWall-1; soon afterwards they also developed one of the world's first VPN products, VPN-1. Shwed developed the idea while serving in the Unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Forces, where he worked on securing classified networks. Initial funding of US$250,000 was provided by venture capital fund BRM Group. In 1994 Check Point signed an OEM agreement with Sun Microsystems, followed by a distribution agr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies Ltd. () was an Israeli-American multinational supplier of computer networking products based on InfiniBand and Ethernet technology. Mellanox offered adapters, switches, software, cables and silicon for markets including high-performance computing, data centers, cloud computing, computer data storage and financial services. On March 11, 2019, Nvidia announced its intent to acquire the company for $6.9 billion. The deal closed on April 27, 2020, with approval from the EU, U.S. and Chinese antitrust authorities. The company was integrated into Nvidia's networking division in 2020 and Nvidia stopped using the brand name "Mellanox" for its new networking products. History 1999–2009 Mellanox was founded in May 1999 by former Israeli executives of Intel Corporation and Galileo Technology (which was acquired by Marvell Technology Group in October 2000 for $2.8 billion) Eyal Waldman, Shai Cohen, Roni Ashuri, Michael Kagan, Evelyn Landman, Eitan Zahavi, Shimon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteolix
Proteolix, Inc., was a private biotechnology company with headquarters in South San Francisco, California. Proteolix was founded in 2003 based on technology developed by co-founders Craig M. Crews (Yale University) and Raymond J. Deshaies (California Institute of Technology). Susan Molineaux and Phil Whitcome joined as co-founders. Proteolix was launched based on an $18.2 million A round comprising investments by Latterell Venture Partners, US Venture Partners, Advanced Technology Ventures, and The Vertical Group. Its lead product candidate, carfilzomib (PR-171), is a tetrapeptide epoxyketone for treating multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. The drug carfilzomib works by preventing proteasomes from breaking down other proteins. Proteolix focused primarily on the proteasome as a therapeutic target. At the time of its sale (see below), the company had two earlier-stage programs, an orally-bioavailable proteasome inhibitor for oncology (PR-047), and an agent preferentially targetin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
